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    - Desktop Icon - How to Reinstate in QuickLaunch toolbar Hi there, My desktop icon has disappeared from the quicklaunch toolbar. Where can I locate it so that I can reinstate it? It's a handy icon and I'd like to have it back. Thanks! -- Lynn Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287472
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    - Disk partition How can I change the hd partition size using Windows ME? FDISK won't do it. Have a older computer with Windows ME...has 12 gig hd but only partitioned for 2 gig (?). Can't install WinXP, not enough disk space. Thanks. DA Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287464
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    - MI5 Persecution: Surveillance methods 5/8/95 (5958) From: Pamela Willoughby <pjw31@willouby.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: uk.misc Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 18:08:32 GMT Organization: Myorganisation Lines: 15 Message-ID: <142297143wnr@willouby.demon.co.uk> >Hmmm, strange eh. >I mentioned all this goings on to my boyfriend, who works for the >British intelligence service, and he assures me this sort of thing >never goes on.. not ever...honest. >Though he said the name was familiar... it does go on, although it's an open question who does it. Some time ago there were press reports of an Army intelligence person called Jones who claimed Diana and Hewitt had been photographed in a compromising position... he said he'd been doing this as part of an Army unit which had previously operated in Northern Ireland. Then Hewitt said he'd been told the same thing by some Army people, and that they were threatening to release the tapes unless they curtailed their liaison... as per usual everyone denied everything, painted Jones as the "Jones twins" - not very original in how they deal with their perceived enemies, are they? You have to wonder how they manage to achieve this sort of surveillance though. Audio you can understand, it's possible to put a microphone through the wall, and apparently there exist devices which will retrieve sound from a laser beam bounced off a window - sounds sci-fi, but there's a well known surveillance electronics company in London which sells these things. But how would you get video out of a room, unless you had actual physical access in order to plant a device for pickup? We're not talking about looking in from afar, but an actual device within the room. You could either drill through the wall and shove a pickup through; or you could supply a trojan device with a hidden pickup inside; but most likely, you would have to physically break into your target room to plant a camera. That's not an infeasible option; all it means is having your target(s) watched to make sure they're not in the vicinity, then you negotiate any locks on the property and find a suitable receptacle for your device. The next question is how they defeat the usual methods of counter- surveillance. We had private detectives carry out a "sweep" of every room and the telephone line. They found nothing. That indicates at least four possibilities that I can think of; (this is all guesswork BTW, and probably fanciful guesswork at that!) 1) no bugs (pull the other one) 2) radio-transmitting devices which can be controlled from an external source, ie you can instruct them to switch off when you detect a counter-surveillance sweep taking place 3) hard-wired devices; probe microphones or whatever they're called, things you poke through the wall 4) passive surveillance devices; so you bounce laser or radio waves off a suitable reflecting surface (again, sounds far-fetched but such things may apparently exist). 5) there is a fifth possibility, that the PI's didn't detect an actual transmitting device; there are technologies specifically designed to avoid detection, eg frequency hopping and suchlike. But how much sophistication could you build in to a device which would have to be small enough to be physically concealable? I guess the real question is to find out who is ultimately behind these "goings on". And if the "great and good" (or the better known, at any rate) can't protect themselves, what hope is there for the rest of us? 5958 -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287462
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    - Ad-aware Definition File Update [SE1R147] 25.01.07 http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?showtopic=6503 Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Windows Security, AH-VSOP Security Tools Updates http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=31 Reply to group, as return address is invalid that we may all benefit. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287416
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    - Error message when downloading or trying to install anything. The error message usually looks like this. An error has occured. To continue Press Enter to return to Windows, or Press CTRL + ALT+ DEL to restart your computer. If you do this, you will loose any unsaved information in all open applications. File Name: VMM (12) + 0004C3C Error: 0E: 0028: C0283C3C This occurs in a blue screen quite a bit even when trying to run maintenance. I cannpt run maintenance in safe mode either without getting it. I was trying to download iMesh to try getting music and I couldn't download it either. The music I was trying to get before was from AOL Music Now which has joined with Napster. Napster said it wouldn't run with Windows ME only XP so I thought that might be my problem. Seems I can't download anything at this point. Is my computer trying to die, it is seven years old. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287412
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    - Alex - I'll take what is HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Windows > Explorer > Streams (and all those folders with numbers) in the Windows ME registry for $200.00. Anyone have the answer? Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287392
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    - Upgrade from NT 4.0 My friend has a computer bought from his employer that has Win NT 4.0 on it. He bought a XP Home Edition upgrade but it won't upgrade. I have the computer now, can I upgrade from NT to ME with a ME Upgrade disk? Please advise. Thanks Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287385
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    - Sound Help Anyone got any ideas of where else I can look to make a pair of speakers attached to a WinME machine work <g> The speakers that were in use on the machine no longer work (guinea pig chewed the connecting wire) I had a set of speakers that came with Johns machine that we don't use as our Monitors have speakers built in. Connected these speakers but only get very faint sound, I've been through all the settings I can think of and they are all turned up to full volume, so can anyone think of anywhere else that might help. Joan Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287346
