Recent content by dnormtech

Thx, but I dont know if Steam has what is needed. I want to use tele-conferencing to enable chat for four players at remote locations. Another program would have to shuffle and deal the cards to each player, take care of mechanics as players play their hands...

The software programs must be around somewhere? I dont know if they were flash or java applets... remember when the AOL disks were everywhere? (floppys and then CD's) free, in the mail, every... day...

For instance, back in the late 90's you could dial in to Pogo, AOL, or Yahoo games, and play a game of spades with real people playing their hands. The game site dealt cards to real people, though anonymous, from thousands of people playing online at any given time. My sister and her friend...

Looking for ways for people at different locations to play card games. Needs internet based program to link players and handle deck of cards. Like Pogo, AOL, Yahoo games, back in the day... Any response most welcome... regards... David

installation of sp3 worked without any problem, and installed all available updates, except for the ie updates, cuz i dont use ie... thanks guys... regards... dnorm

have all available updates installed for xp sp3, except the ie ones, cuz i dont use ie. thanks for the help. regards... dnormtech

thanks guys... i found installation files for sp2 and sp3... thing is, the install of sp2 appeared to 'complete', and then while 'finishing' it seemed to fail, sending a report to MS, and referring me to PCTools, which is no longer supported. (?) But this morning, I found that AIDA...

unicorn, your response does help... alot of years ago, i took a notebook computer on a weekend vacation. i hadnt used it in months, and when i connected to the internet, had alot of updates to install for XP (as i recall, around 60). i let windows update install them all, and my system...

open task manager, look for a process which may be taxing the cpu, or using available memory. i have the max 2 Gig ram on my system, and it turns out that i have an older video card, so my system suffers lag, particularly in the browser. i get a lot of 'not responding' msgs, which clear...

not pirated software... d.

a man of few words... regards...

I know that MS officially, finally, stopped supporting Win XP last month (though they did relent becuz of the security breach a week or so ago... my ? is... are the updates of XP, post sp3 to discontinuation of support, still available from MS... or from elsewhere? will enabling...

i am used to seeing, during boot, a black screen with text asking whether i want to boot from CD... i dont see that... dnormtech

hp pavilion, xp sp1, want to install sp2 or sp3... the computer will sometimes boot 'ebcd' disc (linux), but usually it boots the windows install on the HD. CD is listed as boot device before HD, but it will not boot from the 'bootable' WinXP sp2' CD that I used successfully on another...

I recommend Avast free antivirus... have been using it on all my systems for 10 years or more. virus definitions automatically updated daily... I use malwarebytes (free) and spybot search and destroy (free) against malware... suggest comodo (free) or zonealarm (free) for firewall... i...