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I have an old WinXP desktop that displays the temp of the graphics card (256MB GeForce 6200 XFX Pine Group). My Win7 laptop with integrated Intel HD graphics, of course, does not display the temp.

The sensitive information is not published. I do agree however, with the "long" or "short" output format idea. My Speccy outputs are in my signature, BTW. I would like to be able to remove all the software updates and just publish the hardware info.

I did - once - on an old laptop several years ago to extend it's useful life a little, but not on any desktop system.

No, I never considered deleting it. I decided to exclude it in Defraggler. I only have a couple of uses for the VM, so I don't use it that often. Thanks for the suggestions & opinions.

Try setting the options as described here: http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=35458

I have Windows XP Mode VM installed on my Win7 x64 laptop. The hard drive image file - Windows XP Mode.vhd - is a little over 32GB. Is there any real advantage to defragging this file? It almost always gets fragmented (right now it is at 3 fragments) but it obviously takes a very long time to defrag a file this big. I'm just wondering what you folks who have a VM installed do about defragging the vhd file. I'm really considering excluding it. Thanks for any input or opinions!

Well, another 2 weeks have passed and the PC & IE8 have continued to work without a problem. My wife is happy, so I am happy.

Thanks, Hazel. In all the years I've had WinXP PCs, I've never encountered a situation where I've had to reinstall IE8... especially when it was only 4 days old. Uninstall/reinstall was NOT the first thing that popped into my brain. Oh well, live & learn. I just hope it continues to run. p.s. - It's still working this morning.

Using Add/Remove Programs, I uninstalled IE8 which reverted me back to IE6. IE6 started just fine, both booting normal and booting into Safe Mode. I then installed IE8 (again) using the full-file I had downloaded from MS: IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe After rebooting, IE8 started just fine. Of course, it ran fine for 4 days after installing it last Friday. I wonder how long it will continue to work this time? Guess I won't delete the IE8 install file. Oh well, I DO have a new, bigger HDD! Thanks for all the suggestions & ideas!!

Yes, I can ping google, so I have a working internet connection. In fact, I can start my email client (Windows Live Mail - WLM) on that PC and send & receive email all day long, no problem. I guess I will try uninstalling IE8 and reverting back to IE6 and see what happens.

In the sequence of things, I had installed IE8 on Friday (11/9) before I installed Norton (11/10). Nice try, however.

I just ran the 'sfc /scannow' but I don't think it ran correctly. The only WinXP install disk I have for this PC is with SP1. While the sfc was running, it kept asking over and over for the Windows CD and I just kept hitting the retry button. Reading some Google results, it looks like I would have to create a new Windows CD with SP2 & SP3 slipstreamed in. Of course, sfc just ends with no results displayed so I'm not sure what it actually did.

NO - I cannot open IE8 in ANY mode, normal boot or Safe Mode with networking. When I boot in Safe Mode, Norton isn't even loaded. Using Windows Explorer, I navigated to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer and double clicked on iexplore.exe - no good, same problem. I tried starting a new task in Task Manager - C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe - no good, same problem. I have no virtual machines. Nothing significant in the Event Viewer. I can't run the automated MS "Fix-it" (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967896) since I can't open IE8 (I'm in a catch-22). But, as I stated in my opening post, I manually did their step #1 - Reset Internet Explorer. Step #2 is uninstall/reinstall, which as I said, I haven't done yet. Guess that should be my next step.

SAS just completed with 0 threats detected. I'm pretty sure that I am not dealing with a virus, malware or spyware. Three tools all came up clean - NIS, MBAM & SAS. Well, to be honest, NIS did find and delete one tracking cookie. Logs: Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.65.1.1000 www.malwarebytes.org Database version: v2012.11.12.04 Windows XP Service Pack 3 x86 NTFS Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702 Gary & Linda :: MPC-DESKTOP [administrator] 11/12/2012 11:50:04 AM mbam-log-2012-11-12 (11-50-04).txt Scan type: Full scan (C:\|) Scan options enabled: Memory | Startup | Registry | File System | Heuristics/Extra | Heuristics/Shuriken | PUP | PUM Scan options disabled: P2P Objects scanned: 328349 Time elapsed: 2 hour(s), 39 minute(s), 27 second(s) Memory Processes Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Memory Modules Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Keys Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Values Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Registry Data Items Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Folders Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) Files Detected: 0 (No malicious items detected) (end) **************************************************** SUPERAntiSpyware Scan Log http://www.superantispyware.com Generated 11/14/2012 at 12:54 PM Application Version : 5.6.1014 Core Rules Database Version : 9582 Trace Rules Database Version: 7394 Scan type : Complete Scan Total Scan Time : 01:12:23 Operating System Information Windows XP Professional 32-bit, Service Pack 3 (Build 5.01.2600) Administrator Memory items scanned : 571 Memory threats detected : 0 Registry items scanned : 39946 Registry threats detected : 0 File items scanned : 56075 File threats detected : 0

