Recovering from 10 hours Windows XP activation horror

[hartiberlin]

Which service  controls the Winlogon.exe
file in the WinXP running services control menu ?

Is it needed for normal Internet surfing ?

[shruggedatlas]

Which service  controls the Winlogon.exe
file in the WinXP running services control menu ?

Is it needed for normal Internet surfing ?

Winlogon.exe is a necessary process - it relates to logging in to Windows XP.  It has nothing to do with Internet surfing.

[shruggedatlas]

Also what is the best software firewall under WinXP ?

I find that the best firewall is just the one that comes with Windows XP.

[wattsup]

Hi Stefan;

To check all the system files in WinXP go to Start/Run and type in...

sfc /scannow     (keep this command handy)

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When you run System File Checker it looks to see if any protected files have been overwritten. If so, it grabs the correct version of the file from the Dllcache or the Windows installation source files, and then replaces the incorrect file. SFC also checks and repopulates the cache folder.
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Here are some other goodies
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The best firewall is no firewall in the computer. Just use the one that's in the high speed modem or router. This stops them before they get to your computer. Just type in the address of the modem or router and you will get into the interface for setting it up. See your modem manual.

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For controlling what is installed in WinXP I use XPlite located at http://www.litepc.com/

You can install all or remove any portion of Windows XP using XPlite, and therefore leave out all the Windows programs that cause all the back door crap in the first place, plus much more. Then you install the third party programs you really use.

Also some powerful tools I use;

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REGSUPREME PRO at http://jv16.org
Best 17$ you'll ever spend.
This program I've used since many many years under W98 and now under WinXP.
Best registry cleaner, fixer and for remiving long time vestiges of long ago removed software, plus let's you quicly remove strat-up programs tha have been installed by programs.

In my start-up list, all I have is one entry for my super dupper sound card and that's it. I run over 60 programs on my computer and none are hoggy my CPU at start up.

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TASKINFO at http://www.iarsn.com/
Very powerful program to spot what's active, what's idle n case you feel there is any program running in the background that should not be running at all.

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AD-AWARE SE at http://lavasoft.com/
If you keep this updated, it will save you much hassles with spyware.

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ZTREEWIN at http://ztree.com/
The is the best file managing program ever. It is powerfull because it enable you to see files without open them, link them to an editor and you can edit even binaries. Very powerful when working at low level.

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ULTRAEDIT at http://ultraedit.com
This is the best editor you can have (not for word processing or desktop publishing) to edit text, work in programming like Perl or CGI or others and will keep the programming language conventions, editing binaries. Small prgram but huge usefullnes, simple and slim.

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EUDORA at http://eudora.com
This is the best email client you can have. Use this and junk the rest. You can import your current setup, make many personalities, client lists, the hole works.

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Hope this helps.

[hartiberlin]

Hi Wattsup,
many thanks.

What about Microsoft security updates for the WinXP
operating system, if you have removed
Internet Explorer with XPLite.

Then you can not go to update.microsoft.com
and can not update your operating system with
fixes,
so how do you keep your OS running with the newest fixes ?

I only still use IE for updating WinXP, not anything more...
I use
http://www.xp-antispy.org/

for switching back and forth the system rights to be able to deactive for
instance Active X allowance, etc...