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well, thanks, but I kind of knew that. the point is an eSATA has a very high bandwidth - much more the 130mb/s so it shouldn't be that. and I've had Raid 6 on similar controllers, and got more than 130mb/s. so its not the Raid 6 extra computations. and the drives are better/faster in the...

Hi all: I have 2 Areca Raid systems on my workstation. The external one is a lot slower, and whilst to some extent I expect this - I'm trying to figure out if/where the bottleneck is. The internal one is an ARC-1222, which has 6x Samsung 2Tb drives in Raid 5, and gives me ~330Mb/s sequential...

ps my hosts file is normal: # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp. # # This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows. # # This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each # entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should # be...

I have a newish x64 workstation, and a few random webistes simply wont load on it - like Craigslist. its very frustrating. 98% of sites are fine - its just random ones that give me "problem loading page" and "the connection was reset" I have no child or website blocking software on there that...

it seems MS has a problem with the latest security patch for x64 users, and its causing BSOD for a lot of machines. see: http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=23588 hopefully they will realise their error and remedy it soon, but meanwhile do NOT install, and be sure to turn off...

I partitioned off a part of my second disk for 20Gb 'scratch' space (virtual memory for photoshop) but when I look at it in Disk managament or in Diskeeper, it is 95% full of... something however, when I go to windows explorer, nothing appears to be there. I have checked to 'Show Hidden...

thanks you werre right, I had to turn off both windows firewalls. duh. got to leave it to the NAT router firewall. whatever that is! all working ok now, though I feel a little nervous with a firewall I can see at all. thanks again, paul

I have two macnines that I'm trying to get networked together through the router, and tried to ping and got total "request time out" results, so I guess I have router issues? they are both plugged into the same (a Linksys RT31P2 Broadband router) and both can connect to the internet at...

YEESSSSS!!! all fixed! thanks so much to all here. you're geniuses. I guess I'd used a registry cleaner at some point way back and it wiped that connection. damn that toniarts... Brilliant. today was not wasted. paul

ok, now we're getting somewhere!! thanks - that seems right when I use run command to do "%Windir%\PCHealth\HelpCtr\Binaries\HelpCtr.exe" I do indeed get to my "Help" centre. so its all present but the connection is broken. in your link it says: To resolve the problem, download and apply...

just searched for *.hlp and there seems to be a whole bunch of files there, as C:\windows\help

actually is there another way to launch "help and support" outside of the start menu? I should try that, I guess

sorry, not clear what you mean - how do I show you what it "points to"?

thanks scottws, very helpful of you to explain all that to me, but... it is there in the services list, Help and Support Service, Started, (automatic). I checked 'properties and it all looked ok too. anyone got further ideas?

no nothing - nada. no explorer window opens, nothing at all. you click the link (Start > Help and Support) and NOTHING happens. its that simple!! everything else works fine though. weird.