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    - USB 2.0 Haven't had the need for USB 2.0 for our Win Me laptop until recently so had never really paid much attention to it. Evidently we need USB 2.0 to have the ability to charge an MP3 player. If I understand it correctly, for Win 98SE, one needs to buy software but for Win Me and later O/S's, the software may be downloaded by way of updating from the Microsoft website. If so, I can't seem to find that at the Microsoft download site. Would appreciate guidance at your convenience. Many thanks Dan Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287335
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    - Re: Alias/Ubuntu Hopefully the address is correct, Alias. If I am not mistaken, a couple of weeks ago you asked for my notification in this case and here it is: My CD from "Ubuntu" has arrived and earlier as they projected, but as you already had suggested. Will have to decide the best way to install it on my machine with an 80BG HD, partitioned into C,D,E and F, with C=20, D=15, E=15 and F=30 GB's. E&F are completely free right now. Maybe you or someone else here has a profitable idea. The CD with "Linux" OS on it was mailed to me for free all the way from Africa and to everyone's information here, I would like to mention the meaning of the word "Ubuntu", it is: "Humanity To Others". In addition I am free to edit, copy or distribute the CD as I would wish. What an enormous generosity. Thanks for pointing me to it, Alias. Harry. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287321
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    - SATA HDD and letter mash yep, finally got it installed, BUT! I boot into windows. PATA is three partitions. SATA is one, newly formatted with SG tools. I show 2 of the SATA in Explorer. It grabbed D: and G: Looks OK in device manager, and drive at G shown there. (no duplicates or anything related to D), except that the properties page is for a CD/DVD. It has auto-insert available. And removable checked. The G, in explorer, shows up as a removable. Changing that, or removing drive, from device manager causes system to lock during restart. Reset causes it to reinstall with those defaults. Except for auto-insert which seems changable. An aside, maybe related, system has refused to do proper "shut down", noticed maybe day after clean install. I had not pursued that, but was not choosing shut down except on rare occaisons. Everything else seems to be working fine, including sleep, if I shut down Multpass server. Will pop out of sleep first time, with Multipass initialization error, but it still works. Maybe order of sequence and it gets restarted, however after the first sleep cycle it will stop coming out of sleep. Solution, after getting error message, manually shut down server and restart as necessary. I found at SG site where they seem to abandon their tools when installing 9x to SATA, or adding SATA for storage. The latter calls for fdisk once into windows. No hint on what partitioning to do. Looking for advice to overcome? Advice on fdisk, maybe set up without primary partition? Setting with extended/logical only, will that create other problems? Or limitations? Are there tools such as PartMagic that will work with disks having no primary? I was considering doing similar to a USB HDD that if plugged during boot also creates a "letter mash". I have been on hold for a long time with that idea because drive was already loaded with data. Slow transfer to clear it. Thought of using PM7 I had on deck, but apparently didn't solve problem, maybe limited to PM7 & USB HDD's. Now have PM8 on deck. Was loaded before meltdown of MOBO swap, add drives issue. I didn't like the way it was resizing partitions, that is not actually doing it but creating hidden folders that it showed as increases and decreases of partitions. And became leery that making, creating, hiding, etc. primary partitions was of the same type of voodoo. Does PM8 or any other utility do it in a manner analogous to fdisk? (question because with commercial and free utilities claiming better, why is fdisk still the blood of HDD setup?) Norman Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287310
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    - Recent subjects I brought up I've sent three posts this morning - a response to Job, an inserted oar to Patc, and the response I promised Figgs (in which I now see I repeat quite a lot and its not quite as incisive as I originally meant). The first two got through, the last hasn't (I've reset the group twice). The last one gives my reasons for no longer believing in a law passed here some years ago now, allusions to which I've made before. The question is: who would censor it? Because these days it wouldn't necessarily be MS and such is precisely why I justified my current position on the emotive subject. If this gets through and *it* hasn't I'll repost it in various forms. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287297
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    - Ad-aware Definition File Update [SE1R146] 22.01.07 Mart Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287296
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    - OT: ZAPro 7 Now that Zone Alarm is no longer Zone Labs (bought out by Check Point), they now have a version 7. FYI, I dl'd and installed it as an upgrade from ver 6 and all seems well. Been playing with it since this morning without any probs. I should point out that this is an XP box and I no longer have an Me box to try it out on. Heirloom, old and 'bout time for bed Oh yeah, where are all these porno posts coming from and isn't there some way to dump them? Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287292
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    - Spyware Blaster Update 20.01.07 http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=23870 Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Windows Security, AH-VSOP Security Tools Updates http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=31 Reply to group, as return address is invalid that we may all benefit. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287260
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    - The Latest 'Belarc Advisor' Just a reminder that the latest version of the free Belarc Advisor is 7.2h, for those who would like to update. Deletion of the former version will be automatic during installation. Harry. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287239
