thanks wing, will try that. We have a mixed setup at home and never get any problems getting onto the web through our Linksys BUT that is via cable and using ethernet. These folk will be using...

Hello folks. A Mac household has asked me to advise them on how to get their Windows laptop to see their new Apple wireless router. They have some software which is supposed to work the magic,...

Hello all. I have a desktop machine here which is giving me problems. It came in because the sound had 'gone' - which it had indeed, and I ended up putting a card in because I could not find any...

no it wouldn't boot in safe mode. He had not put any new hardware in ( it is a laptop). We were then of the opinion that it might be an automatic update problem. However, I took the easy route in...

oh it's there alright Binary, but each time the machine is booted, the AV and the firewall are set to disabled, even though I have enabled them. It is a common result of infection, like when the...

hello folks. I have a laptop given to me which came with a grand quota of nasties, and though I think I have probably dealt with most of the problems now, I can't remember how to get the ...

hello folks, Gracie here :)

I have been given a poorly laptop to sort out. Owner went out for a short while leaving machine on, when he came back it had shut down and he cannot get it to boot up...

Snowdog, I hope you read this. I brought the computer home and found it worked perfectly! No gobbledegook in IPconfig /all, I joined it to our network (wirelessly) and surfed, downloaded - perfect,...

I have arranged to bring the computer home to work on as I can download whatever I need to from the web from here, also I will test it out on our router.

They are getting a Talk-Talk Livebox...

Snowdog, put it down to a senior moment - how stupid of me not to mention it before to you.

When you say full recovery, do you mean take off all the network files and start again, or do you mean...

I am pleased that you seem to be confirming what I had thought should be the case had everything gone as it should. All the settings were there for client, service, Aegis and tcp/ip protocols.
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Snowdog, thanks for your input. I hoped that was the correct IP, but the computer IP I was working on started with 162. so I reckon it wasn't. I have learned since that if I had tapped in the...

Hello folks :) Some friends have a BT Voyager wireless Modem/Router. We set them up some years back and it has been fine. They have three computers connected - two Xpsp2 and one Windows 98.
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solved - I needed to reregister the dll's - once I found out which ones.

Don't understand what happened or why, but all is as it should be now :)

Hello all, recently I stopped automatic updates because I was trying to fix a slow boot problem. I still wanted updates so thought I had better do it manually, but when I clicked on Internet...