Recent content by Midi-Magic

I have now resolved the VLC and the flash player won't start issues. I uninstalled Skype, and Firefox. But I found VLC already uninstalled. Something had already uninstalled VLC, but it left the icon and changed it to a Microsoft sound icon. I reinstalled Firefox and VLC The inability to...

I just had a timing/latency problem occur on our network. The XP was not involved. Skype was installed on one of the computers. Suddenly, all of the other computers (mostly Win 7) on the network could not stream videos reliably. Now get this one: When Skype was uninstalled from that one...

I tried two ports. A set of headphones works. The microphone with it has stopped working. The keyboard and mouse work in the same USB unit.

A law that prohibits discontinuing software and support would not put the company out of business. It would keep them from changing versions all the time. Those microcontrollers were not generally available in the 1990s. What were we to do with the 20 year studies started in 1995. We didn't...

Another problem just surfaced. Windows 7 no longer recognizes a USB DVD drive. It does not even notice that the drive was plugged into the USB port. The drive works on other computers. The drive does not appear in Computer or Device Manager.

I will try to get this.

"Run the XP instance isolated in a VirtualMachine. But don't run it on native hardware connected to the outside world." This destroys the real-time nature of both of these special needs. "if your a scientist that is stuck in a 15 year old experiment loop. maybe it is time to compare your notes...

The articles I read were not online. They were in newspapers. Because of the variety of answers here, I still do not know what to believe. And I don't trust Microsoft anymore, since they tried to upgrade computers without permission. I also don't have a cell phone or a Facebook account.

It is NOT an antivirus message. I know what the antivirus messages look like. I have never seen this message or its format before. But it seems to have come from Computer (Windows Explorer). It is not just reporting the problem. It says "the file cannot be opened because it contains a virus."...

Are you picking up the air conditioner or a fan?

There was another rumor at the same time: If Microsoft ever disappeared from the Internet (e.g. an ISIS attack), all Windows 10 computers would quit working because they could not periodically verify that their installations were genuine.

Other reasons I still need XP: - Sending my files to my website. Windows 10 messes with them. - They destroyed the Paint program in Vista and beyond, making it an artsy-crafty editor instead of a line and shape editor (using scientific primary colors) I need for explanatory web pages. - I...