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    - Jan 19th Spybot Update Alias Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287232
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    - cannot install anything I downloaded a program called google toolbar it was in .exe format when finished downloaded it says error not valid win 32 file? What is the problem? Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287222
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    - HDD issues I am in serious need of help or advice. Major problems started before Christmas when I simultaneously tried a MOBO swap, all other parts same, except attempting to add a SG-160 PATA and SG-160 SATA simultaneously. First lesson learned is not to attempt so many changes at one time. SATA drive not recognized on first port in BIOS, but was on second. Perhaps a bad MOBO? Well that was the thought and I continued. PATA drive was set on secondary master with a CDRW. To get MOBO functioning properly, I blew away everything in device manager and attempted reinstall. Numerous problems, mostly system stops during the hardware detection phase. (multiple attempts at reinstalling OS) Finally got up and seemed OK, for a short while. Except I then found that all drives were running in MSDOS compatibility mode after the first complete reinstall of OS. (No wonder it seemed like the slowest machine I have ever seen) No updates at that point so no system restore, or maybe it was the added drives. But unable to get it working normally and finally discovering that it had something to do with CDRW and SG-160 on same channel, Could not see CDRW in Explorer or device manager with both hooked up. (Everything was manually jumpered at this point, because the original MOBO manual said to do it that way and didn't even mention cable select) Not knowing what level of corruption or type of problem or how to even undo any of this mess, I blew away the drives. Data backed up, I proceded with format and clean install. Hardware detection went a little better. Gave up on hooking up the SATA drive at that time as couldn't get into windows with it hooked up even though it looked fine in BIOS on second channel. Somewhere in setting up the new PATA, to the best of my recollection, on boot I got a screen saying one of the drives was operating in MSDOS compatibility. System halted to avoid corruption ___something, etc. All drives would be set to MSDOS mode. etc. No restore points. I eventually did get that MOBO up and operating without the added drives. But the MOBO didn't seem to be all that hot and since I'd rather have the added drives, I switched back to the previous MOBO. And of course install to get it working. Not part of the problem, but part of the tale. After installing some utilities and all updates from MS and a few other things to satisfy myself that I had something stable, I turned the machine over to daughter who said she had a report to work on. I was tired and unsuspecting. Experience had taught me to avoid online land mines, but she apparently went straight to myspace and caught something. Within seconds the whole system sank to a crawl. Restores had no effect. Could not get on line at all. Each successive boot was worse until I could not even get task bar. Lesson number two!!! Don't let someone else touch machine until security suite is loaded. Splat! like mushy cow flop hitting concrete. A few days of careful work down the drain. This time, once I reached that point of installing, I made a copy to a second HDD and unhooked it. And I'm at the point I want to do the same with all the stuff that has been added, so I have a point of quick install and only need to add data plus changes. BUT!!!!!!!!! Now running the SG-160 PATA on primary master and CDRW on secondary master. BTW, found other MOBO was cable select compatible, so is this one, and that is the config I'm using. I have found out that the SATA drive behaves the same way on this MOBO, no show channel one, looks good in BIOS on channel two, problems beyond that, so have set it aside again, but at least it isn't the MOBO, I'm guessing. Tried to install a second SG-160 and set it up as a copy of the first. Seagates disk wizard (ontrack tools). First I noticed that manually setting partition sizes with slider, I could not get the same size partitions. Something wrong with their tool I suspect. Also noted that doing it as a copy of primary master it kept telling me second partition was 16K clusters. BS. Originally set up with 32K and size of 33,585MB, a point on the slider. Also went back into windows and moved a 1KB file to that partition and checked properties of it which showed it 32KB space used. Obviously a fault in SG disk wizard. It copied the C partition as expected, but not the other two, which only had data on dsk1 partition3, but I wanted it on my back up drive as well. Why not? Wouldn't hurt to have another backup of it on a drive that would soon be unplugged? Is there something wrong with that thinking? BTW, copying takes a lot of time, especially the tool copying the C partition from one drive to the other. Having gotten all copied to the new drive, I was looking to find an explanation as to why the slider would not stop on the same increments of partition size and see if I had missed anything I wanted backed up on that HDD. Guessing, it was 4-6 reboots when that darned blue screen of MSDOS compatibility mode stuff reared its ugly head again. Booted into windows, restore points are gone. Ugly point one? Unplugging that added drive, into safe, did scanreg /restore. So the setting that bars normal operation is somewhere in the registry. I would like to know what it is, if known. On one occaison I had no good registry restore points which led to another reinstall. Ugly point two, what in the registry is it? Determined to get me a good copy on a second HDD, I have pressed forward. And somehow, disk wizard I think, I started getting message about unsupported configuration. I have no idea why it had not popped up before. It gives option to ignore. It is not liking that second HDD is slave to CDRW master on secondary. Figure best not to ignore with the trouble I have. 2nd HDD is now slave on primary channel. And again I've had issues with blue screen, MSDOS compatibility thing. I just laid aside concerns that something may be done to MBR to original drive with choice of copy and make new drive boot drive, either leaving old drive in or removing. He told me the change is strictly by cable or position designation. Is there something wrong with having a complete usuable partition as primary partition on two drives simultaneously hooked up? Ugly point three, above? For what reasons may I be getting that blue screen message? Is there a good list related to such issues? Ugly point four? End of quarter and hoping the wind will be more favorable. Norman Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287215
