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| | Ok, I have one laptop that can see the whole network (it's a windows 2000/XP/OS X network). We have a router at 192.168.1.1 and then that goes to two hubs, and then off of one of the hubs is the WAP. I can ping the gateway (the 192.168.1.1), but I …  |
 | I think the fact that 35 processes are running is slowing my laptop slightly, is there anything I could/should get rid of in this log? Logfile of HijackThis v1.97.7 Scan saved at 6:33:18 PM, on 5/6/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP1 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP1 (6.00.2800.1106) Running processes: …  |
| | My laptop up-and-died today with ~5 gigs of valuable GIS and hydrology work on it. I desperately need to recover these data. I've got the HDD in an antistatic bag next to me and I'm wondering if there isnt an adapter utility to plug the li'l SOB into a 40-pin … |
| | I thankful to have found this site through Google (number 4 I think on "WinXP no mouse no keyboard" search). In starting with a second question, I'll ask what moderator I could e-mail a HijackThis log to that must contain nearly 300 items? I'm new at a computer repair shop … |
| | I know it's probably not what this message board is meant for, but i need some advice about which laptop i should buy. I want to spend up to about  |
| | I'm interested in buying a laptop for school as well as for work. What are the pros and cons for buying a new or a used machine. |
| | I'm upgrading from ME to XP, after install finished, I can't get to internet. My laptop (running xp home) connects to the internet just fine over the same connection, my desktop (Dell 4100, 733M P3 w/256M ram) has all the same network connection settings, but cannot connect. Both systems use …  |
 | is there any way for me to install windows movie maker 2 on my laptop running 2000 pro or is there any freeware software like it on the internet? |
| | The screen on my Armada 1700 266 only displays on one half of the screen. If you tweek the top a little, the other half will display, shimmer or produce verticel lines. Time for a new screen or is something loose inside the LCD? No other problems with the laptop.  |
| | I have a feeling this one will challenge you senior techies out there bigtime -- about 2 weeks ago my IBM T21 just started spinning the hard drive CONSTANTLY whenever I would visit Yahoo sites (my mail server, for one thing) using IE6. Most all else works fine, except whenever … |
| | Hi. I'm Thinking of sharing my internet connection with 2 PC's and a laptop. My ADSL modem is currently installed on my PC but I do not want to have my pc switched on while PC2 and/or laptop to use the internet. So I was thinking about buying a wireless … |
| | Hi everyone first time post, but it seems to be a pretty difficult problem. I have two computers, the first is a AMD Desktop with two NIC cards (both Netgear 10 Mb). One of the netgear cards is configured to connect to the school's T3 connection, the other is meant … |
| | Don't know if you can help or not. I play a game called "literati" on Yahoo! The game applet is too small. I've never had a problem before on my other computers but I have a new Dell Laptop that is displaying the applet too small. Everything else seems okay. …  |
| | Hi all, I am using an Inspiron 8000 laptop. I have a green line thin fine line running vertically from top to the bottom of my LCD screen. It is very annoying. Can anyone tell me whether it is the LCD faulty or the controller chip is spoilt or is … |
| | ok. you guys are going to laugh. I just recieved a Toshiba T2115CS (i think) from my friend. Anyways, It has no cd-rom drive. Is it possible and how do I network this machine in DOS 6.22 so i can install windows 95 or 98 (havent made up my mind … |
| | hello, looking for some help with using outlook with pop3 email on a wireless network. router/access point is individually connected to 2 desktops via ethernet cables. Connected to laptop using wireless G. all three computers can see each other, file sharing is fine. I would like to use outlook on … |
| | I have a laptop with a wireless g card built into it and i was wondering if i could access a wireless b acess point from a wireless g card? |
| | [size=2][b]By: [email="geek@bizwriter.biz"]Jeff Johnston[/email][/b] [i]Q: How secure are wireless routers for sharing internet between computers? - Carol in London Ontario[/i] A: Wireless routers have received a lot of bad press lately. I have seen a number of reports on different news programs about the insecurity of wireless routers. The fact is … |
| | I have aol 8.0 installed on my laptop so when I go home (on college breaks) I can connect using my mom's telephone line and aol account. When I click on hyperlinks, they try to open in aol telling me to sign on. I have ie6 and a lan connection … |
 | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]Fast User Switching can be turned-on with Windows XP Professional only when your computer is not part of a domain. Power Options in Control Panel lets you adjust … |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Use ClearType to Enhance Screen Fonts in Windows XP [/color][/size][size=2][color=#000000]This step-by-step article describes how to enable ClearType to sharpen fonts on your Windows XP display. ClearType enhances your display by smoothing the edges of screen … |
| | [font=Fixedsys][color=navy]I have a network of two machines, one desktop(XP home) and one wireless laptop(XP Pro) connected to the net, via a netgear DG824M wireless router.[/color][/font] [font=Fixedsys][color=navy] The laptop is fine, but the desktop ceases to download files online (Mpegs, PDF,programs,firmware upgrades). If however, I restart the pc I can download … |
| | I have an IBM ThinkPad T22. for the life of me i can not figure out why my s-video doesn't display on my TV. I can hook a desktop computer monitor up to the monitor port on it and it works fine. The minute i hook the s-video up nothing …  |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop with Windows ME installed. ME has been nothing but trouble all along. I won't go into that, I would have to write an entire book. LET ME FIRST SAY I A NOVICE SO NEED SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS. I want to one of the following … |
| | I currently have a Internet/File sharing LAN with 3 of 4 computers hooked up all the time and I am looking into setting up a Wi-Fi network in my house so it can have all computers on all the time. I have one laptop with a wireless network card in … |
