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Susan C.
I’ve been hobbling along with a weird setup that I was afraid to address for
fear I would lose the functionality I did have, but now I can’t use many
websites properly. The pages load slowly, won’t let me do things sometimes,
freezes a lot. Just before this happened, I deleted what appeared to be
earlier versions of Java but kept the latest one. Also some seemingly
trivial Windows things like clip art & themes that I don’t like. And since
Add/Remove Programs wasn’t showing up in my control panel, I just deleted
them manually. (Have since created a shortcut to appwiz.cpl on my desktop.)
And emptied the recycle bin b/c I was running so low on memory.
My computer: Dell, Pentium III, 548 MHz, 128 Mb RAM. Originally bought with
Win98, then converted to Windows XP Pro 2002 SP2, MS Office 2000 English
Language Pack (shows system text in Korean). Have run the genuine MS product
validation application to ensure it was an official version, because I can’t
find the CD’s we used to install it.
Big problem: I can’t get to System Restore except to turn it off or change
the settings. And I see on this board Bert Kinney’s link to help me
re-install it (thanks!), but it says all restore points will be purged in the
process. I take it this means it goes back to the very beginning point?
Which would be Win98SE, so I wouldn’t be able to use my D-Link wireless
adapter. If I have a copy of the Trend Micro antivirus upgrade executable
that I bought last month, can I install that?
It’d be nice if I could use one of the system restore points that I must
have somewhere, if I could get to it. What I have in my Restore folder:
rstrui.exe, srdiag.exe, rstrlog.dat, srframe.mmf.
Thank you in advance!!!
Susan
fear I would lose the functionality I did have, but now I can’t use many
websites properly. The pages load slowly, won’t let me do things sometimes,
freezes a lot. Just before this happened, I deleted what appeared to be
earlier versions of Java but kept the latest one. Also some seemingly
trivial Windows things like clip art & themes that I don’t like. And since
Add/Remove Programs wasn’t showing up in my control panel, I just deleted
them manually. (Have since created a shortcut to appwiz.cpl on my desktop.)
And emptied the recycle bin b/c I was running so low on memory.
My computer: Dell, Pentium III, 548 MHz, 128 Mb RAM. Originally bought with
Win98, then converted to Windows XP Pro 2002 SP2, MS Office 2000 English
Language Pack (shows system text in Korean). Have run the genuine MS product
validation application to ensure it was an official version, because I can’t
find the CD’s we used to install it.
Big problem: I can’t get to System Restore except to turn it off or change
the settings. And I see on this board Bert Kinney’s link to help me
re-install it (thanks!), but it says all restore points will be purged in the
process. I take it this means it goes back to the very beginning point?
Which would be Win98SE, so I wouldn’t be able to use my D-Link wireless
adapter. If I have a copy of the Trend Micro antivirus upgrade executable
that I bought last month, can I install that?
It’d be nice if I could use one of the system restore points that I must
have somewhere, if I could get to it. What I have in my Restore folder:
rstrui.exe, srdiag.exe, rstrlog.dat, srframe.mmf.
Thank you in advance!!!
Susan