Posts by GrimJack

I had the same problem so I looked around and found PowerDefrag at this site: http://www.powerdefrag.com/. It works for me.

Grim

If you are going to reinstall XP - and it sounds like you are, then you should contact MS. Re-installing XP will appear to the registration folks as a pirated copy (I think -- I am not sure what all the tests are). You can't just copy the old drive to the new drive and expect XP to work. It might be to your advantage to leave XP on the old drive and install everything else to the new drive.

Grim

I have heard good things about SpinRite but you will need to have a boot disk. Here is a link to the site -- it is not free. http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Grim

I use http://www.zipzoomfly.com/
all second day shipping is free and they have a lot of special

Grim
ps I live in the US

On DSL you need to dial up before your connected to the Internet unlike cable, that sometimes is very annoying, after a while it's just a pain in the ass when you want to surf but, you need to dial up every time you want to connect to the Internet (waste of time). Cable on the other hand is always connected to the Internet.

Mad_Dog,
You are comparing apples and beets! Dialup is just dialup - it is not DSL. If you are going to compare cable and DSL then you can't talk about dialup. DSL is by definition always connected (Digital Subscriber Line).

From all the arguments I have heard on both sides, the speed and your satisfaction is dependent on your Service Provider (cable company, ISP, phone company)

Things to consider:
In order to use a cable modem, you have to have cable service
In order to use DSL you have to have land-line phone service.
Each are add-on services
I believe that cable service is flat rate (you either have it or don't)
I know that DSL comes flavors that you can tailor to usage (asynchronus, if you download more than you up-load - synchronous if you game).

The rest appears somewhat like religious arguments (mine is better than yours).

GrimJack

dreams devolving quietly

I don't have a copy of WinXP pro handy - when you are in "New Folders - Sharing " and hit F1-help does it say what the "User Limit - Maximum allowed" maximum is - I assume it is 10?

Here you can find MS powertoys which includes tweakui which might have the tweak you want:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp.

If TweakUI does not do it, you could try one of these:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=xp+tweakers&btnG=Google+Search

If you are really brave, you could run regedit and search for the key and change it yourself -- it would probably be found somewhere near: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Policies\

GrimJack
google is your friend

Zachery, I think he means that his mom has aol - moms get a pass on using aol.

In IE, is Tools/internet options/programs/"Internet Explorer should check to see whether it is the default browser" checked?

I also found this in help:
To reset Internet Explorer settings

If you installed another Web browser after installing Internet Explorer and Internet Tools, some of your Internet Explorer settings may have changed. You can reset your Internet Explorer settings to their original defaults, including your home page and search pages, and choice of default browser, without changing your other browser's settings.

1. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. Click the Programs tab.
3. Click the Reset Web Settings button.

This assumes that aol can be considered a web browser
I hope this helps
GrimJack

Oops! please ignore my reply - I forgot about the 32 gig limit on older an m.b.

GrimJack

Hey! Watch it! Don't you be dissin' my machine (well, actually my machine is 300 mhz overclocked to 450 but close enough) -- I can play Max Paine on it, what more can I ask for .

Any way, regarding the 1st problem:
<i>80 GB(can only use 31 gb out of it, I dont know why). I installed harddrive and fromatted the drives</i>
I did something similar, what I did to recover the missing space on the drive was to buy a program called Partition Magic which allowed me to re-partition my drive 'on-the-fly' and get back the missing disk space. Granted the program costs more than a 100 gig drive (about $55) but I felt it was worth it. There are other programs out there and there may even be some freeware (of course, if you install freeware - you must immediately run Ad-Aware and/or Spybot) out there that will help -- google on "partition management"

Looking through your HJT log was interesting but I will leave that to folks that know that stuff.
GrimJack

see - I didn't dis AOL, I can control myself

The exclamation point has been nicknamed "bang" for as long as I can remember. (Back in the uucp days, you would give an email address as "machine1, bang, machine2, bang, machine3, bang..." for "machine1! machine2!machine3!...")

In the UK, the bang is called a shriek -- I kind of like that.

GrimJack

You know your getting old when you think todays kids don't have it as tough as you did or have as much fun as you did.

Afdrano has it right - you gotta get over the fact that the world is changing around you.

It is not better or worse, it just different

and, of course, the more it changes - the more it stays the same

GrimJack

I googled "eankhtkm" and got nothing!

