Saturday, March 26, 2005

Favorite Links

One of the folders that I lost in my C drive failure was my Favorites folder. I have a back-up copy, but since I backed it up, I had reorganized the links and culled the 404 ones. So today, I tackled that. I like having my Favorites folder in good working order, although I keep a webpage of my most favorite links that I use daily. That way I can take that page with me from computer to computer. I can even use it on other people's computer without adding any bookmarks to their C drive.

As I was sorting links, sometimes the file would not appear in the new folder. It looked like it was still in the old folder. To get it to appear, I would have to back out of the folder and then open it again. Voila! There is the file. This is similar to the display problem I was having recently, but not exactly the same. I haven't had any more problems with disappearing menus or the start menu showing up as a black box.

When I finish organizing my favorites folder, I intend to back it up on a CD. Now, I haven't tried using Nero since all the reformat, so that will be a surprise if it works without a hitch.

If you are wondering how you can back up your Favorites folder, go to
C:\Documents and Settings\
Then click on the name you use on your computer. Then copy the Favorites file (it will have a big gold star next to it) onto a CD or floppy disk.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Display Fixed

I did a Google search for Nvidia drivers. I saw that Nvidia had their own website. So I went there, and there were drivers to download. The site explained that they test their drivers for backward compatibility. So I downloaded the latest driver, which happens to be a newer one than the computer tech person used.

I downloaded the 18.8 MB driver exe file to my laptop. Then I transferred it to the new Jump Drive. Then I plugged the Jump Drive into my tower's USB port. The tower automatically recognized the Jump Driver. I clicked on the drive from My Computer and clicked on the exe file. It automatically loaded the drivers, and I rebooted the comptuer.

I haven't had a moment's problem since. :)

DSL is working. The video output is working. All is good with the world. :)

I called the computer store to let Al know that I had it working. Rupert answered the phone so I told him the situation. He is the one who put together my system. He said that it sounded like a problem with Windows, and that he thought we would have to reinstall Windows again.

Not again! I just spent three days getting everything set back up the way I like. He thought maybe some of the programs that I installed had messed up the video output. I told him the problems started before I reloaded anything, although the problems were getting worse and more often. Other than the drivers for the printer, scanner, and camera, the only programs I had re-installed were Ad-Aware, Acrobat Reader and Microsoft Works.

Rupert had me check the "Refresh Rate" and also looked at the Page File. It is set at 85 Hertz, and he suggested I change it to 75 Hertz. I decided to leave it because everything is working fine now. He said my Page File Usage was rather high (210 MB). I don't know what that means. Right now it is 266 MB / 2462M. I have 32 processes running. There are 30 running when I first boot the computer. (The two extra are Internet Explorer and the e-mail program.)

Rupert said to keep an eye on it. I said, I use my computer every day, so my eye will be on it. :0
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Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Display Adapters

I called my sister to commiserate about my problems with the computer. She agreed with me that the video drivers were messing up the display. She told me how to replace them which is what I was hoping the tech person would tell me. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> System Then click on the "Hardware" tab and click on the "Device Manager" button.

When the Device Manager window opens, click on the plus sign by "Display adapters". My display is NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200. I clicked on the "Driver" tab and the "Update Driver" button. The "Hardware Update Wizard" opened. I put the Display Drivers CD into the G drive (CD burner). [The computer didn't recognize the G drive, so I had to move the CD to the DVD drive.] I chose "Yes, this time only" for Windows Update to search for software. I clicked "Next" and then left the default checked "Install the software automatically". I clicked "Next".

The next screen said "Cannot Continue the Hardware Update Wizard
The wizard could not find a better match for your hardware than the software you currently have installed."

I clicked on "Roll Back Driver" and there were no previous drivers to roll back. So I uninstalled the current driver. I firmly believed that software was causing the problem so I decided to install the software on the CD manually. I had to reboot to finish the uninstallation. After I rebooted, Windows came up in 640 X 480 screen resolution. Otherwise everything looked fine and the display was stable.

It took several tries to get the old CD drivers to replace the ones installed with the C drive reformat, but I managed to do it. Then I had no display at all. Windows wouldn't load and I got a screen asking me if I wanted to use system restore. I tried it, but there was no restore point other than the one I was in.

