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The magic word was 'transparency', thank you!! You reminded me I had Aero Glass installed from a while back. Just removed it and all the crap has gone! Thanks Tripredacus.

I would have thought if text was white coloured it wouldn't be so visible rather than create it's own 'blocks'. Previous to the 'blocks', the text had a line through it with small vertical lines either end of the horizontal one then about a month ago the lines were replaced by what you can see now. I feel pretty sure I haven't changed anything so how this is seemingly happening by itself is beyond me. I don't know when precisely they started to appear but it was after I installed Win 10 about June last year.

Hi. I'm not sure this is entirely a Win 10 problem but it does seem I've only had this problem since installing it. As you can see by the attached pic something ain't right! I'm not sure how it's happened but I've run out of ideas now. The text appears visible in the pic through the black block but it isn't visible on my PC. Any help removing the problem would really be appreciated.

Sadly, neither of the above work with Win 8.1

Hi, I can't run the Help Assistant in Office XP on my Laptop with Win 8.1. When I try to run it, it states - The Office Assistant requires Microsoft Agent 2.0 or later. The product is available on the Office System Pack. I've looked through Microsoft Support but get lost in the different filters! I miss my little cat, Help!! ;-)

Uninstalling Google Chrome seems to have done the trick. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction K-Mart-ian Legend. Much appreciated...

Hi K-Mart-ian Legend! I do have Chrome Installed, for about another 2 minutes! I use it seldomly but I do remember seeing something about that remote desktop thing!!

Hi, These errors keep popping up. Any ideas what could be causing this??

Hi erpdude8, That problem was over 3 years ago now!! I can't remember what I did at the time but I got it going again in the end!

Hi, My neighbour last night let the Windows Updates run (10 in total) and afterwards allowed the restart and has since refused to boot up. On start-up, it automatically displays the boot menu. If I select any of the 3 Safe Mode (with Networking or with Command Propmpt) options the screen fills up with file names (in dos screen), stops and won't go any further. Switching off and restarting takes me back to the boot menu. If I select Last Known Good Config or Start Normally, the Windows XP start up screen appears very dimly, quickly replaced with BSOD then restart and back to the boot menu. I have his System Restore CD but I can't get his laptop to read the CD drive. Any ideas please? He has an Advent Laptop with Win XP Media edition.

I only noticed recently, so I don't know how long it's been like this but I can't set the Screensaver. I put the settings in and Save, but when i reopen the Screensaver settings, they've cleared. Any ideas please? (w2k pro)

Hi 888 I did try the last known procedure but it didn't work. I'm assuming I've somehow lost and/or deleted files I shouldn't. I must say though that I've never had this problem before and I've been in the same routine of cleaning up for years?? I havent restored from a cd as I cant find the original, which appears not to be a problem if that would crash too! If it is possible to d/l explorer.exe maybe this would give me what i need, do you mean from here? - http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...aded&start= I will certainly have a look at the above once I'm up and running again! If you would confirm a link for me for explorer.exe 888, it would be much appreciated. I don't want to d/l & copy the wrong file, I've had enough grief for one day!! Edit* Now that's weird, I cant find the winnt folder??

Hi guys, explorer.exe has generated errors............ First time I've ever had this problem where I can't boot up at all, even after the above error.. Basically, I was trying to install an HP Scanjet 2400 via the HP website. I downloaded the installation files (huge mb!!) and try as I may, it would not play along. Anyways, I decided to forget it and go buy a diff scanner. I uninstalled it, deleted all useless files and then cleaned up the registry with various tools with which I've had no problems before - Crap Cleaner, Find Junk Files, RegSeeker, Free Windows Registry Repair. Where relevant, I have restored all cleanings etc except I got an error something like can't write to/or read Registry. I have a feeling I may have deleted something from the registry arrrgggghhhhh! I ran the System File Checker and that requests I insert the win 2000 pro installation cd, er, I would but I dunno where it is, I cant find it, it has been that long since I used it!! On the Windows support website an answer to a query there of similar nature was to download and reinstall the SP4. So, I really need some help here to get me booting up again guys and would much appreciate any help. TIA

Not that I know of, at least not deliberately anyway.

