Oops sorry. Yes only Firefox is compatible with Win 98. Download it from here, uninstall the old one & install it.
FireFox, IE8, Google Chrome
Just google/bing/yahoo "free word processor" & take your pick.
Hard disks would fail no matter what. It doesn't matter whether they are in RAID 5 or RAID 0. Size of the array has got no direct impact on the...
Yup, confuses me also. Perhaps your MAC address has been included in some sort of filtering by the network administrator on your AP. That could be...
Copy the hosts file from a working computer to this computer & see if everything checks out.
Its not your laptop but your wifi router/access point that is blocking sites. Talk to the person who is in charge of networking on the campus,...
Run chkdsk to check for logical disk problems. Could also be spyware. Check thoroughly with anti virus/malware and/or post in Malware Removal...
There should be only one hosts file in the following location : C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc Open it in Notepad & copy contents over here.
One more reason to put off upgrading to Microsoft's latest & greatest IE. Let others do the debugging for you.
Can you ping hotmail.com ? Also check your hosts file in Windows directory for any redirection.
Creating folders/files on Desktop is a strict no no with me as it complicates the issue if Windows goes down & you have to backup the system to...
*nix has touch command. A Windows version is available here but I have no idea if it can handle directories. Worth a try.
As has already been posted by Rick_E, check the router DHCP table to see if anyone else is pigging back. Also turning on the security is a good...
Has she turned off & on the router when it slows down ? Does it make any difference ?
Yup, just a matter of chance I guess. Anyway, since I use FF I plan to put off IE9 installation for a couple of weeks & see how things pan out.
Downloading Microsoft Word from where ?
You should also check your RAM. I have also resolved this problem by disabling disk cache in Hardware properties. Try that too.
Installation of an Win 7 update KB2454826 is a requirement for installing IE9. I have heard a lot of horror stories about this update. Is it safe...
You should run thorough virus/malware scan to see if something is installed on your system & phoning back. Just in case.
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