A friend of mine goes online and every 15 minutes or so a pop up appears saying he has a trojan /spyware virus on his pc. I installed the Lavasoft Adaware program and Spybot Search and Destroy and a popup blocker program. They both found many spyware programs and I delelted them. The problem is...
for some reason after bootup it doesn't go to a user account login screen, it goes directly to my user desktop. I want to set it up so I can log in as Administrator OR my own account. How can I get it to show both accounts for a choice of either one to open at bootup?
Thanks,Jim
i have 4 pc's in my wireless network all running XP Home. they all used to have access to my base station printer but now they can't because the base station can't find them. i've tried a few things in the "windows setup a wireless home network" and "network places" and other programs but my...
I bought a new pc which has video embedded into the motherboard using 128MB of the system RAM. i have a video card in another pc that i removed and installed it in this pc and it works fine. but wouldn't doing that release the 128MB from the embedded video in the system RAM since there is now a...
MS05-054 was just released from microsoft for Internet Explorer critical update. i use Firefox for my browser. is it necessary for me to download these security patches?
thanks,Jim
i have a wireless network with a linksys wrt54g router. my base station is running xp home and so is my wireless Toshiba laptop and my daughters wireless Compaq laptop. i went to the linksys Wirless-G broadband router website (192.168.1.1) and set up WPA-TKIP Personal encryption and assigned it...
Win2kPro: in the Start menu i click on "Search" then "For Files or Folders" and nothing opens. the same thing happens when i click on "On the Internet" right below "For Files or Folders".
how can i fix this?
a friend is running win2k pro. he uses outlook express and whenever he opens an email with a highlited link in it he'll click it and nothing opens. also when he tries to drag an incoming message to a folder that he created under local folders the msg won't move there.
anyone know how to fix...
running xp home. at bootup it would go thru bios then the windows xp loading window opened then it rebooted and kept rebooting. i ran a hard drive test in the phoenix bios and the test status said "#2-07 FAIL". also at bootup a BSOD would flash by and all i could read was...
ZipGenius
I've heard of this to be a very good zip-unzip FREE program.It specifies it's use is for Windows Explorer. Will it also work with Firefox which is my default browser. If not, what other zip-unzip program would you recommend for Firefox, preferrably a FREE one.
thanks,Jim
I have XP Home and a new Lexmark X5250 All in One i've had for a couple of months and it worked fine until 3 days ago. whats happening is when i go into control panel click on "printers and faxes" icon the program opens but there's no printer icon in it so i click on the "add a printer" icon and...
printer problems at websites
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a friend has a 4 year old HP Office Jet G85 printer/fax/scanner/copier. when he tries to print a web page the printer button blinks, then nothing prints from a webpage, email,etc..
he...
i was using incredimail for my email provider. i bought a pda and it only links to microsoft outlook so i changed to outlook for email. oulook was installed when i installed microsoft office 2000. i still have incredimail but i deleted my account in it so outlook is now my active primary email...
I have XP Home.
I recently installed a Sony DVD RW DRU-710A. I have no idea how it links up with AOL IM. when ever I send a response to someone in IM a "Windows Installer" dialog box appears showing a device install window and then an "Install Wizard Complete" dialog box. When I click "Finish"...
When I want to open a link in a web page and also in an email message I have to push the shift key the same time I click on the link. how can that be fixed so only clicking on it will open it? Thanks, Jim
I'm running XP Home with 4 accounts. I find a lot of these problem programs in my daughter's account that she has downloaded or has gone to websites that have this crap in them. How can LOP.com associated websites like search200.com and MY Web Search and others be in all of our accounts when...
I have XP Home. I installed a new wireless mouse and keyboard and they work fine but a problems started when i or anyone else logs out of their accounts. It takes a while then a dialog box shows up saying "MOffice this program is not responding" and it has a mouse icon in the corner of it so it...
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