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    - DSL Speed Test I just switched from a dial-up connection to a DSL connection. Everything (so far) is working as expected and it's obvious that some of the things I look at download significantly faster. How can I tell just how fast this connection is, please? Ken Bland Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287208
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    - Ad-aware Definition File Update [SE1R145] 17.01.07 http://www.lavasoft.com/download_and_buy/detection_database/ Silj -- siljaline MS - MVP Windows (IE/OE) & Windows Security, AH-VSOP Security Tools Updates http://aumha.net/viewforum.php?f=31 Reply to group, as return address is invalid that we may all benefit. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287194
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    - New AdAware Update, Jan 17, 2007 RS145. Alias Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287193
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    - SPD?DIMM? I HAVE A WARNING WHEN I TURN ON MY COMPUTER,"WARNING SPD NOT FOUND AT DIMMS 1-3.?????????? -- pleze help, msredd Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287186
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    - Spybot PROBLEMS - Attn Siljaline+ I may have missed it here as I'm normally at the WinXP group but there is quite an uproar going on over the January Spybot updates. Apparently the update has caused scan times to double as a minimum for most users and extend to hours for others. A quick check at the Spybot website shows that they are working on it and it appears to be related to antivirus software conflicts. Some have disabled the AV programs during the SB scans with some success but most have not had good luck. Can anyone offer any help or ideas? Thanks, Fred S Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287183
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    - System restore My son-in-law Installed a wireless router last January on ny desktop with windowsme. My laptop is windows xp.Everything was ok until March when a friend tried to configuire the network so that the laptop could communicate with the printer attached to the desktop.Since then,the ldesktop hasn't worked.So many error messages!!!Would system restore help in this situation or would it affect my laptop?I'm not a techie,so I'm not sure what I should do. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287177
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    - NG for OE6 Misplaced my info for Microsoft's OE6 News Group. Can someone help with the name for it? TIA. Harry. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287169
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    - System Error - File Access ERROR I am trying to fix a friend's PC which is a Windows ME Celeron based PC. The computer has AVG and Zone Alarm running. The problem is an error message that appears at startup referring to access to a file because another program is using the file - I do not know what the "file" being accessed is. This computer is running PC Tattletale, a parental controls program. The friend wants to continue using PC Tattletale to protect her children. The program uses winload32.exe which will show up as a spyware program if you check it using Google. That's partly true as the software does, in fact, monitor activity (on the web, keyboard, sites visited, IM chats, etc). This program, however, is NOT the nasty program that comes up in the Google search. I have been assured by the software tech support staff of this fact. They are also working on this problem but so far no useful info has developed on this problem. The problem is that an explorer error is received at start up. This error appears ONLY if winload32.exe is called out in the HKLM run key. If I uncheck that file using msconfig, the system starts fine and no errors are present. But after the program runs and resets the winload32 file back in the startup, the error appears again at the next startup. The error is as follows: ********************************************* Run-time error '-21479024882(8007000e)' System Error &H80070020(-2147024864) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ********************************************* This error appears with Zone Alarm and AVG antivirus not installed, and not running as well as when running - so they do not appear to play a role. The error doesn't seem to be more than an annoyance as clicking on the popup "OK" eliminates the error message with no issues until the next startup when it appears again. I would appreciate any comments and/or suggestions. Thanks, Fred S Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287168
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    - New AdAware Updates, Jan 15, 2007 SR144. Alias Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287167
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    - Made another mistake Hi, I'll try to simplify the scenario. Here it goes: 1) By mistake I deleted Adobe Flash Player from Add/Remove Programs 2) Today, 1/14/2007 I received an update notification from Windows Update that I needed to download the critical pack KB913433 for Flash Player. 3) I tried to update it and it failed - since I had deleted the above. 4) Reviewed Microsoft's security bulletin MS06-020 about the vulnerabilities in Micromedia Flash Player from ADOBE that could allow remote execution (913433). 5) Tried to download Adobe Flash Player (which I had deleted) and it will not download(from Adobe's download center). Questions are: a) how do I download Adobe Flash Player? 2) what are process steps I should take? Would appreciate a response. Ed Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287152
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    - Windows profile preferences are gone Hi, my system user profiles seem to be gone. I no longer have any information under start->all programs plus other things like background pictures are no longer linked. When I tried creating a new user on my computer but it says that user preferences can not be found so loading general preferences.. which also has the blank start up menu. I have followed the steps on the following website to reset the registry but it seems that everything is already set correctly, or if it wasn't I reset it with no prevail. http://windowsxp.mvps.org/AllPrograms.htm This is a new computer so I have not installed much and would like to get this stuff back. does any one know how I can do a restore or something with out reinstalling windows? my computer is a HP ruining winds XP media center edition 2002 service pack 2. its a AMD 64 dual with a gb of ram thank you, - Josh Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287146
