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  1. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    Yes! Have a nice clean machine now. Everything loaded OK on the reformat. Thanks to all above for your help.
  2. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    For goodness sakes! F-lock was on! Windows is loading now!
  3. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    Thanks, I'll have a look, I was just about to pull it apart to see if it needed cleaning. My son likes "F-Lock"??
  4. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    OK NOW I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO As I said i took my 60G seagate hard drive (with the virus's/damaged exe's) out of of my desktop and put it in a convertor case so that it will connect to my laptop via a USB port as drive E:. I used my laptop uptodate McAfee to clean all the bugs off. It...
  5. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    Just to advise I have pulled the hard drive out of my desktop. I have put it in an external hard drive adaptor and connected it via a USB port to my laptop. It's come up as drive E in my laptop and I am currently cleaning it up with my up-to-date laptop McAfee virus deep scan. I am also doing...
  6. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    I pressed F8, got the black screen, scrolled up to "Safe Mode" pressed enter. A list of files started loading up......it then goes to the coloured Windows user account screen. I choose "Administrator" icon... it goes to a black screen with "safe mode" written in all four screen corners with one...
  7. speedy987

    Windows XP Home does not load past Welcome page

    On booting up windows XP home ONLY boots up to my user account icons. When I press any one of my six account users, it then loads to the usual "Welcome" page with your user icon and doesn't load any further, just sitting on that page. If I do a Control-Alt-Delete, next to the account user icon...
  8. speedy987

    irritating web addresses!!

    Dear BigDin, I agree with "zebratech", "tviman" and "Jmhm17" Good that you downloaded Firefox 0.8 but also get Ad-aware. Make sure its the genuine from www.lavasoftusa.com because there are a lot of sucker copy cat sites on Google. See my thread on here "IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access -...
  9. speedy987

    IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access - which??

    xchefpeter and zebratech and tviman, Well this is how it panned out: I downloaded two things - Firstly, Mozilla Firefox 0.8 (standard/free) as per "zebratech" advice. I then tried to access web pages on both with firewall in "filter" mode - I could not get web access on either. I tried to...
  10. speedy987

    IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access - which??

    tviman, I think the latest version is Firefox 0.8 - correct me if I am wrong. Just doing some reading on it.
  11. speedy987

    IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access - which??

    Thanks tviman, And are there any other options open to me with this problem before I download Mozilla (i.e. any further checks on firewall or some corruption or some program which has adjusted my firewall (like some add-wares do)??
  12. speedy987

    IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access - which??

    zebratech, Thanks! Where can I get a good clean download of Mozilla Firefox? Will it work parallel with IE without any problems and if I want to delete it, will it go without going into pains like regedit to get rid of it?
  13. speedy987

    IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access - which??

    Note: I went into "run" typed in sfc /scannow and tried to repair it, it brought up "Windows File Protection" and this prompted me to install my original win XP CD, which I did, it then went into "Please wait while Windows verifies that all protected Windows files are intact and in their...
  14. speedy987

    IE OR FIREWALL stopping web access - which??

    At present I cannot access web sites via Internet Explorer, UNLESS I change my firewall setting from "filter" to "allow all". I have McAfee Internet security V5.0 & Win XP Home. I checked with McAfee Tech support - they said that it looks more like I have a problem in Internet Explorer. With...

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