98 dinosaur finally extinct!
I was asked to sort out some business for a chap who had just died and part of the deal was that I could keep his computer once I had finished.
It was just as well! Just as I always seem to find a golf ball immediately before I lose my own, my 98 beast started to emit a death rattle just as I put the final full stop to the task I had been left.
However, a couple of things have come up with the new(er) machine and I would be glad to receive help with them, please.
Every now and then the magnifier pops up when I don't think I've done anything to cause it. I'd love to know how to stop it from doing this and how to switch it off once it appears. I expect that it would be "a good thing" to know how to turn it on intentionally - don't misunderstand that! - as well. At the moment I'm stopping the magnifier by restarting the machine, which is a bit of a drag.
I'm pretty sure that the chap who owned it will have done everything legally and that the XP onboard is OEM but I've been getting pop-ups of Windows Genuine Advantage (yes, I too think it would be a "first" for Microsoft to offer something which was to my advantage rather than theirs!) asking me to let them report back on the XP on the machine. I can see that WGA, in one form or another, has been on the machine since 2007 and it seems odd that the issue of the validity of my XP hasn't been sorted out by now. Can I check if my XP is kosher before allowing WGA to call home?
The machine has XP with service pack 3 and with security updates duly received more or less every month up until last week. It appears to have a dual core Pentium of 3.2 GHz and 2 GB of RAM. It's a little bit quicker than my extinct 98 too....