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08-17-2011, 01:38 AM | #1 | |||
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Ah I remember the Compaq mystery now ,
HP & Compaq are partners or HP bought Compaq I think, so that could be it. If you had a wireless card there would be an antenna - usually about 3" LONG OUT THE BACK OF THAT PARTICULAR CARD (darn hit caps lock LOL) like these- http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isc...0l3.4.3.1l11l0 Last time I talked to Verizon ( now mine is frontier) but they wanted to sell me their own wireless modem/router - so if you do go with 2 machines and don't want them both close by the dsl modem (wired) - you cloud look into the Verizon wireless modem/router. not sure what the problems are with your internet - the not shutting down stuff - the not opening browsers.... mine was acting a lil weird so i did a clean & defrag amazingly that fixed the problem - something must have got scrambled when we had a power off /then on again right away. you might try some scans, clean up and defrag it to see it it helps anything.
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08-17-2011, 08:11 AM | #2 | |||
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I have tried to do defrag on Windows xp. Don't know how to do this. Thanks much Melody
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08-17-2011, 08:46 AM | #3 | ||
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08-17-2011, 02:10 PM | #4 | |||
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And I really do thank you very much Melody
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08-17-2011, 04:36 PM | #5 | |||
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Disk Clean up is right in that same location (System Tools )- i would run it first- then do the defrag.
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08-17-2011, 07:43 PM | #6 | |||
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Looks like I'm going to get that Slim HP Tower thing. It's affordable and we can zip on the internet. Oh, here's a good question. When one buys these new things, they often come with a free trial of Norton or some other Anti virus thingee. Now I pay for Verizon Internet Security Suite and they told me all I would have to do is call them up and they would help me download the software on any new computer I might buy. So should I continue with Verizon or should I give the Norton Free trial thing a shot?? And if I don't use the Norton thing, don't i have to uninstall it because, from what I've been told, you can't have 2 anti-virus softwares on the same computer!! Right? Thanks much Melody
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08-17-2011, 11:13 PM | #7 | |||
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When I built my parents computer , the windows OS came w/ Norton trial - we used it till it expired and then I uninstalled it and installed a copy of my zone alarm ( covers 3 computers).
Norton is a bit tricky to fully remove if I remember correctly, but that was 2.5 yrs ago, maybe it is easier now. So it's up to you which ever way you want to do it.
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