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Download FIREFOX 3.6 via FTP on Windows XP

Start -> Run -> type FTP 63.245.208.138 and then press Enter.

Command Window shows “Connected to 63.245.208.138 ftp.mozilla.org /archive.mozilla.org – files are in  /pub/Mozilla.org User (63.245.208.138Lnone)):.’

At ‘User (63.245.208.138(none)):’ type “anonymous” then hit ”ENTER”.

You will get a message saying ‘331 Please specify the password’. At “Password”: type in your email address then hit “Enter“ .

You will get message saying ‘230 Login Successful.’ Next at ‘ftp>’ type “HASH” then hit  “ENTER” Key.

You will get a message saying ‘(Hash mark printing on ftpL2048 bytes/hash mark).’

At ftp prompt type “cd /pub/Mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6/win32/en-US/”    then hit ENTER key. (It must be a capital US for en-US)

You will get message saying ‘250 Directory successfully changed. ftp>”type “BINARY” then hit ENTER.

You will get message saying 200’ Switching to Binary mode. ftp’ Then type “lcd c:\” then hit ENTER.

You will get message saying ‘Local directory now C:\. ftp>’. Then type “mget *.exe” then hit ENTER

Windows Firewall may come up. If it does click on unblock.

It will then say ‘mget Firefox setup 3.6.exe?’. Then type “yes” at the end of that line.

A bunch of ## will appear. With message saying ’00 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Opening BINARY mode sata connection for Firefox Setup 3.6.exe ########################

When Finished, it will say ‘226 File send OK. ftp:.....”This means the file has been downloaded to local drive C:\

At the ftp prompt type “EXIT or QUIT”. This close out the command window.

Check Firefox setup in C:\ now

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How to Fix Computer Continuously Rebooting After XP SP3 is installed

Stop Error 0x0000007E After SP3 is installed

I've had a few computers that will not boot correctly after I've installed Windows XP Service Pack 3 on them. The computer finishes the install and then prompts for a reboot. The computer will start to reboot then give a BSOD Stop Error for a second and reboot again. This process will continue unless the computer is started in Safe Mode. In Safe mode the computer boots correctly and everything seems fine.

This problem only appears on some systems after upgrading to SP3. This particular problem on systems that have been prepared with SysPrep. The sysprep image was created on an Intel based computer, and then the sysprep image is deployed on a Non-Intel system such as an AMD processor.  In these cases, the registry entry for Intelppm is incorrectly set and causes the computer to go into a continuous reboot after the service pack has installed.

How to Solve This Problem?

Follow these steps to resolve this issue with the computer not booting correctly after SP3 is installed.

1) Start your computer in Safe Mode.

2) Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT and press Enter. This will open the Registry Editor.

3) Click the pluses(+) next to the following registry keys to navigate to the correct spot.

•  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
• SYSTEM
• CurrentControlSet
• Services
• Intelppm

4) In the right hand column find the entry titled START and double-click on it

5) Change the number to 4 and click Ok

6) Close the Registry Editor

7) Shut down your computer and restart

This time the computer should restart normally and finish the installation of SP3.

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Setup Yahoo! Mail in Outlook Express

To create a new email account in Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu, and click Accounts.

A window will open, and show all email accounts (and other account types) you may have previously setup in Outlook Express. Click the Add button on the right, and choose Mail from the menu that opens.

Outlook Express' Internet Connection Wizard will open and ask for a "Display Name" - type your name as you would like it to appear to recipients when you send emails from Outlook Express using your Yahoo! Mail account.

After typing your Display Name, click the Next button.

In the following screen's text box, type your full Yahoo! Mail email address in the form "userName@yahoo.com" - double-check your email address for typos, and click Next.

Yahoo! Mail Email Server Settings for Outlook Express

Here are the mail server settings you need to setup to enable Outlook Express to connect to the Yahoo! Mail Service:

- Type  plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com  under "Incoming mail (POP3, IMAP or HTTP) server"
- Type  plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com  in the "Outgoing mail (SMTP) server" textbox

Your Yahoo! Mail server settings should now look exactly like the screenshot below:


Click the Next button to finish setting up your email account.

