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IIRC, there is a free runtie for Access 2010 databases that runs on XP. So if you are doing all the design, I believe that would be an alternative.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10910

Here’s the whole story.

msxml4 is a package that software vendors have used. The other choices were msxml3 and msxml6. (Go Microsoft!). 3 and 6 are distributed with windows and maintained. 4 was distributed as part of the software package that used it.

Microsoft has shipped some updates to 4 over the years. If you have a new enough version, it got updated to the latest version – really old stuff has to be updated manually. For example, Quicken 2014 will install msxml4 from 2003 if there isn’t a version on your machine!

Recently, Microsoft announced end of all support for msxml4. No more updates. Time will tell if they hold to this if a serious security exposure is found.

There is nothing an end user can do about this – its the software vendors who need to move off of 4 onto 6. Until then, ignoring the Secunia warning and hoping for the best is all you can do.

I make Win 7 repair discs when I first got my machine. Since then, lots of updates have come by. Would new repair discs reflect these updates?

Thanks for all three suggestions.

@ ruirib
Seemed like the easiest solution, but PSI 3 doesn’t offer this choice in ‘settings’

Right click on the entry for the program and you’ll see the ignore choice, as well as a way to get details such as where the program actually is.

Your description started with one of your admin userid’s being hacked by “brute force password cracking”. What do you mean by this? Did they already have the hashed password file? Because no site these days allows multiple failed password attempts, so brute force should not work. Are you sure this wasn’t started some other way?

I take you didn’t read or understand “The KB article on files in the wrong place did not apply”

This posting was for a different reason for failure than the one well documented by microsoft that you repeat.

I was a bit surprised that the pagefile size was an issue. Unlike RAM, there is no fallback if the pagefile is full and the OS needs space – it just crashes or starts killing stuff. So the only effect I can think of is that by changing the pagefile size you either moved it to a faster part of the disk or reduced fragmentation.

I’m curious as to what you think the improvement came from.

Update on my problem. I could see nothing suspicious going on. I installed online armor free. It’s logs don’t show anything unusual – even in log everything mode. For now, I’ll just try to forget about it.

I’ve given different instructions to my non-computer savey wife. If she sees stuff she doesn’t understand, hold the power button down till the machine turns off! There is no way she’s going to accurately use the task manager, something she NEVER uses, to get out of this. Yes – she may loose the last few edits she did, but that’s a cheap price to pay.

(I have changed her firefox configuration so it never automatically restores the previous session after a crash, since doing that gets you right back to the problem).

I tried running msert.exe on a windows XP system. It did a scan, but did not offer any of the other services, such as registry cleaning. Are those features not available in XP, or am I running the wrong program.

IMHO, it’s crucial that you figure out how the two came up with different results. Short of a data entry fumble, the most likely cause is that one of them let you to enter something in the wrong place. Whichever did that should be the “looser”.

thanks and sorry to loose you.

believe it or not – this is the first I’ve heard of your gizmo freeware site. My natural skepticism prevents me from finding you via google, since the site I find doesn’t have your name in the url. Can you post a link?