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IS THIS A HOPELESS CASE FOR SERVICE PACK 2? PLEASE HELP
by Guest kim42- 9 replies
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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 …
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Google Sponsored Links don't work
by Guest Herb- 7 replies
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Does anyone else have this problem. When I click on any Google Sponsored Link I get cannot display the site.
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I went to windows update and received the following error message [Error number: 0x800B0001 i cannot download any updates
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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…
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Sysyem Restore
by Guest HughGrandpa- 3 replies
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-- 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
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Windows Keeps Restarting After Anti Virus Install
by Guest pestocat- 9 replies
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I have a problem PC that keeps restarting after anti virus application was installed. I have to go into safe Mode and uninstall it order to get PC stable again. I had PC running fine and with anti virus app. but then upgraded to new version and developed the restart issue.Any ideas.
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Registry cleaner 1 2 3
by Guest Jim Brown- 52 replies
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I am running Windows XP Home. What is the best most reliable registry cleaner for this system?
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Is it OK to reinstall XP and reuse the license?
by Guest Gregory K- 6 replies
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I need to reformat my hard drive. If I do that and re-install XP Pro, will I be able to register it? In the other words, will Microfoft let me use the same license? Should I do something special to let them know that I am reinstalling the same system? Gregory
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Cannot get to certain websites
by Guest Gre0145- 10 replies
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I'm probably overlooking something but I need help. I have a PC, which was full of Viruses and Malware, but is now clean. I can run a scan of several different virus engines and it detects nothing. So with that being said, why can I not get to certain websites? Windows Update is one, and if you try to go to safer-networking.org it takes you to a totally different site. When trying to get to Windows Update it shows IP 127.0.0.1 which is the loopback address. I checked my host file and it is clean. Where is IE picking up this 127.0.0.1 from?
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Need help with SP 2 (or SP 3)
by Guest PerkyPenny- 6 replies
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Hello all, I am in dire need of help and hopeful that I can get the assistance that I need. My hubby downloaded a virus on my computer one day last week. It was quite nasty and I had to do a system restore. I ended up having to do a Destructive System Restore to get everything right again. (The virus would not allow me to access any of my documents, music, etc. When I clicked on the Start button, it wouldn't even bring up my control panel or anything) I did the destructive restore and everything has been working fine. My computer automatically downloaded all the updates and when it installs the SP 3 (or even SP2) and tells me to restart my compute…
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Service Pack 3-Standby Mode Crashes
by Guest Dan R- 16 replies
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I installed service pack 3 and have noticed a weird problem-every time I put the computer on standby, it crashes every time I come back from standby mode. I used it all the time with SP2 with no problems whatsoever, but with SP3 when I come back from standby it crashes. Has anyone else had this problem? And if so, is there a fix?
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Favorites Drop Down Menu Quetion
by Guest Dave- 6 replies
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Is there a way to get the Favorites drop down menu to display immediately when clicked rather than having to click on the chevron symbols at the bottom? Thx Dave.
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Antivirus 2008 1 2
by Guest Alan C- 28 replies
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One XPPro workstn was infected by the antivirus 2008 trojan, which I have managed to clean. One problem remains: I cannot browse any server (2003) shares via network places or explorer, although all mapped drives are accessible. When I try to browse to the server, - '\\our_srv\' only one share is shown - 'userdata' - and this appears as an empty folder. Z:\ is mapped to \\our_srv\userdata\username and lists all files, but in explorer that same path returns 'windows cannot find (path). check spelling....' I know that the trojan affects the local policies, which I've reset, but cannot find anything that would cause the above. Any help, suggestions, guidan…
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$him folder?
by Guest ManyBeers- 6 replies
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Or whatever that one is called in Windows that is neccessary to keep to get updates. Anyways mine is empty for some reason and I don't know how it happened. So the other day i noticed my C;\drive had lost about 650megs of space and after poking around I found out that folder was full of kb folders about 650megs worth. I guess they were all a bunch of past updates I have installed but got re downloaded. Did the fact that that folder was empty have something to do with that. And can I fix it. I deleted all the folders becuse my computer is up to date and always has been.
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"My Computer" pops up after log in
by Guest snakeboy- 1 reply
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A "My Computer" window opens every time I log in. Is there a way to stop this?