Turned it off and on? I even wore my lucky underpants.
Posted on 10/10/2013 4:46:21 PM PDT by Slump Tester
I just noticed this about 2 weeks ago. It took all night to update, then worked fine. Today's install seems to be updating even slower. Thinking it may be an issue with my ISP, I got a friend (many miles away) to do an install with his XP, and he's experiencing the same issue.
My install cd came with SP2. I slipstreamed SP3 onto it many years ago, and it has worked flawlessly ever since. I can manually install a downloaded media player 11 which makes me validate and that passes, so that's not the problem.
Systray has always had problems. Under XP, I recall several of them would frequently disappear. Under Win7, a similar thing happens with some of them.
With Win7 (it might also work with XP), I can log off (not shut down or restart) and re-log on. That seems to restore most of the missing icons.
Ok I guess i will be tonight’s pinata..
Windows 7 is good stable OS BUT once you RE-learn the basics of using windows 8 it is amazing!!!..There is SOOOOO much you can do...IF you take the time to learn the OS..
Now put yer blindfolds on, and grab yer sticks!
(Be Gentle)
I remember installing XP was an all-day affair.
Then, I discovered a disk imaging program called CloneGenius (now Spotmau Clone Disk). After I got XP and programs running, I would clone the partition. I always put data on a different partition/drive. If I had trouble, I just ran the imaging software to restore the last image.
That saved hours of install and reinstall. Reimaging took about 45 minutes.
Now, with Win 7 laptop and desktop, I do the same. Win 7 has its own imaging program. And I recently discovered a ‘free for home use’ Macrium Reflect and also use it.
I recently had to replace my laptop hard drive. After I inserted the new drive, I used the cd install to put the manufacturer’s OEM Windows/drivers on the drive. I then used the last best Windows image to put the programs and Win 7 tweaks. The whole thing took about 2 hours.
Hilarious stuff! All you need is to use Apple computers and OS and your problems are solved. I have been an Apple user for years with nary a problem ever. My brother and his son were dedicated users of Microsoft junk and they had years of problems, crashes and serial software and hardware failures. Nevertheless, they persisted in trying time after time to “fix it.” Sadly, they failed. Modest prediction: The whole computer industry is in terminal obsolescence and the first to go under will be PC makers.
Sometimes the icon cache in Windows becomes corrupt and you see wrong icons for different file types. One way to solve the issue is to restart the computer, but you can also rebuild the icons cache without restarting the computer. Here is how :
1.Press the keyboard combination Windows logo key + R to bring up the Run dialog.
2.Type cmd and press Enter to open the command prompt window.
3.In the command prompt window, type the following commands pressing Enter after each line :
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
attrib -H “%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db”
del “%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\IconCache.db”
explorer.exe
4.This would restart the Windows Explorer and rebuild the icons cache as required.
You can also put all these commands into a command script, so you can run it by just double clicking on it.
LOL
Last year, I watched that British comedy series (The IT Crowd) via Netflix. It was so nerdish that I would LOL while watching nearly every episode.
It had a kind of humor that only computer geeks and nerds could appreciate.
It’s a licensing thing, and also I need the ability to R-console in. I have XP Pro, but my 7 is home.
I just need to get the initial "new" condition established so I can back it up.
You can download a program from Microsoft that will tell you if your hardware is 7 or 8 worthy.
It makes no sense using a 64 bit OS unless you have more than 4Gb of ram. I’m behind the curve. Most of my boards only go to 4Gb, and even then they only actually see/use about 3Gb.
Turned it off and on? I even wore my lucky underpants.
What’s your favorite virtual environment? I started using VMWare on my quadcore, but most of my other systems won’t run it so I’m using Virtualbox. It seems to run faster/smoother on cheese hardware.
I run XP SP3 on 2 computers with Norton and have had no problems ever. Norton has caught a few attacks over the years.
Updates are almost impossible without Net Framework 3.5. Check Ad/Remove under Control Panel to verify if you have it installed.
Well aren’t you special.
I'd get Security Essentials for your XP boxes while it's still being offered. (I believe the daily virus definitions are the same for all the OS's, but I may be wrong.)
Not sure if THAT was all it needed, as I had already installed "Microsoft update". (I used that instead of Windows update.) But the bottom line is it works!
LOL - Now I need to slipstream IE8 onto my slipstreamed SP3 install. I wonder if that's doable?
Eeewwww! For over seventy newbies, is there a one-click fix?
What is Windows? Was that a band or a song ? I can’t remember.
“It makes no sense using a 64 bit OS unless you have more than 4Gb”.
I agree. However, installing 4GB or more is standard for 64-bit OSs.
When the CPU runs in 64-bit mode it’s using more registers so its memory use is less. Code which is not memory restricted will run faster in 64-bit. I run large programs over a gig and digital photos all of which run and transfer much faster in 64-bit W7 vs. 32-bit XP.
Also, as more 64-bit programs come on line not having to format and install a 64-bit OS down the road comes into consideration.
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