Archive for the ‘Windows XP’ Category

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Windows USB Hangs PC

If Windows XP or earlier hangs when you plug in a USB device, read this, it may save your sanity.

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How To Avoid Computer Viruses.

Aside from the obvious Buy A Mac quotation that one might expect, I felt it necessary to outline some of the things people with a PC running a variant of Microsoft Windows can do to reduce their likelihood of contracting a computer virus or trojan.
In my recent experience, most ‘viruses’ actually turn out not to [...]

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XP Logon, immediate Logoff…

There’s been a fair amount of articles written on the web regarding what can happen with certain spyware infiltrations which result in the immediate logoff effect. Such articles as this discuss various fixes for the problem but don’t show the way I managed to fix it earlier this week.
Basically after I’d run a spyware scan [...]