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It must have been down when I tried it, because I tried both IE and Firefox.

Uh...Yeah...almost all of those

@Zxian Well said! I have been usin Sygate for years now with no issues. I tried Zone Alarm initially and it would bomb out my machine. I can even use Sygate on my old 98 machines.

No offense dcrowder32, but Roxio sucks compared to Nero. Even the free Nero Express is good.

Is the command for unregistering a dll in 98 the same as in 2k & XP? regsvr32 /u [dll name] The 98 machine I'm working on does not have the regsvr32.exe file.

I can't get it to work...

I figured it out. It was Norton GoBack. Apparently it changes the files system to Type 44 Hex for some stupid reason. This is the second time I've seen an issue with GoBack. It sucks. To fix it, I used PTEdit from Partition Magic and set it to FAT32. Then I used the "fdisk /mbr" command to fix the master boot record. Then I removed GoBack from the Autoexec.bat file. After that was off, I could use the WUBCD and remove files and reg entries.

I'd rather go to Windows 3.1 than ME. There was a reason I didn't got from 98 to ME. UNSTABLE! I went to 2000 then to XP. Both of which are far better than ME. That's just my opinion....and the truth.

I searched the forum and didn't find anything about it. Just thought I'd see what people thought.

Nevermind...I see what's going on.

Should Step 4 be "...Bliss.jpg"?

If you're on a high-speed connection, install a router. Also, you could use a proxy server. Then the IP of the proxy shows up. You can also go into Admin Tools->Local Security Settings and adjust those accordingly (http://www.cisecurity.org/). A really simple thing you can do is make sure your system is password protected. Hope this helps

I am working on a friend's 98 machine and it has tons of viruses and spyware. I am unable to remove WTOOLS and I believe TBPS. When I use a 98 boot disk or the Windows Ultimate Boot CD, I can't see the C: drive. Anyone have some suggestions?

Are they the same as previous versions? Have they added any others? All I could find is the "/silent" for 6.181 Thanks

Another thing to check... Open Windows Explorer Click on Tools->Folder Options Click on the View tab Scroll to the bottom and uncheck "Use simple file sharing" Click Ok

I just created this because a co-worker and I were discussing them. He uses Maxthon and I use FireFox. I have yet to try Opera.

I guess the only reason to use Maxthon is in an IE environment (internal webs only view/useable with IE).

To clarify... You connect your laptop to your PC to use ICS The laptop doesn't show an active LAN connection, but can get on the internet If this is the case, I wouldn't worry about the little red x As far as saving IP configuration, you could create a reg file that can import the settings when you have to do a fresh install. Otherwise, printing them out on a piece of paper and putting it in a filing cabinet works real well too.

I just want to see between these two browsers, what everyone thinks. Even if you like IE or Opera better than these, I don't care. I just want to compare these two head to head. Thanks!

I chose 2, but it's actually 3 mbit down/256 kbit up

I've been using Spybot 1.3 for a while now and just realized that there are several items checked in the ignore products list by default. One of them is MySearch, which is probably the most common one I see on users machines. Has anyone else noticed this?

For home users, the Security Center (SC) is great. In a corporate environment that already has all these things taken care of, it can be a nuisance. If the computer starts popping up alerts and windows telling a user to turn on features, it would be bad. Not only the number of calls I would get, but the amount of time fixing it would suck. We control the patches that get applied, the anti-virus/malware protection, and the firewall settings. For home use with a single user, you can configure it with no problems. If you add users and you don't want them to have to deal with the SC, then use prathapml's solution where it disables alerts for all users. The SC will still be running. It just won't annoy anyone. I hope this clears up why some people would want it disabled.

2000 is still a good operating system. They should continue to support it for at least another year. What about Windows ME? It's the greatest!

On your XP machine, go to a command prompt and type "ipconfig /all". There should be a section called DNS Servers. If there's nothing listed there, I don't see how anything would work on the internet.

Here's a reg tweak that keeps the security center from ever starting.. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wscsvc] "Start"=dword:00000004 Thanks prathapml for the other reg key!