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    - Windows profile preferences are gone Hi, my system user profiles seem to be gone. I no longer have any information under start->all programs plus other things like background pictures are no longer linked. When I tried creating a new user on my computer but it says that user preferences can not be found so loading general preferences.. which also has the blank start up menu. I have followed the steps on the following website to reset the registry but it seems that everything is already set correctly, or if it wasn't I reset it with no prevail. http://windowsxp.mvps.org/AllPrograms.htm This is a new computer so I have not installed much and would like to get this stuff back. does any one know how I can do a restore or something with out reinstalling windows? thank you, - Josh Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287145
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    - MDAC How do I remove MDAC and reinstall it clean. I am trying to install a program and keep getting a message that I have more than one version of MDAC on my PC and I have to repair it before I can continue. Thanks, Bob. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287123
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    - Help files I cannot access my help files or my system info. I get a message saying the help system failed. Can anyone help with this.I know it has something to do with an update and I tried the DOS promt from the knowledge base but it won't work. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287122
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    - anyone else had problems with defrag on ME Howdy, This may have already been covered and I missed it but? just updated to the newer AVG 7.5 from Grisoft and have notice that my ME will no longer defrag.. tried chrl + alt + del and turned off several avg- - - programs but the defrag still won't complete.. I guess I'm missing something but not sure what.. Tks. RTS Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287116
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    - Error: RPC Server Is Unavailable When I try to make an incremental backup using Acronis True Image (v7.0) the following error is displayed: |< E00640068: Failed to create the scheduled task Failed to create the scheduled task. Error #1722 - "The RPC server is unavailable." and my only option is to press the "OK" button. |> The MSKB has article Q224370 which addresses the issue but I do not understand the "resolution" beyond step one. Any help would be gratefully received. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287115
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    - Deleting user acdcount Inherited an ME system and would like to delete(or rename )the existing user account. I successfully created a new account, but the original user name does not appear in the welcome box of users to choose from when booting. If I press escape, the original user loads. Any help would be appreciated! Windcaid Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287106
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    - Keeping it Going To the previous poster who was worrying about lack of activity in this NG, and so posted about a handgun of some kind, I have this to say.... I'M CURRENTLY INSTALLING WIN ME AS I TYPE I'm a great believer in properly licenced S/W, and since I'm bringing a 3rd PC to life the only O/S I have a legal copy of is Win ME, so voila, an brand new install of some ancient O/S. And believe me, I'll be posting here for help pretty soon I'm sure, or at least searching the archived topics ! LOL ... the more things change ... Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287088
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    - Security Issues I am currently in school and one of my task is to find one or two security issues/security updates for Windows ME. My problem is I am not very good at understanding the computer language and when I read the security updates I do not understand. Can you help me to understand one or two security issues/security updates for Windows ME? Thank you Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287078
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    - Should I buy upgrade or full version of Win XP? I was told by Microsoft support that I have a "developers edition" of Win ME. I need to upgrade to XP. (I bought a Creative Zen Microphoto MP3 player that I can't get to work with ME) Is a developer's edition considered an "evaluation version" and therefore I would not be able to use the upgrade version of XP Home? I would like to avoid re-installing all my applications in hopes that they will still work with XP. If upgrade version won't work, will the full version allow me to keep my programs intact or do I have to re-install everything? Thanks for any advice. Art Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287062
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    - Bang bang kapow blat blat blat The question I'd like answered - and I bet there's *someone* here who can - is does Les Baer 1911s differ internally? He seems to be regarded as a manufacturer in his own right but, pretty as though his product is, it looks like a tarted up 1911 to me. Or is he simply considered a customiser, say like an engraver? Incidentally if anyone thought I was anti-gun, what I am anti is people who defend gun ownership with such vehemence that they're clearly the sort who shouldn't be allowed to touch one. They are emotionally unstable and probably barely suppressing the urge to shoot anyone who disagrees with them. The kind who make up lynch mobs. The kind who think if children shoot themselves it serves them right. Not being allowed to collect firearms is one of the main reasons I seriously want to quit Britain. Another Blairism, another failure. I've been looking at antique Winchesters lately and they are beautiful examples of craftsmanship and not being letting me buy one is bordering on insanity. I was also - until some kid smashed my hand - a damn good shot and prize shooting for the hand-eye coordination honing it enables. Those Ed Brown 1911s look tasty. Only wasn't he one of Ironside's team? Shane Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287059
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    - New Spybot Updates, Jan 12, 2007 Bunches of them. Alias Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287042
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    - how to reformat NTFS drive to FAT32 My wife's pc has WinME. Also a FAT32 formatted hard drive. I want to re-format a NTFS formatted external USB hard drive to FAT32, and need instruction on how to do that. I know that WinME can't read and write to NTFS, so want to reformat the external USB drive to FAT32. How do I do it? Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287040