I thought, "Well, now I know for sure that the old drivers won't work. I guess I will have to take the computer down to the shop again." At least I had tried everything I could do at home. Well, almost everything. My sister looked up the drivers on the Internet and she downloaded new drivers. She was going to e-mail them to me, but that didn't work. The file was too big. So duh, Pamela, if I can get e-mail with my laptop, I could also use it to download the drivers myself.

I had to stop for the time being to take Todd to work. It was great fun talking to my sister on the phone while we fiddled with the computer. -smiles- While I was downtown, I stopped by Office Max and purchased a 512MB Jump Drive.

DSL Revived

I was awoken by a telephone call from ACS asking me, "Do you have your DSL working?"

"No, the DSL didn't work all weekend," I replied. I was barely awake. Between the DSL, the computer's screen display going haywire, and the toilet overflowing and flooding the basement, I wasn't in the mood to discuss computers.

Later it occurred to me that the DSL was working before I put on the line filters. So I tried several different combinations of line filters on and off, telephone lines plugged in and not, and when I set it up back exactly how it was when I first connected, the DSL started working again!

So I called up the tech support again to tell them that now the DSL was working. I was on hold for 20 minutes before I got to talk to a person. The recording said there were intermittent outages because of the wind. I imagine a lot of people are calling tech support today.

When I told the person how I got the DSL to work again (but removing the line filters), he said, "That is counter-intuitive." Well, I say, whatever works. Although, I have to admit that it could have been a coincidence. He put me on hold again while he checked the signal to our phone. While he was gone, I dashed over to the nearest phone (besides the one plugged into the back of the modem), and put the line filter back on it. Hmmm...the DSL is still working. So maybe he is right. I don't really care what fixed it.

When he came back on the telephone, he said that the signal to our line was not as strong as it could be. So I don't know if that had any bearing on the problem either. I was feeling rather up because I got it to work all by myself. So I decided to call my sister. Then we decided to tackle the display problem.

Monday, March 21, 2005

RAM Check

I called the tech person again and told him the disappearing menu problem was still happening. Now it is also causing other display problems. He told me that it might be because the C drive was formatted twice or it could be that the RAM is going bad. Is nothing going to work?!

I really didn't relish bringing the computer into the shop again for a three-day period. He said I could check it myself by downloading a memory test from the Microsoft website. He told me to go to http://www.microsoft.com/ and search for "memory test". I did that and the first choice was the test. I downloaded the program, Microsoft Online Crash Analysis: Windows Memory Diagnostic.

The instructions for the test need to be printed out because you will not be able to refer to them online while the test is running. So I opened my brand new printer cartridge and inserted it into my relatively new Lexmark printer. I got a popup asking me align the cartridge. This is a test that the printer does automatically after I click on the start button. However, it couldn't run the test, and it reported that the ink cartridge was only 15% full. I tried printing with it, and it only barely showed anything. Well, diddly! I was really upset. I called Keith to ask him if he had the receipt for the recently purchased cartridge. No, he didn't have it. I was so upset, though, that I called Fred Meyer anyway to complain. I had bought two packages of markers lately that had about 30% dried up markers. What's up with this? He said bring it in and he would exchange it, except that he couldn't do it without the receipt. Keith took care of it. He ended up going to Sam's and buying me some new cartridges.

In the meantime, I couldn't run the RAM test until I printed out the instructions. So I copy and pasted the test into Microsoft Word, and then I changed all the test to blue. Then I printed it out. Of course, that means that most of the blue ink is gone after printing out 13 pages.

Finally I was ready to run the test. I clicked on the downloaded exe file, and it wrote the program to a floppy disk. I rebooted the computer and I got the error message "non system disk". Well, now what? I called up Al again, and he suggested I try making another disk. I scrounged through my boxes and found another empty disk and made another one. This time it worked.

I ran the 11 tests for 22 passes. There were no errors. By that time, Keith was home with the new printer cartridges. I stopped running the test to print out something with the new black ink. The printing was okay, so I went back to running the test. I left it running overnight.

Tuesday morning...

The 11 memory tests ran 17 more passes. Still no errors. Of course, there is no guarantee that this test would catch all errors, but the memory passed this one. I still think the problem is the video drivers.

