Recent content by alpeabody

Actually, lots of people have. I've heard Symantec is better, though it used to drive me nuts. I've heard that a dozen or so free anti-malware offerings are better than anything I pay for. But I've been using McAfee ever since I gave up on Norton and have had no problems. So, what do you...

I went to control panel and set windows update service to automatic(delayed start). However, the only Remote Procedure Call was RPC, not RPD. It was set ao automatic(Start). But it didn't help. Got the same message. Thanks, anyway. Any more ideas?

I had noticed that I had not seen the familiar process of installing updates to Windows 7 for quite a while, so I went to Windows Update and clicked on Check for Updates. After a couple of seconds, a pop-up appeared saying "Windows Update cannot currently check for updates because the service...

OK, I did that, added several locations to the search-folders list. Then I clicked on Rebuild. A window came up, said Rebuilding...and after maybe 7 seconds, declared itself finished, having indexed "0 Files." An attempt to search confirmed it. No file can be found. But it is FAST! So I created...

I have a similar experience. Trying to figure out where I have stored a file, I enter the first few letters of the file name in the search box which appears when I click on the Windows Flag Button. It quickly tells me no such file found. So then I laboriously go through the many folders under...

Dear bfj, OK, how did you do it? I have gone to a half-dozen places where guys have tutorials for WAMP. One looks great, even screen shots how to fill out the various forms that come up. So I printed it all out, went through the first part (Install Apache 2.2.14). Then it said browse to...

kevin, Sounds great! I'm trying to do the same. I found a half-dozen places which promise all I have to do is download and install apache, PHP, MySQL and I'm off to the races. Then I try it and funny things happen. I did just the Apache stuff, it said completed OK. I'm supposed to go to...