| | I need to send a CDROM to friends in Uganda so they can install Internet Explorer 6 on their laptop computer. They don't have an internet connection, so they can't download IE6. But they can't install the printer drivers on a new multifunction printer that I gave them unless they … |
| | Hi, this is my first post :) It takes my laptop about 5 minutes to complete startup (till hard disk light stops continuous flashing and I can quickly open any application). I have had this problem now for several months. I don't think I can reformat my system (unless there …  |
| | I have an IBM ThinkPad T22 It is about 2 - 3 years old I am not totaly sure because I received it as an x-mas present this year. Every time or just about every time I shut it off or put it into sleep mode or close the screen …  |
| | Hello everyone. I decided to take the plunge after years of PC use and months of perusing the mac store and mac websites. I settled on a Panther G4 Powerbook, 1 gig ram, 15" screen. I need help with these problems: 1. My keyboard on my laptop stopped working around … |
| | [left][font=Arial][size=3]Hi all,[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3]i basically face a problem concerning a WinMe installation in my old laptop[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3](IBM Thinkpad 380z) which has a [color=red]broken floppy[/color]. As u might have already undestood i cant install WinMe cause i cant boot from floppy:-| . Furthemore i cant find a bootable WinMe cd or make … |
| | Ok, so i opened my laptop the other day to find that it is totally white. My laptop is a gateway solo 1450. I emailed tech support and they sent me back some reply about replacing ram. I knew it wouldnt work but i followed the instuctions and it still … |
| | I have a fairly new Sanyo 20" flat screen and it has an s-video input in the back. I also have a Presario 2100 Laptop also quite new with s-video in back. When I connect my laptop to the T.V. via s-video cable the most I can get from the … |
| | I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop. In the last few months, I noticed that the screen was getting darker. In the last few weeks I noticed the screen was getting a red tint. Yesterday, the screen had a slight flicker. Today, the screen is not working. I plugged the … |
| | My hardware: Soyo K7ADA V1.0 motherboard with Ali MAGiK1 Chipset with USB on the chip itself. Amd 2000+ processor 256mb ddr ram Lexmark Z32 Printer Don't think anything else is going to be of importance.... I'm running win xp pro. I just formatted and reinstalled windows and now it doesn't … |
| | Well... that laptop went up to get connected with it's server again (several hundred miles away from me). I had added the server to it's c:\i386\hosts file and set the ip on the server to the same. (since that worked to see my home network perfectly) and the call comes …  |
 | I have a laptop that has the ablility to have a wireless connection and it did... one day it just stopped working and now it will not work. I know that the WAP is okay, because it is still active. Help. |
| | Hi, The RED color has not been working for a while. However I have had a phuny behaviour when the whole screen would start having red "waves" come accross. Sometimes the waves would disappear when I would tilt the LCD more, sometimes they would appear around the edge of a … |
| | Hi, I have no experience in reparing computers but my friend said you guys might know. My keyboard in my laptop just randomly freezes?? any suggestions to fixing it ^^; -I have a compaq presario 700 laptop x.x |
| | Hi, I turned my computer on yesterday (a SHARP laptop with Win XP on it) and it showed this message: [i][b]Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \Windows\System32\Config\System[/b][/i] [i][b]You can attempt to repair this file by starting windows setup using the original setup cd-rom. Select … |
| | Because of an error message yesterday, I decided to update the keyboard driver on my Dell Inspiron 4000 which is running Windows 2000 Professional. Now I can't get my PC to boot pass the Dell logo screen. It stops and I get a blue screen (not the blue screen of … |
| | This is with my shop laptop, Win2k, latest serv pack and upgrades. I bring it home and connect through my LAN, router, cable. My other computers at home connect to the hospital Intranet ok, and this laptop used to. Now when I put in the intranet site, it just times … |
| | I've been searching for a solution to this problem but cannot find anything yet.... I have a fairly new laptop - Intel Centrino (855 chipset) 1.4Ghz with all the toys bells and whistles. I know the silly thing works, and works well because I've had a full install of Linux … |
| | I have a laptop i just got for christmas its a Toshiba A35-S159 and it has a mobile processor in it with a wireless network card built into it. I was just wondering if it is a wireless B or G type. If you know anything about this or what … |
| | I got a distress call from a teacher and this is what she wrote: how did my son's laptop dial up an overseas porn site without him knowing it? He swears he did not command his computer to do this - that there was no popup that asked him to … |
| | hi there, i would like 2 know if u can solve this... when i start my laptop up its fine but when my desktop shows it take five minuets before it finishes loading/doing its thing. why? p.s. i have win 98 on my downstares computer and that load the destop … |
| | We have a ton of users on our network with laptops who use offline folders. Our issue revolves around sync'ing these folders and/or trying to remove them. For example, we had a server go down and I rebuilt it. Afterwards, everyone was complaining of sync problems because I had changed … |
| | I have an airport base station (snow) administered wirelessly by my Powerbook G3 (Firewire) running Panther. This basestation distributes ip addresses, and client computers share a single ip address using DHCP and NAT. This allows 3 computers to share a single PPPoE phone line high speed internet connection. The other … |
| | Hi, I've just installed 512mb ram on my laptop, running windows xp home. I had to do this becuase it was only running 128 before aahh. Now I don't know very much about this but when I had a look at System in the control panel it tells me I'm … |
| | Hi I have been trying to get my Dell inspiron 2500 to show something anything on the lcd but to no avail...it works with an external monitor. I have tried to reset the flex cable but nothing... When I start it up the screen is jetblack! then it flcks to …  |
| | I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Laptop. It didn't detect the sound but I used sndconfig and configured it. I guess the problem is I don't get sound as user. What can I do? |
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