DSL Down

The DSL didn't work all weekend. This morning when Todd and I got back from town, there was a tag on the doorknob. The DSL man had come to check out the connection. The tag said that everything was fine on the outside and that I would have to make an appointment to have him come and check inside. I do not savor the idea of having a stranger come and root through my house. He will want to check all the phone connections. We have one in every room. Some of them are behind furniture or stored boxes that are crammed into the spare room. There is a phone line that is in our bedroom that has never been connected to phone jack. In the basement, there is a phone connection that doesn't work with a phone. I was told that the inside work will cost money. Hey! This free month of DSL is beginning to not be free anymore. Arghhh!

Saturday, March 19, 2005

Arghhhhh DSL

I woke up this morning with a splitting headache. So it didn't help that right off the bat the computer wouldn't hook up to the Internet. I've only had DSL for one day and it's broke already. Nothing had changed since yesterday when it was working fine. I did shut down the computer last night when I went to bed. Could that be it? Before I called for help, I disconnected and reinserted every connection. Then I called the technical support line at 1 800 478 3011 option 1 option 4 option 1.

The first thing the tech person had me do is to check LAN. (Start -> Control Panel -> Network Connections -> LAN) LAN should be enabled. If not, right click on the icon, and enable it. We went through all the possible causes, loose cables and power connections. He said that shutting down the computer shouldn't have caused any problems. The Status light was not on so he had me disconnect the power cord for 15 seconds and then reconnect it. The Status light would flicker for a bit and then go dark. After this happened over three times, he checked our line. Apparently it is not working, so I will have to wait until someone comes out and physically checks the line to our house.

There is a severe wind warning for the Tanana valley today and tomorrow. I wonder how many other things will be blown down in the meantime. I don't think my DSL connection is going to be high on their list.

To top it off, the computer screen went all erratic while I was talking to the tech person at ACS. The Start Menu tried to appear in the upper left corner. Then every icon I clicked on would appear on top of it. The screen didn't drawn the whole images. Instead partial pictures of this and that were scattered across the screen. The computer harddrive light continued to flicker so I didn't want to turn off the computer while it was writing to the harddrive.

From memory I clicked Start (nothing new happened and the Start Menu did not appear in its customary place). I clicked on my mental picture of "Turn off computer" and then used the right arrow key to move (from memory) to the middle option and pressed return. After waiting several minutes, the computer shut down. I left it off for a couple of minutes and turned it back on.

Everything is working fine now... well, except for the DSL. I have connected to the Internet using dialup so that I could gripe to my blog.

Friday, March 18, 2005

DSL

One good thing about today is that I set up DSL. I followed the instructions step by step. It didn't work. Well, what did I expect? Has anything every worked for me on the first try? So I wasn't particularly alarmed about it.

I called up the tech support number. Right off the bat, the option number was incorrect. That's quite a phone jail ACSalaska has there. The tech person took me through the possible reasons it wasn't working. I discovered that it didn't work because I had plugged the telephone line into the surge protector. After I switch the telephone cord to the back of the modem, the DSL worked great. The only problem is that when you pick up a telephone, you hear a lot of static. To solve that problem, you are given line filters to place between the telephone and the wall jack. Two are supplied, but we have more telephones than that.

It was great to have a fast connection to download Acrobat Reader.

Disappearing Menus

My drop down menus are acting weird. When I click on a folder menu, it appears to drop down, but all you can see is the right and bottom outline of it. When I mouse-over the area, some of the choices appear. Sometimes the whole screen goes kaphlooey with lines across the screen that look like interference from a radio transmission. This happens even when I am not connected to the Internet.

I did a Google search for "disappearing menu", and came up with a page that discusses it -- Transparent drop-down Menu and disappearing menu text>

This problem happens the most when I reboot the computer. Reloading programs has resulted in a lot of aggravation and frustration when the screen doesn't redraw or the menus don't appear. What is odd is that the action I click on will take place, but the screen doesn't reflect the change. The only way I can get the actual screen to show is to open Internet Explorer and then shut it again. Sometimes I have to do this three or four times before it works.

My theory is that the new drivers that were installed with my C drive format are causing the erratic behavior. What is really weird is that it doesn't occur all the time. Other times a screen shot will not disappear when I close the window, but the window IS closed because the window name is gone from the taskbar but you can still see it on the screen. I can take another window and move it across the screen and it erases the phantom window contents underneath it.

