I was going to suggest trying different methods on a CD. Surely all of us who burn CD's have a coaster or two sitting around. Soak one in...
This statement is tantamount to saying that soap contains lye and lye is bad for CD's. It is an error of scale. Actually, Windex contains an...
Hubby is on to something. I use Windex all the time. It cleans well and has never attacked any plastics that I have used it on, so it works well...
Was the new drive brand new or just "new to you "? How about the jumper? I had an old CD-ROM that saw all CD's as audio CD's after...
You could try using a real, active screensaver. Maybe if it has at least something to do.... Try going into Power Options and setting your...
You have a real mess. You probably don't have the correct display driver installed in the Win98 system. Do you know what video you have? After...
It's possible that the old driver can be affecting things. I'd uninstall all the drivers and try again. This time, remove any drivers that have...
Try the Escape key if you haven't already. Also, if you can get into BIOS, there may be standby settings there that are complicating matters. I...
Where is he trying to run this program from? If he is in XP, Newt's suggestion holds the most hope. If he is trying to load at startup, no go. XP...
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Take the Publisher tour: http://www.microsoft.com/office/publisher/evaluation/tour/default.asp Take the Frontpage tour:...
I don't see any point in a separate partition for software. As you say, it needs to be reinstalled so the reg entries and shortcuts are replaced,...
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I use both of these as scandisk-equivalents for CD's, and they both offer some data recovery options: CDRoller http://www.cdroller.com/...
It appears that the PF Usage in Task Manager is misleading and useless. It seems to tell what amount of memory contents could be paged, but not...
"BlueSave" from Winternals is still available some places (a discontinued product), but at $119, you may think twice. Not sure what functionality...
Thanks for that. Life will be much simpler now. :D
A group of hotfixes should never be installed in batch form. The intermediate restarts and overlaps between the updates makes this a risky and...
Just to try to track down what XP's Task Manager means by the words, "PF Usage ", I tried a couple things. First, I set my min pagefile to 128...
No Norton products for me for a long time. I had one too many bad experiences. Using OnTrack now. That sense of buoyancy you feel is what it's...
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