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You also may be simply seeing a popup advertisement which has nothing to do with any adware residing on your computer. These are "come ons" designed to fool you into thinking you have a problem. You may want to consider checking out popup blocking software as well as using AdAware and Spybot S&D regularily. Another very handy blocking tool is to use a program such as TurnFlash to toggle "Flash" off and on. The Macromedia Flash plugin is used for some popup advertisement activities and may not be blocked by a standard popup blocking program. Popup Blockers Anti-Spy Tools

You can delete or edit the file association which directs the windows shell as to how to actually install an inf file. BUT I recommend EXTREME caution and I would do this only after making an exact copy of the correct command so I could run them manually or restore the file association when needed. You can get there from Control Panel > Folder Options > File Types (tab) highlight any entry visible and then press the "I" key until it scrolls to INF. With INF highlighted click the Advanced button and highlight the Install entry after which you can click the Edit button to access the information you need to save. You need to save ALL the information in the dialog window. Keeping a screen shot of it would be good but that won't get you the entire text in the Application Used To Perform Action area. As an example this is what I see on my box and I would keep all of this data handy. Making note that "none" means the there is no data.

Found this as the third primary google hit. if you can find bootleg stuff you should be able to google.

If you have searched your entire hard drive and cannot find it try this download. http://members.driverguide.com/driver/deta...driverid=123003 when driver guide demands user id and password use: user: driver password: all If it gives you a webpage saying they are changing the login and da da da la la la look for the link near the bottom that says continue without creating a new login and click it.

The first link worked just fine for me.

Microsoft Download Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 A short way down the page is a drop down menu to select the language you desire.

http://www.dougknox.com/xp/tips/xp_home_sectab.htm

As I recall there are three basic steps a system takes when it executes a program file. The instructions for these steps as well as any relevant data required for GUI purposes all has to come from the harddrive. During startup it was noted on Win98 systems that the system would attempt to start several items and would multitask between them reading bits from each program from different parts of the disk. So if you can imagine about 15 programs multitasking at startup you have approximately 45 separate reads from the hard drive. All of these reads would be from different parts of the disk. This tended to cause the system to have slower starts and it worked the hard drive much harder than necessary. The idea behind prefetch is to streamline the startup process by eliminating the unnecessary disk activity by forcing windows to load ALL the data to start a program before moving on to the next program. This eliminates the slow down during startup as well as the wear and tear when the head is chattering all over the disk. How this is done is a lot of techno mumble jumbo but they did do it. One really keen example of a good prefetch is for Outlook Express. Now this is after my system has started and I'm manually doing this. If there is no entry for it in the prefetch folder it takes about 4 seconds to execute Outlook Express on my computer. After a prefetch entry appeared for OE I found that the time it took for my system to execute OE was just under 1 second. The only drawback I've seen to prefetch is that on a clean installation after about 3 months there are so many bogus entries in the prefetch folder that startup takes about 30 seconds longer than it needs to. Why you ask? Because it reading all the prefetch data which is then loaded into memory to control the execution of the programs that have a prefetch entry. Windows is supposed to purge the prefetch folder of unused entries. I'm not convinced it does this well. A good manual purge of the prefetch folder takes care of that. Or one can just delete all the prefetch content and let windows put it back together. It will do so but will take at least 3 days. I have not found any negative affect from it. If you do a manual purge just look for the programs you deliberately run at startup and any programs you frequently manually start and leave those entries alone.

This problem occurs on systems other than Dell.

In most cases the unpacked or unzipped files will be deleted as one of the last actions taken by the installation.

You should be able to use System Restore after uninstalling to successfully revert the registry back to the state before it was installed. This may be problematic if the installation was some time ago.

Using Power Options in Control Panel if your computer is ACPI-compliant all components should be capable of being controlled through power options including PCMCIA slots. Check the BIOS as well if you don't find anything useful through the Control Panel.

These services will run in the background and use a noticable percentage of CPU cycles. In some cases they deliberately wait for idle system time. Automatic Update DHCP client Indexing Service Performance Logs and Alerts Service System Restore Service Volume Shadow Copy Service (dependent upon settings) I may have missed some and perhaps some of these listed are not terribly high in CPU percentage use.

You also need to be sure you have installed the driver(s) for your monitor. And if the latest driver for the video call continues to refuse to work go back to the next previous driver until you find one that works. To be certain you have no other drivers interfering boot to safe mode and look at what video drivers are installed in Device Manager. Using safe mode it will reveal the hidden ones (if any). Remove them all and boot normally and install the video card drivers. One thing I've found works best is NOT to install when windows detects the need for it during boot. Cancel the wizard and let it finish booting. Then go to Device Manager and install the drivers.

Let it run one time only. Check your running processes and try to obtain more information about it as well as where the actual exe or dll is located on your system. If your concerned about it calling home just have your firewall temporarily stop all traffic.

IrfanView is good but somewhat limited for browsing images. Maybe try this cam2pc free lite version

I have not had opportunity to try this on my WinXP installation yet but it certainly works for Win9x. Backup both the Windows and Program Files folders and then rename both folders to anything simple you wish to use then do your install. It will basically be "clean" except no format necessary. The only thing I can imagine going wrong would be WinXP setup continuing to make use of the Windows folder even after being renamed. If that happens you would have to delete or otherwise hide the folder from setup. This problem you encounter is exactly why I place my Windows installation on a partition separate from my data.

Perhaps you have a badly sticking F1 key?

With Win98 they added the Infinst.exe to the tools which allows you to add device drivers automatically. It works on all classes of devices, eliminates the need to manually edit driver and custom INF files, and eliminates driver conflicts. You can use INF Installer in conjunction with Microsoft Batch 98 to integrate third-party network clients into your Windows 98 installation. This is from the Infinst.chm file on your Win98SE installation CD \tools\reskit\help\INFINST.CHM

Find the file on your drive and right click it and examine its properties. Specifically look at the version tab. The description and copyright info may be interesting. And you can click the left hand pane and see different info in the right hand pane.

Being able to login as the administator would be a good place to start

This is well done and is likely as clean as it will get without an installer that can do the entire thing for you.

I have found this information recently posted in another forum to be extremely useful: WorldStart Forum

Ask the guy at the website provided by jaclaz in the link for the UNOFFICIAL update that has only a few of the updates. He knows how

I am under the impression that the best remote assistance occurs when the user is present. If you have something to implement it would be a script you can run at logon right?