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  1. If they're going to install anything, I agree. Personally, I don't think they should install a thing. What's worse is when the customer specifically says don't install anything, they say ok, but do it anyway. A tech at castlecops had that happen and it took her a day and a half to get rid of the crap they'd installed, some of it containing spyware. I never used to read the user agreements, just clicked "I accept." Now I at least browse to make sure there's no notices of 'third party agreements'.

     

    When I was ordering my WinXP system which is going on 2 1/2 years ago I asked the nice lady at Dell if this and that could be left off the installation, and she told the truth and said no. Therefore I ended up just formatting it within an hour of setting it up and playing around with it a bit because it had McAfee Online 90 day trial (or whatever it's called), AOL 90 day or 6 month trial, and a plethora of other stuff that I wouldn't install in a million years.

  2. My Orignal post was because this site was running Like crap.....

     

    Get used to it, it happens allot lately - well actually it's been happening for many months. I just wish if there was some maintenance going on that it would display a simple page stating that maintenance is in progress, etc., versus waiting an eternity for things to speed up. However I've seen this behaviour on many forums that use Invision Power Board.

     

    Edit:

    Where's my manners. Welcome to the forums Lost1. :)

  3. I've heard high pitched noises before from within a tower (my aunts PC) and it's bloody annoying. It could be the fan or a host of other things. DJLizard would be who I'd ask about it being he's a PC technician.

  4. I'll try to figure out why it's being buggy

     

    "Possibly" mixed core files, meaning the .dll files and whatever else it installed.

     

    My motto is don't mess around with IE if you don't want to end up reinstalling Windows. That's the main reason I'm waiting for IE7 to be officially released as a final product versus a beta, I don't want to risk a reinstall.

  5. Why doesnt some one reboot the server

     

    rebooting fixes every thing

     

    Cheers :)

     

    Rebooting a server isn't like rebooting a home PC.

    The next time you have some sort of catastrophic Windows error ("worm A killed your antivirus, and virus B deleted C:\Windows") try rebooting to see that it won't fix squat.

  6. HANS Device = Head and Neck Restraint System. Created in the U.S.A. although it sounds German.

     

    It's the one device that could have saved the life of Dale Ernhardt (not sure if I spelled his name correctly). Basically it protects racing car drivers from getting a basler or baisler (don't know the exact spelling) skull fracture which is 100% fatal.

  7. One way of being introduced to Norton is via a new PC purchase since allot of manufacturers have it pre-installed with allot of other nonsense s**tware. I seriously think PC manufacturers would be better off just cutting a licensing/approval deal to have one of the freeware av's pre-installed instead - because people wouldn't have to worry about some 90 day trial crap av running out.

  8. How do I add an avater :o ? where is the link to my preferances?

     

    Go to the very top of the page and click "My Controls". Inside of My Controls look on the bottom left and click "Edit Avatar Settings."

  9. Eldmannen is correct Norton sucks! It not only sucks system resources, hdd space, it also sucks allot of money out of your wallet.

     

    As for the free av's I'm going to flip a coin as to what I'll choose which will either be AVG Free or Avira AntiVir. I really like the new AntiVir, however I'm hoping it still isn't a false positive whore as it used to be!

  10. We weren't told either way, but with version 1.27 he didn't release the slim build until 2 or 3 days after the standard build release. I don't know if he'll take that long this time (I hope not), but I am going to expect that so I don't get bummed. ;)

     

    Ditto.

  11. It should come apart fairly easily. You won't have much room to play around inside it (which I wouldn't do if it's running fine). Get a can of compressed air for removing dust.

     

    To cleanse the monitor make sure you only use cleaning wipes that are specifically designed to clean an LCD monitor. You should be able to find those at practically any office/computer store such as Staples, etc.

  12. I don't really know what winapp.ini is

     

    It's CCleaner's application cleaning routine file:

    C:\Program Files\CCleaner\winapp.ini

     

    The suite browsers Mozilla and Netscape are useful on systems where allot of people use one computer to have multiple browser user profiles versus multiple Windows user profiles.

     

    The reason I mostly use Mozilla Suite is because of the built-in Composer which can create webpages in a flash without messing with HTML in Notepad, etc.

     

    If you're a single user and other people aren't constantly on your system Firefox or Opera are good choices as they aren't bloated in anyway or come with unnecessary bits that you may never actually use.

     

    P.S.

    You state you're a novice, but please give yourself much more credit - you're smart in not wanting to use Internet Explorer.

  13. @John God

    You could perform a quick test to see if your scanner works all by itself:

    1. Shutdown your computer.

    2. Removing the daisy chaining of the scanner and printer, and then plug the scanner alone directly into the back of your computer.

    3. Start you computer.

    4. If the scanner works alone there inlies the problem, e.g.; your scanner is loosing communication because of being daisy chained with the printer.

     

     

    Also you could uninstall the scanner software and then reboot, and then re-install it followed by another reboot. No gaurantee this will work and it probably won't last for very long if it does initially work, but at least it "should" cause the scanner software to attempt to re-detect your scanner.

  14. The whole 'toolbar and tainted' talk are becoming so boring. I wish this thread could just have excitement and thank you messages going out to MrG about the new version that is forthcoming which represents a major bugfix in the Hotfix Uninstaller and some other bugfixes. If people want to constantly bitch about the toolbar just revive one of the threads that are just for that.

  15. the new state law was requiring them to wear seat belts.

     

    It's better to wear a seat belt versus being scrapped from the confines of the automobile with a spatula after an accident.

     

    Imagine how upset people would be if they had to wear a fire retardant racing suit, a helmet, and have a HANS device just to drive. No wait that's Formula 1.

  16. It's both a monitoring & surveillance software for spying on users of a system for finding out what people are doing on a PC, e.g.; a parent could use it to see where their children goes on the web, a company could use it to make sure employees are actually working, etc.

     

    It's however a pay-for-it type of spy application and has to be manually installed - it isn't just going to end up on a system like malware.

     

    * Symantec info

    * Product info

  17. In general it's the software that causes the problem, at least that's what I think.

     

    I was able to figure out exactly what the problem was on mine back in the day; It was because I had to daisy chain the scanner and the printer together and with both sets of software installed it always killed the scanner's software or connection for some unknown reason. Installing the scanning software alone and not the printer software would allow the scanner to work for a short time, that is up until it decided to stop working again.

     

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    Edit:

    I'm completely guessing as I've never tried it; adding another printer style serial port "may" be a solution.

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