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http://www.neowin.net/news/main/08/05/30/microsoft-taking-official-petitions-to-keep-xp If you can remember back a few weeks, Steve Ballmer went on record saying that Microsoft would consider extending the life of Windows XP if enough people asked for it. Afterall, many people don't want to upgrade to Windows Vista because they are perfectly content with XP. The problem was there was no way to ask for it. Sure, you could sign one of the many online petitions, but Microsoft considers those "non-official complaints" and the rest of us simply consider them silly. Well, word has been passed down to the tech support teams (and then on to Neowin) that they a…

Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive On Oct 16, 6:03 am, Summercool <Summercooln...@gmail.com> wrote: > After installing Ubuntu, it seemed that everything on my Drive C: was > lost. > > After hours of trying, it really turned out I lost EVERYTHING on my C: > drive. > > So I had to reformat the whole C: drive, and reinstall Vista on it. > > I lost all my bookmarks, in both IE and Firefox. > > I needed to reinstall every single application. > > I needed to reinstall all security update for Vista all over again. > > I wasted at least 5, 6 hours. > > How can "Ubuntu - Humanity towards others" erases…

Thank you everyone! I really appreciate you sticking with me through this. Someone sent me the 3 DLL files I was missing. I installed them and was able to run the repair tool for IE6SP1. But that didn't help. I cleaned up my startup items with help from the group. I deleted a lot of unnecessary files. I download IE6sp1 zip from an e-mail and Gary walked my through the overinstall. I follow your advice on just about every post. Forgive me for not answering all but we spent about 24 hours just going through this. This is my third day and we are finally fixed. I think what did it is I removed my firewall.....'Trial of Transgressions'....I think that was the name. and …

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http://windowssecrets.com/comp/070913/#story1 By Scott Dunn Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates. Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this situation are objecting to the stealth patching. Files changed with no notice to users In recent days, Windows Update (WU) started altering files on users' systems without displaying any dialog box to request permission. The only files that have been reportedly altered to date are nine small executables on XP and nine on Vista that are used by WU itself. Mi…

[Crossposted to Windows Update, WinXP General, IE General, Security, Security Home Users newsgroups] Resolution [was Workaround] for Sudden Loss of Internet Access Problem http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html (revised multiple times since release on 08 July 2008) NB: Do NOT use Option #2 if at all possible! The vulnerability addressed by KB951748 *is* a big deal! See http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/patch_the_entire_internet_tues_1.html Want to consider other, more highly-rated firewalls? http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS…

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I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP2 with AVG, A-Squared, Spybot and Comodo with DSL connection. I haven't done anything or added anything but today when I logged on the computer it was unusually slow even with only (1) program running. I thought perhaps I might have picked up a virus or malware so I ran Spybot and it came out clean. I then checked Microsoft Updates to see if any new updates were there but it just seemed to hang up and did nothing although the Task Manager said it was running. I then started to run AVG and checked to see if were any updates but it failed each time I tried to update it. I thought maybe they have a newer version so I delet…

Linux developers MUST consolidate and release a "master" distro for the general computer/device market. On Oct 6, 4:19 pm, "Randy Oaks" <ro...@hotmail.com> wrote: > <bones4jo...@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:1191705624.157060.40790@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > > > On Oct 6, 3:47 pm, Gene Jones <ja...@janus.com> wrote: > >> Dean Plude <xenop...@charter.net> wrote: > >> > In my many years using linux I have come to know that to truly support > >> > and promote linux as I did with brunswick and many others is simply > >> > show > >> > large c…

I have a Gateway computer with the following: 1) a 1400-MHz Pentium 4 processor, 2) 256 MB of RAM, and 3) 40 GB of hard-drive space. The computer is running Windows Millennium Edition (ME). A month ago, I bought a Brother MFC-240C printer. This is a multifunction device: printer, copier, fax, and scanner. Recently, my "starter" yellow-ink cartridge ran out of ink, and one other cartridge is about to do the same. At the Best Buy store where I bought the printer, Brother cartridges are sold for $13.50 each. I believe that these are the LC51B, LC51Y, LC51C, and LC51M cartridges. Well, I have discovered the website known as http://www.ink4less.com 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

Are registry cleaners a good idea or bad? I have done some reading and some say they are bad and some say they are bad. Has any one here had any experience with them good or bad. Or are they even necessary looks like Microsoft would build it into the operating system if it were needed. Sammy Castagna

Is there some such concept as "residual electricity"??? There was a problem with a computer at work...it's a new Dell running WinXP Pro...everything's fine, I go to lunch and come back to a blank screen that won't wake up from power-save/sleep mode!! I do the obvious and check connections, making sure they're secure and whatnot. I turn off the computer and turn it back on a few times, to no effect! Tech Support suspects some kind of a "power management" issue -- whatever that is -- and suggests that I leave the system off for a few minutes, literally, to let things "clear"...whatever that means. Sure enough, however: it works! So now I'm here asking, b…

