I use W7 on my main computer but I put Start 8 on a friend's 8.1 machine last week. She has had the laptop for 6 months but hardly ever used it,...
Good point. I don't leave a computer on for extended periods in any event. Plus I have a cooling pad under the unit so heat should be no...
I have a 7-8 year old Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with XP. I was having problems booting, not recognizing USB ports, mouse not working, etc. I saw...
Broni, It's time for you take a well deserved vacation. Does this mean we won't see you active on this Board? If so, many thanks for...
An update. Got SP1 installed OK and was able to connect to the internet. However, when I opened IE7, it told me I needed IE8 and wouldn't...
Neil, I got tired of endlessly rebooting this monster. So I put the Reinstallation disk in and selected the Install option instead of the...
Neil, Thanks for the link. I tried the "uncheck" of Safe Mode box but it was already unchecked. I looked through the link and tried some...
I'm trying to resurrect a Vista Home Premium 32bit Machine. A friend gave it to me in August 2013 and I did a cursory look and it seemed to be...
Will do - thanks.
Thanks for the input Mitch and BrBill. I tried using the Control Panel to reset the internet options but that didn't have any effect. I used...
Helping a friend with new Windows 7 Home Dell computer. When I try to open IE11, it opens quickly but all we see is a blank IE11 window and I...
rusty2, I have been using MozBackup to back up my Thunderbird and Firefox applications for several years and it works very well. I had to...
Right on - great attitude! And I'm learning along with you.
Paul, I haven't used any ergonomic mice but I have found that switching hands - right to left - helps me a lot. Sometimes I switch the mouse...
Whiskeyman, Looks like all is well. The defrag took about 30 minutes as opposed to 12+ hours over the weekend. Had one critical Windows...
Hopefully the defrag won't take as long as before but we plan to wait until this evening and start the defrag. Will let you know how it goes....
I think I may have hit the "Eureka" point. As Whiskeyman suggested, I kept plugging away at uninstalling some of the junk stuff and agonizing...
The defrag finally completed - ran close to 12 hours. I did a regular boot and find that I still have the same problems - maybe not quite as bad....
Whiskeyman, I was able to delete the browsing history in IE and run Disk Cleanup. However, when I tried to defrag, the unit got to 1% and...
Thanks a lot Broni. I would have bet that Malware was involved by the way the computer was operating. I have opened a thread in XP.
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