On Monday 15 May 2006 7:17 pm, motivated wrote: > I have my cousins computer here, it is meant to run winXP home addition. > Theres some strange things going on with it : > Cant get into Outlook Express because it keeps asking for an idenity, but > it wont allow you to create one.
I think that was one of the problems created by one of MS's Critical Updates recently. The latest update may fix it. > Trying to install winzip but the best that > I can get is having to re-install it over and over. Why do you need WinZip? WinXP has its own built in extractor. (Does not compress stuff though.) > Setting desktop icons > makes no difference (nothing changes). Not sure what you mean by this. > > So here is the *nix question : > I tried running Damn Small Linux live cd and it immediately comes up with > an error : Only one processor found. > > I find much of what Linux based OS's do kinda back the front, so is it > actually reporting an error because if it is it would explain much of the > problems with the comp. > > Thanks guys
