Recent content by jeffgson

The problem isn't in the HOSTS file. I've verified this now.

I tried disabling the firewall without luck. I was just going to download Opera. Right now I use Avant, but it just has a different front end but works on IE technology. I had tried the Mozilla Firefox being discussed in the spyware thread above, but I didn't like it and moved to Avant. IE...

The traceroute is making the connection, but my browser still isn't. Now what? Hop IP Address Host Name Sent Recv RTT Av RTT Min RTT Max RTT % Loss 1 10.172.108.1 [Unknown] 1 1 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms...

I'm not sure why, but without any seeming reason I can no longer connect to my.yahoo.com or to my excite or juno email account. I checked my security settings and to make sure I still had the particular cookies associated with those websites in my files. I usually run very tight security, with...

You should get a CD with the Maxtor HD that will enable you to clone your master drive to your new drive after you format (unless you bought your new HD bare, without any hardware or manuals). I've never tried this CD (I was looking at either buying a second Maxtor or a Western Digital, and I...

I'd still like to setup dual booting capability. The only way I can make sure my new HD boots at the moment is to rest the BIOS temporarily so its the primary boot device. I can find my answer online, but I was hoping someone here could save me some research work. The OS is Win XP Pro, and...

I have the same problem, or a similar problem. But, when I right click on a file or folder (or drive), there is a functional "Scan with Norton Antivirus" option in the context menu. And I created a link from the Norton AV folder for Live Update (LUALL.EXE) in my start menu. I update NAV more...

I'm installing my second HD now. I'd like to configure the system so that on startup the system automatically boots to the master HS, unless within a set time period (60 seconds) I choose to boot to the slave HD? When I had two different OS's on one HD somebody set this up for me, so I expect...

Relating to what was mentioned above: Do I really want to copy the contents of my primary drive to my slave drive? The data that's stored on the primary drive already doesn't need stored twice. And if I copy my OS and boot sector to my slave, I'm transferring any errors or corrupt files that...

I see now that you've pointed it out.

I'm not sure if I should spend money on a 2nd HD. On the one hand, even though my current HD is only 30 GB, I don't store much, and consequently seldom have more than 12 to 14 GB on it at any time. I'm not big into any memory consuming apps or data like games, DVDs, MP3s, etc.. I do have a...

A) Is it freeware? B) Does is permit connection to https websites? Forget I asked. I'm looking at the Mozilla website now. I'll definitely try it.

Hopefully she is at least running the SE version on Win 98. If she was unaware of updating the program, I would definitely make a point of going to Windows Updates by Microsoft and scan the operating system, downloading and installing all the critical updates. It will scan the system...

Why do you want to do this? Unless you are a sys admin on a network, it sounds to me more like you're a hacker wannabe.