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"You have files ready to be written to the CD". No I've not...

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It's the latest strange message to appear on my screen. It pops up during startup, then everything waits until I acknowledge it.

Checking the source of this message reveals a folder called 'Xtras', the icon is a regular folder with a little 'down' arrow in the bottom left corner, it contains one folder. It passes Spybot S&D, Clam AV, and Malwarebytes, and upon opening reveals another folder titled 'New folder'. This folder is empty.

One thing I've never tried to do on this machine is write to the CD. I've just never had cause to do it, so, how did this 'file' come about? Computers do strange things, but not off their own bat, someone somewhere always has to have had a hand in it, intentionally or otherwise, so does anyone know where 'Xtras' might have come from and how an empty folder has fooled a perfectly sensible 'pooter into thinking it's a file that requires copying to CD?

I think we should be told, preferably before I consign 'Xtras' to the pits of the netherworld.

And that's another thing. Why has Microsoft retitled the scrap bin as recycling? Darf' oi calls it...

OK. This DummyWindowless. What is it? Whose is it? And who left it there?

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Yup. DummyWindowless appeared on my computer the day before yesterday. The earliest posts I can find about the thing are from 2008 and people are still posting.

The two most common opinions are that it's a Mozilla/Firebird thing and that it's harmelss, or that it's a Flash/Macromedia thing, and it's decidedly not harmless. One of the things it's blamed for is computer slowdown, and boy have I been experiencing that lately...

What I don't understand is how no one has successfully identified it yet. Who did write it and what does it do? Is it a supercookie? Why, when you can get the message "DummyWindowless is not responding" can you find no reference to it anywhere on your machine no matter how deep the search?

One thing's for sure, if no one's admitting to it then it's not something nice, so I'm downloading everything that claims to be able to deal with it, whether it be Flash or Firefox.

Which probably means that I'm downloading all sorts of crap that will slow my machine down even more...

Augh! Steaming aardvarks! I do so hate Windows. I suspect that this computer is only days away from becoming a Linux machine...

...and much faster for it.

The pink laptop returns.

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Any other Linux users out there having problems with Opera 10? Since upgrading I've not been able to fire up Opera, even by going to the file and clicking on the actual program. I know the XP version works, and I quite like it, trouble is the only thing I like about XP itself is that it's not Vista.

Why couldn't they have just kept on upgrading Windows 98? That's what I want to know.

It's a little strange to see how well programs that started life as Linux counterparts of expensive Windows programs are now running on Windows. I wish ports the other way worked so well. I guess the problem is the number of different versions of Linux there are. Windows programmers only have to work on maybe 3 or 4 variations, Linux has splintered into 3 figures, most of which will never really get the support they need. In fact Opera is one of the best at various distribution support.

Well, except when it doesn't work!!! bigsmile
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