You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Stick with the honest reputable sources for your downloads and those problems won't occur.
You'll be fine. Networks don't care about OS's since they make every member use the same protocol. Generally tcp/ip.
I too would lean toward it being a hardware issue. XP is much too robust to give a problem like this. Especially with no error message rendered....
Right-click on one of them and select "Open With" > Choose Program > Notepad > and tag the box labeled "Always use the selected program to open...
I wouldn't encourage you to spend much time trying to repair that system further. Just get your important data backed up and make a clean install...
Hi purplemtn, You'll need to get the new version of GoBack for XP. It's 3.2 Best regards. Edit: Since Symantec bought the rights, they...
I read and smile. It is to wonder what value SR has if you are afraid to use it on many occasions. I hate programs like that. They offer help...
True Charles, but I've always taken the approach of letting AdAware dump anything it finds and let the market place take care of itself without...
My personal observation on more than one occasion shows AdAware detecting Malwares IF I forget to dump the cookies before running it. As a test,...
Download and run this 16-bit subsystem repair tool. That will likely fix you right up. Generally what has happened is, one or more of the...
I second the recommendation for Jason's Cookie Jar! I wouldn't be without it and I'm not one to run anything that isn't important and performing...
You are correct. That is, if it run at all. :) I seriously doubt that PTFB can track beyond the GUI and into a VDM mode. I'd love to be proven...
The Pro version "More Information" area says it does keyboard actions as well. I'm just not all that sure about it working on a VDM app though....
Like Newt, I use GoBack and leave SR off. However, I think what has been said means that there is not ample DRIVE space for SR to do its work and...
Check in OE also since it has an option related to Windows Messenger. If you'd like to completely dump it from your drive, Doug Knox has a tool...
Maybe free ver. here: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,23023,00.asp It doesn't have all that the Pro version offers...
Newt, I used to use PTFB way back when it was freeware and it worked splendidly! I just did a Google for it and find that it's free for trial now...
That's Windows Messenger you have running in the background. It has no relationship to the Messenger Service that you disabled. If you don't...
I have a list of measures I have compiled that apply to this problem. Perhaps one of them will do it for you.
They're past history logs of the MS updates you have chosen to accept and can be safely deleted. You may have other files related to MS Updates...
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