You should have uninstalled the apps before you changed the configuration, and then reinstalled them into the new configuration.

What was drive e? Was it your old hard disk, temporarily installed...

Those are interpreters, not compilers.

I had the same trouble, and recycled Spybot.

It's the antivirus checking for new nasties.

If you forget to use the eject button in the Notification Area of the taskbar before removing the thumb drive, it leaves a drive definition in there of the drive it still thinks is there. Then when...

Another possibility is that the target is a kind of file IE doesn't know how to save.

Some websites are getting too selfish, encoding their materials so they can't be saved.

I borrowed a USB DVD drive from a colleague.

Microsoft just wants to extort money out of us to keep what we already have. They should be require to keep supporting and selling the product to keep their copyright on it.

I'd say the power supply failed.

Tell the sender to use a different format.

Microsoft is greedy. They think you bought XP after the last day it is supposed to be sold.

This kind of software registration demand should be illegal. It is too easily abused.

My Office 2007 just arrived. But it came on DVDs. But I don't have a DVD drive. Short of buying a drive I don't otherwise need, is there any way to install it? I must have it installed in two days.

Still looking......

Do you have an anti-malware program set to check the floppy drives or the CD?

You won't the the resolution of today's monitors. TV is compatible with the old CGA 640 X 480 screen.

The BIOS battery might have died. It's rechargeable, but sometimes they totally give out. Then the computer forgets what hardware it has.

Spybot trashed the operating systems on many of our computers. The administrators recently banned it.

I do not want to know "better" antivirus programs, because I have neither purchase authority...

One thought is that some people are not closing files properly.

There are some viruses that report "problems with the hard drive." Then you click on the link provided, and give the virus permission to do things it otherwise can't do.

I need advice on these programs, not suggestions on other programs. And I do not want ANY pay programs.

Possibilities:

- The page you are viewing is in cache, and no longer exists at the original site. Clear your cache.

- You are out of hard disk space.

- The reserved internet cache space is...

There is a setting that replaces the current page, rather than opening a new page.

Try opening two browser windows.

Wait until Windows Update finishes. This usually takes several minutes. Then it quits using the CPU time.

That's why we back up files.

Office 2007 files do not open on Office 2003. MS changed the file format.

Installing Windows should not affect your other files, unless they reside in an area Windows needs for its contiguous files.

Also, he might not be the one who installed a pirate copy of Windows....

I have several questions on antivirus and antispyware software:

I am trying to settle on a set of antivirus and antispyware products to use. The problem is that I get interactions.

1. Is...

I fixed the two that didn't want to install. Symantec Anti Virus tamper protection was blocking the install.

That's what backup files are for.

That fixed it.

It looks like Microsoft did a "Wups".

Their update design expected everything to be done in order. They forgot that someone might have to rebuild after a crash or malware ruined...

It's malware.

Unfortunately, the only way I know how to get rid of it is reinstall Windows. It replaces some files with its own, including explorer.exe.

The BIOS might be set to not boot from the CD. Check the setting.

Is this a third party program?

DR-DOS is an MS-DOS clone. It is itself an operating system.

[dr-dos] A:\>

The above is a command prompt, like the C:\> prompt in Windows cmd mode.

It...

It might also be that the files do not exist on the source disk, or that the destination disk is full.

The problem is that those antivirus programs need to use the Internet to update their virus lists.

As long as socialists intent on destroying free enterprise, foreign nations intent on spying,...

This is proof that Microsoft made Windows too complicated. It's own install disk can't repair the installation.

Did you delete the games? Or did something else happen?

- You accidentally removed the games folder from the startup programs list.

- You accidentally dragged the folder to another location.
...

I loaded WGA and Windows Defender after the second infestation. WGA said my windows was genuine.

Could WGA be messing up the downloads.

A carpet of dust! That sounds like brushing the dog, and getting enough hair to make another dog.

Usually this error message means that the site administrator of the site you are trying to view has forgotten to make the files public-read again after updating them. I have done that myself a few...