Over the last three days, I've tried to access two separate youtube links on two separate occasions to find the W98 system freezes as the page is initially displayed. No keybd/mouse response. Required a hardware reboot to recover. I don't normally access youtube, but had done so in the previous week without problems. First link was: The first time the problem occurred, I did a quick disk check - lost clusters found (and repaired). I retried the same link with number crunching background activity disabled - with the same result. Repeated disk check and then attempted to run defrag - incomplete after hitting a bad sector. This was repaired by running …

Does your BIOS support 48Bit LBA? JS "Will Pittenger" <no-spam@see.my.sig> wrote in message news:uzcAzqihIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Supposedly, XP SP2 (which is installed) supports 48-bit LBA addressing. > However, when I attempt to extend any partition past 120 GB, Windows > refuses to boot. It just sits there at the animated boot splash screen > forever. Can someone tell me what is wrong and how to fix it? I would > like to use the extra disk space that I now have. > > I am also having problem with PartitionMagic 8 that might be related. The > installed version crashes all of Windows shortly after the splash…

Is there a antivirus that I can download that still supports Windows 98se for my Dell Dimension desktop?

hallo I have two (or to better say more) harddisk on one of them I have w98 on another I have wxp sp2 when I boot on xp the files on the xp harddisk in Explorer are correctly shown in lower case when I boot on w98 the same files on the xp harddisk in Explorer are always shown in uppercase if their name is up to 8 char long note: if the name is longer, eg: 12 char , it is shown in lower case note the files on the w98 same harddisk are always shown correctly How can I get the original lowercase filename from onther harddisk (or pen drive) correctly displayed in W98?

XP Death Watch http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/27/XP-deathwatch-T-minus-five-weeks_1.html Even though it has had its own problems of late, Windows XP remains the most-used version of Windows. The newest data from Web metrics vendor Net Applications, for example, pegs XP as driving 73 percent of the personal computers that went online last month, five times the nearest competitor, Microsoft's own Windows Vista. Which is why an impending deadline five weeks from today is important. According to Microsoft, June 30 is the last day it will permit retailers and OEMs to sell the nearly seven-year-old operating system. [ Make your voice heard.…

If this is the wrong 'forum', please let me know and also where to turn. Since I'm using WinME, I figured it would be worth a try: In Properties/Settings under 'Colors' the color red is now completely missing, while at first it sporadically changed back to 'normal' with all colors present. This makes the display appear greenish and the former blue purplish. Otherwise no changes. It seemed to coincide with the loss of my 'WinZip' (just a guess). Does this indicate the monitor going bad'? Or is the cause somewhere else? If it can be fixed, please let me know. Harry.

I am hearing about XP SP3 about to be offered by MS. I've looked, but have not been able to find any list of what 'upgrades' are included in XP SP3, post SP2. Is there such a list, say by KB#? Where? Thanks Jethro

"People came back and said, 'Please, will you take this off and replace it with XP?'" http://news.com.com/Vistas+growing+pains+leave+room+for+XP/2100-1016_3-6197757.html?tag=html.alert.hed David Daoud ran into trouble when he started using Vista, the new version of Windows that Microsoft and PC makers have spent millions of dollars advertising since it came out six months ago. He said it short-circuited key software programs he counts on: Quicken for balancing his checkbook, Lotus Notes e-mail and a networking program that connects his home to the office. His Sony camcorder also doesn't communicate with the PC properly. "Basically they don't work," s…

I am unable to run Windows 98 SE in normal mode. Fortunately, I can run it in safe mode. When I try to run Windows 98 SE in normal mode then I receive a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death --- grin). The windows fatal exception is as follows: Fatal exception 0D occurred at 0147:0000BC9D I have a dual-boot with XP Professional which still works great. However, I also want 98SE to work great as well. Thanks for your help and I look forward to getting 98SE up and running at full speed. Well PCR, you were right that eventually XP Pro. would hurt 98SE I guess -- grin. Thanks in advance for all of the help and I am looking forward to posting here again via M…

Re: Linux is FREE....Where are the users??????????????? LINUX is FREE...Where are it's users??????????????????? On Oct 20, 10:55 pm, heather.ban...@gmail.com wrote: > Linux users love to talk about how Micorsoft sabotoges the Linux > movement but they forget one important aspect of Linux, it is FREE.... > > Yes Linux, and all of it's *wonderful* applications, is free every day > of the week. > > So why are so few people using Linux? > People are free to choose. > Nobody is holding their feet to the fire. > So why don't they choose Linux? > Why are they willing to pay $200 for Windows and another $200 for > Office instead …

I have one IBM notebook X40 and there is some strange happened. It has installed Windows XP with SP2 . But now sometimes the keyboard does not has any repsonse and I need to physical shut it down. Does anyone has any idea? What do i need to check? Is it hardware or Windows XP problems? Ivan

I have this old pcs in my house both are mickey mouse brands but I have a few files I want to get out of thme. this files are mostly personal info that's why I haven't forget this PCS for all the sensitive info I have there, I even changed the power supply in one of them to make sure I always see my files print them etc, honestly I rather have those files there in my old w98 that has no access to the net than here in this new pc which is always online. But like we all know we can't depend on those old machines I want to get online with those PCs windows 98 and send me a few emails with this word and excel files. I tried to connect last night I even in…