Thanks for the quick reply, Hazel. I had Norton Internet Security 2012 (ver 19.9.0.9) installed prior and I reinstalled it on the new HDD. I ran a full scan on 11/11/2012 (Sunday) after installing most of the applications and restoring my data files - no infections. I have always had MBAM (free version) on my PCs and installed the latest version on the new HDD. I ran a full scan on 11/12/2012 (Monday) - no infections. Also, I have always had SuperAntiSpyware on my PCs (free version) and installed the latest version on the new HDD. I am running a full scan right now, so I will have to post back with those results when the scan completes.

I need some help with my wife's 8-year old desktop. It had been running fine until a couple weeks ago. The first problem was that IE8 wouldn't start. Checking Task Manager, I would see 2 instances of iexplore.exe under the Processes tab, but nothing under the Applications tab. I was troubleshooting that for a couple days and the problems started to mount. I found I couldn't boot into Safe Mode. Then, even when trying to boot normally, after logging in, the desktop wallpaper would display, but that was all - no desktop icons, Task Bar or Quick Launch Bar. But, no BSODs or other system errors. Last Thursday, thinking the old 120GB HDD might be finally going bad, I decided to bite the bullet. I bought a brand new 500GB HDD and scratch loaded WinXP SP1 from the original manufacturer's (mpc - Micron) CDs. I installed SP2 then SP3 and then applied all MS critical updates. I've spent the past 4 days re-installing all my applications and restoring my data which I had backed up. Everything was going fine up through last night when I powered off the PC for the night. I thought I was home free. This morning, the PC boots up fine. I go to start IE8, but it quickly flashes and the window closes. This symptom is different than the original problem on the old HDD - on the old drive, I never saw the IE8 window flash. This morning, iexplore.exe never displays under the Task Manager Processes tab. A quick check of a few other applications shows they are working (I haven't run every single program). Googling the symptoms results in a long list of results for this problem. I start running down the list since I can now boot into Safe Mode with networking. Here is what I have tried so far with no success: Reset IE8 Start IE8 with no add-ons Register ieproxy.dll Boot into Safe Mode w/networking & start IE8 normally Boot into Safe Mode w/networking & start IE8 without add-ons The one thing I haven't done yet is to uninstall IE8 and go back to IE6 to see if that would work. During the scratch load of WinXP, I skipped installing IE7. Any ideas (and please don't suggest Firefox, Chrome, etc.)? Add'l info: I have always had MS Updates set to notify only. This morning, I see the notify shield in the System Tray showing a bunch of "new" updates. Because of this problem with IE8, I have NOT yet installed any of these new updates.

Just installed it on my "freshly reloaded" WinXP desktop... thanks!!

They were soooo far away from home. :D

Yes, it's there. Click on Options, then Advanced and use the scroll bar to get to the bottom of the list of options. It is the next to the last option check box. However, on my Win7 laptop, I still get the UAC warning with the new option checked.

What is the make (brand) and type (SSD or spinning platter) of the C: drive? Most manufacturers have free diagnostic programs on their website that you can download & run to give you more specific information about the drive.

What's old is new again.

Thanks for the reminder. I haven't updated mine in a while.

I have left the IE History option checked. I use the Win7 search function a lot, but mostly for finding files by their contents. I installed the Foxit PDF iFilter since I have a lot of documents scanned into PDFs. Just wondering - do you see a potential problem with leaving the IE History checked?

I sometimes wear a garlic necklace. Keeps my wife away, too.

At the upper-right corner of each topic page, on the same line as the topic title, is a button that says: "Follow this topic" A mouse-over displays the explanation as "Follow this topic and receive notifications on updates" That should give you what you are looking for.