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Biden's trips abroad, especially to France earlier this month, generated Republican social media clips poking fun at his age but, his team believed, it also showed him as a strong leader on an international stage.
White House aides who traveled with the president were in a good mood as he headed to Camp David on June 21.
Biden had flown to France, back to the United States, to Italy, and to the West Coast, among other travels, over a 14-day period before taking just a few days to rest at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
He was dragging, according to several people who observed him during this period.
As Biden and his aides settled in at Camp David six days before the debate, aides figured he had a lot to accomplish, more than his opponent. Trump could just complain about the present administration - and Biden would need the facts and some zingers at his fingertips.
They expected Trump would be far more disciplined and prepared than he had been in 2020 and believed that they would need to counter a string of rapid-fire lies.
In lengthy prep sessions, they peppered Biden with details, then followed them up with mock debates.
Critics say now that the preparation should have focused on the bigger vision he needs to sell to the country, and that Biden had insufficient rest headed into the debate.
Run down, Biden would also catch a small cold, White House aides said, as he has regularly during his term after long stretches of time zone-bending work.

In an email to supporters Saturday, O'Malley Dillon said internal polls and focus groups showed no change in voters' opinions in battleground states after the debate.

She warned "overblown media narratives" may drive "temporary dips in the polls," but said she was confident Biden would win in November.

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A common adware called Conduit SearchProtect, which changes your browser's homepage to Conduit.com, is causing major problems for users who still use Windows XP.
When users uninstall Conduit SearchProtect from Add or Remove Programs in Windows XP, they find on reboot that Windows XP is no longer able to start. Instead they will be greeted with a message stating "NTLDR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart".

This problem occurs because the Conduit uninstall program not only removes it's own Conduit SearchProtect files, but also removes all the files found in the root of the C: drive. In Windows XP the C:\ folder contains two required programs called NTLDR and ntdetect.com that when deleted prevent Windows from starting. As Windows Vista and newer versions do not contain any files in the C:\ folder that are required to start Windows, newer Window versions are not effected.

The command that performs this buggy install is:

"C:\PROGRA~1\SearchProtect\Main\bin\uninstall.exe" /S

If you have Conduit SearchProtect installed on your computer, do not uninstall it via the Add or Remove Programs control panel. Instead use a program like AdwCleaner or Junkware Removal Tool to remove Conduit SearchProtect. These tools remove the software using their own uninstall routine and are not affected by Conduit's buggy uninstaller. When using the previous links to download AdwCleaner or JRT, just wait a few seconds and the programs will automatically download for you.

For those affected by this bug, you can fix Windows XP by copying the NTLDR and ntdetect.com files from a Windows XP CD. The files are located under the \I386 folder and you can use the Windows Recovery Console or other bootable disk to copy the files to the C:\ folder. Once the files are copied back you should be able to restart your computer and get back into Windows.

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