In the final screen of the email account setup, Outlook Express collects your Yahoo! Mail user name and password. Enter again your full Yahoo! email address in the form "userName@yahoo.com" and type your password.



Outlook Express automatically checks the "Remember password" checkbox: this means that you will not have to re-type your password every time you need to check your Yahoo! emails. If you uncheck this box, Outlook Express will ask for your Yahoo! Mail password as needed: this option can be useful if you are using Outlook Express from a computer accessible by other people.

Finalizing the Yahoo! Mail account setup in Outlook Express

We are just about done setting up Yahoo! in Outlook Express: a few more settings remain to be configured manually. Now that you are back in front of Outlook Express' Internet Accounts window, select the Yahoo! Mail account you just created, and click Properties.

From the account properties window, select the Servers tab; locate the bottom section labeled "Outgoing Mail Server", and check the My server requires authentication checkbox:

Port Number Settings for Yahoo! Mail

Now select the Advanced tab. Under Server Port Numbers, type 465 next to Outgoing mail server (SMTP), and type 995 next to Incoming mail (POP3). The top portion of your advanced tab should now look exactly like this screenshot:

To make sure your Yahoo! Mail emails are available from anywhere you read them, check the Leave a copy of messages on server checkbox: this instructs Outlook Express to only download a copy of your Yahoo! emails, and leave a copy available on the mail server. This way, the emails downloaded by Outlook Express are still available from any other copy of Outlook Express that connects to this email account, and also available for anyone (yourself included) who logs on to this Yahoo! Mail account from a web browser.

Successful Yahoo! Mail Setup!

You have successfully completed setting up your Yahoo! Mail email account in Outlook Express!

Look at your inbox: Outlook Express should have already started downloading your Yahoo! emails. You will now be able to read and respond to your Yahoo! emails both from a web browser, as you did in the past, or directly from Outlook Express, along with any other email account you may already have setup in Outlook Express in the past.

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E-Mail Stationery in Yahoo Mail with Outlook Express

You can configure Yahoo Mail so that Outlook Express can be used to send and receive messages on your Yahoo Mail account. When you do this you are still also able to access your Yahoo Mail account online (via your web browser.)

Accessing a Yahoo Mail account through Outlook Express has a number of advantages:

       You can keep a large amount of e-mail without overflowing the storage available to you at Yahoo.

       You can read your messages "offline". I.e. you can read them while your computer is not connected to the Internet.

       E-Mail stationery will work. Most e-mail stationery uses "scripting", which is not supported by Yahoo Mail online (when you use Yahoo Mail in your web browser.) When you view the same messages in Outlook Express instead, you can see them as intended.

If you already access your Yahoo Mail account this way, and you are not seeing received stationery correctly in Outlook Express, please click on one of the following links for more information about your version of Outlook Express:

Outlook Express 5 and 5.5

Outlook Express 6

To set up your Yahoo Mail account for use in Outlook Express:

Go to your Yahoo Mail account online in your web browser.

Click Options

Click Pop Access & Forwarding

To Sign Up, you'll have to agree to accept e-mails of special offers from Yahoo. Select the categories of offers you are willing to receive, then click Finished.

Use the defaults on the next screen ("Web and POP Access", and "HTML Messages") and click Submit.

Now you will be at a page which is titled "Pop Configuration". You might want to bookmark this page and/or print it, in case you ever reinstall Outlook Express. Near the bottom of this page is a link titled "Configuring Microsoft Outlook Express". Click that link and follow the instructions there to finish the setup.

After you finish the above setup you will be able to pick up and send Yahoo Mail messages using Outlook Express.

