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  1. I Upgraded My Pc

    in BestTechie Garage Sale

    Posted · Edited by jimras

    BT

    Without knowing your exact location, it looks like UPS ground would be

    $12.50. The UPS web site needed a city and area so I said Manhatten

    If you want to PM me with an exact address, I can figure it a bit

    closer for you but I think that will be pretty close. I'm figuring 8 pounds

    for the package

    thanks...........jr

  3. I Upgraded My Pc

    in BestTechie Garage Sale

    Posted

    Hello all....it's been a while, but I have finally upgraded my PC and I have some stuff to sell.

    I would prefer to sell it all as a package deal but I might part it out if it doesn't all sell as a package.

    Here's what I have:

    Motherboard--Gigabyte 7VT600-L KT600

    CPU--Athalon SP 2500+ Barton Core / 333 FSB 1.87 MHz

    1 Gig Ram --1 512 MB stick of Corsair DDR 2700 and 1 512 MB Genaric

    Cooling--Zalman CNPS6000 Flower Cooler with Fan and bracket

    Video Board--Chaintec (Nvidia) FX5200 128 MB AGP8X DVI

    I would like to get $65 for the whole package (plus actual UPS shipping)

    Payment method--Paypal preferred

    PM me with any questions--

    Thanks.........jim

    Approved by Besttechie

  8. Windows Xp Sp3 Rc

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted · Edited by jimras

    Well, I couldn't wait so I did it right now.

    I disabled the security center and everything

    else works fine. I set the auto updates to

    just notify and not download and install and

    it popped up with three updates which I did

    download and install and all is right with the world!!!

    Jsky, and Terrorist, thank you both so much for your

    knowledge and advise.....you guys have solved a MAJOR

    problem for me today and I owe you guys one!!!!

    Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!

    jim

  10. Windows Xp Sp3 Rc

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Well, since the Security center seems to be my problem,

    how do you disable it? I have a seperate firewall and AV

    program that I run. I used to always do a manual install

    of the updates but I couldn't do it when they started

    the requirement of SP2 to get further updates.

    I also use FF for my browser and Thunderbird for my

    mail program with Mail Washer Pro.

    If I could disable the security center without having to open it

    I could re-install the SP3 and I would be all set!!

  11. Windows Xp Sp3 Rc

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    A question for Jsky....

    I downloaded and installed SP3 and I had the same problem that I had when I

    repeatedly tried to install SP2. The install goes OK......and I did follow your instructions

    that I saw posted above...and when I finally restart, the computer will boot up fine but

    here's the thing.

    Since I have automatic updates disabled, I get that little red shield in the lower right corner of the

    task bar. When I hover over it, my choices are open the Windows Security Center or go to the

    Microsoft web site. If I choose to open the security center, the Title bar of the window appears

    on my screen but the window itself doesn't finish opening. After about 5 seconds, the mouse freezes

    up and then another 10 seconds of so and the screen goes black and another 5 seconds or so, and

    the computer reboots itself.

    When it finally reboots, the security center again (by itself this time) tries to open and I get the title bar

    and the lock ups and reboots. This just continues over and over.

    What I finally end up doing is holding F-8 and open in safe mode and then uninstall the service pack.

    I have asked for advise on this problem before when I couldn't get SP2 to install but finally just gave up and

    turned off the auto update feature and wrote it off to experience. I had hoped that there might have been a

    fix built into the SP3 that would let me install and get back to full protections.

    Any thoughts or ideas??

    thanks ... jim

  13. Booting To Dos In Win98

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    Thanks for the input, folks. A couple of the games would not run right in a DOS window, and you actually

    had to restart in DOS mode to get them to work, so Liz's idea wouldn't help with that. I will try JSKY's idea..

    that sounds like what I was looking for.

    The problem with using a DOS emulator like DOSBOX is that the darn games won't even decompress or install

    a lot of the time so going back to a previous OS seemed like the only answer. I have LOTS of room on the

    2nd HD so it's not a problem to have 98 installed.

    Thanks again for all the help......I'll post back to let you all know how it went.

    jr

  14. Booting To Dos In Win98

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

    Posted

    I have recently installed Win98 on a partition in my second HD so

    my grandkids can play some old DOS games that would not work

    under XP. I also have (in addition to XP) a partition with Ubuntu

    on it, as well. I use the Grub Loader to select which OS I want

    to boot up.

    I am sure that there is a way to get it to boot right to DOS and

    not have to boot into Win98 and then choose "Shut down" and

    finally choose "Restart in DOS mode"

    Does somebody remember which file to edit and what the

    command should be? Maybe it's not possible and I'll just

    have to get used to doing all the extra steps.

    Ideas???

    Thanks..........jr

  19. Multiple Anti-virus

    in Spyware/Adware Information

    Posted

    I hear the computer guy, Peter Green, on Wis Public Radio talking all the time about running two AV programs at the same time and most of the time, there are no problems. I suppose that you can get conflicts with certain programs but you will probably have to experiment. I run AVAST and AVG and they work fine.