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Forum: General XP issues or comments May 23rd 11, 01:00 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 26
Views: 346
Posted By philo[_3_]
Looking for a free virus checker and firewall program

"Tester" wrote in message
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A good anti-spyware at the moment is MSE (Microsoft Security
Essentials). People have also had good...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 26th 11, 03:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 163
Posted By philo[_3_]
Oddly named directory in D:\?

"Jason" wrote in message
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my inf file starts with:

; MSXPSDRV.INF
;
; Microsoft system driver files for XPSDrv print drivers.
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 11th 11, 09:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 13
Views: 209
Posted By philo[_3_]
Convert to dynamic disk

"Metspitzer" wrote in message
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I have read this:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309044

And I still don't know if I...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP March 6th 11, 01:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 1
Views: 1,266
Posted By philo[_3_]
Writing to two USB drives at the same time

"Metspitzer" wrote in message
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Is there a way to speed up writing the same information to two USB
drives? I have two...
Forum: The Basics February 10th 11, 11:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 4
Views: 1,326
Posted By philo[_3_]
Reverting to SP1?

"William Lurie" wrote in message
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To end this thread:

Yes, I have a whole HP partition which is for Restore purposes,...
Forum: The Basics February 10th 11, 12:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 4
Views: 1,326
Posted By philo[_3_]
Reverting to SP1?

"William Lurie" wrote in message
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I still have not solved the mystery of how to simply 'reply' to a message
posted here....
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 2nd 11, 05:07 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 40
Views: 526
Posted By philo[_3_]
IMO, new company laptop with Win 7 - horrible o/s.

"Tim Meddick" wrote in message
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I'd send you some, but would worry that they may get slightly cold & soggy
on the way!!

==

...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 2nd 11, 12:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 40
Views: 526
Posted By philo[_3_]
IMO, new company laptop with Win 7 - horrible o/s.

"Paul in Houston TX" wrote in message
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Had to get a new laptop from the company.
The old one went bad.
The new one came with...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP February 2nd 11, 12:27 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 2
Views: 1,342
Posted By philo[_3_]
How do I delete old system files

"Metspitzer" wrote in message
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I have a couple of drives that were used as the boot drive in other
machines, but now I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 16th 11, 10:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 149
Posted By philo[_3_]
Triple boot

"scbs29" wrote in message
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Hello all
At present I dual boot Win XP SP3 and PCLinuxOS Gnome.
My disk setup...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 14th 11, 10:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 15
Views: 237
Posted By philo[_3_]
Memory slot puzzle

"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
news:Xns9E6BE487E8D79butter@wefb973cbe498...
John McGaw wrote in
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP January 4th 11, 12:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 6
Views: 1,258
Posted By philo[_3_]
Help! At wits end with Cannot find the hive file error

"D B" wrote in message
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Back on Sept. 13th, I first got this error:

Stop: 0xc0000218 {Registry...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP December 31st 10, 04:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 9
Views: 1,331
Posted By philo[_3_]
How many USB ports needed and supported?

"James Silverton" wrote in message
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Hello All!

I am having to plan a shift to a new desk top machine. At the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 31st 10, 03:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 85
Posted By philo[_3_]
How To Stop NIC From Looking For DHCP Offers?

"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message
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StarTech PCI-x network card, "Realtek RTL 8111B/8111C/8111D Giga
Ethernet Controller v2.21...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 14th 10, 12:55 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 17
Views: 152
Posted By philo[_3_]
Clean Install on Windows XP

"John" wrote in message
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Would doing a clean install touch personal data on Windows? I am not
sure and have...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 1st 10, 09:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 153
Posted By philo[_3_]
Disk reports FULL even after deletes, etc

wrote in message
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Greetings:

I am having a problem whereby my disk is reporting as FULL...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP October 3rd 10, 03:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 2
Views: 319
Posted By philo[_3_]
Wine emulation on Linux

On 10/01/2010 06:47 PM, Alain Dekker wrote:
Does anyone have any experience of using hardware with drivers written for
Windows on the Wine emulator on Linux?

Thanks in advance,
Alain

Forum: New Users to Windows XP September 23rd 10, 01:31 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 5
Views: 1,786
Posted By philo[_3_]
install/delete problem

"Twayne" wrote in message
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In ,
Norvin Gordon ...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP September 21st 10, 12:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 5
Views: 476
Posted By philo[_3_]
partition

On 09/19/2010 07:27 AM, Peter Foldes wrote:
Deadhead from egghead answering to a 2 year old post




I'll be darned

there was my two year old reply!
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 17th 10, 08:05 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,alt.windows7.general
Replies: 2
Views: 212
Posted By philo[_3_]
I went for Coffee and couldn't figure out how to order

On 09/17/2010 12:01 PM, Stan Starinski wrote:
I went to Starbucks but didn't have enough money so I begged for money.
After 5 hours, I was able to collect $5.67 from people feeling sorry for
...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP September 17th 10, 07:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 17
Views: 465
Posted By philo[_3_]
NTFS drive repair

On 09/17/2010 06:03 AM, SC Tom wrote:

"philo" wrote in message
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On 09/15/2010 08:16 PM, SC Tom wrote:

"Don...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP September 17th 10, 01:43 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 17
Views: 465
Posted By philo[_3_]
NTFS drive repair

On 09/15/2010 08:16 PM, SC Tom wrote:

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"SC Tom" wrote in message
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Forum: Hardware and Windows XP September 15th 10, 01:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 17
Views: 465
Posted By philo[_3_]
NTFS drive repair

On 09/14/2010 05:58 PM, Twayne wrote:
In ,
Don typed:
On 09/13/2010 03:10 PM, Don Phillipson wrote:
I suspect the...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP September 13th 10, 11:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 17
Views: 465
Posted By philo[_3_]
NTFS drive repair

On 09/13/2010 03:10 PM, Don Phillipson wrote:
I suspect the hard drive of this (ancient) Toshiba Satellite laptop.
At any rate WinXP (SP3) will not complete: craps out at Phase 2.
Would some...
Forum: Windows 7 Forum September 13th 10, 12:29 AM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.os.linux.advocacy,microsoft.public.windows.vista.general,alt.politics.british
Replies: 33
Views: 368
Posted By philo[_3_]
Linux is GARBAGE (BASURA), do you people realize??

On 09/12/2010 07:23 PM, Stan Starinski wrote:
You keep walking in circles around old & worst product from Microsoft,
2nd only to Microsoft Bob from 1990's.

It's Windows7 you shold compare...
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