It's my understanding that Microsoft will continue to activate XP installations.

OK, I got out my Windows disk and reinstalled the Windows boot loader. That fixed it. Now I can boot while my external drive is turned on. So at least for the time being I will using my Puppy disk when I want to boot into Puppy. I also tested that and it works. I get the same desktop as before.

Thanks for your reply. One of the other things I did was connecting the external drive to another computer that only has Windows installed on it and it booted up just fine.

Hi, I set up a frugal install of Puppy 5.2 on it's own dedicated partition then installed Grub4DOS to make a dual boot system. My other OS is Windows 7 Pro. The Grub files were installed to the root of my C drive. It works great except for one problem. When I have my Seagate external USB hard drive ...

Yes, everything is cool now. So I booted back into Puppy secure in the knowledge that on the rare occasion when I need to use Windows I can.

I might have finally figured out what it was. I had been running AVG antivirus software. It dawned on me that I had recently upgraded it to a new version. The BSOD problem happened after that. I hadn't considered that before because AVG seems to be coming out with frequent updates and I had never ha...

One of the first things I did was run Windows Checkdisk and it found no problems. So I just tried GParted as you suggested and it also found no problems. I just opened my Windows\Minidump folder and it was empty (I had it set to view hidden files.) I really appreciate all of the effort that you guys...

I bought this computer in November of 2009. It came with WinXP (it had downgrade rights from Vista.) Then in the spring of 2010 a got a Wiin7 disk and upgraded from XP to Win7. It's a 32 bit system. My pagefile is fixed at 3GB. I have 3 GB of RAM. Are you suggesting that I change the pagefile to 4.5...

Thanks. That's a lot for me to go over.

Yes, I use compressed air to clean my computer's insides.

BTW, I have ATI video drivers.

Thanks. But no, it happened several months after.

I have a dual boot system with Windows 7 and a frugal install of Puppy 5.2.8. I keep my Puppy files on a separate partition. Lately when running Windows I have been getting an occasional blue screen of death with a "page fault in non paged area" error message. I have tried to troubleshoot ...

Here is my minimalist Icewm desktop on Lupu 5.2.8.

That 10 GB of free space is probably outside of the Puppy files. Rather than downloading it in your /root/download folder create a download folder in your /mnt folder and then point Transmission to it. There should be plenty of space for a 1 GB file there. Or you could use your file manager to navig...

Semme, you always seem ready to hep a newbie like me. Thanks a lot. By the way, in case anyone is interested, I also figured out how to add a folder to the Icewm quicklaunch menu. If you want to add the downloads folder to the quicklaunch menu, open the toolbar file in the.icewm folder and add this:...

Thanks but I already installed it from a link in another forum. I got it to work thanks.

Thanks. Under Action do I just type the path to the folder I want to point to? I tried that and it doesn't seem to work. I must be doing something wrong.

I'm back with my next question. :-) I figured out how to add and delete shortcuts to programs from the quicklaunch button that sits on the Icewm toolbar. But I can't figure out how to add a shortcut to a folder to quicklaunch. Is there some way to edit the toolbar file in the ,Icewm directory to do ...

Thanks. That works for FF. Now it opens in the stand alone VLC player. But I can't figure out how to do the same with Chrome which is my default browser. Do you know how to set MIME types in Chrome?

Not be be beating a dead horse, but it doesn't play in either Chromium or Firefox. Those are the only two browsers I have to test it on. Chromium puts out an error message and Firefox just puts out a blank black screen when I try to play an M3U file from the Internet. That's with the VLC plugin. The...

When I clicked on the link to http://57chevyradio.com/chevy.m3u is said "couldn't load plugin." But curiously when I click on a local m3u file residing on my hard drive VLC opens it right up and starts playing it. It's only files hosted on the Internet that give me problems. (I made VLC my...