If every website you go to seems slow, then it's probably the addition of the firewall or some other issue with your computer.

When you installed your anti-spyware packages, were you able to...

There are a number of things you can do to try and solve this one.

Those files you mentioned are temporary files located in your user profile folder. You could try logging in as Administrator, or...

Just to make sure, you are only using one computer for this correct?

It could be that the speaker set up in Media Player is not correct. If it is set up for 5.1 and you only have 2 speakers, you won't hear much from the center channel.

Andy

System instabilities can wreak all sorts of havoc in a system. I used to play around with overclocking a lot in my gaming days. (No time for that now that I have a real job and fiance) One thing I...

Some routers/wireless gateways have issues with long URLs. You might want to try going to Linksys's website and download the newest firmware for your router. See if that helps your situation.
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Is your computer completely turning off when you leave the room, or is it just rebooting. You should watch your computer while it's shutting down to make sure it doesn't just reboot.

If it...

If you're running Windows, which I assume you are from your previous post, then you should could just use ntbackup. What I have done for some clients in the past that are using a hard drive for...

IMHO don't bother with mutli-boots if you are just learning the software. Get yourself a copy of VMWare and you can have as many installs of whatever OSs you have disk space for. I run Linux on my...

VNC should work as long as there is a hole punched through the firewall at both ends. However, this is not a secure method of connecting unless you are running Windows Server at home and you can...

Download the bootable Windows environment from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/. It creates a bootable CD that gives you a Windows environment that you can still access your drives from.

You'd need to write your own app to do that. This is where windows scripting comes in REALLY handy. There are console apps that will allow you to add a user and/or modify a group. Check out KB...

Does anyone know how to get a list of users that have resource open locally? I know that if you use MMC and manage the computer that hosts the resource you can see remote users, but local users do...

BTW, the gdisk utility comes with Norton Ghost.

PII with at least 256Mb of RAM makes an EXCELLENT Linux based file server.

If you want to wipe your hard drive, use Symantec's gdisk utility with a /dod. Or, better yet, don't sell your PC with...

One way you could get it back is to create a new user, and then go to the folder c:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and then copy the...

I'm glad that helped. The Performance analyzer is a great tool for finding processes that are running out of spec. If you find that you are getting spikes from hardware processes, you should look...

Use the system performance monitor to see what's going on.

Open Performance Monitor, choose processes and highlight all of them except the idle process and add them to the graph. Look for the...

How did you install Windows 2003? It should have edited your boot.ini file. However, you should be able to edit it to look like this and it should work.

[boot loader]
timeout=20...

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Another bonus of a linux box is the ability to connect to it securely over the Interenet using SSH. I use my linux file server at home a a FTP server as well, but I...

Unfortunately, there really isn't such thing as "secure" FTPing as passwords are sent clear text. There are ways you can tunnel an FTP session through SSH, but it takes a lot of configuration setup...