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- Windows XP Security >> mY computer has slowed down to a crawl following last MS downloadFollowing the last microsoft ugrade or patch or whatever
it is called when you send patches for security, my
computer which has cable high speed access has been
slowed to a crawl, I cannot receive mail on Outlook
Express, I keep getting messages that I need to free up
disc spaCE, I delete files and a message appears saying
disc space has been cleared and then the message
regarding low disc space comes up again. I checked for
viruses but did not find any. I did receive some e-mail
notices saying that mail was undeliverable because
the "too big virus" was attached. I delete all e-mails
from people I do not know without opening them. I have
always done this, but I do beleive a virus has gotten
past my firewall and virus scans. I checked with comcast
and the problems I am having are NOT related to the cable
company services.
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- Windows XP Security >> System administratorComputer was working fine and I believe someone in the household click on
something they shouldn't had and now I am unable to view the control panel or
task manager. It give message stating "Operation cancelled due to
restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact system administrator.
Can someone please let me know how this can be fixed. I tried a restore, and
it won't let me change that either. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
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- Windows XP Security >> unable to open doc files in word from internet (opens in browser)on windows xp pro with office 2003...
unable to uncheck "browse in same window" under edit file types! i mean, i
_am_ able to uncheck this selection, and press OK but at the folder options
window "apply" is greyed out. closing does not save my option!
any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance.
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charlie garrett-jones
planetxsolutions.com
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- Windows XP >> Work Offline/Try again messageVery frequently "Work Offline/Try Again message" pops up
while I'm in the Internet Explorer, and yet I'm on a
cable connection with other internet items up and
running. Is there a reason for this or a setting I need
to modify to stop this, or could it be a firewall setting?
TIA
Richie NY
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- Windows XP >> Crash?Okay, I got this problem on my pc: I can't hit
ctrl+alt+del, cant run msconfig, and can't run regedit,
when I try to run them, they come up, but close all of a
sudden, I thought it was a virus or something, checked my
pc against viruses and got no luck (my antivirus is up-to-
date).
Can anyone help me?
please answer on my email
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- Windows XP >> documents and settingsI don't know how to do a screen capture, but under my D&S folder there are
20 sub-folders. There is Admistrator, Administrator.Goldberg,
administrator.goldberg.ooo, all users, all users.windows, etc. Some are
localservice.nt authority.xxx, networkservice.nt authority.xxx, etc.
I would like to know which ones I can consolidate, and how do I know which
is the "main" one my computer is using so after consolidation I can delete
the other folders.
Some of the sub-folders are Application Data, Cookies, Desktop, etc but the
sub-folders are not the same in each folders, i.e. not all have "application
data".
Thanks!!
Eddie G
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- Windows XP Security >> Security of XP laptop with firewallHow secure is a laptop running XP home edition on a cable modem with no
router, but McAfee personal firewall plus and the XP firewall. My password
is 8 char -a mix of numbers and letters. The program involved does not
discriminate between Caps and Lower case?
Thanks
Vince
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vince
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- Windows XP >> Copying original administrator files to new userI have never set up a new user account with XP
Professional. I now want to create two new accounts but
still want to access all my files and settings from the
original administrator account and be able to do it from
the Welcome screen. Is there a way to copy those original
settings and files to a new user account?
Thanks,
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- Windows XP Basic >> A newbie question: activating XPGreetings,
I'm new to Windows - have been using Mac for many years. In order to run
some of the sofware I need for my work I bought an used PC, NetVista by
IBM, where the terminal and system is made as one unit. It had Windows
XP installed in it. Surprisingly, the system turned out to be very
stable, with no problems and crashes. But I guess it's a human nature to
create problems where there aren't any...
Each time upon startup I was getting a message "new upgrade is ready for
your computer." First I was ignoring it, but then one not so fine day I
thought, "what the heck, let's do update and see what happens." What
actually happened is that my computer downloaded Service Pack 2 and then
asked me to activate the Windows. When I pressed the activation, it
informed me that my product code had been used by another computer and I
need to pay $240 for activation. I paid for this computer much less
than that and, besides, I'm planning to buy a brand new system in a
couple of months.
So what should I do now? Before I installed the Service Pack 2 it never
asked for any activation. Now it gave me 30 days to activate. From
reading other posts in this group I realize that after 30 days my system
will stop working. Should I try to restore the system to previous state
by unistalling SP2? I just need this computer for a couple of more
months before I buy a new one. One more thing: when I bought it, I
bought it "as is" (at office liquidation sale) - with no disks or
instructions. It never occured to me that my OS might by pirated - it
was seemly respectable office, after all. I haven't talked yet to
Microsoft customer service yet.
Thank you in advance for any help and advice.
Alex
alex at netropolis dot net
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- Windows XP Security >> XP SP2 blocks PDF filesEver since installing SP2 over Win XP Pro I can no longer
open locally-stored PDF files in my browser. For example,
if I create an HTML document and link to a PDF file on my
hard drive, it will not open and instead I get a security
warning and an image placeholder that displays in the
upper left corner. This occurs even though I select the
option to "allow blocked content" when prompted by the
Information Bar.
What's strange is that SP2 does allow me to launch Acrobat
and open PDF files across the Internet, but not those
stored locally on my hard drive.
A solution would be greatly appreciated.
marcalans
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- Windows XP Security >> Using SRP to allow users rights to certain files.Can SRP be used to allow a USER to install a certain program if that
program EXE is listed as "Allowed" under Additional Rules?
Also, is there another rule aside from Unrestricted? That one
allows/disallows based on user level. Is there anyway where it would
universally allow without considering the user level?
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Bob
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 Posted: Thu Apr 26 16:03:45 CDT 2007 |
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Windows XP Hardware >> 2nd hard drive and power options
hey all,
i just installed a 2nd hard drive in my pc. when you go to Power Options in
the Control Panel there's a feature that says Turn Hard Disk off after a
period of time.
Will this apply to the 2nd hard drive as well or will the 2nd hard drive
keep running?
thanks,
rodchar
Windows XP783
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Bob
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26 16:03:45 CDT 2007 |
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Windows XP Hardware >> 2nd hard drive and power options
The definite answer is maybe it will work, and maybe it won't. Depends
on whether the system keeps polling the drive.
rodchar wrote:
> hey all,
> i just installed a 2nd hard drive in my pc. when you go to Power Options in
> the Control Panel there's a feature that says Turn Hard Disk off after a
> period of time.
>
> Will this apply to the 2nd hard drive as well or will the 2nd hard drive
> keep running?
>
> thanks,
> rodchar
>
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