I called the shop that worked on my computer, but Al didn't have time to talk to me because he was waiting on another customer. Keith thinks I should take the computer back down there, but I would really like to get to use it this weekend. If my theory is correct, this problem is not going to go away by itself. So I guess it's back to the repair shop on Monday to change the video drivers.

Flooding

This is not a computer peril, but it could have been. When we got home from town at around 1 p.m., the basement was raining. The flood was caused by an upstairs toilet. The toilet fill valve had blown off its connection so that it was trying to fill up the whole house with water instead of just the tank. I was exhausted after mopping up the water. Thankfully, Todd was here to help. No computer parts were harmed in the production of this blog entry.

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Harddrive Crash

Three weeks ago while I was doing some housekeeping chores on my harddrives (complete virus scan, error checking, and defrag), I got this message:

The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed only by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule this disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?

I've seen this message before, and I clicked on the "Yes" button as I have always done. This time I decided to check all the drives before I restarted the computer. So I checked the G drive and I got the same message as above, but the D drive allowed me to error check it without restarting. Then I restarted my computer.

Little did I know at the time --I had bought a ticket on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

When I restarted the computer, instead of getting the error checking routine, I got an error message --something along the lines of "cannot read from disk". Uh, oh, had I overloaded the computer's brain by asking it to error check two drives at the same time? Had it been so completely confused about which one to do first that it decided to lock up instead?

That's what I thought was happening. So I rebooted the computer with CTrl-Alt-Delete. That didn't work. I was getting the same error message. I turned off the computer. Let it sit for a few minutes and then turned it back on.

I tried to remember how to get into the control panel before Windows loads, but I didn't remember which function key to press. I thought it was F8, but when that didn't work, I tried F12 and went down the line F11 (Boot Menu), F10 (Flash Recovery), F9, F8, F7, F6, F5, F4, F3, F2, F1, rebooting each time and then hitting the function key over and over until I got a menu or "cannot read from disk" error. Hmmmm... well, that didn't work. None of the menu options would bring up Windows. So I was at a loss of what to do.

I called the repair shop, and he told me to bring it down there. Keith loaded it up and we dropped it off. We went over to Flanigans for a drink while we waited for the repair person to check the harddrive. When we got back, the bad news: the C drive was bad. One good thing, I keep my data on another drive (G). The bad harddrive was under warranty so the repair person could send it back to Maxtor. In the meantime, Keith wanted me to buy another harddrive so I could use my computer during the weeks that it would take the replacement harddrive to arrive.

We left the harddrive at the shop to be repaired. Since it was a Saturday, the estimated installation date for the new harrdrive would be Tuesday. Even though the tower was ready on Tuesday evening, I didn't get down there to pick it up until Wednesday morning. Wow! I had a brand new 160GB harddrive. I was grateful that my data was stored on a physically separate drive, named "G". The new configuration named it "E". I have a webpage that I use for internal links and I had to change all references from "G" to "E" without changing all "e's" to "g's". Since I hadn't set up a C drive with my preferred settings for over a year, I decided to make a list:

These are the things I need to do after installing a new C-drive on My Computer.
Start time: 1:44 PM 3/9/2005  I worked on it the 10th and on the morning of the 11th.
1) Load McAfee Virus checker from CD

2) Set up separate accounts for Pamela and Administrator

3) Activate Windows.

4) Change "My Computer" to Menu view by going to Control Panel.
Change to Classic View
Choose Internet Options -> Advanced
a) Change settings b) Search from the Address bar: Choose "Do not search from the Address bar".
c) Security:
Check "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer (this allows PHP files to run and the Dictionary to work on the My home page.).

d) Click "Apply". Click "OK".

5) Change the My Documents folder by right-clicking on My Documents, Choose Properties, and Typing in new location. (E:\) Click yes when asked if you want to move all documents to new location. Click "Apply". Click "OK".

6) Add Quick Launch Toolbar to Taskbar.
Right click on Taskbar.
Choose "Toolbars".
Click "Quick Launch".

7) Set up dialup Internet Connection. 452-5800

8) Folder Options:
Start -> Control Panel -> Folder Options
-> View

9) Open PHP and SHTML files in Internet Explorer.

10) Configure Notepad:

11) Set-up Sound (Music)
Check to see that speakers are connected.

13) Replace link to dialup connection (ptialaska).

