mikex

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  1. Glad to hear it. That is what we're here for. More users, more problems, more sounding boards, more heads thinking on one subject. M
  2. ~making bunny nose movements~ sniff sniff Helloooo elloooo lloooo Big empty space. pace ace M m
  3. First I want to give thank to sultan for providing the link in his sig for me to stumble on to this. Acrobat Reader Speedup 1.3 I loaded a 3350kb pdf in 15 seconds, ran this speedup util cut load to about 5 seconds. If you do alot of reading from pdf you may want to try this. M
  4. 1.Double check no floppy in floppy drive. 2.Disable any antivirus in BIOS. 3.Check OS cd for for scratches that would result in errors. 4.Are you using a M$ XP cd or a cd that came with you machine? ie XP on a Dell or HP cd. I found the above problems with som research. 1,2,&3 were from different sites. 4 was from M$. Below is a M$ article. SYMPTOMS When you try to install Microsoft Windows XP or upgrade to Windows XP on a computer that runs Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows Millennium Edition, you may receive the following error message after the first restart during the inst
  5. Use active killdisk to wipe the drive, free version makes one pass. Set BIOS to cd rom as first boot. Insert cd and go. When machine "hangs" does the tattle tail liteon the cd and for hdd blink like something is going on or does everthing quiet down. You could set the hdd as slave to the primary you use. The use something like active killdisk to wipe the drive. Do a scann disk/defrag from within windows. This will make sure all date is gone (killdisk) and find any bad sectors (scan disk). M
  6. Has anyone had problems getting plugins for firefox, namely quicktime. Each time I try install fails. I don't want quicktime as primary player. Would like just plugin not full install player. Any hints? M
  7. Crank up the fonts to extremely large then leave machine. Wife comes to the machine freaks out, life is good. M
  8. If the ink cartridge was used I'd say the nozzles may be dry. Alcohol and a paper towel could clean the dried ink. M
  9. mikex

    Spooky

    I don't want to bash on you matt, these things were all over after sept. 11 2001. I believe if a person is give a picture and told there is something there the person will be able to see it. You could come up with more 11's if you wanted to do the research on name and events. It is a bit strange tho'. M
  10. I believe the Black Viper setup is more for a game machine not profile. I have read somewhere of someone setting a machine for apps and games. I'll post as soon as I come across it. M
  11. Versions...XP is still v4.xxxxx M$ has not come out with a "new" version of windows for forever. M
  12. Paranoid Security is the only security. M
  13. logon as Bobby Start/Control Panel/User Acocunts/Change Account/Select Kathy set as Admin. Logoff Logon as Kathy Start/Control Panel/User Acocunts/Change Account/Select Bobby set as Limited. M
  14. Well I was thinking that you pulled it from the depths of you vast knowledge, and then sorted the order in which to make it comprendable (sp) to us lowly folks. But NNNNOOOO you just get it in pdf form. M
  15. I use ZA and you hit the nail on the head Chappy. M
  16. I don't know much about networking, but a friend had a network problem. The nic and vid cards were conflicting. If I'm not mistaken he move them farther apart. Vid was agp nic was pci. Don't know but may give you another avenue to troubleshoot. Good luck M
  17. Paparazzi got a shot of Tyme's reaction to the cost of an asprin while he was laid up in the hospital.
  18. Yeah I saw that movie, with Bruce Willis, and Owen Wilson. Working on that would get you in the history books. M
  19. Cloud always bring it outside hit it with the waterhose. That would justify a new system. M
  20. Bingo CNET Catch UP. I remember getting a notice about not working anymore. Will look into the other links posted. Thanks folks M
  21. Not sure, but it don't sound like it. M