Computer problems- no problem

[Paul Seaman]

I rebuilt the operating system tonight, works great even downloaded the tig books from the miller site. I have fought with a corrupted version of xp for 4 monthes and got a new version and bam its fixed.

Yaaaaaahooooooooooooo!!!!!!

[hankj]

Paul,

How'd your O/S get beat up? Have thee not the latest anti-viral expunging stuff?

I just backed the whole thing up last week - 12 CD's!!

Hank

[Paul Seaman]

I actually recieved a corrupted vesion of xp, that I loaded to replace windowsME that crashed frequently. The hint of problems was not being able to add or remove programs, I reloaded the xp 2 times still no luck, got a new version and wow its perfect!

[hankj]

I was mired in Win98 on an old IBM Aptiva for way too long. Got me a Dell 2400 w/Celeron and XP - love this thing... Now, if the century ever cathes up with Browns Valley (or is it the reverse?) we might be able to operate on something other than a dial-up at a baud rate higher than 3K!!!!!!!!!

Hank

[Tailshaft56]

Same thing here. too far from telco trunk for dsl and no cable this far out either. Only thing left is satellite and that's too expensive to justify.


Dial-up Dennis

[migmaniac70]

I am right there with you guys, Nothing out here except dial up, unless you want to fork over 500.00 for a satilite installation.

[Bubba]

Some of the Malware comes in frequently on the net could delete the Add-Remove part of the OP System. A complete rebuild should help from the original Install CD. Have to format the drives though.. I had this problem before. If you need an upgrade anyway than go buy the new OP System othervise the original should work ok. I like to use Adaware to keep the *******s at bay.....

[migmaniac70]

I use 3 different spyware programs well actually 4 and they never get threw.

1 spywareblaster keeps 98% of spyware from even making it to your computer.

2 spybot S&D finds the ones that do get in.

3 adware finds the ones spybot missed

4 Aol spyware protection everything is gone by the time i run this one.

I am real paranoid about spyware. Can't you tell?

[Paul Seaman]

This is the reason I switched to DSL from MSN's service. I didn't get a virus or spyware, I had a bad copy of Xp pro that never worked properly and the longer it ran the worse it got. I reformatted the C: drive and started from scratch, now it runs great, better than ever!

Thanks,

[Tanner]

May I suggest a way to keep 99% of all spyware from being on your computer, AND doesn't crash? www.mozilla.org/firefox. Greatest internet browser ever. Completely free and user friendly.

[Scott V]

[QUOTE=Tanner]May I suggest a way to keep 99% of all spyware from being on your computer, AND doesn't crash? www.mozilla.org/firefox. Greatest internet browser ever. Completely free and user friendly.[/QUOTE


I have firefox also, It's the best thing out, plus it speeds up my dsl.
I also use most of the spy stuff that migmanic uses.

I thought AOL was the worst of the worst, when it comes to spying.
I bet they will not even allow you to download Mozzilla !!!!

[hankj]

Tanner,

Merci'.

Question: is Firefox fully compatible with IE 6.0? I use a lot of sites that require IE (minimum) and I know so little about internet protocols that I'd never find my way out of trouble ( or even recognize it) with the browser if it happened.

Hank

[Tanner]

Hankj,
As far as I can tell, every website that needs explorer that I've been to works just fine on Firefox

[hankj]

Well, I'm gonna go for it, then. I can still keep IE and just make Firefox the default browser, I guess, and go back if I need to. If you guys don't see me around, I screwed it up!

Hank

[hankj]

Tanner,

OK, I'm running on that bad boy now. I liked the fact that it allowed me to set it as the default automatically, and it seems to be working fine. Pretty slick. As soon as I get used to the fact that "favorites" are now "bookmarks", and stuff like that, I'll probably like it a lot, too!

Hank