Posts by chrisbliss18

pagefile.sys is the swap space for information that is swapped to the harddrive out of memory. From everything that I've read, it is not necessary to "clean" this file. There are no performance gains by doing so. 384MB might be the smallest size that Windows allows this file to be. Unless you have major performance issues due to your Virtual Memory (what Windows calls the swap file) configuration, I'd leave all of that alone.

How are you trying to install the updates?
What do you mean by "nothing happens"? Is there an error message?

Go to this tread which deals with the same issue. See if you can find an answer there first.

If you are talking about having 5v come through on thos pins when the power supply was connected to the an AC line but the system was off, that's normal. Since the ATX spec, power supplies always give power to the motherboard on certain pins in order to support the motherboard turning the system on through the power switch being activated or some wake-on ring type peripherals.

You don't need to use another computer to remove them. Just use the account on your system that has Administrator rights, go to User Accounts in the Control Panel, and modify your users from there.

#include <iostream>
#include <string> 
using namespace std;

// main()
int main()
{
	int number;          
	string numeral;  
	
	cout << "Please enter a number between 1 and 10 ";
	cin >> number;
	
	{
		if(number == 1)
			numeral = "I";
		else if(number == 2)
			numeral = "II";
		else if(number == 3)
			numeral = "III";
		else if(number == 4)
			numeral = "IV";
		else if(number == 5)
			numeral = "V";
		else if(number == 6)
			numeral = "VI";
		else if(number == 7)
			numeral = "VII";
		else if(number == 8)
			numeral = "VIII";
		else if(number == 9)
			numeral = "IX";
		else if(number == 10)
			numeral = "X";
		else cout << "The number entered was not between 1 and 10";
	}
	
	cout << "The Roman numeral for the number " << number << " is " << numeral;
	
	cin.ignore();
	cin.get();

I cleaned up your code a bit. You will notice that your set of curly braces surrounding the if statements isn't doing anything. You want one of two messages printed, but you have a series of eleven conditions that can be met. Only one of the conditions prints a message. Irregardless of which condition is met, the final message is printed. Thus, if the else statement is used, two messages will be printed.

You have two options:

• Print a message for each condition

  if(number == 1)
  {
  	cout << "The Roman Numeral for the number 1 is I\n";
  }
  else if(number == 2)
  {
  	cout << "The Roman Numeral for the number 2 is II\n"; …

It sounds like you have a networking problem since your computer can't access any internet resources. Try the following:

Click the Start button, select "Run...", type "cmd", and click "OK".

After the command prompt loads, type "ipconfig /renew" (without quotes), and press the Enter key. The program may take a few seconds or a few minutes to run. You'll know that it is done when you see a new prompt waiting for input.

At that point, right-click the top part of the window, click "Edit", click "Select All", and then repeat the last steps but click "Copy" instead. After you have copied the text in the window, paste it in your reply. Please put all the copied text inside of code tags so that I can read it.

I meant to indicate that I know that Chipsncoke isn't looking for us to give him his whole program, but it would help us give better answers if he posted the actual assignment details.

You really don't have much to worry about with cookies (at least I don't). I find if I keep scanning with Ad-Aware, it will always find something it doesn't like. A clean system apparently doesn't exist to the developer of Ad-Aware.

My top recommendation would be Microsoft Antispyware. This program is good to keep running at all times. It is very good at finding spyware and other malware that is trying to install itself. It also asks whether or not something should be allowed to startup automatically and alerts you of programs trying to change internet settings (trying to hijack your browser).

My next recommendation would be Spybot - Search and Destroy. This program used to be my top pick, but Microsoft Antispyware is better. Spybot has also been getting worse lately IMO. I'd use this as a tool to use if something slips by Microsoft Antispyware. Note: don't install any of the extra tools that Spybot comes with, they are annoying at their best and worthless at their worst.

Ad-Aware is another program I use if my first line of defense fails. I only use it as part of a full line of scans to get rid of tough malware.

To get more assistance, I recommend reading Optimize XP. This guide is very helpful in that it provides information about many tools to help keep your system clean and that it offers many tips on securing your system against future infections. I couldn't recommend this guide enough.

hey the simplest way is to go to startup list and uncheck it from the list.
start->run->msconfig go to startup tab and uncheck nwiz.exe

That's not a complete solution. That's more of a workaround.

SQL does the actual searching. PHP connects to the database, executes the queries, and formats the results. What part of the process do you not understand?

"GROUP BY" and "ORDER BY" are very different. "GROUP BY" associates all records together based on a column. "ORDER BY" sorts a alphabetically based on column.

