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cowboy357

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  1. Once again Thankyou to all. for the responces & help. I,m not sure if You caught the part. Its a pirated version of ME. Puters old. & If You cant get on the internet to download BOOT DISK of any kind Yer perty much screwed. I,m trying to help Her get a legal copy of the latest stuff microsoft has to offer. & itrs much cheaper than what I paid. its Our only lifeline , as far as email goes. We live way far away. Plus I,ve allready pi***d of more money on long distance phone calls. tryin to help Her get it back online. Mainly cuz I have no clue what I,m doing. untill I found this site. But Thanks again & I dont really have a clue of Her Puter specs. But 86 bucks is cheap ta be legal. if it dont work. I guess i,ll get Her a new CHEAP puter. because We dont play games & all the other stuff. Most of You youngens are concerned about. Just trying ta stay in touch & send a pic or two once in awhile. Anyway I really appreaciate All the help & we,ll see. wensday sometime. Sincerely Cowboy
  2. Thanks to all . & mike you really did answer a question i forgot to ask about the file system. I remember I was confused when i got to that on mine. luckily I chose the one you recommended. She has the fat 16/32 or whatever so I,m sure She,ll be able to choose the other also . & thanks for Yer help. Eldmannen. She cant get that if her puters down. & no I,m not sure she can use it. but if not next step is a newr puter. The thing that pi***s me off. someone on this site told me where to get the cheap CD. & My puter crashed before I could. I paid 199.00 for the same thing locally , i,m getting Her for $86.00. But when you cant get online, You cant buy online. But thanks for the suggestion. I copyed all of it & am just gonna snail mail them to Her. Cowboy
  3. Thanks again New Age. I assume the home & pro install the same. Talk about instructions for dummies. thats just what I needed . hehe, Thanks for your time. cowboy
  4. Thankyou New Age for the quick reply. When she installs the new disk will it give her that option to delete the partition for me. because Her puters perty much dead exept for being able to run scandsk. She cant even get into safe mode. I,m not tryin to be a pain. but as detailed instructions as possible would be appreciated. as i will have to walk her thru it over the phone. Thanks again. Cowboy
  5. My sis,s puter crashed. it says invalid system d***. She booted from a floppy she made for backup. & was able to run scandsk & fixdisk ( I beleive ). it says system is fine. she has windows ME ( pirated ) so has no boot disk. I found her windowsxp home sp2 for $86.14 from royal discounts, & having it dropshipped to Her. She will receive it wensday. question is. What & how should she install it. i cant remember how I did mine recently, But i think it gave me options, like clean install or something. She doesn,t care if she has to start fresh, all important data is backed up. But i,m 90% sure Her puter is badly infected. Any suggestions. I,ve allready searched this site & couldn,t find anything. Thanks in advance. Cowboy
  6. OK parOx, I appologise for what I said. #1 I didn,t realize You were a Young man till I read some of Your other posts. #2 lets both think before We type. #3 lets just sgree to disagree on things. & if I can help You in anyway I would be more than glad to. I,m not real smart as far as puter building. But i have years of common sense & ways to figure things out. So No harm No Foul Ok? & Yes I do have a wind generator, But not to be confused with the high dollar ones the rich folks have. Since I,m retired I had to figure a way to cut costs, & that has helped a lot in My case . & certainly not world saving. I just wanted to clarify that, You have a great day & hopefully we can be of some help to each other / or others in the future. This is a great site with a lot of great people. Sincerely Bob, aka Cowboy
  7. Elldmanen, First off I never had the freezing problem. untill I installed a legall copy of windows. & Andy helped Me sort out any possible hardware problems. Everything checks out Ok. So I have NO clue. puters less than a year old. Moniters another issue. But thanks for Your Reply. Hazelnut, Its the whole thing that freezes I guess. it doesn,t matter if I,m online or not. I know the puters completely clean & everything is updated. & no Malware whatsoever. but from time to time it just appears to lock up. No pointer movement. cant bring up task mgr. nuthin. I have to manually shut it off & on. It seems if I never shut it off I have very little problem. And Thankyou for Your response. & rridgely, Thanks for Your responce . & Yes I agrree , probably a moniter problem , its just never happened before, Or since, & My tower is behind another wall & the moniter is in a completely seperate space . So I,m sure it was the moniter. I just never heard of that before. unless it was just fried. not a one time deal. But thanks again & I,ll look into a new one. & last but certainly not least. Parox. first of all Bite Me. secondly. I live in the boonies. I have a wind generator. I sell electricity to the electric company. because I cant possibly use it all. So next time Ya wanna make a comment like that. Think First ,I could possibly be makin money off of You. sorry folks I guess I,m really gettin a little thin skinned. & if a wanna bar Me from the site not a big deal. Mrg. But thankyou very much for a great program & thanks to all others that have been very helpfull . Sincerely Cowboy
  8. No problem I,m used ta getting treated like that. & Yes I keep it All on in the last few weeks ,as i had a really bad freezing problem. if left on no problem.& once again it froze 7 times this morning. So thanks for the suggestions. & Hazelnut thanks for sticking up for Me , Again. Cowboy
  9. Ok ALL I usuaaly leave my puter on 24/7. I shut it off last nite. when i turned it on this morning all was fine the first 30 minutes. Then A loud pop came from the moniter itself & went blank , I first checked the tower & all seemed to be fine, then the screen slowly went back to normal. It scared the hell outa Me , I wasn,t sure if it was going to blow up in My face. any ideas, & is or could it be dangerous. Or has it happened to anyone else ? Thanks cowboy
  10. Yep very sad for sure. He was one of a kind. I especially liked the reruns on the news this morning of His interview with matt Lauer on the today show. about when he held his baby up around that big crock. Poor Matt couldn,t get a word in edgewise. & Steve really did a good job defending His actions . a class act for sure. Really sad for His wife and kids, He will be missed dearly. Cowboy
