hey boogs:


i use zonealarm xp-antispy ad-aware ad-subtract and that program that updates your aspi layer and disables zip folders ect..
i forget what its called because i dont need to re-format much with xp


so the service pack is beta testing friendly for us secret XPerienced users.
lol!


hey big booger:

i fella came into the shop about a few weeks ago
he purchased a firewire card for his puter
he had 6 hd totalling 320gb 1 hd was mysteriously de-connected
he has the missing cable , yet free ide port, free power connector
(and probably free paranoia)
we installed the firewire card and started his computer
5 min later it finally hit the desktop
whew...

i installed all the video software and rebooted
5 min later i say
"what the hell's up with that boot time?"
he says he never turns it off (what a joke!)

i suggest bootvis from m$ and hook the high speed cable up
after searching the start menu for iexplorer i see its gone

he says he chose not to install it during settup
wtf???

this guy had a version of xp that let you choose what you want xp to install

taskman reported 11 running processes
he has realplayer quicktime opera all in the system tray

weird...
no winzip

just programs that are bulky and require many steps to do simple things like open zip folders

anyone remember those old dos programs for file managment

this scared me because i couldnt figure out how to get the stupid thing online
(no options anywhere to select ethernet)
just dial-up(our phone line is to noisy for dial-up)
i installed bootvis and it proceeded to do its thing
than it rebooted
9 min later it finally showed up on the desktop complaining
that it couldnt defrag the boot partition due to defrag not being installed

i think this is a glimps of the future of computer troubleshooting and i think it would be easier to be a biologist

my boss suggest a format and a fresh and full install of xp and a plus pack for good measure or maybe a mac

sorry for the long post

cheers egghead

now onto the xp sp1 install