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Tom B

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  1. "I'm a retired hardware guy but luckily was in the support area for IBM PC's when they first came out and could not use a keyboard unless I used the Two finger method. " Hi Yokenny, I too worked for that big blue on HW. Not in the PC area though. TP, Supermarket, 8100, banking. I think you can contact me via email and not use this space to talk if you wish. I did not figure out how to do that yet, so give me a shout if you like. I just tried the Rt click to use the spell check, and it worked, why did I not think of that!?
  2. Thanks, Yes I am back to normal in Msconfig. The issue is not that I need to use it, but that it is not working as it should if I did need it. As for the danger I needed to use regedit to fix my original problem and that was dangerous!!! I like Autorun too. When I worked at the (big old) computer co. we had a saying when we made changes to microcode (like a OS)program. "Remember rule number one, and two." Rule one "KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING". Rule two "REMEMBER RULE ONE" Thanks, Tom B
  3. OK It is me Tom B the newbie again. I tried to use the spell checker and got a message iespell check not detected. I found a note somewhere about ie7pro and installed it in error. Now I still get the iespell error but I notice that words spelled wrong are red underlined. How do I get it to give the correct spelling for the words. Is ie7pro and iespell the same, just upgraded? Do I need to tell this program / forum the checker I am using? Or do I just need to know how to use the checker? If I go OK to the go to download nothing changes. I think! Or do I need to go download iespall and not ie7pro? Thanks, Tom B The red face newbie.
  4. Thanks to all 4 of you I am now able to find my way in the dark. I did find a good intro on the bleepingcomputer.com forum that helped me with this place too. I was a hard where Tech for 40 years, now I need to work with programs and M$ OS and I can not go over to the other side of the office to ask questions, as I am now retired, and they got outsoursed! Thanks again, Tom B the newbie.
  5. Thanks Yokenny, I found how to use the Lounge so I will ask how-to questions there from now on, to keep this topic for the problem with CClean. I need to install the spell checker also. Re CClean... I checked again (twice) and found that it did not remove my restore points. I used the reg tool also and still no restore point problem. My problem is gone re CClean for now, but it may have been because of Msconfig or Mcafee. I think a setting in Mcafee can remove the restore points but I do not remember where it is just now. I did read that using Msconfig to uncheck can remove the restore points, I think this is normal? My main problem now is that I can not un-check in Msconfig. This is not a problem for this forum so I will take it to blackviper.com to work on, or bleeping computer. I will check in on ths forum to see if you guys make progress. I will be glad to help if I can try something for you, as my machine is almost normal now. Thanks for the help. Tom B the Newbie..
  6. OK, I see how the ( " )works, Thanks Tom B
  7. Hi from Tom B the newbie. (piriform Lounge) Hazelnut sent me! Thanks to Hazelnut for starting me off with ?how to ?questions in the lost restore pointers topic area. I have some general questions about how to use the forum. 1.There are two reply buttons. One just under a post, REPLY and one lower down Add REPLY, When do I use each? I understand that fast reply will not repeat the question. I understand how to use new topic. I think Add Reply will create a new post after the last post. ( And will repeat the original post) How does REPLY work? When I used it I did not see my post? Did it only go to the person who posted the note that I replied to? 2. When do I use Quote? 3. How do I get an e-mail when a new post is posted for a TOPIC not the whole Forum? 4. To the left of the list of forums are things like Pinned, and a pair, and smiles, etc. 5. Where is there a list of their meanings? 6. Is there a QUICK TOUR of the general usage of the forum? 7 .When I signed up to Bleeping Computer forum the sign up page looked like this CClean sign up page. Are they connected? Or do they use the same basic program? I tried to use the same password but it did not work. 8. How do I get the spell check to work? ( I get an error ie spell not detected) (OK does not fix it?) 9. Post Options, Enable email notification of replies? Does this send me an email if I get a reply to this post? Thanks in advance for your help. Tom B the Newbie.
  8. From Tom B the newbie. Thanks for the help Hazelnut. Just before you sent me your note I found that the avatar is how to get the photo to show when I reply. I set it up and bingo it worked! Is there a way to send you notes, Questions, without having them post to this topic so I do not interfere with the team working on the problem when I need to ask "how to" questions? Should I be asking you, or is their a general help person or fourm to go to? Sorry to the rest of you, I will get off this subject of questions about "how to" now. Tom B
  9. Hi All form Tom B the Newbie. This is a test. I added my photo and need to know if it worked. If you see kojack it worked! This will fix the confusinon re the other Tom.B.. Also I sent a reply to Yokenny using the reply in the box with his post. I do not see this reply of mine here. Did this only go to Yokenny? or did I not do it correct. Yokenny please let me know if you got my reply. Thanks. To Yokenny.. I used both un-install and the Norton remove program, then used regedit to remove a file ending \NetDetect... Part of Pandex Trojan (I think) that looks like part of Norton. One more Newbie question.. where can I find an overall "how do I use this fourm" place on this fourm. A video would be nice?
  10. By the way.. Sorry that I did not notice the other TOM.B just above my post. I should have taken another name. I am Tom space B THE NEWBIE. This was my first ever post.
  11. From: Tom the Newbie. OK I am a Newbie to this forum thing. I hope you do not mind my input, or my Spelling. I know you all have done a lot of work before this, as I read over all I can find on the subject of erasing the restore point files. Here is my situation. I have a Dell Dimension 2400. I am running windows XP SP3. I removed Norton anti-virus protection and installed McAfee about mid Dec. 2008. I only have one HP printer, an L J 4L, that is years old and I did not update drivers etc. I am on Verizon Yahoo DSL. I have CClean installed. I started to fix a problem of having a command in the Msconfig that I needed to remove. I could not UN-CHECK the command! It came back each time I restarted the PC. Also, I got an error, ?sign on as the Administrator? While working on these problems, I discovered that all my restore points were gone except for one. So now I can not go back to my last good restore! So far I have found out that: I removed the un-needed command using Regedit and fixed my original problem. I found a super Msconfig program called? Autoruns? That works like Msconfig, only it is more inclusive. A number of things can remove restore points. ( I think) Mcafee can do it if you set it to do so. Msconfig can do it if you go into Diag. mode and not restore mode. A file leftover from Norton can lock you out of un-checking Msconfig. A Trojan called Pandex can lock you out of un-checking Msconfig. You can not save your restore points to a disk etc and then use this backup file to restart your PC at a later date. You can save the registry to a file to use later using a CClean, I think. I do not know if the registry is the only thing you need to use to do a restore? CClaner may also remove restore points. ( As yoiu all know by now) At this point my machine is working OK except that? I need to use Autoruns or Regedit to remove start commands, and I need to do a full image copy of my machine to my ?E? external drive to be able to restore my machine if I need to. I found a note that told me not to monitor any drive except the drive with windows on it. Looking at the Dell partition drive , if it exists, just uses up the allotted space that is needed for the restore files., i.e. do not monitor the dell partition, or my E drive. It looks like Restore is no good if a problem is over 90 days old or you delete the restore files before you know you have a problem. The message ?you must be an administrator? may not stop you from un-checking a box in Msconfig? The uncheck problem may not be fixable and I will just use Autorun to do the un-checking. Meanwhile I hope you guys can find out more about these problems. I will keep an eye out but for now I need to start to do my US taxes for the year, so this will go on the back burner for now that I have the machine working. Keep in mind that mcafee and msconfig may get in the way of you working on the problem if you have them. You guys were very helpful because I now know that I am not the only person with these two or 3 problems. Thanks, Tom
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