To get POP3 mail access with the standard Yahoo email account you need to sign up as a Yahoo! Delivers member (currently February 2004 free). Once signed up you then need to enable POP3 access and mail forwarding. You will find both options on the mail options page of your mailbox. The procedure is as follows:

If you are not signed into your account, you can check your status or become a Yahoo! Delivers member by doing the following:

1. Sign into your Yahoo! Mail account.
2. Click on Mail Options on the top right-hand corner.
3. Click on Yahoo! Delivers on the Options Page
4. Click Yes!, please enrol me in the Yahoo! Delivers promotional program..
5. Fill out the rest as you desire, then click the button, Finish.

Once you have completed these steps, click on POP3 and Forwarding Status on the Options page to continue with your registration for these services.

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If you do have POP3 access then proceed as follows:

Once POP3 mail access has been enabled you then need to configure Outlook Express. To configure you will need to know the names of POP3 and SMTP severs. This varies depending on region. e.g. the POP3 server for USA users is POP.mail.yahoo.com and for UK users it is POP.mail.yahoo.co.uk . The following uses USA servers, for users in other regions just modify the POP3 and SMTP server addresses, if in doubt consult MailOptions- Help.

The following information is required to configure your Yahoo email POP3 account:
Incoming mail (POP3) server: POP.mail.yahoo.com (USA customers)
Outgoing mail (SMTP) server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Account name: Your Yahoo! Mail name (your address without @yahoo.com)

Outlook Express allows you to add a new email account to your existing profile. This means you do not have to replace your current settings in order to send and receive Yahoo! Mail messages. The procedure is as follows:

1. From the Tools menu, choose Accounts.
2. Select the Mail tab.
3. Click the Add button.
4. From the Add menu, click Mail.
5. In the text box labelled Display Name, type your name and click Next.
6. In the Email Address and the reply address box , type your Yahoo! Mail address (be sure to include @yahoo.com) and click Next. ( for more details on these addresses see my how to set up email addresses article)
7. Under My incoming mail server is a... select POP3.
8. Type POP.mail.yahoo.com in the Incoming Mail (POP3, IMAP4, or HTTP) Server box.
9. Type smtp.mail.yahoo.com in the Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server box.
10. Click Next.
11. In the Account Name box, type your Yahoo! Mail ID (your email address without the @yahoo.com).
12. In the Password box, type your Yahoo! Mail password.
13. If you want Outlook Express to remember your password, check the Remember password box.
14. Do not check the boxes labelled Log on using Secure...
15. Click Next.
16. Click Finish.

Important: The Yahoo! Mail SMTP server now requires authentication. To turn this setting on:

1. From the Tools menu, choose Accounts.
2. Select the Mail tab.
3. Double-click the account labelled POP.mail.yahoo.com
4. Select the Servers tab.
5. Check the box next to My Server Requires Authentication.
6. Click OK.

To control deletion of messages from the Yahoo! Mail Server:

1. From the Tools menu, choose Accounts.
2. Select the Mail tab.
3. Double-click the account labelled POP.mail.yahoo.com.
4. Select the Advanced tab.
5. In the Delivery section at the bottom of the window, check Leave a copy of messages on server if you want to save your Yahoo! Mail messages on the Yahoo! Mail server as well as on your local computer. Do not check this box if you want your messages to be deleted from the Yahoo! Mail server once you have received them in Outlook Express. If you want to access your email from both the Outlook Express client and the Yahoo web based client then you need to leave a copy of the mail on the server.

Done! You can now access your Yahoo mail using Outlook Express.

·  Yahoo! Mail Settings
Yahoo Mail offers standard POP3 access for receiving emails incoming through your Yahoo mailbox, by using your favorite email client software. To setup your email client for working with your Yahoo account, you need to select the POP3 protocol and use the following mail server settings:

Yahoo Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - pop.mail.yahoo.com (port 110)

Yahoo Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) - smtp.mail.yahoo.com (port 25)

POP Yahoo! Mail Plus email server settings

Yahoo Plus Incoming Mail Server (POP3) - plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com (SSL enabled, port 995)

Yahoo Plus Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) - plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com (SSL enabled, port 465, use authentication)

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