lefty1953

When is the last time you cleaned out the inside of the case? Can of AIR!

Never had a problem with nero doing any of that. Might want to uninstall the program and then reinstall it. Sounds like a portion of the program got hosed. I copy full CD's all the time off my Pictures folder so I have back ups and never had that problem.

Sounds like you mom's friend doesn't have the correct e-mail address for your mom. Make sure she is sending it to the correct address.

Does the machine sit on carpet? Is it dry in your area? Does you kid run around in the house in his socks? Static electricity. Ground it like mentioned above. A wire from the fan screw to the screw on the wall plug will do it.

You wont see any difference. You would be better off reformatting your hard drive and reinstalling your Windows XP. That will speed it up more than anything else. After having you system for a while it tends to slow down from just installing and uninstalling programs. Do you Defrag your hard drive on a regular basis? IS your XP on a partition on your Hard drive like say D:? If so you just need to restart the machine and when you see the HP splash screen just hit F1,F2 or F10 which ever it says for system restore. Do you have HP System recovery file under PC Help and Tools? That is where you wo

Do you have a yellow Icon in the right bottom corner of the desktop. Might be Windows Updating.

I couldn't find them. The reason I ask is my daughter goes to some web sites that play music once you log on and it eats up bandwidth like crasy.

I just swithed to FireFox and found it lacks some of IE's easy swithes. I used to go to Tools, Internet Options and then Multimedia and turn off Sounds, Video and Animations. How do you do that with FireFox? I cna't find it anywhere. Or do I just do that from IE and it works for Firefox? Help please if you can.

Thanks Dan, Found it and it was checked. Didn't know there was one in the program.

So is Google's tool bar the only place to get a spell checker for FireFox 2.0? I just downloaded a bunch of other spell checkers and they didn't work. Google works though.

Could be the battery, considering the age of the system it deserves to be the battery, but no other problems have cropped up (at least, none as unusual or severe as having to reload system resource drivers). As for the modem not connecting (which I'm not sure could be related to the battery) I just chose to leave it on for now. Remind me, is that SFC the program that scans for corrupt or missing files? If it's what I think it is its usefullness is rather limited on a system that's been up and running for this long. SO many files have been replaced over the years it's difficult to know which o

I know what you mean, but it means pulling out the system, risking loosening something in the back, etc. Plus the original mouse was a fancy-schmancy gift (silver-plated) that had seen better days. I just have to get used to the system's original mouse again (it's a clickety-clackity kind, the gift one was silent). Click! Click! Clickety-Click! Rattle-rumble! (The wheel.) Today the DSL modem would not connect again -- Took three tries before it worked. Something's up. Let's see, I'm catching up on my bills, so it must be time to replace the computer! Of course! What does the time on t

If you are using Dial-up and it disconnects you might try setting your E-mail program to check for e-mail every 5 minutes or so. As long as the ISP goes, they will disconnect you if there isn't any activity on the line for any period of time. If your on-line for 8-9 hours at a time, I would think you needed a break anyway.

Windows can and will do this. Best thing to do is Reboot.

I finally got it removed. Had to go to MSconfig and remove the entries for it in Services. Then it deleted and was able to remove it from ADD Remove Programs . Now I am trying to install it again and I think Grisoft just doesn't want to give it away for free anymore. I tried Downloading it and the program stopped and said the server was reset so the download would not finish. Then I tried to Run it from their site and it did the same thing. Server reset. Update, I got it to install from their site finally. I guess removing it from the Msconfig did it.

I reformatted my drive the other day and reinstalled everything. I had AVG on my back up drive and tried to install it. It told me that the copy was out dated and I needed to download the new version. I went to Grisoft and tried to download 7.5 and it gave me errors(CRC) while uncompacting the Dat files. SO I tried deleting the saved file and tried to just run the file from Grisoft. It did the same thing CRC errors. Anyone here have the same problem? I was going to try to uninstall the program from ADD remove Programs and it gives me an error that it was not installed correctly. Now it is in

Pete, thanks for the info. I went to her PC and ran SFC /scannow and now IE7 is working. I did disable her Yahoo toolbar first. After doing all that, she said she is happier with Firefox and wants to use it. Go figure huh? I don't have anything else to do but fix things that aren't wanted in the first place. Thanks for your help.

No, in all likelyhood IE7 is freezing at the connecting when launched. After install IE7 wants to connect to a MSN server which will guide you through setting up your preferences for the new features it has. Unfortunately there are several things which will block this from happening. So the first thing to do is go to control panel => add/remove programs and select "Windows Internet Explorer 7 " from the list (from the programs list , not from the windows components list) this will roll you back to IE6 Now If you have spybot teatimer, you will want to go into its blocked sites list and mak

My daughter installed Firefox and now her Internet Explorer doesn't work any more. She also downloaded and installed IE7 and it doesn't work. Did Firefox cause this?

Ok I have 2 Pc's I am trying to network together. I had 2 other PC's hooked up with this hub a few years ago and can't get these two to hook up. I have the Main PC hooked to the Uplink connection on the hub and the other PC hooked up to the #1 port. I go to Network and Internet connections and select Set up or change your Home or small office Network. It steps me through and finishes with no items showing in My network connections. I am at a lost of whats going on. I try running the set up on the other Pc and it doesn't show anything either. First PC has XP Home and the other has XP Media Cen

Update! After a day of trouble shooting I just reformatted the drive and reinstalled. Runs fine now. I did learn one thing in case you might want to take a note of it. Earth link(includes PeoplePC) Toolbars with the Pop-up blocker stopped me from using the Windows Update.Even after I reinstalled most everything I couldn't get on. I e-mailed Microsoft and they told me about the Pop-up blockers and some other things like Norton that causes errors. I disabled the pop-up blocker and it works.

Might be worth removing them, rebooting, and then download/reinstall them again. You might have gotten a bad or partial install of one of the files. The only thing is, I can't use the update site. Note: other symptoms are: If I don't log on right away to the PC it defaults to a screen I never seen before and I have to log off when I never logged on before I get the correct screen to log on. Then It looks like the old shut down or restart screen when I try to shut down. What I mean by that is it looks like the pull down screen that Win98 has and not the 3 buttons to choose from. When I try

I just remembered I downloaded 5 updates on the 12th. That is when I first got my problems. Should I remove those updates?

Yes I checked it out from the control panel under Security Center. It is on but if I click on it, it does nothing, no option to change it. Looks like I need to reinstall everything once again. I am thinking the Grand Kids did something, so I might as well Restore the whole system.

My PC wouldn't shut off the other night and now it won't allow me to go to Windows upadate to get new updates. It gives me an error about the web site. I tried checking my Automatic updates and it won't load. My PeoplePC program will connect to the internet but the main screen gets an error and closes. I can still use the internet by loading IE. I have AVG updated and ran it in Safe mode. I tried SFC /scanonce and scannow. I haven't downloaded anything for over a year. Nothing installed that I know of. Grand kids might have. Last week of so I got about 8 updates with no problem. I tried system