Re: Re winxp sp2

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Thanks for all the great suggestions. Even talked with a microsoft tech for about 2 hours and we tried everything. He is to call me back Monday morning, but now I don't need him. Had a copy of firefox on disc, so I installed it and ran housecall. Machine was full of adware that was undetected by most of the free stuff talked about in this group for the last couple of years. IE is now back and running great. Thanks again.......lohlson

--- Barry < barry%40yobunny.co.uk">barryyobunny.co.uk> wrote:
&gt; Hello larry,
&gt;
> Friday, March 14, 2008, 12:35:43 PM, you wrote:
&gt;
> lo> Thanks for the suggestion, but am I wrong in my
> belief that I can
> lo> get no updates from microsoft updates with
>; firefox
>
> You cannot get Windows Updates directly through
> Firefox but there is a
> neat extension called IETab that you can add that
>; will allow you to do
> this - it will switch the rendering to IE by
> clicking on the Firefox
> icon on the lower right of the opened tab.
>;
> A more serious problem is that SP2 shouldn't break
&gt; your PC like it is
> doing so I'd say there's more wrong with this WinXP
&gt; installation and
> perhaps it's time for either a repair install or a
> full re-install.
>
> You may get things running better by running SFC
> /SCANNOW from [ Start
&gt; / Run ] so that's always worth a shot. As is the
> usual stuff like Disc
>; Cleanup and Defragment.
> --
> Best regards,
> Barry [ Moderator ]

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Great to hear. I used HouseCall for many years, and did a yearly check with
it recently. But the download was way BIG, from years past. I allowed it
to auto scan and update at 12a.m., and was still able to work. A major pain
with AV, and why ~ 90% of serious A/V editors don't use AV, is proprietary
codec/formats in the graphic production. iow, everything looks like a
virus.

GoodLuck

Had a copy of firefox on disc, so I installed it and ran housecall.
> Machine was full of adware that was undetected by most of the free stuff
&gt; talked about in this group for the last couple of years. IE is now back and
> running great. Thanks again.......lohlson
>
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