How can I speed up loading user settings on login? My Win XP SP3 PC is showing signs of its age and is slowing down. I have improved things to some extent using msconfig to sort out start-up programmes and processes etc, and have tweaked things further with Process Explorer. However things are still extremely slow once the user has logged on, it's a family ... 22 Feb 2010 10:46
.NET Framework Update: Is it needed? I am running XPHome, SP3, with all important security updates. I'm also running IE6 (I'm aware that IE8 is the latest, but prefer IE6, and if I want tabbed browsing, I use FFox) and FFox 3.5.7. The following has just appeared in my Automatic Updates window: "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and .N... 21 Feb 2010 07:06
E-mail attachments I have Windows XP Media Center Edition Internet Explorer 8 McAfee with MSN (note McAfee scans e-mail messages and attachments I cannot attach a folder to an e-mail using either MSN or AOL mail. I can only attach individual files.I know that in the past I was able to attach folders. I may have been using an ea... 21 Feb 2010 14:54
System Restore and registry saving Hello After some bad computer troubles lately I was advised to daily use the tool called "System restore" So I made sure to set a new point of System restore each evening before I shut the machine for the day, and I could see those points highlighted on the system restore page. BUT, when I tried today to... 21 Feb 2010 20:33
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Newly installed SDRAM is only partially showing up. Hi, Sorry if this isn't precisely Windows related, I just added two 1-GB sticks of SDRAM into my Dell computer to bring it up to 4 GB, but it's only showing up under System as 3.25. Which is interesting. My tower has four RAM slots. When I bought the computer it had four 256 MB sticks (1 GB), two of which ... 19 Feb 2010 16:39
Newly installed SDRAM is only partially showing up. Hi, I just added two 1-GB sticks of SDRAM into my Dell computer to bring 2.5 GB up to 4 GB, but it's only showing up under System as 3.25. Which is interesting. My tower has four RAM slots. When I bought the computer it had four 256 MB sticks, two of which I replaced with two 1 GB sticks a while back (2.5) ... 21 Feb 2010 11:32
Search Companion missing file I'm helping a friend whose laptop was infected with a virus/trojan. We disinfected using MalwareBytes anti-malware app. She now has a functioning pc again...but... When I try to use the search feature in Windows XP, I get an error message that reads "A file that is required to run Search Companion cannot be fo... 19 Feb 2010 14:25
Outlook Express problem receiving Able to send emails and even receive some spam emails in Outlook Express, but mysteriously unable to receive emails from family members. [Note: Recently reformatted hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP, SP3, Outlook express 6.0, Internet Explorer 8 and installing various types of software. Internet connectio... 21 Feb 2010 11:32
Outlook Express problem receiving emails Able to send emails and even receive some spam emails in Outlook Express, but mysteriously unable to receive emails from family members. [Note: Recently reformatted hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP, SP3, Outlook express 6.0, Internet Explorer 8 and installing various types of software. Internet connectio... 19 Feb 2010 14:25 |