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  1. tranbok

    Anti Virus Favorite

    Things change all the time. Is Microsoft Security Essentials plus Microsift Firewall considered adequate? I've used AVG, Avira, and Avast in recent years. Then they were reported to be inadequate or wanted upgrades to paid versions. Then paid Kaspersky (considered tops at the time), which was a...
  2. tranbok

    Multiple problems with IE8 in XP Pro

    Revo (trial) did not download and after trying to run services.msc, "help and support" is not available. i.e. an index is there, but nothing opens up any information, as I described previously regarding help files.
  3. tranbok

    Multiple problems with IE8 in XP Pro

    Thank you for your reply. I am using Firefox. I have never seen mention of Revo. What and where is that? IE 8 is not listed in the Add/Remove programs list and I do not know if it was installed before or after SP3 for XP. I had to use special procedures from Microsoft to get to the point where...
  4. tranbok

    Multiple problems with IE8 in XP Pro

    IE 8 was pre-loaded on my XP Pro (SP3) computer bought slightly more than a year ago. Apparently IE8 ran long enough for me to download Firefox. Since then I had not tried to open it until recently. However, I noticed from the beginning that Help files were not available in many programs but...
  5. tranbok

    DVD drive seen by system but won't read anything

    Thanks to both for the suggestions. Unfortunately, they didn't solve the problem. There is no error message, just the message to insert a disk. Device manager shows the drive as working properly. I uninstalled and on reboot, Windows found the hardware and reported it successfully installed. I...
  6. tranbok

    DVD drive seen by system but won't read anything

    I'm running XP Home on an under 2 yr. old Compaq with separate built in Samsung DVD SD616E reader and a CD/RW. The DVD was working a month ago. Now it is still seen in Explorer, etc and in Bios, but it will not read any DVDs or CDs. Tried Driver update from Windows (no update found) and from...

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