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Hi, I had a bunch of spyware on my PC, so I cleaned it off and I may be wrong, but it seemed that websites such as cnn.com and foxnews.com, along with Ebay used to "auto-fit" in my browser (set at 800x600). aol.com especially. If I opened up AOL.com in IE, it would have the "sign in" area off to the right (scrolling), but once I logged in or refreshed, it would then fit to the 800x600 setting. Is this a setting in IE, or is it website specific? Thanks. Rich

I'm getting a blank Windows System box coming up every time I boot. I checked startup and regedit and there's nothing there. Any idea what's causing this and how to get rid of it.

Hi All, I have a question on using NTFS compress partition. I used to use NTFS without compress on my mobile disk and have little fragment. Recently, I formatted its all partition and use compress on each partition. When I copy all files back to it, I found that there are so many fragment on each partition. And when I copy a file to it, it shows as fragment. I check all this by using Windows XP defragment. Does anybody know why? Thank you!

This may have already been posted here, just wanted to note there are new Nvidia Nforce drivers out, dated 9/12, version 15.23 Vista 64 bit - http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_vista64_15.23.html XP 64 bit - http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winxp64_15.23.html I was running 9.64, in Vista Ultimate 64 bit, I upgraded to these a few minutes ago without issue. Too early for me to comment on any noticeable difference, I have read in other forums, some folks reporting improved network performance, and improved usb performance/ responsiveness. There also is a new " away mode ", not sure exactly what that is or does. -- Don

Windows XP Pro with SP2. After replacing AVG with Avira I cannot open my drives directly. When I click the drives a window opens with the message - "choose the program you want to use to open this file" I have to go to windows explorer to open the drives. Your advice will be of great help to me. Thanks.

In Windows 98, the icon loaded at Windows startup. I don't see it loading with Windows 2000. Is this intentional or is there a registry entry to handle this?

Hi, anyone can provide me a copy of the Windows 98 Second Edition. I need to upgrade my old Windows 98 and be able to install a Netgear 108 mbps Wireless PC Card. Appreciate any help! -- normanny

How do I view the log when XP is started in logging mode? Thanks, J

My desktop icon in Quick launch disappeared. I made another but what I came up with brings up a page with all the desktop icons on it rather than the desktop itself. What is the correct Quick Launch shortcut to bring up the desktop? Thanks. Fred

I intend to upgrade my computer specs , will I run into problems trying to reinstall my oem xp professional edition on my new upgraded computer? Thanks

My laptop (Win XP Pro) has become very slow to start up (more than 5 minutes before it is ready for business) and shutting down seems to take a long time too (about 3 minutes). What could I do to speed up the process? I have run CCleaner and also tried to uninstall unimportant programs - but it does not appear to help.

I am trying to access a new web site that we are building at our hosting company. The developer has told me to access the web site at the IP address. I have been able to access this site successfully until yesterday when I started getting the following messsage on all three computers on my network: "Warning! It appears that you are about to access a non-standartd we address format." It goes on to say that I will nedd to change my "preferences" if I want the message to stop. I tried to access this IP address in IE, Firefox and Safari - all with a similar warning message. I have gone into MSCONFIG and deselected all of the startups, rebooted and stil…

Exclusive Interview: Microsoft Admits What Went Wrong with Vista, and How They Fixed It it's a first step from MS to admit that vista was crap before SP1. Good! Now all they have to do is confess that vista is really unfixable 100%. But they wont do that unless windows7 is out first. http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/shattered_dreams_and_broken_promises_vistas_failure_launch We sat down with Microsoft to hear the company's side of the Vista story. What lessons have been learned following the worst Windows launch in the company's history? Is Microsoft doing enough to regain PC users' faith? Way back in January 2007, after years of hype and …

HI IM pretty good with computer but not the networking side of things so i have a question I just bought a new laptop which has 802.11b/g Wlan My question is how can i network the laptop with my computer using wireless??? any help is great thank you

My PC is working normally, no viruses, etc, and System Restore checkpoints are created every day or two, sometimes more often if I install new software or after windows updates. I do not use System Restore very often, but on each occasion I have tried it has always failed to work. Today I installed something (a reputable trial program, not some iffy freeware) that did not seem to uninstall correctly, so I thought I would just restore to yesterdays checkpoint. However, after the usual reboot it just says it cannot restore to that checkpoint and nothing has been changed. I tried the previous days checkpoint. Same thing. And so on for 5 previous restore points. …

I've presently exhausted all ideas about tackling this ongoing situation, so I thought I would turn to this forum to see if anyone has any ideas. Here's the problem: In my wife's office at work she is using a Dell OptiPlex 8200 system (Pentium 4, 1 GB RAM, Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 3), 80 GB hard drive (60% full)). During the past couple of months, her system has experienced a TREMENDOUS slowdown. The best way to describe it is that it's like trying to move through "molasses in January".... it just takes forever to accomplish anything like loading applications, installing or uninstalling programs, completing tasks within applications, etc. …

I would like to try to install any ActiveX component in my PC. What I try to do is to put the command in a batch file to see if it works. Any 'un-harmful' ActiveX I can play with?

I am having problem with windows xp sp3. I can't bring the system restore screen. It appears blank white. The problem started this way... I have WinFax Pro 10.04 on windows xp but fax sharing wasn't working therefore, Symantec suggested the solution where it asked to go to admin tools and click on component services and my computers, right click and click on properties, click on COM Security, Edit limits and add anonymous logon and check local and remote activation. I followed all the steps still it did not resolve the winfax sharing issue but got windows problem. When I rebooted the system, I noticed it takes long time to start and login. Further, I recei…

I just downloaded Reader 9.0 and it installed automatically. Now whenever I start/restart the computer, it goes to the folder labelled c://program files/adobe/acrobat.com and displays the contents of said folder. I looked in the startup folder and there is nothing indicating that this should happen. What gives? Should I uninstall/reinstall? Thanks

I installed SP3 for Windows XP and the address toolbar disappeared from the taskbar and there is not an option to put it back. How can I recover the address toolbar? don

Does anyone else have this problem. When I click on any Google Sponsored Link I get cannot display the site.

Hi, I'm back with a new problem. Hope you can help me with this one too. I have a Dell 4600 xp that had sevice pack 1 on it. I have tried to install service pack 2, 3 different times, with no luck. I finally decided to try it again and it seemed to be doing ok until it got hung up at the end where it was doing clean-up. I think it was in clean-up at least an hour. anyway it finally came up and said that the install failed. I rebooted my computer and it was there. It is also in my add-remove in the control panel. It was giving me problems, so I rebooted in safe mode to do a system restore. All that was there were service pack restore points, so I picked the …

I have copied the following from another forum - he describes perfectly what i have been experiencing for over 6 months now and it is finally driving me nuts... "I hope someone has a suggestion/solution to this irritating problem. Before posting this message I searched the web for similar issues and applied what I could from what was suggested (re-installing IE, disabling add-ons, ...) but to no avail. The problem occurs only in IE (not Firefox) and exhibits itself randomly (it seems): whenever I click in the address bar or sometimes on some links within the page I get this message in the status bar at the bottom of the page: "Contains commands for w…

I went to windows update and received the following error message [Error number: 0x800B0001 i cannot download any updates

-- I used to be able to go back to previous month and restore mu computer to that date.Now I cannot go back to the previous month where I made a system restore point. Can anyone help me solve this problem. Thanks