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In article Gx9se.13357$9a1.1787@trnddc01 writes:
My recollection of SFC is that it works a little differently in Win98
than in 2000 or XP, at least it's more informative and tells you what
it's doing.
No advanced options for displaying the results or notifying along the way?
There are a number of switches, but I haven't tried them all to see
what they do. I suppose that somewhere in the Microsoft knowledge base
there's complete documentation for it, but I haven't looked.
You're aware that the first time it runs it reports nothing, yes?
No, I wasn't. I assumed that it used the source disk as the reference.
That would be the way to get back to "ground zero" but that's likely
to put you back to pre-service pack installation. I wasn't aware that
the "gold standard" was on the computer's own disk. Sounds kind of
risky to me.
The first
run is for building a data base; which is why folks should run it the minute
the OS install disc is first taken out, and then run after every update or
install of software so as to keep up with all changes that occur.
This seems like something that should be automatic with every
installer, including service packs. Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Maybe
it is, someties.
Same here. I don't even use an exceptions list. I tell it to ask me
for approval on every piece of software, even those I access the
net with quite often (FTP, AdAware, etc) except IE and OE.
I don't use Outlook Express, but I do have it installed and there's a
mailing list. I initially had that on the Zone Alarm "allow" list, but
have taken it off. I keep hearing tales of worms that take control of
OE and send out spam on their own. If that's what it actually does,
then Outlook Express should pop up and aske if I want to allow it
access to the Internet, warning me that it was being called by
something other than me. But so far that hasn't happened.
Do you use Real JukeBox? It tries every time it's opened, just like
Windows Media Player.exe and Setupwmp.exe do when you launch
the MS media player.
I don't use Real Jukebox, but I use Media Player. When Zone Alarm asks
me if I want to allow access to setupwmp.exe, I tell it no and what I
want to play on line plays anyway.
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I'm really Mike Rivers )
However, until the spam goes away or Hell freezes over,
lots of IP addresses are blocked from this system. If
you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo
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