Re: Need advice and/or direction

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"Allan Smith" <guesswho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Do you have a mail account with "GoDaddy.com, Inc. Scottsdale, AZ"?
If this is not the case stop abusing registered domain names! Shall
noninvolved people get all the spam on behalf of you?

My XP Pro Add/Remove Programs takes up to 4 minutes to populate,
...
Searches on symptoms have found a number of complaints, but no solutions
reported or found to be effective, other than a Repair Install reported
to having been effective.

A repair install does not help - comprehend the principle:
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/07/09/178342.aspx

The delay results from a inaptly concept which was obviously accepted by
the deep sleeping beta testers - and directly caused by the missing size
information which should have been provided by the particular software
installation routines.

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