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Joe T.

Flightless Bird
Can someone tell me what this is? What does it do? I'm cleaning up a office
computer a ex-employee was using for a new employee. It's a icon on her
desktop.
XP Pro, Retail version SP2
 
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VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Joe T. wrote:

> Can someone tell me what this is? What does it do? I'm cleaning up a office
> computer a ex-employee was using for a new employee. It's a icon on her
> desktop.
> XP Pro, Retail version SP2


And why aren't you flattening and rebuilding (using an image or sysprep) to
provide a FRESH install of the OS with all the necessary applications on the
new employee's computer (which is a used computer polluted with you know not
what)? Stop wasting time trying to cleanup a used host. Re-image it and
provide a NEW setup to the new employee.
 
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PA Bear [MS MVP]

Flightless Bird
Format the HDD & do a clean install of Windows. Please note that a Repair
Install (AKA in-place upgrade) will NOT suffice!

HOW TO do a clean install of WinXP: See
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html#steps and/or Method 1 in
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978307

After the clean install, you'll have the equivalent of a "new computer" so
take care of everything on the following page before otherwise connecting
the machine to the internet or a local network (i.e., other computers) and
before using a flash drive or SDCard that isn't brand-new or hasn't been
freshly formatted:

4 steps to help protect your new computer before you go online
http://www.microsoft.com/security/pypc.aspx

Other helpful references include:

HOW TO get a computer running WinXP Gold (no Service Packs) fully patched
(after a clean install)
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsupdate/msg/3f5afa8ed33e121c

HOW TO get a computer running WinXP SP1(a) or SP2 fully patched (after a
clean install)
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/msg/a066ae41add7dd2b

Note: Extended Support for WinXP SP2 ends on 10 July 2010. After that date,
computers running WinXP SP2 will NOT be offered any further critical
security updates, Automatic Updates will not work, and Windows Update
website will not be accessible until SP3 is installed.

Tip: After getting the computer fully-patched, download/install KB971029
manually: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971029

NB: Any Norton or McAfee free-trial that came preinstalled on the computer
when you bought it will be reinstalled (but invalid) when Windows is
reinstalled. You MUST uninstall the free-trial and download/run the
appropriate removal tool before installing any updates, Windows Service
Packs or IE upgrades and before installing your new anti-virus application
(which will require WinXP SP3 to be installed).

Norton Removal Tool
ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/removal_tools/Norton_Removal_Tool.exe

McAfee Consumer Products Removal Tool
http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/MCPR.exe

--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Client - since 2002

Joe T. wrote:
> Can someone tell me what this is? What does it do? I'm cleaning up a
> office
> computer a ex-employee was using for a new employee. It's a icon on her
> desktop.
> XP Pro, Retail version SP2
 
P

Peter Foldes

Flightless Bird
LOL. My wife used JPreg as the file to keep track of her pregnancy years ago

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Peter

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"Joe T." <JoeT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D9E75EC5-35E1-4F5E-BE9A-31C859415B72@microsoft.com...
> Can someone tell me what this is? What does it do? I'm cleaning up a office
> computer a ex-employee was using for a new employee. It's a icon on her
> desktop.
> XP Pro, Retail version SP2
 
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Jose

Flightless Bird
On Feb 25, 1:03 am, Joe T. <J...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Can someone tell me what this is? What does it do? I'm cleaning up a office
> computer a ex-employee was using for a new employee. It's a icon on her
> desktop.
> XP Pro, Retail version SP2


If it is not somehow associated with The Scottish Parliament Renewable
energy & Energy efficiency Group (SPREG), then you have not provided
enough information.

You should whack that system and reinstall everything from scratch or
you will spend a lot more time wondering what things are and what they
do. You only need to be wondering about your stuff, not somebody
else's old stuff.

If this is an office computer or, I would dazzle them with a blast of
brilliance by suggesting to the IT department that they create a
method to efficiently redeploy used computers in the workplace.
 
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