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Well, there is also Avast and AVG and MSE. Is there any agreement which one is best? Incidentally, I think the nag screen is gone Mel

Will MSE also work with XP? I'd like to use the same AV on all my machines. Mel

I'm not sure where to post this, but maybe someone can help. This has happened with my W7 SP1 system but I also have XP-home on my other computers and I suspect I will encounter the same problem when updating Avira. 　 I have used Avira free for years and I’ve been pleased with it. I did a...

OK, here’s my situation. I have a desktop computer. I have an older Epson printer attached to the parallel port. I also have a USB Canon Pixma IP4000 printer attached to the desktop.. I have 3 other laptop computers which connect wirelessly. The desktop and 2 of the laptops connect fine to...

I have W-7. When I run the analyze portion of the disk defrag program, it says my fragmentation is 7%. But it does not advise whether or not I should defrag. Is there some rule of thumb? Mel

That did it. Thanks

I have W-7. At every start-up, it keeps saying I have two new updates, namely SP1 and IE9. I do not want to install those at this time. In the past, I was able to hide such updates. This time, I cannot find such an option. Can someone help?

Thanks for the thread information. It describes my problem exactly. Unfortunately, neither fix worked. Mel

I'm not sure if this is a W-7 problem, but I do not have this problem on my other XP computers. On my W-7 computer (and my others) I use MS Works 4.5. Anyway, when I load a word processing file (extension .wps) in Works and then save it to a DIFFERENT directory, it always appends a .doc to...

I wonder if I can just delete the older one? Mel

But I do not want to hide system files! Mel

Lately I've noticed two identical appearing icons on my desktop, entitled desktop.ini. Do I need these. I'm trying to reduce the clutter. One says last modified 8/8/10 and the other 6/26/10. When I start to delete it, it says it is a system file. Can I delete it? Mel

This problem started a month ago and I still can't seem to come up with a solution. I have W7 and Zone Alarm. The main engine, zlclient is in my startup folder. When I boot up, I keep getting the typical W7 window: "Do you want to allow the following program make changes..." It is referring to...

Torrent: I have no idea what you are saying. Can you perhaps elaborate on that last part? Mel

Not sure if this is a W-7 or ZA issue: When I start my computer, I always get the message: Do You want to allow the following program to make changes to your computer... I have to say YES every time in order to run zlclient and therefore have ZA running. How can I stop this message and just...