But was unsure about changing anything else. I've been into 'msconfig' and de-selected certain programs under the startup section, so it's not loading up my Kodak/iTunes/Quicktime at startup. I guess I've still got Java and if I need to get any new updates then I'll soon be informed? I was cautious about removing anything else as I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing. I've just gone through the 'add or remove programs' thing and have removed some stuff like all the Java updates that seem to have built up. I'm still running it on the 512MB RAM that it came with so I've just ordered 2GB which will hopefully notice. So I've tried 'disk cleanup' and 'defragging' but neither seem to make much difference. Actual operation is not too bad, unless it's performing several tasks. I'm mainly talking about start up and login. But now I've had it for a couple of years, it seems to be getting really slow. My old PC was really slow by the time I got rid of it and when I got this new one I was happy with the way it just seemed to start up nice and quick and easy. I'm sure this will sound familiar to a lot of you and thought you might have some advice for the layman. Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be and how to fix it? I really don't want to reinstall Windows, but having the tooltips and screen saver back for a couple of days made me realize how much I missed them. But when a USB mouse is plugged in (and the touchpad is therefore disabled), the same thing happens, so that just leaves the keyboard or something else really weird. I think it has to be a problem with the keyboard or touchpad, because even when I just click "preview" on the screen saver, it disappears immediately. I have no idea what changed, and today, neither the screen saver nor tooltips work. A few days ago, both of these things randomly started working again. For several months, the screen saver has not come on and tool tips will not work on several programs (most notably Windows Live Messenger and Pidgin, where they show up for about half a second before disappearing, and Opera, where they don't work at all). I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 running Windows Vista Home Basic. The reality is that it costs spammers almost nothing to use your email address in the "From" line, so from their perspective even a minute gain is worth it (this being an industry that defines a 1% conversion rate as "successful"). SteveBaker ( talk) 15:18, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Reply A truly random "From" email address is very unlikely to be on a recipient's whitelist, and many people would potentially disregard random strings of characters (humans like to discern meaning) an actual person's email address is very slightly more likely to be whitelisted and conveniently avoids the "random nonsense filter" mentioned above. However, if you are suggesting a new system, something with end-to-end permissions would be better - where in order to send someone a message, you first have to obtain revokable permission to do so (eg via a web site). These days, most (if not all) mail clients keep copies of outgoing mail - so (in principle) it could work as you suggest. Of course that's a rather ancient principle - from back when people used the command-line 'mail' program in UNIX. So it bounces the entire message back to you in order that you may re-send it without having to retype it. it shouldn't ever irretrievably lose a message. 87.114.147.43 ( talk) 12:31, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Reply There is a principle at the heart of this - which is that while email is not a reliable delivery mechanism. To my mind email systems should be configured not to quote any (or at most a line or two) of an undeliverable message when bouncing it, but some quote the whole thing (which means they're essentially acting as unwitting spam relays). They probably do find some advantage in using a real address, but they also know that the backscatter (undeliverables, out-of-office) goes back to a real address (you), and you're probably more likely to read an undeliverable-bounce, as you'd worry that it's a genuine one. So my question is, what's going on? Are spammers sending emails that appear to come from my email address? And if so, is there any benefit in using a real email address for spamming instead of a nonsense one? - NorwegianBlue talk 12:06, 29 March 2009 (UTC) Reply Yes, spammers are faking your address on their emails. I've checked some of the auto-replies (from linux), and they appear to be genuine. Apart from these auto-replies, I have no reason to believe that my PC is malware-infested. I use a gmail account, and Windows XP most of the time, but have a couple of linux distros installed as well. I also receive tons of spam, btw, the spam folder contained more than 10,000 messages a while ago. Lately I've been receiving a lot of out-of-office auto-replies from people I've never emailed.
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