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””I would also like to see CastleCops to come back as they helped me more than any other. They all have been a great HELP to educate me on my system, “” I did about 25,000+ posts there helping people. You may have been one.

“wawa dave”

YES!! You probably have provided much information that I have absorbed from that site. I thought that name or nick sounded a bit familiar. I did not post that often nor very much, mostly did read in areas that had the same questions as I had.

As I have posted in response to Eike Heinze keep posting as I read any that cover a question or group of them that I have in mind.

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A personal note up front: I am always asking myself why some people have to hide behind “cutesy” handles like NTxLS (only as an example) and don’t give me/us a chance to send them an email; yes, I have read your profile. So I need to say it publicly:

Do you mean to say you started with MSE in July 2008? That seems to be unlikely to say the least. This Wikowdia page at least says “On 23 June 2009, Microsoft opened a public beta to 75,000 people…”.

I have used it since mid July 2009. The official release was on September 29th 2009.

Re. CastleCops: Have you had a look at BleepingComputer.com? I have found their articles and their forum very useful.

From what I read you best me by 10 years of age and about 16 years of experience, congrats. I better shut up. :wacko:Wi

Eike Heinze,

I had a rather long winded reply to this message with some explanations and other unnecessary rhetoric and lost it some where.

Just to tell you that was not an attempt to “one up you” or any other maybe miss understood attempt to try to look better than anyone else. Just wanting to let another know I am not an Xpert but have been learning on my own with some HELP from other forums. Wilders Security, MSFN, SaferNetWorking, Piriform, Dell, Pegasus Community, MSTechNet, SysInternals, just to name a few.

Will check out “BleepingComputerDotCom” when time permits. Above all, do NOT “shut up” because we learn from posts, talking about myself and others that are like myself, we need any and all in-put from those that are more knowledgeable in these areas. You evidently do not really understand how important you are to us, less knowledge and a desire to learn. Keep up whatever you do because I for ONE learn much from you and those like you.

If I wore a HAT I would take off my hat to you and say, “SALUTE”,

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“Eike Heinze“
Thank you for the information and giving me some corrections. Actually I purchased my desktop in July, 2008 and did start with a Beta version of MSE while still running several AV programs as well as several Malware/ Spyware programs without any conflicts. I do not remember the exact dates nor what all I had on my system. Just that after removing Vista vomit and installing Win7, that only took about 35 – 40 minutes to complete, I was back on the web and downloading programs that I wanted and needed to feel as safe and comfortable as possible. True, I am not an Xpert as I had told all before, learned what I know and how to keep me as safe as possible from the School-of-hard-Knocks. No formal training on any of these systems. Have progressed from Win3.1/3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 98SE, XP, Vista and now Win7. Installed my own system with Windows 98 SE and Win7. Only one time in all of this time and many BSOD that I had to reinstall my Win98SE from CD. I managed to find my problem and solved it myself, on rare occasion received HELP from a friend or one of the Forums (about 50 of them) to assist me in my troubleshooting. No I am not an Xpert but do know something about my system and do my own work to keep it as safe as possible. I make my own decisions as to what needs to be done to restore my system to normal operations.

I would also like to see CastleCops to come back as they helped me more than any other. They all have been a great HELP to educate me on my system, Windows Secrets has also given me much information and links to gain more security and I do thank them very much for providing the FREE version of WS Newsletter as I am retired Journeyman Electronics Technician with about 62 years experience.

Again I Thank You for the corrections,

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I too have been using Pegasus for many years, 1994 or 5, and am not any sort of an Xpert with these systems. I thought the learning curve would be rather difficult to get past with such a powerful program, it was very easy. Am now working with my Wife to assist her in becoming a Pegasus user. Most of my problems have been with my ISP always telling me, “sorry but we do not support that client” and I tell them they do not need to as I know how to use it. Have been using this for over 12 years and know how to set it up and have it do what I want, with filters, SPAM blocker, sort and send to my selected mailboxes and even an encryptor that I have not used yet.

Thank you for reading my roaster poster,

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My compliments to Mr. Fred Langa for his latest article in Windows Secrets.

I started using MSE about a year and half ago and was very surprised to find it so easy to install and setup to keep me as safe as possible. I do not mind the ‘out of the box’ settings as I am not an Xpert with these systems even though have been using them since about 1985, in DOS only. As for the Windows Firewall, there are not words in my vocabulary to describe my inability to setup a “safe” firewall.

The testing and information provided is very comforting to read. Yes, I have done some testing myself, not as he has done, by some of my software that I had on my previous system (Vista SP1 and 2 32bit) and MSE found many of those old files as a problem and they were removed. They were for Vista 32bit and I now have Win7 64bit. No love lost nor any worries – bye, bye bad files.

That information needs to be broadcast more widely, plus I am also running Spybot Search & Destroy w/o teatimer, Super Antimalware latest updates daily, and Alwil’s Avast! v5.x.x FREE without any difficulties or conflicts.

Very good article – Thank you very much,

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Greetings from a NON-geek,

I have been attempting to load the Win 7 64bit setup and run functions for an HP 4580 ALL-IN-ONE printer, after doing several restore points my system kept getting slower and sslloowweerr until it was taking up to 25-30 min just to start a program or shut down my system. Found from a friend that Avast 5, antivirus program had a problem with the Restore Points. Removed that and now using Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft’s FireWall and finally finding a restore point that would give me my system back. It took a little time and effort with removing some leftover entries in the Registry files and some old folders for that software as well as HPs entries to get my system running. Still need to get their, HP’s, complete package entered into my system so I may use my printer to it’s max abilities. All of that has taken about a MONTH worth of work. Have not reinstalled my Win7 64bit Home Premium software, thought I was going to need to do that though. I have had a little HELP with removing some of the unwanted software, Revo Uninstaller by VS Revo Group. If that would HELP you any then try it, what I have is the FREE version, there is a Pro version that is supposed to work with Win 7 64bit, it costs though. This is NOT an advertisement for that software just want to share my experiences with a similar problem as HH has.

One problem I am having is doing a backup and placed it on a H/D hooked to a USB port and all went well with the backup, but; now that H/D will not go away and show any other that I connect through the same point, like if I connect an 8.4 gig drive then do a backup, if changing to a 20 gig drive will not show in the backup window it remains the 8.4gig. Any ideas as to how to remove the first entry in that backup area and change it to some other drive?

Thank you for reading my rambling mess, do not mean to HiJack anothers post.

HH,
To share with you on that question about A/V running in ‘Safe Mode’, in my system NO, if you go into ‘Save Mode’ and then Services under Administrator tools you may see what is allowed to run.

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