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Grungle

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  1. As above, for the second floppy drive, which I still had on my system till last year. In fact I had a dual unit with a 3.5 and a 5.25 floppy. The BIOS can switch which is A and which is B. But that brings up the question - at one point I'm pretty sure you could have three floppy drives - in which case, what letter was the third one, you could not make it C: since it would conflict with too much default installations.
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    Cilit bang

    Sorry it was a long message regarding firefox - I did not write it down. At the time it was scanning and maybe that's why I got the warning. However I did not get it on other sites I went to. I don't get a warning on it now. >>Grungle be sure to let me know how the A squared scan goes in your other topic.<< I let it run though the C and D drives and it found mostly cookies, and two warnings on known applications, nohting that looks like a problem. I had to stop it to do something else, it will take a long time to go through everything, I have E/F/G/H/I/J/K/L/M drives to scan still - I have a lot of applications in the G: drive
  3. I'd love one of these. I often have to type in short sections of text in other languages and can never remember where the specail characters are. I've considered buying some cheap keyboards and stickers for the keys and putting them on a switch.
  4. Grungle

    Cilit bang

    Weird - I just installed a-squared as a result of another thread here and while waiting for it to finish a scan of my system I went to the link above, and it give me a dire warning about letting FireFox access the site.
  5. What I've decided to do is search for errors one "category" at a time, that way the results are not overwhelming and I can eyeball them before I ok them. Some of the errors I'm getting are due to missing files that I will be putting back in, so I don't want them fixed. It's also just as well I did that, since it found about 100 missing shortcauts, that should have been totally correct and refer to very active programs. For a while I panicked, since all the related directories had disappeard - they are updated very frequently and my backup for them is two weeks old. It seems that two days ago while moving some files around my finger must have slipped and I moved them all to a different location - anyway that's great since it aerted me to the problem. I'm also finding lots of old program references to stuff that was installed over two years ago and has long gone. It also found two missing shared DLL's in Nero, which might explain why I can't write CD"s reliably - it tends to lock up - even though I reinstalled the software a couple of days ago.
  6. Sorry _ I forgot to says it's Windows 98SE and I left out a figure on the sizes - should be 34,042,784
  7. I've been trying to run scanreg with the /fix option in ods at boot time, and it keeps failing at around 48% with messages that there is not enough diskspace or I should reinstall windows. Now there are several gigs of free space - so that's not the problem. I just want to shrink the registry which is :: system.dat = 19,128,358 user dat= 4,042,784 scanregw [the windows version] says the registry is ok
  8. I just installed and used for the first time. I ran an Issues/Regitry scan and I stopped it before finishing - it had caught a bunch of file extensions not in use, and it looks a whole sentence had been added to the regitry, each word being a file extension. Weird - anyway I just selected those for remove just to get a feel - that was impressive. Then I ran a full scan and it has thousands of errors [actually I wish it told me exactly how many] - I'm not surprised since way too many programs have been installed and uninstalled and my registry is bloated. However, there are so many, I hesitate to let it go ahead, it's just too much to change all at once.
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