Your subject title needs a little improvement. The forum is about Windows XP, so selecting a title so a person will think "I know that one" is a good idea. Spend a moment to craft a good title. Imagine if all posts used "XP" or "Help!"
Your issue "smells" of a parasite or worm infection.
As supplied XP is open to the worms and has no protection from parasites. Even with an Antivirus, the parasites still have free reign in IE/OE. Microsoft has not shown any interest in curbing this non-virus plague.
Light reading at http://www.doxdesk.com/parasite/
Please consider using another browser most of the time so you are not in the line of fire.
Bob
Morning,
Recently I've upgraded my PC from Win98SE to WinXP. I'm till learning the ropes with XP but it seems to be doing well for me with one exception.
When I surf, I sometimes want to print a topic after reading it. On a number of occasions which using Internet Explorer,I've tried to print a selection and nothing happens. Then, after waiting a minute I click CTL-ALT-DEL and the task manager informs me that IE is not responding.
Always when this happens...after I end the task and get ready to shut down the computer, I get an error box that pops-up indicating "Socket Notifiction" (There's the blue bar that builds at the bottom with the ubiquitous XP notification of "you can end now...or end later. Never saw this on 98SE)
What is this and what should I check to make sure I have the OS and my peripherals communicating properly?? Also, XP indicates at the beginning of every session that a number of drivers have been disabled by the system. When I check the only ones are for the Roxio products which I really don't use. How can I correct this?
Thanks folks,
Ken Johnson
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