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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day.
This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA -- I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
KenK wrote:
How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:04:16 -0400, Paul wrote:
KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul I think the message is "Welcome to MSN Explorer". |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
Paul wrote:
KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Is that the exact text string ? I doubt it. Microsoft doesn't refer them themself as MS. For their file manager, there was Windows Explorer and then File Explorer. For their web browser, the only one I remember with "Explorer" in its name was "Internet Explorer". "MS" didn't prefix any of those product titles. I think we'll need Ken to capture the screen, edit the image to remove any personal info, and upload it to give a URL here to it, so we can see what he sees. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
JJ wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:04:16 -0400, Paul wrote: KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul I think the message is "Welcome to MSN Explorer". Isn't that just for MSN subscribers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN_Dial-up#MSN_Explorer After you mentioned MSN, I recalled a prior thread where I mentioned the MSN service and MSN Explorer. Yep, it was Ken asking the same question back on 6/27 titled "Stopping MSN Explorer from popping up every day". That was a month ago. He didn't provide screenshots or answer questions back then. I knew this sounded familiar, and same guy asking, too. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
JJ wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2020 12:04:16 -0400, Paul wrote: KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul I think the message is "Welcome to MSN Explorer". Hey, good catch :-) I got one of those. Somehow I disabled something from the bar in the lower right corner. And that might have been MSN Messenger. This MSN Explorer thing never ever "attacked" I guess. I don't know if removing it would help or not, but you're not likely to miss it. There's a button on the left side of Add/Remove Programs, where MSN Explorer is a "feature" in Windows XP. Untick should kick off removal. It it's some other version, like Premium, I don't know how that gets on the machine, but I'd try the main program removal window. https://i.postimg.cc/RZ742X7d/Add-Remove-Programs.gif Paul |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
Paul wrote in :
KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul Sorry, the correct header is "Welcome to MSN Explorer" I almost had it right. Thanks for your frequent help including this problem. -- I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
KenK wrote:
Paul wrote in : KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul Sorry, the correct header is "Welcome to MSN Explorer" I almost had it right. Thanks for your frequent help including this problem. So, as has been previously requested: - Do you subscribe to MSN? - If so, does that mean you have dial-up Internet service? - If not dialup, but broadband (cable or DSL), why use MSN at all? When using broadband, you don't need MSN anything, so uninstall MSN Explorer, and their accelerator (only needed with dial-up) and tray icon, but those might be included in an uninstall of MSN. - Even if you want to keep using MSN (not for dial-up, but using someone else for broadband Internet access), MSN Explorer is redundant. Just use Internet Explorer, or whatever is your choice for web browser. You can still use the same home page in another web browser as you have in MSN Explorer, if you want that content. ISPs often have a landing or home page, too, so you could pick that as your home page, and some web browsers let you have multiple home pages (that they load when you start those web browsers). That is, whether using dial-up or broadband, you can use MSN as your web portal, your ISP's landing page, some other site, or none at all (I have my web browser load a blank page, about:blank, rather than waste time and bandwidth loading a web page that I'm not targeting when I start the web browser). Unless you're using dial-up, you don't need MSN anything. Even if using MSN's dial-up service, you don't need MSN Explorer. You can configure your web browser to go wherever you want, not just to MSN. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
VanguardLH wrote in :
KenK wrote: Paul wrote in : KenK wrote: How can I stop this screen from appearing? It does so at least once a day. This morning about four times so far. I erase the three screens each time but it doesn't sem to take a hint. From what I can find MS evidently has stopped supporting XP long ago. I don't know who to turn to. Can anyone help! TIA I'm not getting a match on that in Google. Is that the exact text string ? For example, I can find a "Welcome" screen like this one, but the wording isn't the same, as it's "Welcome to Microsoft Windows XP". https://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/upgrades.shtml And I can find various ones for "Internet Explorer". Some Welcome screens come about, from install activity. Maybe an installer thrown into a Startup folder could do it ? If you could get control-alt-delete to work, perhaps you can use Task Manager to list the current processes and spot the one responsible for your blue welcome window. Paul Sorry, the correct header is "Welcome to MSN Explorer" I almost had it right. Thanks for your frequent help including this problem. So, as has been previously requested: - Do you subscribe to MSN? Not that I'm aware of. - If so, does that mean you have dial-up Internet service? - If not dialup, but broadband (cable or DSL), why use MSN at all? When using broadband, you don't need MSN anything, so uninstall MSN Explorer, and their accelerator (only needed with dial-up) and tray icon, but those might be included in an uninstall of MSN. - Even if you want to keep using MSN (not for dial-up, but using someone else for broadband Internet access), MSN Explorer is redundant. Just use Internet Explorer, or whatever is your choice for web browser. You can still use the same home page in another web browser as you have in MSN Explorer, if you want that content. ISPs often have a landing or home page, too, so you could pick that as your home page, and some web browsers let you have multiple home pages (that they load when you start those web browsers). That is, whether using dial-up or broadband, you can use MSN as your web portal, your ISP's landing page, some other site, or none at all (I have my web browser load a blank page, about:blank, rather than waste time and bandwidth loading a web page that I'm not targeting when I start the web browser). Unless you're using dial-up, you don't need MSN anything. Even if using MSN's dial-up service, you don't need MSN Explorer. You can configure your web browser to go wherever you want, not just to MSN. -- I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
"VanguardLH" wrote
| So, as has been previously requested: | | - Do you subscribe to MSN? | Paul had the answer. It's an extra salespitch from the old days. Control Apnel - Add/Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows Components (menu bar at left) - uncheck MSN Explorer. They probably did deals with OEMs to enable that kind of junk and there may be some kind of trigger that brings it up. |
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xp "Welcome To MS Explorer" problem
KenK wrote:
VanguardLH wrote in : - Do you subscribe to MSN? Not that I'm aware of. Uninstall MSN Explorer. https://answers.msn.com/solution.asp...b-3eac07d020fa Change the home page in whatever web browser you use, so it doesn't point to MSN. |
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