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Brenda2007

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  1. OK i went back to the original maxthon but the toolbar installs in the bottom when it should be at the top. When I check the options I have it set for the toolbar to be at the top (under the addy bar). This is what happened when I installed Maxthon 2. Any suggestions?

  2. I haven't used IE in about 3 yrs. I've always used Maxthon and loved it until they upgraded and their roboform toolbar disappeared. That sucked badly so since Roboform works fine with IE7 and they have tabbed browsing which I love, I'm using it now. It's a bit of a pain but I'll get used to it.

     

    My question is. When IE crashes (yes I know that's normal) and reopens or I reopen, is there a way to reopen the tabs that were already open when it crashed? Maxthon had this and I'm hoping IE does. I've searched and searched (plus I'm very challenged) and couldn't find anything.

     

    Can anyone help with this if it's even an option?

     

    Oh and sorry I've been MIA. Going through a divorce..woohoo!

  3. Yep, looks fine and only 20 actual processes running as you've got disk cleanup and IrfanView open in that screenshot (don't see any anti-virus though?). I have a fairly lean computer services wise and I have 18 services running.

     

    I'm really trying to find the best anti-virus without paying? OMG I tried Panda or something like that and I thought that thing would fry my pc..removed it immediately. I'll go check around the forum to see what info I can find. Thanks for all your help!

  4. I've got my computer running nice and smooth but in the task manager I have 6 svchost.exe running. 3 are SYSTEM 1 is LOCAL SERVICE and 2 are NETWORK SERVICE. I went into bleepingcomputer.com which has helped me a lot but I have no idea which ones I need and which ones I don't. I don't want to make the mistake of deleting things that are necessary because I ended up restoring the system. Any ideas? I'll include a screenshot so you know what I'm talking about.

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  5. All of a sudden, the taskbar icons that I usually have are gone. The only one that is showing, is the two little monitor thingies. I like to have the volume icon and the Norton icon. I went to Control Panel-Taskbar and Start Menu-put a check on "Hide Inactive Icons"-Customize

     

    Only the icons that are showing are in the Current Items but my volume, and Norton icons are in the past items. I used the dropdown menu to put whatever I wanted to Always Show, clicked Apply..nothing there. Task Mgr says Norton is running but I like it to be on the taskbar. So I opened the program up and pretty much had to place it there even though it's programmed to start with Windows.

     

    The volume icon however Control Panel-Sound and whatever devices has the box checked to show icon in taskbar. I uncheck and check, I mess with other stuff, come back and check it again, apply, nothing.

     

    What the heck now?

  6. I hate to say it but when you started this thread I knew it would end this way. You dove far too fast into this. I cut my processes down from almost 60 to under 20. It did not happen over night. It took weeks to accomplish this problem free. I Googled each process and there are many sites with info on what each process did and if it was safe to stop or not. I looked at multiple sites because some had different opinions on what was safe and what was not. Than I made a list and separated into obviously safe, probably safe, and unsure. I killed a few at a time and used the machines as normal for about 5 days to make sure some obscure setting or function that was not obvious at first wasn't messed up. Take note and remember what the processes were and if your not sure make a restore point. Than and only than did I move on to another couple processes. This went on for weeks until I got my running processes down to an acceptable level. There were many sites with good info but this one by Black Viper was the most helpful to me. http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/service411.htm

     

    I know, I tend to do that. I'm surprised I still have a working computer. I don't want to mess with it more than I have to but there are so many programs in that taskbar that I don't know what they are. And when I do a search on them, some don't even come up.

     

    Maybe starting over with exact instructions on what to do will work better for me? I promise not to have ants in the pants, I'll patiently wait (I'm in the US, so my time with you all is limited, you're probably all sleeping over there in the UK) OK. I'm going to take a screenshot of my task manager the way it is right now and we can start from there..sound cool? Here it is:

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  7. Hi Brenda, from your pics it looks as if you have the same pc as me, Compaq.

     

    That black boot screen is perfectly normal, and the couple of seconds are there to enable you to, if I remember correctly the last time I used it, press escape to hold that screen and choose a different boot option, such as go straight to the Recovery Console, which I've sadly had to do on more than one occassion.

     

    I've got 3 choices on that screen, boot normally, recovery console, or boot directly into Power Shadow (just a program I have installed).

     

    The other thing I'm not sure about, but I get similar error warnings every time I use and then close down Sonic.

     

    Were you by chance using Sonic Digital Media some time before you closed down?

     

    Edit: If you take pics of your screen, just take them at an angle, and the flash won't reflect. Been there and done that as well.

     

    Nope, haven't used sonic at all. The thing is that never happened to me until I followed the original instructions. I'll try what you did and see what happens

  8. Thats because you've got the actual program (the exe) on your desktop, that should be in the Irfanview program folder (with a shortcut to it on your desktop, not the actual exe).

     

    Oh ok, so I should put back the actual exe back and just put a shortcut on my desktop. Thank you :)

  9. Now when I turn off my computer, that End Program box comes up. It says CCAPP which I believe, if I'm not mistaken, is Norton antivirus? I don't have to end the program, it does it by itself without it even completely shut down (hard to explain, the blue thing just goes across 2-3x and it goes away. No problems with the program though. Should I just let it go because you're all tired of my questions? Blame the gentleman that invited me here to make your lives a living hades ;)

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