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Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 12:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
YAAAAA! Nevermind, I figured it out! Thanks anyway, Jan and Dra! Hotmail sucks but its all I've got for now. So now you can all inundate me with emails hehehe at tjmf@hotmail.com



Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie: I recommend Yahoo Mail - they offer 100MB in-box and 10MB attachment capability - and their interface works better for me then hotmail does. Hotmail is supposed to be upgrading to much larger storage soon, as is Excite. Yahoo already has and I'm enjoying the service.

Just a thought.

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 4:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, DraJustaThought, dad!

Jan, the hotmail is just very temporary because Verizon DSL we used here, but the house we are moving to has been changed to cable ( since hubby works for Adelphia Cable CO. we get it real cheap) turned on over at the other house before we have moved in yet. So for email its only going to be the hotmail until we get completely moved over there. Then we will have Adelphia.net. I'm axious to see the difference between the dsl and the cable. By next week we should be moved in except for all my flowers that I'm moving with us.

Now, I'll just have to nag either hubby or Chris to dig them up and move them over. I may have to get out the whip. LOL

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ahh that make sense. Happy moving Twinks :-)

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Got a nitpicky question. I know I have seen it answered here before, but I can't think of what to search for. Likewise, I am not searching on the right words to get my answer in Google, and my poking around has not solved it. AND, I have even done it before, but forgot how I did it.

How do I remove the sponsor name from the Internet Explorer color bar?

Agree with Draheid that Yahoo e-mail is superior to Hotmail e-mail in just about every way.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 8:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju: That's a very easy question - switch to Netscape!

Ok, the way to remove it from IE requires editing your registry. The quickest way is to 'Search' for the text you want to remove. On my XP machine, the key is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

and the 'Item' is titled "Window Title". Edit that to change the value, removing the 'provided by ...' from the title.

You may find this in more then one registry entry, including Outlook Express, etc.

I don't know of any easier way to do this that doesn't involve using Regedit.

Hope this helps.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 9:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra, I do also use Netscape.

I signed up for a free 10 hours per month Access-4Free internet account for Bigdog today, which is about all he uses. It did a bunch of sneaky stuff like making itself the default internet dialup, changing the home page, and adding its advertisement in the color bar at the top of the Internet Explorer page. Changing home page and default service back were easy enough, but this color bar ad has me stumped.

Got to do regedt, eh? Huh! I was sure I had done it before, and I did not have to go into regedit. Might have been YEARS ago though and thus might have been Windows 95.

Thanks, Dra. I will see how much it bothers me. I don't like to mess around in regedit if I don't have to. Although I did it the other day to remove the vestiges of Zone Alarm from Bigdog's play computer.


EDIT: Okay, just did it! Piece of cake! Yay!
MORE smoochies to Draheid!


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 9:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hahahaha, that was so easy and fun I added a personalized message to Bigdog's color bar. We'll see how long it takes him to notice it.

Ketchuplover
Member

08-30-2000

Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 4:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Does anyone here have AOL 9.0 Is it really child's play to fix your computer?

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 8:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
KetchupLover: I installed it on both Potshot's and my accounts.

It isn't as through as I'd wish, it does stop my daily visits to fix DHs's compiter

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 6:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Updated my Spyblaster from 3.1 to 3.2 but when I went to run the program I got the following error message

BCMDMCCP (01) + 00000175 ERROR: OD: 0028 CIA95EBS

what did I do????

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 9:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anybody who tries the new Zone Alarm 5.1, how about letting us know if it is causing any problems.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: The Spyblaster developers are aware of the problem yet have not offered any solutions. They appear to be still collecting reports as of this morning. I will try to check again later today to see if they have come up with any solutions.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 10:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra. Is it a conflict with McAfee?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: I don't believe it's associated with McAfee. In fact, some reports indicate it may be associated with a particular brand of dialup modem. I don't know why that would affect you unless you happen to have that modem in your computer.

There hasn't been any recent reports as of yet.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 11:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have zone alarm 5.1.011 and it has given me no problems that I am aware of, Juju...but then 5.0 wasn't a problem for me either.

I use it with win98 and netscape though so I don't know if that makes a difference.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Right now it's not running..how can I go back to the 3.1 version?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: You will probably have to completely uninstall the new version, manually delete any folders created in your Program Files directory for SpyBlaster, then re-install the 3.1 version. That should work.

FYI: As of this time, there have been no further updates on this problem. I will try to keep checking though.

Hope this helps.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
how do i get back the 3.1??

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 5:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra...I how do I get 3.1 back? The new version is on their website.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie, I Googled "downlaod spyblaster 3.1" and got this link among others: http://www.webattack.com/dlnow/rdir.dll?id=105693

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Am I just blind..all I see is 3.2?????

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 2:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: I kept running into the same thing. Every google result that said 3.1 had been upgraded to 3.2 by that time. The only thought I had was to use Google again and keep trying until you find one that hasn't updated - you might want to try using the 'cached' page on Google - the link might work to get you the previous version.

Hope this helps.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I even did system restore and it made me update! LOL
any clue on when they will fix it?

Cinder
Member

09-01-2000

Tuesday, August 10, 2004 - 4:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK. I should have just asked a question a few weeks ago- but I tried to fix it by reading other questions asked.
A few weeks ago I had a website that kept popping up ever 5 minutes or so- and I couldn't get it to stop. SO- I installed Spyware Blaster and SpyBot. It stopped- great.
NOW- I can't open many of my programs. It says
File does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the Folder Options Control Panel.

I have no clue where the Folder Options control panel is. This is the first of many questions I am sure. I had to restart my computer yesterday and now I can't get to my email(hotmail)- but I will fix one problem at a time- in case they are related.

Thanks