Did you install anything just prior to the problem's appearance? Lke within a week prior? If so and it's a program that loads on startup, like...
Have you tried reinstalling Windows over top of the current, apparently corrupted, install? To install from the harddrive which is especially...
I disabled Logoff on the start menu of several of the extended family's computers because a few users keep clicking on the Logoff entry intead of...
Do you have Spybot installed? If so, there is an option in the "Immunize" section of Spybot to prohibit changes to IE's Internet Options. That's...
Do you have an anti-virus program set to run in the background, specifically set to scan all downloaded files automatically and/or set to block...
For the IE Internet Options problem - do you have Spybot installed? If so there's a setting in the Immunize section which will prohibit anything...
Wow! An ISP with a techie who gave you good advice! Removing spyware, espeically newdot.net, although others can have the same result, often...
Mudd, here are the links I've collected that deal with the "asks for CD" problem in Office: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=240324...
What CD is it asking for? If it's the MS Office CD, there are a couple of fixes.
Did you try the one from the Doug Knox site? It worked for me.
The link didn't work for me, but if you mean when you go to Internet Options it tells you that you don't have access, do you have Spybot...
"Running in background" means programs that are running but not actively being used. They are usually, but not always, reflected by the presence...
Does it open, by any chance, to the System32 folder? If so, see if the MS KB article, System32 Folder Opens When Logging on to Windows, has the...
The MS KB article, Internet Shortcuts in Outlook Express Do Not Start Web Browser has the fix under "Resolving the Second Cause" subheading...
Nope, didn't have a clue about what "tacobell" was until I read about it in some post on a forum...maybe even this one. Not being a coder, I have...
Have you installed any new software lately? That "unending hourglass when starting Freecell" is a software conflict. On my 98 system, it was with...
BillyBob...it's TKbell...not-so-fondly referred to as "tacobell" and it is obsessed with being in the startup routine. ;)
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You'll be happy to know that Doug Knox has an XP utility that will add the Group Policy Editor to XP Home. You can get it here. There's a limited...
I went to Download.com, did a search for Real Player, found a link to download RealOne, which is the latest version, and clicked on through to the...
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