Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
August 31st 06, 05:31 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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"Computer is not running Windows OS"
The subject line is contained in the results of an analysis of my computer by the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.0.5029.2. Quite a surprise, considering I have XP Home SP2 (and no other OSes...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
August 17th 06, 01:25 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 9
Views: 179
Memtest 86+ Died...Now What?
Hmmm...the first module came installed in my machine by Dell, and the second was purchased from Crucial a few months later. I suppose it's possible that one or both were bad from the beginning, but...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
August 17th 06, 01:22 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 9
Views: 179
Memtest 86+ Died...Now What?
Thanks to Dave and Kerry.
I haven't been to the Nirsoft website in many years. Some real gems there. I'll think I'll try a clean install of Acrobat Reader first (v7.0.8), to see if that doesn't...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
August 16th 06, 03:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 9
Views: 179
Memtest 86+ Died...Now What?
Many thanks to you and to Kerry. I will certainly give those programs a try if necessary...
BUT...
I just noticed something that may be relevent.
I just now got another one of those messages, and...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
August 16th 06, 02:08 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 9
Views: 179
Memtest 86+ Died...Now What?
[Win XP Home SP 2]
From time to time I get the message "The instruction at 0x.... referenced memory at 0x..... The memory could not be read."
From my research I learned that such a message could be...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
August 13th 06, 09:53 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 3
Views: 127
Microsoft VM Settings
Hey my friend, you shouldn't be using Microsoft Java. It was withdrawn years ago. Get your Java from the source (Sun):
http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Daddy
"dukiesma1001"...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 31st 06, 08:36 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 0
Views: 102
Is Standby Safe?
[Win XP Home SP 2]
When I put my computer in Standby (S3) none of the users are logged in, but the machine is still 'on'. Is it still possible for some hacker to plant something on my computer,...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 27th 06, 02:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 7
Views: 136
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 27th 06, 02:03 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 7
Views: 136
Not Storing Backups on an Internal HDD
Thanks Kerry. I was kind of hoping you would answer my question.
So what you're saying, basically, is that I had it right: The reason for prefering an external location is not because hard drives...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 27th 06, 12:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 7
Views: 136
Not Storing Backups on an Internal HDD
I've often read, in these boards and elsewhere, that one of the reasons for not storing backups on your computer's internal hard drive - even a second internal hard drive - is because 'it's not a...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 22nd 06, 01:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 1
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Resolved: Australian Time Change Update
Got this one on my own by searching archived news posts in Google. (An excellent resource.)
KB912475 - the original Australian time zone update - never installed on my computer, for some unknown...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 22nd 06, 12:44 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 1
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Australian Time Change Update
How do I get rid of the Australian time change fix from Windows Update? Installation always fails, possibly because I don't live in Australia, and Windows Update keeps telling me to install it.
Daddy
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 21st 06, 03:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 3
Views: 124
Help! Near HD death! Need advice
Something as sophisticated as disk imaging doesn't come free. And if a free imaging program were available, I wouldn't trust it.
Look at True Image 9.0 Home from Acronis. I rely on...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 21st 06, 01:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 16
Views: 263
System Volume Information Won't Die
To mhc (and to Bert and Ken):
Ta da! Your method worked. It got a little scary, since I discovered that the owner of those redundant SVI folders was SYSTEM, and my account didn't even appear in the...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 21st 06, 01:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 16
Views: 263
System Volume Information Won't Die
Many thanks for your continued interest in my situation. My backup plan, in a nutshell, is that I image my system partition and backup my (two) data partitions.
I agree that it's faster to go back...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 20th 06, 08:13 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 6
Views: 142
Batch File Without 'DOS Box'
Hi Ron:
I need to say that there's more to the story than would appear from my original post, and the issue has since been resolved. Many thanks to you and the others who took the time to help me...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 20th 06, 08:05 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 16
Views: 263
System Volume Information Won't Die
Hi Bert:
Many thanks for your informative reply.
Because I am dilligent about backing up -- bordering on fanatical -- I turned off System Restore on all drives long ago. I also removed the Indexing...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 20th 06, 07:42 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 16
Views: 263
System Volume Information Won't Die
"Stop the System Restore Service in services.msc long enough to get rid of the System Volume Information folders that are in the wrong places."
System Restore is turned off for all drives since I am...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 20th 06, 02:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 0
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Recycle Bin: Global or Independently?
[Windows XP Home SP 2]
I see that I can set the size of my Recycle Bin globally ("one setting for all drives") or independently for each drive.
Why might I want to set a separate size for each...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 19th 06, 02:37 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 16
Views: 263
System Volume Information Won't Die
Knoppix...I once played around with a Knoppix CD that I no longer have. But you gave me an idea. I must have some bootable CDs or even diskettes that will let me delete those folders from outside...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 19th 06, 06:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 16
Views: 263
System Volume Information Won't Die
[Windows XP Home SP 2]
After reading some good advice in these newsgroups I decided to simplify my life with fewer partitions. I used to have separate partitions for Pictures, Music and...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 19th 06, 06:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 6
Views: 142
Batch File Without 'DOS Box'
Actually I'm double-clicking on the icon, but I can try it as a shortcut.
"Custom DOS session environment"...hmm. Sounds a little too deep for me.
Daddy
"mhc" wrote in message...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 19th 06, 06:17 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 6
Views: 142
Batch File Without 'DOS Box'
Actually, I run it by double-clicking on the icon.
Daddy
"Squire" wrote in message ...
Try running your batch file from the CMD...
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 19th 06, 06:16 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 2
Views: 105
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Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP
July 18th 06, 06:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Replies: 6
Views: 142
Batch File Without 'DOS Box'
[Windows XP Home SP 2]
I wrote a batch file which executes correctly, but it briefly flashes that black 'DOS box' when it runs. (I know 'DOS box' isn't the proper name, but I don't know what the...
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