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I'm pretty sure the firefox is Beta. Do yourself a favour & download Opera 7.23. Only 3.5 Mb download, with all the bells & whistles.

I read somewhere that it is good to put the swap file on the partition that didn't have the OS on. Is this right, & how does one do it?

Are you pressing 'apply' or 'ok' after selecting it?

Try going to C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Favorites\Links & delete it there, changing the directory to whatever you have your OS on. I do not know if this will work, haven't tried it. Windows may just recreate it at restart.

An easy question for all you in the know guys. I have an MSI MS-6318 motherboard which has SDRAM installed. How can I find out if it will take DDRRAM? TIA.

First of all try emptying your cache. Then install 3 programs, Adaware 6.181, Spybot Search & Destroy 1.2, Spywareblaster. Get adaware from [url]http://www.snapfiles.com/get/adaware.html[/url] , Spybot from [url]http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=download[/url] & spywareblaster can be reached from within Spybot. Open spybot, go to immunise & there is a link to javacools software, click on …

You could also benefit from using a browser with built in abilities to stop pop ups. MYIE2 runs on the IE engine without most of the security loopholes of IE. Also Mozilla & Opera are excellent browsers.

First thing I would do is get two programs, Ad-aware & spybot S&D. Once installed you need to update them on the net. Once done start Ad-aware & make sure you have in scan within archives selected. You must place a check in the box along side any spyware it …

Not sure what the problem could be but, go to [url]www.blackviper.com[/url] & you will find a lot of advice on how to tweak XP.

[QUOTE=Mosco]Hello people, Every time i run windows explorer my computer totaly freezes up, and locks down at 100% cpu usege.! So every time i have to end explorer.exe in task manager. then my comp usege goes back to 15% . I didnt install anything new onto my comp that would …

Did you install from the same download each time, or did you download the file again? I would probably delete the exe you downloaded, then redownload 6.1 & try again, Other than that I haven't a clue.

I think the latest version is 9.0b

[QUOTE=CLEARICE01]hi monte.i will never use internet explorer again if i can help it......[/QUOTE] I installed it on Saturday & dumped it on Sunday. Not a patch on Opera. Doesn't render a lot of M$ pages correctly, slower than Opera, no features, twice the d/l size as Opera. MYIE2 is better.

try going to add/remove programs find IE & select to repair it.

Is it 'system' or 'system idle process'? If it's the latter, that is normal when doing nothing else.

A friend who has XP home wants W2K Pro installed instead. Is it possible? She has W2K disk only. If it's possible, how does one partition the drive, how large to make the OS partition, etc? She has 40gig HD. Thanx for any help.

[QUOTE=Lander]Welchia is an evil demon from the pits of hell that caused me much grief and loss of internet.Attached to this message is Symantic's removal tool.[/QUOTE] How do we know? That zip file might have the worm in it! Like tequila. :cheesy:

Hi all. An easy one hopefully. W2K Pro SP4 850, 20gig HD, 384 RAM. I reformatted about a month ago & things have been sweet. I went to black vipers site & did all the tweaks he recommends. Now I have a problem with the time it takes for the …

I usually get IE updates from PC magazine cover CD's.

[QUOTE=caperjack]First please get Spybot S&D to clear out most of the spyware.[/QUOTE] I think you should add this to your signature. ;)

Have you run a search for *online virus scans*? Also, you may be able to delete the file if you boot in safe mode. Not sure.

DAP only runs when downloading files from the net.

IE properties/advanced/allow download on demand. Only thing I can think of apart from installing a download manager from a 3rd party like freshdownload from [url]www.freshdevices.com[/url]

I rarely use IE myself, but can you not 'lock' the toolbars after you make the changes?

I installed mine of a CD so no reason why you can't. Stick it in the drive & it should auto-run, then follow the prompts.

can you right click on the file & download it that way?

Doesn't XP have a system restore on it? I'm not sure how far back you can go with it as I use W2K.

I use cacheman & would recommend it to all. It has quite a lot of good tweaks as well as recovering memory.

Hi all. For those who do not know, Windows does not defrag the swap file when you run the defragmenter. [URL=http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml]PageDerag[/URL] defrags the page file (registry included) which speeds up load times etc. PS. Mods, please let me know if this sort of stuff is not acceptable practice here.

[QUOTE=Eons]Hi all, I need some help with my IE. I have windows XP and when i click on my IE it takes me to some other search engine that i dont want. I tried going to options changing the homepage address but when i open IE a couple of times, …

Do you have a firewall that may be interfering with it? Or maybe a popup stopper?

Hey ppl. Try this tip I found off of a website. It makes Internet & Windows Explorer incredibly fast. Windows Explorer opens up almost instantly now!!! Here it is: Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines. Its actually a fix to a …

What was the message on the pop up? Use a spyware removing tool 1st to see what is on your machine.