Recent content by Irishmist20

Thanks for the Framework explanation, patcooke. KB2901983 took an uncomfortably long time to install but it and the six security updates were successfully installed. The January malicious software removal tool is nowhere to be found. "Check for Updates" reports that there are no new updates...

Twice, on recent start-ups, I've received a single pop-up asking if I wanted Microsoft to install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 7x64 based systems KB2901983. Since I don't do any programming (just a home office user) I declined the offer. I was also very uncomfortable that the...

After some research I learned that MS has won several legal actions that contested making it impossible to uninstall IE from Windows. Here's why I wanted to remove it: "The security breach was so serious the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team of the Dept. of Homeland Security put out a...

Wishing to uninstall IE9 after installing Chrome I did the following yesterday: "The following instructions apply to both Windows 7 and Windows Vista. Click the Start button Picture of the Start button, type Programs and Features in the search box, and then click View installed updates in the...

That's a great thought, Trouble. Forgot all about msconfig. I'll keep that in mind for the next time. Thanks, Irish

Ah, Ha! I found the nasty rascal. The program presenting the dialog box was the Garmin Lifetime Updater which I installed two days ago. The box was telling me that no new map was available. As I don't see a way to reschedule the notice I'm uninstalling the program. Irish

When I start or restart my Win 7 64 Home Premium, Dell XPS Studio 1647, I get a dialog box which flashes onto the fully loaded desktop and then disappears before I can read it. Thinking it might have been connected with upgrading a program I upgraded my Java and Flash but the mysterious box is...

I opened the event viewer and, as I suspected, it's all Greek to me. Backing Up: 1. Connect my Seagate to a USB port, open Win 7x64 Control Panel and click on Backup and Restore. Backup size is 61.88GB, HD free space is 232.19GB. Items to backup are: Files in libraries and personal folders for...

Dell Studio XPS Laptop New April 2010 Win 7 Home Premium Intel i5 4 GB Ram Seagate Free Agent External HD 320GB of which 232GB is free I've now had four failed attempts to backup my computer to an external Seagate Free Agent HD. The third failure resulted in: "Backup encountered a problem...

Joe, All I know is what Windows is telling (or not telling) me. I don't know who or what created that folder, which apparently is causing the error. Wait a minute...I was just able to delete the offending folder and remove that location in the library. I'll try a new backup and see what happens...

Dell Studio XPS Laptop - Win 7 Home Premium - Intel i5 - 4 GB Ram At 97% completed, after 2:40 of back up time, Backup reported complete but a file skipped. "Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Paul\Desktop\2010_06_14. Error:(The system cannot find the file specified...