Let's create some sample data for a table called Location.

name    | state     | city
--------|-----------|---------------
Joe     | Oklahoma  | Oklahoma City
Bob     | Texas     | Dallas
Susan   | Oklahoma  | Norman
Tom     | Kansas    | Kansas City
Carol   | Kansas    | Kansas City
Sharon  | Oklahoma  | Tulsa

Now let's execute some queries.

SELECT * FROM Location ORDER BY state, city, name

This query would return the data in the following order:

name    | state     | city
--------|-----------|---------------
Carol   | Kansas    | Kansas City
Tom     | Kansas    | Kansas City
Susan   | Oklahoma  | Norman
Joe     | Oklahoma  | Oklahoma City
Sharon  | Oklahoma  | Tulsa
Bob     | Texas     | Dallas

Notice that the data is ordered alphabetically first by state then by city and then by name.

SELECT * FROM Location GROUP BY state

This query would return the data in the following order:

name    | state     | city
--------|-----------|---------------
Joe     | Oklahoma  | Oklahoma City
Bob     | Texas     | Dallas
Tom     | Kansas    | Kansas City

"GROUP BY" will return at most one record for each value of the specified column. In this case, the first record for each value in the state column was returned. This doesn't prove to be of much use in this case, but "GROUP BY" is very powerful when you …

What is it that you are searching: database, files, some other type of data collection?

Check this thread and let me know if it sounds like it addresses your situation. If not, we'll have to look at other possibilities.

I don't like giving answers to programming problems since it defeats the purpose of learning. I think it would help to know exactly what your program is supposed to do. If you could post the actual instructions, project goals, it would help me answer your questions better.

What it sounds like is you need to put all this data in some type of structure. Then when a user requests a class, the program will output all the details of the class. If that is the case, I think I have a good file structure in mind. Using linked lists is simply not enough.

I thought I'd add a bit of commentary on the topic that might help you understand what your instructor was talking about a bit better.

As you probably already know from the other posts, pseudocode is a way to layout the logic of a program without actually coding it. What your instructor is wanting to see is not whether or not you can actually code a mortgage calculator, but whether or not you can understand the logic that needs to be used to design such a calculator. It's kind of like describing how a program works in story mode rather than in actual code. You shouldn't abstract too much; however, since that will be too vague to show whether you understand the concept of the programs logic or not.

It's not really psuedocode to say, "read a file and print the number of occurances of the word 'hint'". It is psuedocode to say:

create a counter variable
set the counter variable to 0

open the specified input file for reading
read the file line by line
   scan the line for occurances of the string 'hint'
       increment the counter variable by 1 each time the string is found
close the file

print the value of the counter variable

I hope that helps your understanding.

Norton Antivirus is not a Spyware remover. Antivirus programs handle viruses. Antispyware programs handle spyware. Antivirus programs may be able to identify some spyware, but they don't typically have the tools to remove them since they are tailored to remove viruses. If you want spyware removers, I can recommend some very good tools that are free.

If you are running these tools and making these changes from Safe Mode, the likelyhood of the files or registry settings coming back after a reboot is very slim.

As for how long it takes Trend Micro to scan your system, that depends on how many files you have. It can very well take that long if you have a lot of stuff on your machine. I would think that your main problem is Spyware, so you might want to skip ahead to Step 2 for now and go back to Step 1 after your interview.

As I said before, if you are pressed for time, just get a different browser to use for the interview. After the interview is over, you can go back to cleaning up your machine.

You will probably want to do a reinstall of Windows. Since your computer didn't come with Windows 2000 disks, did it come with system restore disks of any kind? If you get your hands on a Windows 2000 CD, use this guide to do a repair install of your system. This will prevent you from having to reinstall everything.

If everything works now, just leave Spyware Doctor off. I've never used it, or heard of it for that matter, so I would recommend replacing it with a different solution. If you have a valid copy of Windows, install Microsoft Antispyware. This software is very good at handling most common problems and will alert you if known spyware tries to install itself on your system.

If you have spyware infections currently, use this guide to do a thorough system cleaning. The guide will also help you secure your machine against future problems.

FYI: The Delete Files button in Internet Explorer just cleans up temporary files that Internet Explorer uses. It won't affect any other programs or get rid of any of your files or settings.

Don't sell digital tablets short. Check out the Cintiq 21UX. A little pricey (okay... very pricey), but exteme accuracy and ease of use.

I thought your reason for starting this topic was to find out information about light pens, not to find a solution that you could use. What exactly is it that you want to do, and what is the ideal solution in your opinion (ignoring whether or not the solution exists)?

