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    Norton Security Threat - real or bogus

    Every time I boot my PC I get a Security Alert from Norton as follows “Norton Internet Worm Protection has detected and blocked an intrusion attempt Security rule: Default Block Netspy Trojan Horse” Date: Time: Path C:\windows\explorer.exe Filename: Windows Explorer Direction: Inbound Local...
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    Printing Blank Pages - Lexmark z55

    Lexmark z55 windows xp pro - installed new cartidge and now can't get anything to print - any ideas (LExmark site is useless - same as the printers!) Thanks Floyd
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    Cannot delete stubborn files

    My son bought a laptop and in cleaning it up we came across two files that we cannot delete 1. A temp file with a tilde (~) prefix and we get the message that the file is in use by another process and we can not locate the using process - trying to delete in cmd mode gets the same message 2...
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    disk clean-up -- compress old files

    Helping some friends improve on their pc's - when we run Disk Cleanup we get an item called Comress old files. Its 28 meg. What are they and can I safely delete these? What is the affect. thanks Floyd
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    XP Administration

    Helping out a friend - they have made multiple profiles under XP for the family - however they also set it up with passwords. I have done the same but without passwords. I can therefore use windows exporer and delete cache files for the whole family. He cannot access the other users files areas...
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    Access Append Fields from Another Table

    I am using Access 2000 – Windows XP and 98. I need to append columns to a Table A from a Table B. Currently I am going into Table B in design mode and copying selected Field Names with their Data Types. I then copy and paste this information to Table A from Design View. Is there a way I can...
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    Excel 2000 Removing Leading zeros

    I'm pulling data from another source and am getting leading zeros in front of the street address. I have 65K rows to work with - any easy way to strip off the leading zeros? All the articles I find talk to keeping the 0's - I want to drop them. Ex: 0000000709 ELLEN DR Thanks Floyd
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    Access 2000 - Duplicate Query Wizard not working

    Installed MS Office 97 on W98SE and then installed Access 2000 on my laptop from work to do a few projects from home. When I try to execute Duplicate Query Wizard - nothing happens. IF I try it on my home PC (Access 2000, WXP) I get a mesaage to install this option - but I need to do this on...
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    Cleanmgr.exe

    Cleaning up my sons pc from school and keep running into the same problem - CLEANMGR.EXE is running at 90+% of CPU util - can I just END the process = I get the standard warning message when I do so I have not yet canned the task. Where is it coming from - any ideas
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    Notepad - Deleting File List

    Anyone know how to delete the file list on the drop down for Notepad - I get two different lists depending on the type of file I select in the open drop down and there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason as to which files show up - prefer to clean house from time to time - any ideas? None of...
  11. floydman80

    Output Tray reversal - HP Laserjet III

    Posted in general area - excuse the double post - didn't know this existed so... Somehow my LaserJet tries to print out the rear output tray when it is closed and therefore paper jams or if I open the rear output tray the printed output comes out to the top output tray - completely the...
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    Output Tray reversal - HP Laserjet III

    Somehow my LaserJet tries to print out the rear output tray when it is closed and therefore paper jams or if I open the rear output tray the printed output comes out to the top output tray - completely the reverse!!! The main way I have always controlled this has been simply open or close the...
  13. floydman80

    Creating IE standards across multiple profiles

    I have five PCs that are used as common workstations under XP. So there are 12 separate profiles - in order for any staffer to use any PC. Problem is I have to make changes to Interent Options for Internet Explorer (6.0) for a package we are running. While I can place Icons in All Users folder...
  14. floydman80

    Cleaning up START-UP files

    What are some of the better sites for listing start-up programs that can be deleted to improve performance, especialy if you think they are kept current and are accurate!?!? Thanks - your local Floydman
  15. floydman80

    Excel-forcing page-setup parameters thru entire workbook

    I have a "large" workbook of 65 worksheets. I have a way to copy formatting changes throughout the workbook. But it doesn't work on page set-up (ex. portrait vs landscape). Any way of doing this once and getting all worksheets to have the same page set-up template (page orientation...
  16. floydman80

    Receiving faxes using W98

    Does anyone know how to turn on the faxing facility within W98
  17. floydman80

    Word docs inceasing size w/o changes

    I have received WORD documents from other people, recently a resume. It was 35K when I received it and then I opened it, closed it and then Explorer said it was 65K. I have seen this before. Why the change when I did nothing. I have seen my files, sent to others shrink and then grow again...
  18. floydman80

    speaker noise! Compaq Presario 9548 Monitor 1500

    I have rebuilt an old compaq to some usefulness albeit slow. Of the last few problems, one is a humming or just loud noise in the speakers when turned on. Affects bith speakers. took some work getting them to work but I think I 've got the right drivers now. any help / advice is appreciated.
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    HP Printer problem - catching on paper

    I have a HPDeskjet 890c. Been working fine - mostly. Trying to squeeze as much life out it as I can. Have fixed it a few times, but it is periodically "catching" as the print heads move across the paper horizonically. Looking at the printer, the cartdiges catch on the very edge of...
  20. floydman80

    Yahoo mail w/netscape print problems

    I have lost the capability to print an email using Yahoo running under Netscape (4.78) in win98 2nd edition. I get nothng but garbage text, special characters etc. I can forward to netscape mail and print form there but I need to print from yahoo at times. any ideas on where to start?

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