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Auto-updated Windows, now it crashes all the time?

May 17, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 31 Comments

Let me tell you about my experience about the Windows XP Crash Update after the 12th of April 2005

  • First I had just installed windows xp sp2, and installing all my drivers.
  • Installed McAfee? anti virus and firewall plus updated them, where I have a DSL net link
  • Then I went to windows automatic update doing all the update,
  • After the windows has finished downloading all the updates, I shut down to make all the updates effective on my next restart
  • The windows never started again in any mode even safe mode the only thing it did is keeping restarting the computer, after giving a blue screen. With some login module problem
  • I could not do any thing but formatting the drive and redoing the previous steps again, where I thought there was a virus what did that.
  • But each time I got windows to update to the last update; it crashes with the same symptoms.
  • The next few days I have learned the many of my friends have suffered from the same problem, after Auto updating there windows.
  • Can you tell us what the hell Microsoft is doing?!

Till then i have disabled my windows ubdate till i find out which update # from Microsoft that does this crash, then i will bypass it.

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Forgot password to We-Blocker!

May 14, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 13 Comments

Dave, I’ve got We-Blocker filtering software installed on my laptop, but we’ve lost the password. They offer password retrieval for $10.00, but their phone number is no good. Is there anyway that you know of to hack the password, or to force-uninstall that program. I’d like to get rid of it. There is one guy on the web that claims that he can tell you how to do it, but you have to send him $10 in advance….I’m leery.

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Outlook 2003 on Windows XP retrieves duplicate emails?

May 14, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 36 Comments

We have a Windows XP machine in our office running Outlook 2003. Our problem is that Outlook continuously retrieves duplicate, triplicate, etc spam emails from our Exchange server. We’ve tried every adjustment to settings possible but cannot stop this action. Some mornings there are literally 3 or 4 thousand messages. We’ve tried MS updates to no avail. Any suggestions?

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How do I write files to a CDROM in Windows 98?

May 14, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 2 Comments

Dave, I would like to know how to copy computer files to a compact disc. I am using windows 98. I know how to backup files but want the info on a cdrom.

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How do I delete my second Windows XP swap file?

May 9, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 6 Comments

Dave, I’ve got my hard drive partitioned into 9 logical partitions with Windows XP Pro installed on drive K:. My system has swap files (pagefile.sys) on both drive C: and drive K:. Both are nearly the same size (but not identical) at just over 800MB. I know, I know, Windows XP help states “Don’t place multiple pagefiles on different partitions on the same physical disk drive.”
This is somewhat ironic advice as I assume Windows XP created both of these during its install process. To follow the help file advice, though, I thought I’d eliminate the pagefile.sys on drive K: and increase the assigned space on Drive C:.
When I open “Computer Management”, highlight “Computer Management (Local), right click on properties, and click the “Advanced” tab I get a dialog box specifying “Can’t access virtual memory information.” I click “OK” to close the dialog box but the “Change” button under the “Virtual Memory” section is then grayed out.
At this point, I don’t know what to do next. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Thanks.

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My Windows PC never sees Sony PSP USB connection?

May 7, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 159 Comments

Dave, help! My Windows PC does not recognize my new Sony PSP when I plug in the USB cable. Ungood. How do I get the computer to recognize the Sony PSP with the USB cable?

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Saving Email Addresses in Microsoft Outlook Express?

May 7, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 26 Comments

Although I try to read most of your ‘help’ articles, I don’t remember having seen this problem. The recent article re: saving IE favorites reminded me to ask a similar question for saving email addresses. I used Outlook Express in the past (after reformatting I switched to Outlook, primarily due to this address book problem). Prior to having my hard drive reformatted due to a virus, I tried to save my addresses to no avail. I don’t remember the specifics, but the pop-up window for’saving’ or maybe it was ‘exporting’ my email addresses, was confusing. Bottom line, I wasn’t able to save my address book to disk. Someone then told me that you can’t save it in Outlook Express, and that you have to export it first to Outlook and then save it. I tried that as well and was still unable to do it.
Is it me or is there a way to save the address book from Outlook Express? I actually like it better than Outlook, and may switch back to it, if the address book problem can be resolved.

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Microsoft Internet Explorer IE6 can’t search from address bar?

May 5, 2005 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 6 Comments

Here’s a weird one for you, Dave: I no longer am able to search from the Address Bar within IE. For example, if I try to search for ‘free beer’ (without quotes) a new page is displayed with ‘http:///?%20free%20beer’ in the Address Bar and ‘Invalid syntax error’ shown at the top. Do you know what has changed within IE to cause this?

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