Bart on our antivirus group told me that the rebadged ZA firewall in the free EZ Armor from Microsoft has come changes coming. Apparently you have to upgrade the firewall portion.....no ifs, ands or buts. Please read the release at the link below......I didn't get it because I only use the...

Hi everyone, I am receiving an "Error" dialog box containing what appears to me as random characters the latest one (pasted below). I am given the options to close/print (I think) or "Send Report". When I click "Send Report" my "Connect To" dialog opens, I click Connect, a connection is made but...

I was installing the software for an HP digital camera, when the installing got shutdown accidentially by my wife. Subsequent rebooting produced the following error message "problem with explorer.exe - reinstall windows." I have tried to reinstall from my system restore cd's but the system does...

i got e new computer and it was up and running for a hour or so. Later i started it again and a bluescreen came up saying "Windows security error. Please reboot your computer." I can go in on the computer true "safe mode" but every time i try to start the computer the bluescreen comes up. How...

I tried to setup CdBurnerXp Pro, a freeware burning software. Setup completed without any hitch or error message.End message is "successfully installed". I tried to run the program, clicking the prog icon, nothing happens but the message comes on to say "it is already running" I cannot find it...

Putting together a computer for my mom - infrequent user, mostly Email and some Word. I know 98 is more stable but should I install ME because it is newer? Just some comments or advice.

As with my previous post... one further question. For some reason I have lost the ability to click on the links that appear in Explorer's "web view". ie. when you are in "My documents", on the left there is: My Network Places My Computer Usually clicking on these takes you to their respective...

Just completed a clean install of ME. It's on a friend's system that's fairly sluggish so am trying to keep things lean. Have installed Office 2000, and included Microsoft's Photo Editor. Now, when opening any image file in Explorer (i.e. jpeg, gif, bmp etc.) it will open with Photo Editor. This of...

John, I know you have retired from acf - but I hoped you could help me with the old symbol or logo for acf/your F.A.Q. See the thread 'Freeware Logo - last chance to suggest images' in acf (2004-11-23) - http://tinyurl.com/5fd8d Big thanks in advance !! :-) Sorry for intruding in the newsgroup !!

Had a friend tell me about this and they say it is free and they have installed it and found some trojans that their Norton did not even pick up on. Checked out the site a bit and they say if you use your puter for profit, ( I do a bit on ebay) then you should buy the professional version...

My copmputer has a 256MB RAM and 8MB shared video RAM. People say that to play games that require 32 MB or 64 MB video RAM, I need to buy an extra VRAM card. I'm just wondering if there is a way out of this instead of buying a new card. Can't something be done to get a part of my RAM to work as...

There are new updates today, now 3244 in the database. Joan

Genuine file?? During a scan with Adaware 6, got a warning: Keylogger.Trojan was infecting and present in C:\Windows\System\Adarros.dll. It would not repair, nor quarantine and didnt want to delete...so I scanned with my AV in Safe Mode (after updating it) and could quarantine. During the AV...

I'll try again: When making my website's pages I prefer Navigator Composer over Notepad because I'm not an HTML wizz. After a crash I did re-download and install Netscape (v4.7) but I can't get the Composer back into the options of the drop menu 'file' to choose from. HELP!!!!

On a Windows Me system, My Documents has disappeared from my son's Desktop and I have no idea how long this has been. One "Tip" I read suggested that it should be the 1st icon on the Desktop. I can navigate to c:/My Documents no problem. His files are all there. How do I re-associate that...

This is a strage problem. I've got a computer with windows ME. Suddenly one day every icon on my desktop has a purple book with a yellow questionmark on them. It's like a small help icon on every icon. It has no effect, everything workes, but I still would like to fix it. What is this?

Hello, I know this is my third post on this question, but I still can't solve it. Any application that I install on my pc will not show up on the Add/remove programs list of the control panel. It is not because of the programs themselve, because previously installed programs that used to appear on...

If it isn't one thing it's another. I have a friend's digital camera I'm trying to download pictures from, however, I've never done this so I'm flying a little blind. I found a program trial version of (Photomeister) to download the pics, well, I can't find the camera which is plugged in USB. I...

This is causing havoc to my computer. Can someone help me? My anti-virus says nothing is wrong. I'd appreciate some insight as to what I can do. Thanks.

I friend has asked me to look at her computer. This WinME system has 2 optical drives, a Sony CRX100E CD-RW and a Hitachi GB-2500 DVD-ROM. Neither drive can read CDs placed in them. This is not a hardware problem. Both drives are fully accessible in Linux (Knoppix live CD) and the 1st optical...