GrimJack

I suggest that you get proxomitron at http://www.proxomitron.info/; this program is one I highly recommeng as part of any safe computing environment.

my list includes:
ZoneAlarm - firewall
AVG - virus protector
spybot-S&D - spy killer
Ad-aware - spy killer
Ad-Watch - guards your registry (comes with Ad-Aware)

If anyone has any suggestions on what to add to this list, I welcome them

GrimJack

It would seem to be loading at startup; have you looked at your startup list to see if there is anything suspicious in there? If you have NT or above, you have some system monitoring tools available to see what processes are running. Do you have firewall that monitors what is using the internet connection? ZoneAlarm provides a blinking icon for whatever program is talking . You could use the search feature (WinKey+F) and search for all files created or modifed when you started up your machine.

I hope there is some help hidden in there.

GrimJack

Hey, I still have a serial mouse!

Not to assume anything, have you run the lates virus/worm scanners? have you run the lates spyware killers? Have you checked the scheduler to see if it running something at that time? Does it freeze the same time each day or after the same about of up-time? Old to you might be newer that the kit I built for myself in 1999 (Yes, I expect to dragged, kicking and screaming into the 21st century -- my previous maching was an AMIGA! and I still have religious feelings about it).
more info about the machine would be good

Start/programs/accessories/system tools/system information will give you this:
Microsoft Windows 98 4.10.2222 A
Upgrade using CD /T:C:\WININST0.400 /SrcDir=F:\WIN98 /IZ /IS /IQ /IT /II /NR /II /C /U:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
IE 5 6.0.2800.1106
Uptime: 0:01:02:14
Normal mode
On "XXXXX" as "XXXX"

GenuineIntel Intel(r) Celeron(tm) Processor Intel MMX(TM) Technology
320MB RAM
63% system resources free
Windows-managed swap file on drive D (2566MB free)
Available space on drive C: 4377MB of 6169MB (FAT32)
Available space on drive D: 2566MB of 16425MB (FAT32)

Then, in that same window, choose tools /system configuration utility then choose the startup tab and check out what runs at startup. If anything looks suspicious, turn one item off and reboot -- repeat until the problem goes away. Document each step so that you can undo what you did.

GrimJack

<i>I dont' think ping will do it
google is your friend
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...G=Google+Search>/>

I guess I was being too subtle; this search pointed to a page to find tools that might have but did not work/ Network-Tools.com being the easiest to use. I thought that if he put a little effort into his search he would learn something -- especially the pre-web tools we use to use. Don't you just love those tools: finger, whois, ping, lookup, daemon.

Anyway, looking around on that site would get you to this disclaimer:
Computer ('host') name or domain name? Normally, A domain name is not necessarily a 'host' name. For instance www.consumer.net and www2.consumer.net could be two different 'host' computers under the same domain. The computers could be separated and result in a completely different traceroute for each. A domain name, such as 'consumer.net,' may or may not be a 'host' or machine name depending on the configuration. 'Third level' or higher names, such as www.consumer.net are not registered except internally to the entity that owns the domain name.

This would not have answered the question but the asker might have learned something; I know I did -- give em an answer and point to where you got it, don't just point to where to look around to get the answer.

GrimJack

I do like this group

As a rule of thumb, I do not store personal information on my main HD's. Instead I have a external HD...

Hmmm, this would be a good use for those keychain USB drives! I am considering buying one and this sounds like another good reason (encrypted file of course)

GrimJack

There are (at least) 3 on-line distributed computing sites that work by using your spare cycles:
The most famous is seti@home which is looking for inteligent signals from space
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu

folding@home which tests protein folding
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/

climates.net which, umm.. runs climate projections
http://climateprediction.net/

I am sure there are more but these are just the ones I have found. Seti@home will run on anything but the other 2 need 1+gigahz to run

GrimJack

I dont' think ping will do it
google is your friend
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=help+ping&btnG=Google+Search

Heh,heh -- you bet!

After a good night of sleep, the panic subsided and I found the reset button. This time I read all the docs, figured out which of the ambiguous statements I misinterpreted and, I think, got it set up correctly. I am waiting for my gf to come home with the laptop to verify that all is well.

I still think that "click the IP Settings link and configure the IP Settings according to your network setup." is too ambiguous when what they really mean is click 'enable IP Settings' button (the IP settings are filled in correctly from the factory).

Grim

ps one of the sad facts of adhd is that after 40 years of jumping off the cliff then looking for the parachute, you jump off the very next cliff.

I think I screwed up the installation of my NetGear WG602v2 wireless access point. I followed the installation guide (configured my pc with the ip address of the WG602, connected the wg602 to the ethernet port, connected to the wg602 and logged in) up to the step "click the IP Settings link and configure the IP Settings according to your network setup." Here is where I think I made my mistake -- I changed the IP settings to my network ip settings. I immediately lost connection to the wg602 and I have not been able to connect back to it. MY question is how do I undo this? I have installed the installed the adapter into a laptop and it sees the signal from the wg602 but there is no communications. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do from here?