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Last response: February 7, 2003 3:37 AM in Windows XP

Stormfury

February 6, 2003 12:17:24 AM

I finally switched over from win 98 to xp and wow what a change. I was surprised that there were no problems whatso ever during installation. Since everything is so messed up compared to win98 I have a few questions. I tried installing an old modem but it didn't work so how do I unistall the damn thing??? It keeps on appearing down on my tray. When I try to shut off my computer I get a blue screen and it restarts instead of shutting off. The problem is the screen is on there for just a few seconds and I can't read what it says. Any suggestions???Last question, what are the service packs and will the 2nd one come out in the huge file like the first one? I have a dial-up so it would take forever to download. Thanks a lot for all the help!!

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DCB_AU

February 6, 2003 2:36:13 AM

Sometimes hardware/drivers don't want to be uninstalled.

You might have to reinstall XP.

DCB_AU

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khha4113

February 6, 2003 3:13:43 AM

If your modem driver has an entry in Add or Remove programs (Control Panel), you can uninstall it there.
Otherwise, you can stop it from being loaded (appears on your system tray) by using msconfig (Startup tab) tool or edit Registry (using Regedit) which usually from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

:smile: Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

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Stormfury

February 7, 2003 3:37:28 AM

Thanks for the help, seems I can't remove the modem.Oh well it doesn't affect anything. What about being able to pause the screen when I try to shut down? I want to figure out on how to fix the blue screen.

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