jimras

D=Dallas

Hey TT......you got me to thinking. This all started since I had to re-do the license for AVAST again. I dumped that program and went back to AVG and now all works fine. Thanks for getting me thinking in the right direction.

I'm sorry, TT that would help, wouldn't it. I am using AVAST (free)

R=Rawhide

I am having a problem with Excel 2000. every time I try to open a spreadsheet, the taskbar on the bottom of the excel window says "requesting virus scan" and then I get a pop up windows that says 'Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close' and wants to send an error report. Doesn't matter which button I click on--excel closes. I use Excel a lot and this is very annoying. Anybody have any ideas on what is the problem? Comp is AMD 64 x 2 running at 3 Ghz and 4 Gigs of RAM OS is XP Pro (SP3 installed) and Excel 2000 (Office 2000 suite) Thanks, experts! jim

Last ditch effort----you can 'un-install' SP3 in the "control panel--uninstall programs" and make sure the box is checked to show updates. I had to do this a bunch of times with SP2, but since I upgraded my MoBo and chip, SP3 went in fine.

And one of my all time favorites! C=Cheers

Payton Place Ooops---didn't see 2nd page. sorry

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FWIW, there is a power options in the control panel that may offer some help.....don't know for sure, but take a look there, too.

Well FWIW.. I agree with you about the automatic updates. I have mine also set to notify but not download. I recently upgraded a lot of stuff in my comp and did a clean install of XP Pro and updated at that time to SP3 and all went fine. Since that time, which was mid June, I have only seen TWO updates and those were the microsoft anti-spyware checker. There haven't been any other updates since.

Yes I have and they don't work. Some won't even install. They have their own install program and when you put them in the drive and click on install, you get asked what drive and so on. I can't input anything into the program at that point. It's like the keyboard just quit and you have to input something.....there is no "default" to drive C:\ I guess they are just too old. They were fun, too.

Thanks for the answers...........not the answer that I wanted, but thanks, none the less. Guess I'll have to figure out something else. jim

Yeah, Windows 98. I have a lot of old DOS games that work great under 98 ( and NOT under XP) and I have 5 grandkids that love to play games on Grandpa's computer. Having recently upgraded my comp, I am trying to get everything back like I had it and it's not working out right. Probably something simple that I'm missing. Here's what I am running right now. Master drive is Windows XP Pro SP3 I am running it on a AMD 64 Dual Core 6000+ at 3.1 Ghz and I have the RAM maxed out at 4 X 1024 MG (4 gigs) What I tried to do today was to format my other drive (another 80Gig) and then install Window

Shanenin---that was it....thanks a lot. jim

I was cleaning up my start menu the other night and somehow, I erased the shortcut to the Control Panel. Could somebody please tell me how to get that back? I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 Thanks................jim

Did you change the jumper settings on the "new" HD and did you change it's position to the end of the cable?

Yeah, Leo can sure play. I saw him live a few years ago and I swear, it sounded like there were three people playing that guitar. He is truly a gifted musician and a master at his craft!

OK.....I'm going to drop the price to $60 shipped (within the 48 US) last chance----This stuff is getting dusty sitting on the shelf anybody want to give it all a home?

I recently had to do a re-format and re-install of XP Pro and I had the SP3 on a CD. I installed the XP Pro, then I popped in the SP3 and it went off without a hitch. Runs fine and I'm all up to date. FWIW

OK then. That makes sense. Thanks BT...appreciate the quick reply. jr

I recently upgraded my computer and I installed 2 Gig of Memory at the time and all worked fine. I saw on Sunday that Tiger direct had the memory on sale that I just bought a month ago so I bought me 2 more Gigs ($34 after rebate) and installed that too. The motherboard has four slots and now they are all full. The memory sticks are all the same.....Corsair TWINX PC6400 DDR2 800 MHz ....four 1 Gig sticks. The MoBo will accept up to 16 Gigs of memory, from what I read. It is an Asus M2N-SLI nForce 560 Socket AM2 board and I am running an AMD Ahtlon 64 X2 6000+ chip at 3GHz and I have XP Pro

I'm going out of town for a few days so if you try to contact me, I'll be unavailable. I also have the original CPU cooling fan for the chip that I'll throw in with the deal.

No, sorry, it does not. I basically kept the tower, power supply, and the drives and upgraded everything else. I also will throw in the original CPU cooling fan. I never used it because I bought the copper cooling flower and fan and installed those right away.