Unfortunately, without any company to contact for specifics, it's near impossible to tell if the product is damaged or if you did something to the drive when you formatted it.

A few last ditch ideas I have are (in order of futility ;)): using the Add Hardware Wizard to try finding it, checking the pins on the drive to make sure that they were not damaged, and trying a different USB port and a different machine to see if that makes a difference.

Your current status is that your drive works in every respect except that it cannot burn CD-Rs?

I'm glad you got it working DaMaGe. It's funny that the newest tech (SATA) still relies on tech that most people consider obsolete (floppies).

The Asus K8N-E has AGP, nForce4 chipset, and Realtek ALC850 audio chipset. It seems to fit the bill, but it is a bit more expensive than the Biostar NF325-A7.

Sometimes, if your motherboard supports the option and the fans are connected to the motherboard, you can control your fan speed through software. SpeedFan works really well and should automatically detect your fans. You will want to read up on the site how to change the fan speeds appropriately. Please note that not many Dell systems, including my own, support fan control through software. It's worth a try though.

If you succeed in slowing down your fans, make sure that you keep your temps low (below 50° preferably). Try to find a nice balance between sound and temp.

If you had a home-built system or didn't care about voiding your warrenty, you could install fan regulators on all your fans so you could manually (or even automatically based on temperature) adjust fan speeds.

This is something that doesn't have a correct answer. Everyone has their opinion on the matter. Personally, I use Norton AntiVirus. That's not to say I love it. It works well... most of the time. I've used McAfee in the past and have been very satisfied with it. I guess I would have to recommend one of those two.

Run HijackThis! from Safe Mode, select "Do a system scan only", let the scan finish, put a check next to each item that I indicated, and select "Fix checked".

Let me get a few details so I can fully understand what you are working with.

• What Operating System are you using?
• The access point that you are trying to connect to is a Microsoft MN700 Wireless Base Station, correct?
• Which Microsoft WiFi card are you using on the laptop? Please give me a specific model number.

Check the properties of the network hardware. There should be a "Power Management" tab. Ensure that "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" is not check.

Ensure that there isn't an auto-disconnect setting. Use this guide to turn off auto-disconnect.

If you have a pirated version of Windows (or your system fails the genuine Microsoft Windows test for whatever reason), you cannot download the program.

It is normal to see those lines scrolling across. What happens when you see those lines scrolling by? Do you reboot the system or do you let it finish?

If you let it sit there, does it hang for a few minutes after a certain point? If so, there may be a file problem somewhere. If the system freezes at a certain point, what is the last line of text that you see?

Use this guide to run through a very thorough series of programs that will clean just about anything out of your system and help secure it from future threats.

If you don't have time to fix it, run a different browser: Firefox (popular IE replacement), Avant (based on IE services), and K-Meleon (lightweight browser).

Looking at your log, there are certain things that simply must go. Restart into Safe Mode and remove the following:

C:\WINDOWS\etb\pokapoka67.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [System service67] C:\WINDOWS\etb\pokapoka67.exe
O4 - HKLM\..\RunServices: [stratas] lockx.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [stratas] lockx.exe
O15 - Trusted Zone: *.media-motor.net
O15 - Trusted Zone: *.popuppers.com
O15 - Trusted Zone: http://awbeta.net-nucleus.com (HKLM)

After removing those entries and before rebooting out of Safe Mode, find the "C:\WINDOWS\etb\pokapoka67.exe" and "lockx.exe" (search for it) files, delete them pemanently (hold shift down while deleting to delete permanently), and reboot your machine.

Without knowing the exact text of the error (I don't need a screenshot, just the exact error message), it's hard to diagnose the issue.

I do have a couple of ideas though.

• FFXI crashes whenever you shift focus away from it.

  Are you trying to alt+tab?
  Do you have any programs running in the background that might try to grab focus?
  Do you have spyware or adware that is creates popups (following the clean up guide linked to in my sig)?

• Are you running Xfire? Xfire is known to cause FFXI to crash.

What version of DirectX are you running?
What graphics card are you using?
Have you updated your graphics card drivers to the latest version?

Don't ask for assistance with getting pirated movies to work.

I recommended trying a different browser for testing purposes. If a different browser works, your problem is related to Internet Explorer. If a different browser doesn't work, it's a connection issue.

Please try many different sites. For example, don't just stick with the sites that you know you have problems with; rather, go to CNN and try to watch videos, go to Download.com and try to download some software, etc.