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    - Ping: Shane This just in Shane: David Beckenham and Posh Spice are coming to America, with Beckenham getting the most lucrative contract for a player in this category ever. You may know this already, but in case you don't, you might want to. This isn't exactly WinME related, but still news to some. Let me (us?) know what you think. A little discursion can't hurt, can it? Harry. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287024
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    - keystroke loggers???? How do ya know if they are on your system. I am using infoworks spyremover but it usually only turns up cookies. Thanks in advance! Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287016
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    - spyware programs How can i tell if i have a keystroke logger or other malware on my computer. I am using infoworks spyware remover and it only turns up cookies. Also, what is the command for finding startup programs in the "run" box. Thanks in advance, skyman. Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 287007
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    - False Program Instances appearing in Program Manager Hi: I think I have done my homework on this one. I have done a general search and I have done a google groups search and I can't find anything quite like this. Here we go. Additional instances of programs (usually the first program I use after startup) are appearing in the program manager (when I open it with cnt/alt/del). They do NOTshow up in the taskbar or system tray and therefore can not be closed in the usual fashion. These false instances DO NOT show up when using process explorer either.They aren't causing any real problem except that I think they consume resources. I think this problem has been around for a long time and I have just recently paid attention to it. Generally when resources get low I have just restarted the computer and gone from there. When I try to shut down the false instance (usually the top one on the program manager list) using cnt/alt/del I usually get a "Shut Down Windows" window, sometines I get a window saying that I "have elected to close a toolbar". Whichever window I get I choose "cancel". The message goes away and then a few seconds later I get a "program is not responding, do you wish to close the program?" window (naming the false program instance)" I tell it to close the program, and things seem normal again. Now, a couple weird things happen when I close that false instance; a) The number of tasks running in process explorer DOES NOT CHANGE, however they are rearranged b) "Explorer" disappears for less than a second and when it reappears everything that was under it (like systray etc.) appears elsewhere on the process explorer list. Nothing appears to be operating under "Explorer" anymore i.e. nothing is indented below it. c) Sometimes the display properties icon, or some other icon disapppears from the system tray. Other than this "false program instance" problem and the perceived vanishing resources the computer runs great. Ok, so what have I done to try to isolate this? All of the things listed below have NOT shown anything unusual as a result of running them and the weird condition has persisted. a) I regularly run scandisk. Every onece in a while (after weeks of use) an error will show up in scandisk and it is easily fixed, and there are no bad sectors. b) I periodically run defrag c) I have done a system restore recently for a different problem, but I think this problem has been around for many months and it is not practical to "restore it away". .d) I have done a disk cleanup, and I have run; Internet Cleanup, X-Cleaner and CC_Clean e) I have run AVG Virus Scan, AdAware, SpyBot S&D and SpywareBlaster f) I have even run Belarc Advisor to make sure that one of my updates didn't get trashed. As mentioned all of the above have not returned any unusual results. Has anybody ever seen anything like this? When I searched I looked for things like "program is not responding", "additional program instances". "false program instances" and I also added the term "program manager" or "system manager". I looked for variations of all of this. I learned a lot, but I never found anything quite like this. Any ideas? There is a lot of stuff on this machine and the thought of reinstalling it is daunting. If it got to be a real nusiance, it might be more reasonable to replace the machine. Thanks, John Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 286955
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    - WinMe Registry - \SystemRoot\ Folder Examples HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ATMARPC ImagePath \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\redbook.sys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\redbook ImagePath \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\redbook.sys **Search \SystemRoot\ is not a valid folder ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------- Most of the sub keys under "Services" in right pane ImagePath value as \SystemRoot\system32\drivers\redbook.sys There is no \SystemRoot\ folder anywhere in my os, the Drivers folder is at Windows\system32\drivers\redbook.sys. the Drivers listed in that key are all there in the Drivers folder and there is no error message of any kind being flashed out during the boot process. Should I correct it to Windows\system32\drivers\redbook.sys? Is there any importance of \SystemRoot\ folder? Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 286933
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    - Question for Mike M, re: Foxit Heather (from another newsgroup) suggested that I pose my question here: When a .pdf link is provided as a response to a Google search (for example) Adobe Reader is able to open and display it directly. I did not have such luck with Foxit. Or does Foxit require that the link be loaded into memory before it can see it? If I totally remove Adobe Reader from the computer, but retaining Foxit, will this work? Many thanks, Ken Bland Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 286909
