Recent content by BarryMurphy

Until a couple of months ago, I had a really good computer, but it broke down and due to an important deadline approaching, I needed to acquire another one immediately. I bought one in an auction and picked it up the next day. (Actually, the seller arranged to meet me at his car, and we...

A week or so ago I downloaded a file mkwact097b1.exe and ran it to install an application called "MKW Audio Compression Toolkit." Straight away I decided that I did not want this particular application installed on my system, so I sought to remove it. Ufortunately, it did not appear in...

I have taken an Athlon XP 3000+ (333Mhz) with Thermaltake Volcano 10 heatsink and fan off a Gigabyte GA-7VA motherboard intending to attach it permanently to a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 Rev 1.0 motherboard. The interface surfaces were covered in a white paste, which I cleaned off. The parts were...

I have a very sick computer, and recently bought a PCI/ISA POST (Power On Self Status) code diagnostic card. Symptoms: computer runs extremely slowly; windows and applications continually stop responding, sometimes temporarily, often permanently. Internet browser (IE 6.0) is a waste of time...

I want to uninstall Service Pack 1 from my computer. When I click "Remove" in Add or Remove Programs, there is a dialog in which I confirm that I wish to remove Service Pack 1 and restore my previous configuration. After I do that, there another dialog entitled, "Service Pack 1", which starts...

Thanks linney and bcastner. Handle told me that MSOFFICE.EXE is the culprit. I created a batch file (del /q C:\Documents and Settings\Barry\Local Settings\Temp\Perflib_Perfdata_*.data) and put it in my Startup folder. When I restarted and opened the temp folder it was empty, but while I was...

I can't get Handle to work. It just scrolls through screeds of text too quickly to read for about 40 seconds and then closes. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

I'm running Windows XP Pro on a standalone computer and have been trying to clear out my C:\Documents and Settings\[User]\Local Settings\Temp folder but I have a problem with Perflib_Perfdataxxx.dat files. Some I can delete, but there is always one that is locked. I located a relevant...

I thank everyone for their suggestions. I should have said that the disc I am discarding is not my boot drive (Mulga's impression was right). My new disc is a Western Digital WDC WD1200JB-00CRA0. It is an OEM disc, so it does not come with an installation disc, but I downloaded a bootable...

Both my hard discs are nearly full, and I want to replace the smaller one, which has 37GB of data. Is there any way to transfer the data to the new drive without backing it all up first? (I'm running Win98 SE and I'll upgrade to XP Pro when the new hard disc is installed). "640K ought to be...

I looked at my mobo as closely as I could (some parts are difficult to see without removing components) and I think I was able to see all the jumpers, but none of them had a marking that would identify it as the one to clear CMOS settings. From what I've been able to gather after looking into...

crisc - how might clearing the CMOS help? "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981

I don't think this is a bad mouse problem. I've tried a different mouse and it makes no difference. And as I said, it's not a bad floppy disc drive either. The problem only occurs in the boot process. The error message box appears at the top left corner of an otherwise totally blank...

I have a P166 running Windows 98 SE. When I cold boot the machine after it has been off for several hours, the startup sequence stops at a DOS screen with a couple of statements: "Floppy Disc(s) Fail (C0)", and "Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP". When I press F1 the...

Thanks Fenris, at least someone thinks I'm not crazy for putting the swap file on its own partition. I did try to use FDisk at first, but I found that I couldn't achieve what I wanted with it. I wanted to create a small partition at the beginning of the disc for the swap file, and install...