14) Set Internet Explorer

15) Change My Computer to Menu view

16) Add to Start Menu
Right click and choose "Pin to Start Menu"
Paint Shop Pro 5
Front Page
Calculator

Play a game of FreeCell. Try to win.

17) Load drivers for Printer
Test printer.
18) Load drivers for Scanner
Test scanner.

19) Update McAfee Virus Checker.

I downloaded 210 updates and it took a couple of hours on dialup. After installation of the updates, I got an error message. I got another popup on the screen that wanted to send an error report to Microsoft. I couldn't do anything until I sent the report. Then when I tried to download the updates again, I got another popup telling me to report the error to Microsoft. Realizing that this was a loop, I uninstalled McAfee and started over.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the McAfee Virus Checker and downloading the 210 updates three times. I deleted the Pamela account. I uninstalled and re-installed the virus checker again. I downloaded the updates. Each time I would get an error that the updates could not be synchronized. I would get the "report error to Microsoft" popup. I was up almost all night trying to get the virus checker to work. Finally I shut down the computer and went to bed.

When I restarted the computer, I logged in with the administrator password. I got an error message. I am positive that I had the right password. I got the message, "The administrator has deleted your account." Arghh! How did I do that? Were the Pamela account and Administrator account were linked somehow? I was really stuck now. So I loaded up the tower again and Todd and I took it back to the repair shop.

The tech person got into the administrator account. He tried to delete the password, but he got the message "cannot delete the primary password". He decided that the best thing to do was reformat the C drive again. I agreed. I also decided that my McAfee CD was too old to work with Windows XP Service Pack 2. (I had just paid for a years subscription of updates, too.) I didn't want another McAfee product on my computer. So I purchased Trend PC-cillin Internet Security 2005 because it was recommended highly by a PC World article I had read.

Since it was Friday, the tech person said he couldn't get to it until Monday. I asked him to load the virus checker and the DVD CD so I could play movies on my DVD drive. "While you are at it, put in a new fan, too," I instructed him. As it turned out, the computer wasn't ready until Tuesday. Keith picked it up for me and paid the bill for the new virus checker and fan. I wasn't charged shop time. When I got the computer back home, I noticed that he had loaded the Nero CD Burner program, too.

So now I was back to square one. I decided to start fresh the next afternoon. As I went through this list again, I moved some things around and added more. While I was loading the scanner drivers and the printer drivers the first time, I had noticed some odd flickering on the screen. Oh, well, I thought. Maybe these old drivers aren't compatible with Windows Service Pack 2.

Start time: 2:29 PM 3/16/2005

1) Loaded after C Drive reformat:

- Trend PC-cillin Internet Security 2005
- Load Nero CD burner software
- Power DVD software

These are the things I had to do after installing a new C-drive on My Computer.


2) Set up Internet Connection.
- dialup 452-5800

3) Activate Windows.

4) Change "My Computer" to Menu view by going to Control Panel.
- Change to Classic View
- Choose Internet Options -> Advanced
- a) Change settings:

- Uncheck "Automatically check for Internet Explorer updates".
- Uncheck "Enable offline items to be synchronized on a schedule".
- Uncheck "Show Go button in Address bar"
- Uncheck "Enable Image Toolbar.

- b) Search from the Address bar: Choose "Do not search from the Address bar".
- c) Security:
Check "Allow active content to run in files on My Computer (this allows PHP files to run and the Dictionary to work on the My home page.).

- d) Click "Apply". Click "OK".

5) Change the My Documents folder by right-clicking on My Documents, Choose Properties, and Typing in new location. (E:\) Click yes when asked if you want to move all documents to new location. Click "Apply". Click "OK".

6) Add Quick Launch Toolbar to Taskbar.
- Right click on Taskbar.
- Choose "Toolbars".
- Click "Quick Launch".

7) Add Daily shortcuts Toolbar to Taskbar. E:\myfolder\shortcuts
- Edit the icons if the data drive letter has been changed.

8) Folder Options:
Start -> Control Panel -> Folder Options
-> View

- Check "Display the contents of sytem folders"
- Check "Do not cache thumbnails".
- Check "Show hidden files and folders"
- Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types".
- Uncheck "Hide protected operating system files"
- Click "Apply". Click "OK".

9) Open PHP and SHTML files in Internet Explorer.