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    - MI5 Persecution: Dirk Gently on the Toronto Case Dirk was on the West Coast when he got the call. An old friend at the Toronto police department thought he would like to fly up and take a look at a homicide which had occurred the previous evening. He decided to skip the last day at the World Holistics conference and take the next plane out of San Francisco. The flight was bad; Dirk had been hit on the back of the head by the Newspaper trolley, the drinks trolley, the dinner trolley and now the gift trolley. When the hostesses weren?t trying to tear his arm off they pestered him to stop leaning into the aisle - ignoring the fact that the guy next to him was taking up one and a half seats. Air Canada used to be the flight which was so good you just didn?t wanna get off - on this occasion Dirk would be glad to see the back of the plane and the over sized alternative comedian wedged into the window seat. After breathing in a couple of lungfulls of crisp Canadian air Dirk took a taxi into town. There was a small group of demonstrators outside the MacDonalds and the taxi driver insisted on stopping on the opposite side of the street. ?Don?t Eat Meat? the placards read and the demonstrators chanted. A couple of policemen where stopping the crowd entering the restaurant itself - one held up his arm and challenged Dirk. A wave of the fax he had been sent and the policeman pushed open the door. There were few customers in the restaurant. Not surprising really with a demonstration going on outside, half the dining area roped off with tape and a dead body seated at one of the tables. ?Mr Gently sir? the officer in charge called out as he peeled one end of the tape off a column ?We were told not to touch anything til? you got here?. The body of the man slumped awkwardly in a chair. Then even a dead body would start getting uncomfortable in a MacDonalds chair after twenty minutes - and this one had been there for at least eighteen hours. Two back legs and the tail of a cat hung out of the man?s gaping mouth. Dirk turned to the officer, ?I suppose you are going to tell me this is the darndest thing you ever saw?? ?Ain?t this the darnd...?. The officer seemed annoyed that Dirk had second guessed him. ?We?re removing the body in a few minutes, so if you can get through as quick as possible? ?Many people eat cats in fast food restaurants?? Dirk asked and without waiting for an answer leant over the table to pick up an untouched burger. ?And what?s this?? he asked waving it in front of the officers face. ?It?s a Vedgie Burger? The waitress, who was cleaning one of the adjacent tables, shouted across. She walked over to Dirk. ?We started doing them because of that lot out there? she nodded towards the protesters who were pressing there faces against the windows ?They?re called Linda McCartney Vedgie burgers - ever heard of them?? Dirk suddenly felt faint, perhaps a combination of hunger and jet lag. ?This is deja vu all over again? he thought to himself. He glanced at policemen - at the badge on his shoulder ?OPD? but this wasn?t Ontario this was Toronto. OPD - Officially Pronounced Dead. It dawned on Dirk what was happening, he knew what he would see if he looked out of the window. Sure enough, there it was, the Volkswagen Beetle parked across the road - number plate 28IF - 28 IF Paul McCartney had lived. And amongst the lyrics of the song blaring out into the restaurant he could pick out the words ?I buried Paul?. Now it was though Dirk was viewing the whole scene though a TV screen. This was conspiracy. Not -a- conspiracy, or -the- conspiracy, but just plain conspiracy. ?You look faint - are you OK mister? The waitress asked. Dirk shook his head ?Probably a bit hungry? Then to economise on dialogue took out a pack of cigarettes and held it out towards the girl. She was about to take one but Dirk snatched the pack away, held it up to his mouth and drew out two cigarettes. He lit both then passed one of them to the girl. It was the closest he had come to a sexual encounter in three months. ?Want a Burger?? the waitress asked. Dirk looked down at the Vedgie Burger on the table. ?No thanks - just a plate of fries? The waitress walked away and Dirk looked around the room. Apart from a family seated in the far corner there was only one other person in the restaurant - and he wasn?t eating. The guy was about mid twenties and had straggling, shoulder length hair. On the table in front of him were lots of pieces of paper cut into squares. Every so often he would pick up a camcorder and pan it around the room and then, when he was finished, speak into a microphone which was attached to a tape recorder. Dirk walked over to where the man was sitting. The small pieces of paper had paragraphs of text written on them and were stuck to the top of table with blobs of mustard. Lines had been drawn, some solid some dotted, on the table top with a marker pen. The lines ran from one piece of paper to another. ?What are the lines for?? Dirk asked, realising straight away that ?What the hell are you doing?? would be more appropriate. ?You see? The man replied nervously ?The dotted lines are weak links and the solid lines are strong links. The dotted lines are things which are happening in the rest of the world and the solid lines are things which are happening to me. Now you see I draw over a dotted line, replacing it with a solid line, when I can link something back to me. Like this? The pen squeaked over the Formica and before Dirk could interrupt the man added. ?You see I lost my short term memory and, as a consequence have a very short attention span. I write down, record and film everything then put it all together later? ?So? Dirk interrupted. ?You filmed what happened here?? ?Yes, yes, it?s here on this tape? The man pushed the cassette across the table. On the label the words ?Grassy Knoll? had been crossed through and replaced with ?MacDonalds?. Suddenly the man sprung from his seat. Dirk turned and saw that the body was being removed on a stretcher. As it passed the man picked a small object off the edge of the stretcher itself. ?This is important? he said, laying a blood stained bullet on one of the small pieces of paper on the table. Suddenly the room was filled with a deafening throbbing sound as a Black Helicopter landed in the street outside. Two men in United Nations uniforms got out and collected the stretcher. Back at the table the long haired man was replacing all the dotted lines with solid ones. Dirk panicked and began to walk backwards at some speed. Barging through the swing doors he stumbled into the kitchen, tripped and felt himself sink slowly into a large vat. ?The guys fallen into the batter? Dick heard someone shout before he sunk below the surface. He came to sitting in a chair with the batter solidifying all over his body. He surveyed the room through two eye-holes someone had cut. Suddenly the chair on which he was sitting was picked up carried through the restaurant and out of the building. As the chair was being lifted and put into the back of a van, Dirk caught a glimpse of the waitress following him. ?Your fries mister, your plate o...?. The doors of the van shut and Dirk tried desperately to steady himself as it sped across town. Eventually the doors flew open and Dirk was flung into the road at which point the solidified batter shattered and set him free. Standing up he found himself outside the international departures terminal of Toronto airport. In the departure lounge Dirk had time to reflect on the