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Windows, Networking and Software

FAQ, Tips, Hints, and Wisdom for Windows 98x/XP

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For additional information about how to perform an in-place upgrade or repair installation, click the

following article number to view the article in the

Microsoft Knowledge Base: 315341 How to Perform an In-Place Upgrade (Reinstallation) of Windows

11. Reinstall all updates to Windows.

Windows Media Player – Changes You Should Make

Richard Smith wrote about some of the Media Player problems six months ago. I was a bit surprised to find

that a bone-stock installation of WinXP SP-1 retained some of the settings that Richard found to be

problematic.

Start Windows Media Player. Click Tools | Options

Uncheck the box marked Allow Internet sites to uniquely identify your Player. That forces WMP to come

up with a new i.d. number every time it's started, so Microsoft can't track your machine from session to

session.

Uncheck the box marked Acquire licenses automatically. You bought the license to your music when you

bought the CD. It is none of Microsoft's business what you do with it.

If you use WMP to download the music be sure to turn off Digital Rights Management. [Tools | Options |

copy music tab | uncheck "copy protect music"].

Windows Messenger Ads

If they say messenger service in the title bar, these have nothing to do with MSN messenger or Windows

messenger. What this is a new way for spammers to attack your computer and send you pop-up ads. If you

receive these ads it means that your computers netbios ports are wide open to the internet and this could be

a real security problem. What you should do is install a good firewall that will block the ports the

spammers use and stop the ads. A good place to start is Zone Alarm ( www.zonelabs.com ) for an

inbound/outbound blocking firewall or use the inbound blocking only firewall built in to XP.

If needed configure the XP firewall to block ports 135, 137-139 and 445. Zone Alarm will block these ports

by default.

Use this site to test some of your ports security:

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

You can disable the messenger service, which is the service the spammers exploit, but it isn't needed to stop

the ads and disabling the service will not secure your computer from outside attacks or block the open

netbios ports.

Note: If the Messenger service is stopped, messages from the Alerter service (notifications from your

antivirus software, for example) are not transmitted. If the Messenger service is turned off, any services that

explicitly depend on the Messenger service do not start, and an error message is logged in the System event

log. For this reason, Microsoft recommends that you install a firewall and configure it to block NetBIOS

and RPC traffic instead of turning off the Messenger service.

Windows Update – What To Do If It Fails

Go to www.windowsupdate.com and click on Windows Update Catalog. Download the update manually

(using Save As and not Open). Next, run the update and let us know the error that you are getting (either

during the installation or in the Event Log).

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