- a1) Click on PHP file.
- a2) Choose "Select the program from a list".
- a3) Choose "Internet Explorer".
- a4) Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"
- a5) Choose Internet Explorer

- b1) Right click on the SHTML file name.
- b2) Choose "Open With..."
- b3) Choose "Choose Program"
- a4) Choose "Select the program from a list".
- Click "OK".
- b5) Check box "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file"
- b6) Choose Internet Explorer
- Click "OK"

10) Configure Notepad:
- a) Change font in Notepad to FixedSys Regular (not Bold) size 9.
- b) Add shortcut to Notepad to Quick Launch toolbar.
- Go to Start-> My Computer -> Local Disk (C:)
- Click on Windows Folder
- Right click on Notepad.exe
- Choose "Create Shortcut"
- Drag shortcut to Quick Launch Toolbar.
- Delete shortcut from Windows folder.
- Empty Recycle Bin

11) Set-up Sound (Music)
- Start -> Right Click on My Computer -> Explore
-> Shared Documents -> Shared Music -> Sample Playlists
-> Open Folder (000D5247) -> Click on any Playlist

- Set-up wizard will appear.
- Click "Next".
- Uncheck "Retrieve media information for CDs and DVDs from the Internet"
- Uncheck "Update my music files by retrieving missing media information from the Internet."
- Uncheck "Acquire licenses automatically for protected content"
- Click next.
- Click on "More Options" tab (at top).
- Uncheck "Add shortcut to the Quick Launch bar"
- Click Finish.
- Test music
- Open C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music file.
- Check to see that speakers are connected.

13) Replace Daily link to dialup connection (ptialaska).

- Start-> Connect to -> Show All Connections
- Right click on ptialaska.
- Choose "Create Shortcut".
- Click "Yes".
- Copy shortcut to Daily folder.
- Delete old pti shortcut.
- Delete pti shortcut from desktop.
- Empty recycle bin.

14) Set Internet Explorer home page to
- my personal offline homepage

15) Change My Computer to Menu view

- Right-click Start Button
- Choose Properties
- Click on "Customize"
- Choose "Advanced" tab.
- Change:
-- My Computer - Choose "Display as a Menu"
-- My Music "Don't display this item".


16) Add to Start Menu
-- Right click and choose "Pin to Start Menu"
-- PSP E:\Applications\Paint Shop Pro 5
-- Front Page
-- Calculator

Play a game of FreeCell. Try to win.

14) Register Trend Virus Checker.
Update Virus Checker.


4:34 PM 3/16/2005
My list was helping because what had taken two days before had now taken two hours.

15) Load drivers for Printer

16) Load drivers for Scanner
-- Install HP Precisionscan Pro 3.1
-- Install HP Photo Printing Software
-- Uncheck other applications

17) Load drivers for Digital Camera

18) Load Microsoft Works
-- Register online.
-- Update Microsoft Office http://office.microsoft.com/officeupdate/
-- Pin to Start Menu

6:45 PM 3/16/2005

19) Customize Start Menu
- Start -> Right Click -> Properties (or) Start -> Control Panel -> Taskbar and Start Menu -> Start Menu
-- Click "Customize" button
---- Choose "Small icons"
- Click "Advanced" tab
-- Uncheck - Highlight newly installed programs
-- Control Panel - Display as a link
-- Check Enable dragging and dropping
-- Uncheck - Favorites menu
-- Check - Help and Support
-- My Computer - Display as a menu
-- My Documents - Display as a link
-- My Music - Don't display this item
-- My Pictures - Display as a menu
-- Network Connections - Display as Connect to menu
-- Check - Run Command
-- Uncheck
-- -- Printers and Faxes
-- -- Scroll Programs
-- -- Search
-- -- Set Program Access and Defaults
-- System Administrative Tools - Don't display this item.


21) Consolidate Folders in Start Menu
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu
C:\Documents and Settings\***\Start Menu
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Start Menu\Programs

Accessories
- Entertainment -> Media Player
Games
- Media
- HP Scanner
- Nero CD and DVD writer
- Olympus Camera
Microsoft
- All Microsoft and Windows Programs
- Microsoft Works
- Word
Paint
Startup
Trend (Virus Checker)
Utilities
- Adobe
- DVD
- Printer
- Sound

20) Download Acrobat Reader.

21) Download Ad-Aware

22) Download Spybot Search and Destroy