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Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 6:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
anyone??!!! i have 400 emails downloading this am!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
have you run the windows malicious software removal tool? you can get it off the microsoft website.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 7:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
yes, that too. that's why i am so stumped and frustrated!!!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 8:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Annie, it's not necessarily a problem with your computer, and that's actually unfortunate.

Some spammers will 'spoof' your Email address in order to send their spam. They use your Email addy as the sending email address, then when the recipient Email addy's are bad, they bounce back to you.

There is nothing you can do about this problem. My business used to experience this all the time until we went to only graphic images of our email address on our website. Apparently these spammers use spiders to 'steal' contact Email addys off websites to use for their spamming.

Once we did this, the problem dropped away slowly over about 4-6 months.

In the meantime, we just set up a single folder for all "undeliverable" Email, so we could scan it quickly and trash it all it once if it was all that junk.

Good luck!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 9:05 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Better yet, set up a filter so all "undeliverables" go directly to the trash! 99.999999999% of the time, it's junk anyways.

And I mentioned that about the spammers before. If you think it IS spammers, you can contact your ISP.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 9:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Costa, we can't send things to trash for our business Email addy because frequently the undeliverables are from customers who entered their Email address incorrectly. It would work well for a personal Email address.

Our ISP told us there is nothing they can do about someone who spoofs our Email addy, since the Email doesn't originate from us or them.

However, the solution of changing all our website Email addys to graphic images so they can't be found by spiders (spiders just look for the @ symbol in text). It worked like a charm for us.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I did the exact same thing Karuuna. I always use graphics on the web for my business email and I also use hex code for my email address in the web page coding. There are other more complicated ways to code your email as well.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
cost, i tried setting up all sorts of filters, but they don't work. my isp said it was cause they can't block that many coming in at a time.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Just changing your email address to something like "yourname at yourdomain dot com" also works. The bots look for something with "@yourdomain.com" on it and grab that. Spelling out the entire thing works like a charm.

So Annie, is this a personal email address? If so, call your ISP explain what's going on and ask for a new email address. Set up that address as your primary and hook your Outlook up with it. Then find out if you can keep your old one around for a while, but only check it using a Webmail interface. If it IS someone spamming, you won't get any more emails with the new addy. If it's a worm, well, you'll be in the same predicament you're in now! :-)

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I agree Costa but it looks silly that way if you are a business. Plus people can't just click on it to send you an email.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Friday, June 22, 2007 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
cost, yes, it's my personal. i have called them and we are time warner so we will be changing it to comcast soon (or maybe another one. really ticked cause i just printed 500 new business cards!!!!!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Sunday, July 01, 2007 - 5:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Not really a problem, but computer related, so....

In trying to periodically keep my background programs under control, I consult the Task Manager info site HERE. It gives good info on if the program running in the background is essential, or can be disabled. Naturally, it recommends you buy their software to do it for you.

In Googling around today (for programs not listed in the above link), I've discovered there are several task manager "monitor" type programs out there now. Are there any good ones? Bad ones? Free ones?

I'd love to have something that can control this type of stuff. On boot up a while ago, I now have over 60 processes running. Its rather tedious going through all of them. And, it takes my computer 10 minutes to boot up all the way now. Lately, I've found I have to wait for the screen saver to kick in (indicating all the background processes have initialized) before I click on Internet Explorer. Otherwise, IE ends up crashing and I have to reboot again anyway.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
My hard drive crashed a few months ago. Bought a new one and installed windows 2000.

Installation went fine, but I have no sound. If I purchased a sound card would that work?

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
you might just need a driver for the card you have now. have you checked device manager?

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
Ladytex, yes I went to my computer and looked at driver signing. Everything is okay on that.

BB is going to start and I want sound!!!!

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Tuesday, July 03, 2007 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
not driver signing, device manager ... looks like this:
dm

then make sure there are no question marks or other punctuation by the sound video and game controller. If there is, you may have a problem with the driver. Many times in windows 2000 they will not automatically install.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 2:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
Lady, there are no question marks in my device manager.

I think I am just going to buy a soundcard and speakers.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 7:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
I spent 10 dollars on a sound card and now I have sound! YAY

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, July 04, 2007 - 7:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Now there is good value! Glad you got it to work. And just in time too!

Karen
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09-07-2004

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Is anyone able to quickly walk me through the process of switching my email from an old computer with Outlook Express to the new machine with Windows Mail?

Do I configure the new account on the new machine first? Export from the old machine first? Note that the two machines are not networked together - I'm using an external HD to copy from one computer to the other.

If anyone could help me out, I'd be forever in your debt. I like to think I'm pretty tech savvy, but this whole 'start from scratch with a new machine' is a tad daunting...

TIA!

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Check the online help for WinMail, but I think it's easier if you export from your old Outlook Express first, then set up your new WinMail. Somewhere you set the options that you have an existing account. I don't know if it'll allow you to import as you set up the mail system, so once you get it set up, THEN go in and import your OE stuff.

But do check the help first. It ought to point you in the right direction. :-)

(Since that's what I do all day -- write online help -- it's usually the first place I look for, well, help! <grin>)

Karen
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09-07-2004

Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 4:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Costa. I wasn't able to retreive old messages from Outlook, but I was able to copy over the address book, which is all I really needed.

New question. My keyboard is suddenly spitting out French characters instead of what the keys should be when I'm writing a message in Windows Mail.

My ' and " keys give me è and È, respectively.
The [ button is now ^^ . The shift on that, {, doesn't do anything. The \ and | key is now ¨à and À. I also get a C with the hook accent on it with a different button.

It seems it's only the buttons on the right side, between the alphabet and the right edge. What the <bleep> is going on?? My numlock, capslock, scroll lock are all off...

Sigh. I spent $1,200 two days ago to END all my computer woes. Guess BF is right, I'll never be happy.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Check your language settings. Both in control panel and in whatever app you're using. I'm not sure about Vista but in Control Panel there's a Regional and Language Options icon. Select it and then click the tab for Languages. Then under "Text services and input languages" click the Details button. Be sure that you have English selected as the input language and that the keyboard selected is US English.

Karen
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09-07-2004

Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karen a private message Print Post    
Ya, thanks again, Costa. I found that shortly after posting and managed to switch it back... the weird thing is that I was typing an email and all of a sudden it was switched. Like, the first sentence I wrote was fine, then all of a sudden, those buttons didn't work anymore. I didn't do anything to change any settings.

Whatever. I'm not allowed to get upset about anything to do with the new machine. Thanks for the input, Costa.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, August 07, 2007 - 8:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texannie a private message Print Post    
I am trying to install McAfee onto my computer.
It tells me that it can't install because I have EZ Armour Anti Virus on it. Well, I don't.
I did a LONG time ago, but I don't now. I have checked in add/remove programs. i have searched files and folders..nothing. i went to their site and found some uninstall instructions involving the registry and followed those. still get told by McAfee that it's on my computer.
I installed AVG free with no problem, but I would like to have the McAfee (it came with Comcast free and it's much better coverage/protection.
Any suggestions on what to do now?