Also, see if just clicking a link to a file and letting it open acts differently than right-clicking a link and selecting "Save Target As...".

It also could be that only certain files have problems. In order to test this, I've setup numerous test files of different types for you to try: txt, pdf, doc, gif, jpg, csv. See if any of those links work for you.

Please try all that I've outlined and let me know your results.

I found a very comprehensive post on another forum to deal with this situation. I have turned the post into a list of steps. Try each step until your problem is solved.

• Refresh your scripting engine: Windows Script 5.6 for Windows 2000 and XP
• Sometimes there's a corrupt file in the cache. To clear the cache, open Internet Explorer, click Tools, select Internet Options, and click Delete Files.
• Reregister scripting DLLs. Open a comman prompt (click Start, click "Run...", type "cmd", and press OK) and execute the following commands:

  regsvr32 vbscript.dll
  regsvr32 jscript.dll

• You cannot open a new Internet Explorer window or nothing occurs after you click a link
• Error Message When You Browse the Web: An Error Has Occurred in the Script on This Page
• "A Runtime Error has occurred" error message when you view Web pages in Internet Explorer after you install Office 2003
• In Internet Explorer, click Tools, click Internet Options, select the tab labelled Advanced, and uncheck "Enable third-party browser extensions". Reboot your system. After the system loads up, check your system for malware using this guide . When you have cleaned out all the junk, renable third-party extensions.

( source )

Let me know if this addresses your issue.

Did you format all the data partitions on the 80GB drive as NTFS? If so, those partitions use the security of the Windows XP system which is why they appear as RAW to Server 2003. You should always use FAT32 partitions to share data between different installations of Windows (for max compatibility, FAT16 if there will be Operating Systems other than Windows).

I have to agree with MartyMcFly... Installing Server 2003 as a secondary OS? That's very odd.

Could it be an ejectable drive. Some laptops come with Ejectable CD / DVD drives, just pull it out, push it back in. What make and model is it?

It's a HP Pavilion Ze5200 which does not have a swappable bay.

i have downloaded it, and booted it up, but windows setup still fails to detect that its there, the raid setup finds it, but windows doesnt.

What do you mean by "raid setup"? Are you talking about when the BIOS finds the drives? If that's the case, that's completely unrelated to the Windows Setup CD being able to find the drive.

Here's a guide for this process. Are you doing everything just as the guide stats?

Are you sure that you got the correct drivers? Did you get the drivers from your motherboard's manufacturer's site for that specific board?

I tried to do that compatibility thing, but it didn't change anything... the screen still goes black and then goes back to my desktop...

What game are you trying to play?

Someone else just had the same issue and made a thread about it. Please go to that thread and join in on the topic.

It's possible that your drive has some corrupt sectors that need to be repaired. The best way to fix this problem is to scan your disks from Recovery Console. After you have loaded the Recovery Console, type in the following command:

chkdsk c: /r

After the scan completes, it will give you a report on its results (it's not important that you understand what it says). To reboot your machine, type "exit" and press enter.

If running chkdsk doesn't help you, you can do a repair install of the operating system. This will install Windows XP over itself but it won't mess up any of your programs or settings. There are detailed instructions on how to do this here.

Seagate will not have that driver.

I tried to find the driver you need on the Asus site, but I did not find it. Use this page to send a driver disk request to Asus. You won't be able to get anywhere unless you have a disk with the driver you need.

You want forum software.

phpBB
vBulletin

The names look random, hence there is nothing we can figure out about the software from the names. I recommend using this guide to clean up your system.

You can run lengths of cable out to locations that you need. You can also connect a switch or an access point to the end of that cable to offer multiple connection jacks or add wireless capabilities to that location. Keep in mind that the cable does have a point at which the signal will break down if you go too far.

I would recommend using Solid Cable CAT5E (like this cable). CAT5E is rated to cover distances up to 350 meters before the signal degrades. Get Solid Cable rather than UTP (Unshielded Twister Pair) or Stranded. Solid Cable has larger gauge wires and the wires are insulated, thus these cables are better suited to cover longer distances with fewer problems.

At a minimum, you would want to bury the cables 8" down or more. You might consider running it through some buried conduit so that the wires would be better protected from being damaged.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to append to the file while the program is running, but you want the file to be empty when you start the program the next time?

If I'm correct, just open the file in write mode, rather than append mode, in your program shutdown code and your program startup code (the startup portion is to handle cases when your program terminated improperly).

I guess I could always use this opportunity to plug my favorite browser, Firefox. Try installing and running a different browser and see if you get different results.

Did you try going to that guide I talked about?