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Chapter 16 Figuring Out Those Annoying Pop-Up Messages In This Chapter B Access is denied B Click here to activate now B Error connecting to . . . B Found new hardware B If you remove this file, you will no longer be able to run this program B Missing shortcut B New updates are ready to install B Open With . . . B Privacy alert — saving cookies B Stay current with automatic updates B When you send information to the Internet B You have files waiting to be written to the CD ost people don’t have any trouble understanding error mes- sages. A car’s pleasant beeping tone means that you’ve left your keys in the ignition. An electronic stuttering sound from the stereo means that your compact disc has problems. Things are different with Windows XP, however. The pop-up messages in Windows XP could have been written by a Senate subcommittee, if only they weren’t so brief. Are they error messages. Something to rejoice. When Windows XP tosses a message your way, it’s usually just a single sentence. Windows XP rarely describes what you did to cause the event and, even worse, hardly ever tells you what to do about it. Here are some of the phrases that you’ll find in the most common mes- sages that Windows XP throws in your face. Look at the title of your M
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