day?s events. He had got caught up in the conspiracy theories and the haphazard welding together of pieces of irrelevant information. It was time to catch the person who was operating the bizarre cognitive engine which appeared in front of him like a fairground mirror, distorting any flaw it could find in his own, fragile, map of the real world. Dirk leant into the aisle of the plane as it took off for London. The oversized person next to him swung his arms violently as he complained about every thing from the supper in a plastic tray to the state of British politics. With a shaven head and a badly fitting suit the man looked as though he could have worked behind the reception desk of the Kremlin. However when he spoke he did so in a Liverpudlian accent. ?Me I blame the Con-serv-a-tive government, me. The Tour-rees. That-cher. Me. They need a good kicking? He jerked his feet forward and struck the seat in front with his Doc Martins. ?With these. Me Doc Martins. Doctor Martin?s, Doctor Martin?s, Doctor Martin?s Booots!? The phrase was now being sung over and over again as the man writhed in his seat and clicked his fingers. Dirk looked down at the boots and thought of the reaction most people used to deal with the paranoids at the end of the wire. A nice quick kick. ?Oi nutter - get some therapy?. This is the easy way out and perhaps the safest. After all there you are sat, alone, in front of the screen. No body language between you some paranoid. No way of telling if he really is some gibbering psycho. Look at it too long and you be drawn in. Fall into the tangled database of weird links with him. Who knows he may be watching you, reassembling and linking your experiences with his. How sure are you of you own cognitive threads. After all cognition is only a bug fix for a neurological system which was designed in a hurry - it?s abused by everyone from politicians to advertisers. If people really can convince each other that a bottle of washing up liquid is as exciting as an orgasm using just television God knows what they can do with a computer. Better to avoid the risk. A swift kick. After all if you?re Homophobic you put the boot in because you are scared of any ambiguity in your own sexuality - why not be Nutterphobic as well. Although Dirk would have liked to devoted time to tracking the culprit down he decided to let it rest. The Internet changed over the next twenty odd years. A lot of the people who used it went out and got lives. And those who already had lives burnt them away. The number of users had dwindled after someone had invented a C++ program, with truth as a variable, to deal handle politics and government. Dirk had already retired from finding old ladies cats with the help of obscure science when he got another call from Toronto. It was 4th March 2025 when he booked onto the Air Canada flight from Heathrow. The silver haired woman in the seat next to him painted bright red lipstick around her mouth. ?Of course it was no surprise to be offered the job after Claire Raynor retired? she sneered? After all I used to be a psychiatric nurse... Now if Blokes had periods they would understand...? By chance the taxi ride to Toronto mental hospital took him past the MacDonalds - where the whole thing had started. Of course it was barely recognisable having become a Church Of Scientology Vedgie Bar. Police in riot gear kept the two sets of demonstrators apart. Dirk didn?t really know what to expect when he got to the hospital. The girl at the reception desk directed him to a row of chairs in a wide well lit corridor. There was a strong smell of disinfectant, the furniture and the carpets were immaculately clean and behind the rows of teak veneer doors the ?nutters? were all safely locked away. For some reason Dirk started thinking about CompuServe forums. A tall blond woman in a white coat approached. ?Mr Gentle, I assume? ?Yes? Dirk replied shaking her by the hand. ?You?re the nurse who...? ?Doctor? She interrupted, ?Doctor Killfile? She led Dirk across the corridor towards one of the doors then stopped with her hand resting on the handle. ?Now you know about this person don?t you?? and after Dirk nodded she continued ?Don?t tell him anything about yourself - don?t let him get into you head. If he does he?ll screw it up? The door opened to reveal a frail man sitting in from of a TV screen. He had a keyboard on his lap and next to the television was a computer screen. Dirk glanced at the walls of the room and remembered that his settee at home need upholstering. The nurse left the room and the man looked up ?So you come to my daughters wedding and ask me to kill a man? he said in a dry cackling voice. ?Look? he continued, pointing at the screen, ?I know that man. They?re talking about me now - listen?. The man stared at Dirk. ?What?s your name? Are you one of my friends from the Internet? - Are the lambs still screaming Dirk?? Dirk, at first recoiled in horror, then felt a sense of anti climax. So this is what they hyped up to superstar status on the back of their own fears of madness. Dirk was reminded of the film ?A day on The Beach? where a submarine had set off to search a post nuclear World to track down a signal coming from a remote military base - only to find it was being sent by a Coke bottle half balanced on a Morse tapper. Outside the room the nurse waited for him. Because his nicotine craving had returned - and to avoid an awkward piece of dialogue - Dirk turned to her and asked . ?Patch?? Dirk took two nicotine patches from his wallet the first of which he stuck onto the inside of his arm. Stepping closer to Doctor Killfile he opened her white coat and slid his hand into the opening at the front of her dress. He pressed the patch onto her leg as close to the top of her inner thigh as he dare. She took a deep breath and then slowly breathed out. ?What Bogart could have done with these things? Dirk thought to himself. ?Is he crazy?? Dirk asked tilting his head back to towards the door. ?Who knows? Doctor Killfile replied ?We let him type away. He sees something on the TV in the morning and it keeps him busy all day. What he types doesn?t go anywhere it just stays on a mainframe in the basement. It can be read by anyone else in the building but that?s it. We got them all in here conspiracy theorists, racists, nationalists. They?ve created a world within a world really...? Her voice trailed away and she stared down the corridor for a while then added ?So long are two things are different neither will come to be in the other and so become at once both one and two.? Dirk gave her a puzzled look ?You mean their brains are fried?? ?Fried?? Killfile smiled at Dirk ?No that was Plato?. Then the smile fell from her face. ?You must remember, mister, plate o...? 798 Tag: SpyBot Definition File Update 26.01.07 Tag: 286889
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