Great post—wanted to print it out, like another very good post on the subject------but I still can’t get my printer to work.
Otherwise, except for no printer, the 'puter works great===no more very numerous “error” statements --Do you want to go on even tho there is an error? Of course I have always said “OK go on”. And it does “go on”-----but I tend to worry that I am somehow compounding problems by “going on”.
And another good side is that the 'puter does work much faster after the system restore.
Problem still right now is no printer. Windows can’t seem to find the printer that it could easily find 4 months ago.
And also the fact that Windows Updates says I have no updates since 5 years ago. -------which may be why it can’t find the printer.
But I can never get the Windows Update site to actually do anything to actually do any updates.
Sorry about that dougie_monty, I didn’t get an email notifying me that there was a response, so I didn’t check back.
As for you not having the avg icon down in the systray, I’d suspect you’ll need to re-install.
If the icon is there, but is actually a grey colour…right click on it and choose “check for updates”.
AOL has been a pain for you hasn’t it? I’ve never used it, so am only flying by the seat of my pants.
Yes, I can and I do, along with Yahoo and Ask Jeeves.
I would reinstall AOL itself, but I only have 7.0–my hard drive has only a 48 ram capacity and can’t upgrade from there. Unless there are any 7.0 CDs around–the one I used is long discarded–I’d be out of luck trying to reinstall AOL 7.0 otherwise.
I know that; I just meant that I’d had difficulties enough with AOL that reinstallation would seem to be the best recourse.
I have a good mind to reinstall McAfee if I can upgrade it. IF.
Maybe this is the best thread for this. Windows XP now has a built-in firewall, right? How does it work with other possible firewalls, like Zone Alarm? Is it in fact desirable to have more than one firewall - do these support each other, or do they more often interfere with each other?
Oh boy… I’m betting you’re going to get answers that vary here.
Xp’s firewall protects you (somewhat) from incoming connections, but not so much with the outgoing.
I disabled mine, and installed Zonealarm.
Okay… but I feel I should issue a low-grade warning in return. (I hope I can describe this without hoplessly muddling it.) I went through some fair trouble figuring out what was going wrong with my system. In earlier versions of Zone Alarm, it just seemed like a good idea to disable the Windows XP firewall - as recommended by the link. After some recent grief, though, I think I finally saw somewhere (can’t prove it easily now) that the latest version of Zone Alarm requires the XP firewall to be left on.
OK, I d/led this and installed it. It ran and updated my time fine. However I set it to update my time every 24 hours and then set it to run in the background. This is fine, but the thing doesn;t appear to be running according to my task manager and it didn’t install anything into my programs folder.
There’s no documentation I can find for this. Could you lend a little insight into just what the fuck this thing is doing?
I recently tried to restore the McAfee Virus Shield on my Compaq 4000 (Windows 98 Plus!), but it wouldn’t take–except that the Virus Shield icon, covered with the circle-and-slash symbol, is still on the taskbar.
Anyway, between that and a purging I did with Ad-Aware, I think I removed a file called “system.ini,” whatever that is, because every time I boot up now I get a DOS message on a black screen saying a “device file” is missing, with that name. I have the Windows 98 operating-system CD-Rom, but the “device file” doesn’t seem to be on it.
Is there a way I can retrieve this?
Yes. Click on Start, select Run, and type sfc . That will open the System File Checker, where you can either scan for all altered or missing files, or extract a single file from your Win98 CD.
By the way, McAfee Virus Shield is so obsolete, it will provide you with absolutely no virus protection for the current crop of viruses that are in the wild. Uninstall it and download AVG, Panda or TrendMicro. Avoid McAfee and Norton like the plague, they will slow down your computer.
Thanx
By the way, how do I look for “device drives” on that CD?
And I had Grisoft’s AVG for a while, discarding it only when I became unable to key in text on Internet sites (I could only do it with AOL’s e-mail). Somebody answered that specific question for me in this thread, saying it has to do with a “firewall.” I don’t how how, if I download AVG again, to manipulate it so it doesn’t bar me from so keying text in (I was able to do it again after pretty much disabling AVG, which I finally removed altogether once it was obviously useless).
Specifically, the DOS message (it appeared while I was booting up, the last few times) mentioned a file called “system.ini.”
All I know is I’d had AVG for a while when I was suddenly barred from keying in on Web pages. I went through the pop-up menu for AVG (from the taskbar icon) and disabled most of it, and was able to key in on the pages afterward.
If so, it is not the system.ini file that is missing, but a file that is called in the system.ini file. Probably one related to Mcafee Virusshield. Uninstall Mcafee Virusshield, and see if that corrects the problem. If you are comfortable editing the registry, there is more information here. Be warned that screwing with the registry incorrectly can render your computer unbootable.
