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Forum: General XP issues or comments April 11th 14, 03:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 523
Posted By Daave[_8_]
XP Pro Laptop Turned to Slug

OldGuy wrote:
No changes that I can remember.

1) screen saver comes on as expected but it takes all kinds of
fiddling around to get back to the desktop. Same screensaver as
always.
2)...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 17th 12, 04:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 16
Views: 1,498
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Downloading the elusive Service Pack 2 for Windows XP

Bert wrote:
In Nil
wrote:

On 16 Aug 2012, Bert wrote in
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 16th 12, 01:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 16
Views: 1,498
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Downloading the elusive Service Pack 2 for Windows XP

Fortunately I have the currently-difficult-to-obtain Service Pack 2
installation file on my hard drive. Here is some important information
for those who need it:

Name:...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 28th 11, 02:58 AM Posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 18
Views: 400
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Searching for Basic PC Recommendation

A little old lady I know has a PC that's about nine years old (it has XP
Home). She basically uses it for general Web browsing and occasional
word processing. She would like a more modern PC. She...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 14th 11, 11:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 25
Views: 351
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Limitations on OEM usage?

David wrote:

However, with this install I keep getting
messages to the effect, "Windows File Protection ... unrecognized
versions of files required for stability ... please insert your CD
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 13th 11, 05:07 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 25
Views: 351
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Limitations on OEM usage?

David wrote:
Daave, to respond to your question: My PC is/was literally an OEM
build, so no make and model

Sounds custom-built. Whoever built this for you is legally bound to
provide you with...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 13th 11, 06:06 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 25
Views: 351
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Limitations on OEM usage?

David wrote:
An XP Pro w/SP3, OEM version, costs about $100. For someone who
doesn't do this sort of thing every day, that is a pretty inexpensive
price compared with the time and effort to...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 5th 11, 03:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 19
Views: 341
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Copying windows to another box and activating it

mm wrote:
On Wed, 04 May 2011 20:01:42 +0200, Alias
.ˇnvalˇd wrote:

On 05/04/2011 07:50 PM, mm wrote:
On Wed, 04 May 2011 13:06:14 +0200, Alias
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 3rd 11, 03:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 31
Views: 462
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Dell Dim 4700: Can't Boot to CD

VanguardLH wrote:
NOTE: Quoting fixed in my reply. Chris needs to do his own quoting
(prefix char and indentation) since he is now using v15 of WLM which
is well known as defective. v14 had...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 3rd 11, 03:54 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 31
Views: 462
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Dell Dim 4700: Can't Boot to CD

Paul wrote:
Dell Christopher wrote:
Many thanks for all the suggestions. Unfortunately, I was still not
able to resolve the problem, so I will do my best to work with the
computer as is....
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 25th 11, 12:48 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 295
Posted By Daave[_8_]
System restore always fails

Do you have Norton?

Tom Barkas wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
Have now tried almost everything on the link you gave me with no
success.
Uninstalled Zonealarm and ran safe mode with no...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 18th 11, 03:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 295
Posted By Daave[_8_]
System restore always fails- followup

SC Tom wrote:
"SC Tom" wrote in message
...


"Daave" wrote in message
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 16th 11, 04:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 295
Posted By Daave[_8_]
System restore always fails

SC Tom wrote:
"Tom Barkas" wrote in message
...
In XP home, I have system restore points from most days, but, every
time I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 16th 11, 02:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 15
Views: 295
Posted By Daave[_8_]
System restore always fails

Tom Barkas wrote:
In XP home, I have system restore points from most days, but, every
time I try to go back to one, it goes through the whole process then
says it can't restore to that...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 1st 11, 03:27 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 39
Views: 397
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Upgrade to user-unfriendly IE8

Jason wrote:
IE even has allow cookies for session and uses a proxy server
properly. The above line is actually a lie.

This is Usenet. It would be courteous to include the line you are...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 14th 10, 05:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 179
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Mouse problem:

Navyguy wrote:
I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, SP3 running Windows Firewall,
Avira antivirus,
Spywareblaster, Spybot (only for updates) and Hive Cleanup and all the
programs work well...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 12th 10, 06:16 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 58
Views: 529
Posted By Daave[_8_]
WXP/SP3 + Registry Patrol

glee wrote:
Humorous.... unfortunately, if you are serious, you are certainly no
audiophile. It's got nothing to do with the items about which you
made the funny comments...the musical quality...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 11th 10, 03:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 58
Views: 529
Posted By Daave[_8_]
WXP/SP3 + Registry Patrol

choro wrote:
I've read a lot of claims that all registry cleaners are nothing more
than "snake oil" and I nearly came to believe it.

But this is usually the case, personal annecdotes...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 4th 10, 02:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 20
Views: 453
Posted By Daave[_8_]
XP Computer is now running slower than I ever dreamed it could. Help!

(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per wilby:

Pete: I didn't ever think about indexing, it was on. I turned it off
and now will see what happens.

I was not clear in my post.

Turning it *Off*...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 2nd 10, 01:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 20
Views: 453
Posted By Daave[_8_]
XP Computer is now running slower than I ever dreamed it could. Help!

+1

Tester wrote:
You might also want to look at cloning/imaging the HD AFTER the clean
install so that it acts as a backup. Let us know if you want some
info in this matter. Resetting the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 2nd 10, 06:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 20
Views: 453
Posted By Daave[_8_]
XP Computer is now running slower than I ever dreamed it could. Help!

wilby wrote:
On 12/1/2010 12:45 PM, MowGreen wrote:
wilby wrote:
So far I've eliminated the PIO possibility, now I'll continue with
the other suggestions.

Thanks, Wilby

If...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 11th 10, 01:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 257
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Software question (OT)

Daave wrote:
Menno Hershberger wrote:
I really have no idea what newsgroup a software question should go,
but since I'm a loyal Windows XP user, some one here may be able to
help.
I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 11th 10, 01:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 257
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Software question (OT)

Menno Hershberger wrote:
I really have no idea what newsgroup a software question should go,
but since I'm a loyal Windows XP user, some one here may be able to
help.
I have a lawyer who...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 10th 10, 12:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 18
Views: 283
Posted By Daave[_8_]
Backing Up and Restoring C drive or Cloning it

John Doe wrote:
"choro" choro tvco.net wrote:

Trying Macrium Reflect free version tonight and my initial
reaction seems to be very favorable indeed. The setup is
extremely logical and...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 7th 10, 06:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 21
Views: 177
Posted By Daave[_8_]
XP Pro OEM Activation

John Doe wrote:
"Kernel" wrote:

"John Doe" wrote in message
"Daave" daave example.com wrote:

And create other images while...
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