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Dell support is about the worst I have ever tried to work with and HP isn't much better anymore.
If you want a computer that has great support buy Gateway!!! NY attorney general sues Dell, claiming deceptive practices

Deuteronomy 18:10-11 "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead."

"Of the People, by the people, for the people."
Not any more in the USA.
Now it is Of the people, by the government, for the government, big corporations, and rich.

ITS TIME FOR THE PEOPLE TO TAKE BACK AMERICA,
VOTE THE POLITICIANS OUT AND PUT IN GOOD PEOPLE WHO
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Windows XP Help Page 2

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Three things to remember when you are working with computers.

First thing is "YOU CAN DO IT".
Second take your time, a little mistake can cause a big problem.
Third all answers are only a question away.

Important Message!!!

***XP has a problem, it loses the Administrator's Password, make a Password Reset Disk

*** Create an Emergency Repair Disk

Most problems with XP such as Error Messages, vxd Problems, Fatal Exceptions and other errors are the same as earlier Window Operating Systems. If you don't find the answer to a certain problem on this page please check the Windows Page and the Troubleshooting Page.

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If you are experiencing computer Problems such as slowness, strange icons appearing, tool bars appearing, home page changing, please use one of the following links to check for a virus or trojan.

Panda Virus Free Online Virus Scan
AVG Anti-virus Program (FREE)
- AVG is a great "FREE" program and I used to keep a link to the download but they keep changing it all the time and I can't keep this link up to date so Google "Download AVG Free" to get the download link. SORRY!

Please download the following programs to clean up spyware or malware. If you are experiencing a lot of popups, toolbars, search engines and things being added to your computer like porn sites, icons on the desktop you don't know what they are or where they came from this is most likely your problem.

CW Shredder Should be run in Safe Mode
- A program for cleaning Cool Web Search variants.
- Download Here
Hijacked this Cannot be run in Safe Mode
- Download Here

HP and the problems with the Multimedia Audio Contoller

HP and the problems with the Multimedia Audio Contoller

Lock Internet Explorer's Home Page

Click Start
Click Run
Type in
Click OK
When the registry edit window opens navigate to:
If the keys for Internet Explorer and Control Panel are not present you will have to add them by doing the following
- Right-click the Microsoft key folder
- Click Edit on the toolbar at the top
- New, and choose Key
- A new key will appear, type in Internet Explorer in the name box and click anywhere outside the box to save the name
- Then click on the Internet Explorer Key you just created and do the same to create Control Panel
- Then click on Control Panel
- Click Edit on the Toolbar
- Click New
- Click Dword
- A new box will appear in the right pane, name it
- Right click Homepage
- Click Modify
- Click Value
- In the window that opens type in a number 1 to change the value from "0" to "1" to lock the homepage
Now go into your Internet Explorer options. Check to be sure your homepage is locked and grayed out

Add/Remove Programs Won't Open

Click Start button
Click Run
Type in regedit in the box
Click Ok
The registry edit window will open
Scroll down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies
Highlight policies
Then delete everything in the right pane but Default
When you are finished it should look like the following

How to Remove Content Advisor Password in Internet Explorer

1) Click on Start Button
Choose Run
2) Type in
In the run box and click OK
When the registry edit window opens click on the Plus Sign next to the following keys so they expand. As they expand look for the next one in the expanded area until you get to Ratings and when you get to it just highlight it.
1. H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
2. Software
3. Microsoft
4. Windows
5. Current Version
6. Policies
7. Ratings
In the right pane of the regedit window, you'll see an icon called Key.
Click on it to highlight it and press the Delete key.
Confirm the deletion of the key
Exit the registry edit window.
After you delete the key here is what it should look like
Restart the computer and run Internet Explorer again
Choose View and then Internet Options (or Options for version 3.x). For IE 5 or greater, click Tools, Internet Options.
Click on the Content tab and click on Disable.
When asked for a password, leave it blank and click OK. This will disable Content Advisor because there's no longer a password.

Windows Cannot Access The Specified Device, Path Or File

Two solutions that work for most are.
- Solution 1:
  - If you recently did a windows update and are now getting an error message stating "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." This is when you try any access programs like office, users, windows firewall etc.
  - Windows cannot access the specified device when using Trend Micro 2007
    - If you recently did a windows update and are now getting an error message stating "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." This is when you try any access any programs like Office, WordPad, Windows firewall etc.
    - Go into the Trend Micro Console and click on Virus and Spyware Control.
    - Click on Suspicious software alarm system
    - Go to the exception list and allow explorer.exe or any other common files that might have been denied.
- Solution 2:
  - Add the network drive to the trusted sites list
  - Open IE Explorer, Tools, Internet options and Click the security tab.
  - Add \\servername\ server name being the name of your server
  - Should look something like this when added

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