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Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 1st 12, 12:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 7
Views: 7,649
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to delete TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES in XP Pro

It appears that there are about 20 tracking cookies that are in this
directory and nothing I have tried will allow me to delete these
and clear the directory. It's having some effect on both Firefox...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 29th 10, 09:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 2,148
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Hard drive light almost constantly on even when sitting idle

On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:31:42 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:

I don't think the button you mentioned exists in the XP Task Manager - you
may have been using Win7 to long now to...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 28th 10, 12:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 2,148
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Hard drive light almost constantly on even when sitting idle

On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:19:33 -0500, "Twayne"
wrote:

In ,
Jim typed:
I noticed my hard drive light...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 28th 10, 12:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 2,148
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Hard drive light almost constantly on even when sitting idle

On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:22:35 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

In message , Jim
writes:
[]
Merry...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 25th 10, 07:06 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 2,148
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Hard drive light almost constantly on even when sitting idle

On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:31:42 -0000, "Tim Meddick"
wrote:

I don't think the button you mentioned exists in the XP Task Manager - you
may have been using Win7 to long now to...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 24th 10, 11:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 2,148
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Hard drive light almost constantly on even when sitting idle

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:07:27 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:26:00 -0600, Jim wrote:

I noticed my hard drive light is now almost constantly on,...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP December 24th 10, 02:26 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 12
Views: 2,148
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Hard drive light almost constantly on even when sitting idle

I noticed my hard drive light is now almost constantly on, no matter
if nothing is running, with just the desktop showing.

Doing CTL ALT DELETE I see all kinds of processes running, and tried
to...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP June 25th 10, 09:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 3
Views: 1,291
Posted By Jim[_19_]
A new window is popping up just before XP opens

I certainly didnt...




On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:11:17 -0500, "Yuri Nalysis"
wrote:

Who installed Microsoft Defender on your computer, then, if you didn't?
Forum: New Users to Windows XP June 25th 10, 05:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 3
Views: 1,291
Posted By Jim[_19_]
A new window is popping up just before XP opens

Just recently on both my computers running XP a new little window has
been popping up, just before XP finally opens up. It is called
PERSONALIZED SETTINGS and it is somehow linked to
c:/program...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP June 24th 10, 02:41 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 1
Views: 1,283
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Windows XP Serial Number - can it be changed?

I purchased a new IBM THinkpad R40 that came with XP Pro, and since
then had upgraded the hard drives to much larger ones. To do this I
lost the system restore hidden partition on the original...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP May 13th 10, 08:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 7
Views: 1,467
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Personal Security virus - is there any cure?

Thank you, it worked.

By his going into the task manager and disabling the Personal Security
..exe file, he was able to go to RESTORE and restore the machine to
a few weeks prior.

Thanks for the...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP May 13th 10, 05:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 7
Views: 1,467
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Personal Security virus - is there any cure?

A friend of mine has gotten infected with the "Personal Security"
virus, that is, no matter what icons or programs you try to start it
will not allow you to run any programs.

I got this thing about...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP April 29th 10, 02:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 6
Views: 2,452
Posted By Jim[_19_]
"The COnnection to the server was reset while the page was loading"

Answer was found when I contacted the site and their IP man asked me
to run a TRACERT, and when I gave him the results, he suggested I
power down the router, or check the network cable, or a few...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP April 29th 10, 02:19 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 6
Views: 2,452
Posted By Jim[_19_]
"The COnnection to the server was reset while the page was loading"

Answer was found when I contacted the site and their IP man asked me
to run a TRACERT, and when I gave him the results, he suggested I
power down the router, or check the network cable, or a few...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP April 28th 10, 03:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 6
Views: 2,452
Posted By Jim[_19_]
"The COnnection to the server was reset while the page was loading"

I started getting this error recently only on one of my favorite
sites. It is the same with all computers on the network, with both IE
and Firefox. There is no firewall and I can disable the...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP April 28th 10, 03:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 0
Views: 1,277
Posted By Jim[_19_]
"The COnnection to the server was reset while the page was loading"

I started getting this error recently only on one of my favorite
sites. It is the same with all computers on the network, with both IE
and Firefox. There is no firewall and I can disable the...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 26th 10, 08:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 8
Views: 1,832
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to restore computer to state before Windows 7 Dual Boot

John;

Your instructions worked perfectly. I had to use the Windows disc to
find the BOOTSECT.EXE file.

Could you explain just what was done, how it worked and did what it
did? What other...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 26th 10, 08:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 8
Views: 1,832
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to restore computer to state before Windows 7 Dual Boot

John;

Your instructions worked perfectly. I had to use the Windows disc to
find the BOOTSECT.EXE file.

Could you explain just what was done, how it worked and did what it
did? What other...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 26th 10, 01:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 0
Views: 1,337
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to restore computer to state before Windows 7 Dual Boot

As a trial, I installed Windows 7 on a second hard drive in the
removable system tray, and when it installed itself, it created what
appears to be a WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER. Essentially, it allows you...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 26th 10, 01:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 8
Views: 1,832
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to restore computer to state before Windows 7 Dual Boot

As a trial, I installed Windows 7 on a second hard drive in the
removable system tray, and when it installed itself, it created what
appears to be a WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER. Essentially, it allows you...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 24th 10, 01:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 8
Views: 1,840
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to create a bootdisk that will run a program on startup

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:37:02 -0800, Andrew E.
wrote:

With desktop pcs,one would only need to set the boot device priority
in the BIOS,install cd at that time.Does youre...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 24th 10, 01:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 8
Views: 1,840
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to create a bootdisk that will run a program on startup

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:37:02 -0800, Andrew E.
wrote:

With desktop pcs,one would only need to set the boot device priority
in the BIOS,install cd at that time.Does youre...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 24th 10, 12:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 0
Views: 1,324
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to create a bootdisk that will run a program on startup

Can anyone tell me how one would go about creating a bootdisk
that would run a certain operating system setup program?

The disk has the AUTORUN.INF file in the correct format, but
the disc still...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 24th 10, 12:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 8
Views: 1,840
Posted By Jim[_19_]
How to create a bootdisk that will run a program on startup

Can anyone tell me how one would go about creating a bootdisk
that would run a certain operating system setup program?

The disk has the AUTORUN.INF file in the correct format, but
the disc still...
Forum: New Users to Windows XP February 23rd 10, 01:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers
Replies: 2
Views: 1,407
Posted By Jim[_19_]
Networking problems after repair of Windows XP PRO

Answer found. After much searching, found a fix on a site that has
you go into the XP registry, and replace a line that is missing in one
of the Local Netework parameters. Here is link to what...
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