  11. Mike You have entirely to much time on Your hands. hehe. I guess I do to as I read both of them. perty crazy stuff. Cowboy
  12. Personally I liked the magician & ventriliquest. It wasn,t a singin competition & Her voice hasn,t even changed yet. But she is amazing. As far as the fast changers, I aint sure how exactly they do it , BUT After replaying it slow motion several times. You could tell they didn,t change, just added or removed the upper layers. As You could tell When She would spin Other colors underneath. They also would appear to be fatter or thinner depending on the outfit. Once again Just My opinion. Either Way they were also very proffesional. Cowboy
  13. Thanks Mike, thanks to a few other nice folks like yourself i decided to stick around. They just added the trend micro online scan recently & I agree I think its also a great addition. Iv,e never been able to complete theyre scan from any other link, but was able to from AWC. Not sure why. but it worked. Also when I downloaded the latest version ,It said My trial subscription will expire sept 15. So not sure what that means either. I hope I,m able to keep it. Anyway thanks again. Cowboy
  14. Mike , I noticed that to. But everytime I reboot & initialize spywareblaster it shows 1 item disabled. I just click enable all & it shows 0 disabled. Also what I read is that overture is bundled with Yahoo. I have searched my whole system & found nothing that shouldn,t be there , So I Still dont see a problem with AWC. I would be more apt to think installing anything to do with Yahoo, even the tool bar would be more of a threat. Once again Just My opinion. Cowboy
  15. Sorry, If i wasn,t clear. if its either one of those 2 that I mentioned they would be fine. It just depends what She,s going to paint & how to She,s going apply it, on what would be best. But the enamels would have to be dry before putting the case back on. I hope that clears it up. Cowboy
  16. mfenech, Your friend will definitly want to use a waterbase paint, If She,s going to airbrush it. Use createx . if You want to brush it on, Theres also createx auto air but its enamel base, also one shot, also enamel a sign painters paint, The 2 later ones would have to be done with the case off & painted in a well vented area, Although very slight fumes, still dangerous , Any will hold up pretty good , will take the heat, & can be found at most craft stores, Hope this helps. Cowboy, P.s some people use other paints but if the puter heats up they produce very toxic fumes.
  17. Once again I should have known better to express my opinion. All I said is it,s been working for Me. If You haven,t tryed it & want to search for bad press about it thats fine. & as far as the topic posted I only seen one or two bad opinions about it. & once again it will allow You to fix what You want to. If You dont know what it is dont mess with it. & furthermore it would be easier to take advice from the moderators if they could at least get along with each other . I wont make the mistake of making My opinion known again. But thanks to all that have been very helpfull. Cowboy
  18. Res45. Ive been using it for about a month. it works great & I really like the way it shows you the details of the problems before it fixes them . It also works well along side of ccleaner As in each of them don,t allways get rid of everything, But both will together, Anyway i like it & it,s very safe, Just My opinion ,. Cowboy
  19. In Case Anybody cares. I found this & it solved My problems. Quote from another forum. Credit to 6herniations. Instructions on how to turn of turbocache. First, double click on your Hi-Speed gauge icon in your system tray. This should bring up the Netzero toolbar. Now click on the HiSpeed 3G on the toolbar that has just popped up and you'll see a menu. Scroll up to settings, click on it and you'll see another pop-up with 3 tabs to select from. Click on advanced settings. Now click on turbo settings. Click clear turbocache. If you have never cleared your turbocache it may take a few minutes because of all the files it must erase. After you've cleared the turbocache, click enable turbo webpage acceleration so there is not a check mark next to it. The words, Netzero will continue to accelerate your web surfing without the turbo technology & Yes it still works, Much faster , & the bonus is My scanners take half the time to run Because They dont have to scan the useless files. Thanks Again . Cowboy
  20. Ok I know Mike also has netzero. So maybe He can answer this. None of my software cleans these files. I recently found these under Programs . Net Zero qsacc Turbo cache. There Were about 200 folders that all were about 3 to 6 hundred in size, each file had an additional hundred or so inside. All to do with net zero. I finnally just clicked on one & selected all & deleted them , which sent about 1300 items to the recycle bin, then I emptied it , & rebooted. I then went back to that file & it only had about 100 files all of which only had 2 files in each. It has not effected My system or connection at all. Any Ideas of what these are or how to clean them without going through that everytime ? Thanks for any input. Cowboy
  21. Ok I,ve found about 10 restore points . 1 even after I created one, There called system checkpoints, So if I try to delete them will I maybe loose the one I created ? And Andavari what is that Erunt You talked about ? something I might need ? I looked at the website & description but it,s way over My head as far as description of what it does. I have (windows advantage care), (fixit six utilities) & of coarse ccleaner, All of which have registry cleaners that are safe for me to use. Do I need More ? Thanks again. Cowboy
  22. Thanks Andavari for the added info. one question tho . since I recently did a clean install of windows XP home SP2 would I even have any previous restore points, as I have not created any since? just curious. thanks cowboy
  23. Done, simple enough. I just couldn,t remember . Thankyou woody & hazelnut for your quick replys. have a good day. Cowboy
  24. I,ve done this before. & now I can,t remember how to since i have all the new updates installed. I would like to set a new point. thanks for any help. Cowboy
  25. My appologies To Tarun & all others about My lack of Grammer skills . I never finished grade school So I Aint real smart. I,ll try to do better. Thanks for All of the help & Your Patience. Cowboy
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