Hi, I just noticed my defrag doesn't want to work anymore. I can click the shortcut and it will open, but it won't analyse or defrag. I've tried opening and starting it via Programs > Accessories > System tools and via the command box. It opens up ok, but that's it! I got w2k pro. TIA

Lektora is a nice reader that works in IE and Firefox. You'll need the Lektora Extension for Firefox.

How do I get rid of it? It all started after taking bad advice late at night and running a crappy performance enhancement tool (yeah, yeah I know now!) and I discovered I'd inherited 33% more system files in the defrag display. Anyway, I discovered the tool had bumped my paging file size to 1738mb. I changed the setting back to one and a half of RAM and rebooted but the bogus sys files remained. Whilst all other readings confirmed the space was free the defrag still showed it as system files therefore making defragging difficult and a lot longer. I now run chkdsk and I discover that the displayed 'sys files' are in fact an allocation of memory to the MFT Bitmap. Great, I now know the exact cause of the problem but I've no idea what it means or how to remedy the problem! I would appreciate help in getting rid of this problem. *Edit* I've since found this article so it appears I need a third party defragger to reclaim memory from MFT, any ideas please?

The alleged sys files (according to my defrag) circled red don't exist. A pie chart of my hard drive usage shows 31% free space. This all started when I first noticed the above as I was going to defrag one weekend. I discovered the problem was with the file paging, it had somehow reset to 1728mb! I reset it to 480mb (one & half of ram) but the problem remains in the defrag. It says I only have 8% free space. I have no idea how to fix this so any advice is welcome.

Thanks for that Odin, I'll give it a go and post back results.

Hi guys, I ran some advanced pc optimiser thing that someone suggested and it changed the look of my sys files in the defrag to what it looks like now. Where the cursor is on screenshot is to which I refer here. Even though my free space is still 30% (ish) when I try a defrag, it says got less than 10% free?? After a lot of leg work I managed to track down from Control Panel > System > Advanced (tab) > Performance > Performance Options that the paging file size had been changed from 480mb to 1728mb!!! I changed it back and whilst I got my free space back, the bloated reading of sys files in the defrag analysis remains. Also, the current Registry memory usage is 30mb and is set to max of 74, is this OK? Also + 1! when opening the Performance Options in the Application Response I notice the Background Services has the exact same settings as the Applcications, is this OK? I would probably never have noticed this had it not been for the defrag display. Any ideas? Keith.

In order of preference Firefox - say no more! Moz Suite Navigator K-Meleon Slim Browser Avant Opera IMO Firefox currently is just superb. I have it set up with multiple profiles for whatever I need to do, eg I use a bare bones profile to test new extensions to check for compatabilities etc. Moz Navigator is not as flexible as Firefox but a great browser nonetheless. For updating windows and accessing IE only sites I use [url="http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/"]Slim Browser.[/url] It is an IE based browser but with oodles more security features and tabbed browsing. I never use IE.

Hi KevinA, The only differences we have then is I'm adsl and it's the access to internet. Once I've signed on thru' btyahoo my connection is established and I'm ok. It's the actual initial connection. I never used to have to go through the procedure of signing on with btyahoo, just clicked the dialogue box as it was booting up and everything was cushty! Weird.

I assumed it would, especially when they make statements like this:- We have received the VB100% in the test of Virus Bulletin in November 2004 on Windows 2003 Server platform.

One of the best freebies around which I've had for two years is Grisofts AVG Free version. In two years I've only had 2 viruses and it detected both.

Hi, I have w2k pro and I'm not entirely sure it is the os that's the problem. However, until recently, when I switched the computer on and booting up I was presented with a dialogue box (connect, cancel, disconnect) enabling me to click 'connect' and hey presto, everything ok and programs connecting with no problems. The dialogue box has now disappeared and none of my programs can access the internet until I open the btinternet/yahoo (my isp) browser and sign on with them. I never used to have to do this, indeed, I very rarely did it. Can anyone explain or inform me how to retrieve the dialogue box and make my life easier! I have a broadband connection with a Thomson SpeedTouch USB modem. Cheers.