Search results

  1. B

    Netopia login problem

    I have a Netopia 3000 wireless router and a Win XP machine. Nothing exotic about the setup. Just a single desktop machine. I've had the router for a couple years. The past year or so I have had intermittent issues with certain web pages. I will get a blank page and a login window that refers to...
  2. B

    PDF Editing

    Hi everyone... I think I'm placing this is the right category. My professor emails PDF docs to the class, which is all fine and good. The issue I have is (if I can explain this clearly)....each page has about 4 block-windows which look as if they would be single pages in a Power Point...
  3. B

    Hardware issue....no cable installed error??

    Hi All... I'm having what I THINK is a hardware issue. At first I thought it was a virus (or whatever). I have scanned and scanned and scanned my system. I have a resident, active antivirus program that is updated at least once a day (AVG), and I have several others I use to run scans anytime...
  4. B

    eudcedit anyone?

    Hi all... I have been trying to figure this out and am at a stumbling block. Machine: PC ---- XP (Home) ---- clean, no problems at all, runs well. Problem: Using a (possibly) lesser known program called "eudcedit.exe" that lives in the i386 folder in (all?) windows OS's. It's a clunky...
  5. B

    lab computer problem

    One of our lab computers here at work has gotten into a log-in issue after a power outage. We need to retrieve the registration key, but no one seems to know where this is written down...IF it was ever written down anywhere. Is this key saved in the registry somewhere? Can we get at it...
  6. B

    Suggestions about this Worm please

    System stats: (XP Home)/zone alarm, I run several scanners over the course of each day 7 days a week/DSL connection, usually a clean system. Last night during a scan with a-squared (free). It found the following: Worm.Win32.Otwycal.c Located in C:\Windows\explorer.exe I deleted the...
  7. B

    Adobe Flash Player Settings

    Hello all.. There is a web page that I frequent often at home. In so doing I change pages often and on many of the pages there are these small, but incredibly irritating Orkin (Flash) ads. My main question is; is there ANY way to disable this ad. It has a very irritating sound. The...
  8. B

    Is firefox killing my net connection???

    Hi all... Has anyone else had this happen: I use the latest version of Firefox on a clean XP box. But for whatever reason, I had a heck of a time using more than one instance of firefox at the same time. It may work ok for a while....coupld hours or so, but after a while, one will crap out...
  9. B

    Weird Firefox Issue

    Hi all... Has anyone else had this happen: I use the latest version of Firefox on a clean XP box. But for whatever reason, I had a heck of a time using more than one instance of firefox at the same time. It may work ok for a while....coupld hours or so, but after a while, one will crap out...
  10. B

    Motherboard Info

    :confused: Where can I check on my computer for the make/model/style/whatever of my motherboard? I would like to upgrade my processor but I want to be certain what my mo-baord is. I think I'm getting conflicting info, so I want to be sure I'm looking in the right place. I have a desktop...
  11. B

    Funky taskbar with full screen aps

    Hello everyone... This is weird. I had XP (home) on my system for a long time. HD crashed....re-installed XP (home), pretty much re-set up things (by hand). Ok....all fine and good. I like to put my taskbar on auto-hide, but the problem is; whenever I maximize any application to full...
  12. B

    New user to myspace

    Hello everyone...I'm a new user to MySpace. I'm not familiar with it yet. I see that some of my 'friends' do not have their 'friends' shown on their page, and not 'comments' either, which is usually on like 99% of the pages I've seen so far. Does anyone know if it's possible to set...
  13. B

    Task Bar

    :beer:I read somewhere where you can make a small hack to speed up the time it takes for the auto-hide taskbar to pop up. Does anyone know how to do this? I did it and it worked fine. It's more of a 'thing' than anything else. My HD took a dump and am trying to put all those little things...
  14. B

    Crashed on Windows update

    Hello all... I have an XP (home) system. It's a clutter-free, clean system. I update the firewall (ZA), antivirus (AVG) and spy/scumware aps I use, on a very regular basis. I almost never have troubles with viruses, and other nasties from the net. However, last night I did the windows...
  15. B

    iTunes music format

    I just started using iTunes. Is there a way to burn/save music from iTunes m4p format to mp3, or wav format(s)? Thanks --- :)
  16. B

    Wallpaper Location

    Hello folks.... This is now become an annoyance than anything else. I found a pic on some website that I selected as my background pic on XP Pro. I've done this numerous times, and up till now never have a problem. As (probably) all of you are well aware, you can right-click almost any pic...
  17. B

    Outlook Express DBX File Mayhem

    Hello all.... Outlook Express v6.x. I accidentally deleted a folder along with some messages, and in one swoop....emptied the deleted items box like the idiot that I am. :beer: I found a proggy that I *think* snagged the folder in question, but it was a trial version. I think the...
  18. B

    Office Assistant

    I started a new job recently. They have these old Win 98 machines, which I haven't used in aeons. I cannot get rid of that pesky Office Assistant (OA). I can't find any help on the web. I can right-click the OA, but there's no check-box that says anything about stop using it. I un-checked all...
  19. B

    Henpecked by windows asking to restart

    I updated windows with the typical plethora of security updates for IE and the like on my windows xp home machine. As you al prolly know, after doing such an update one needs to restart windows for the changes to take affect. Well, I forgot how incredibly annoying the windows reminder dialog...
  20. B

    Shadenfroh - my solution is....

    shadenfroh.... You asked that if I resolved my hijacker problem to let you know....and you spent time helping me....one of the very very few on ANY of the other sites, and I promised to tell you, so here it is: If you all search for my username and find one of the first ones you will see a...
  21. B

    Lost Google Toolbar and Redirected IE :(

    Hi all.... Somehow I managed to get some kind of scumware loaded onto my system. I have a fairly clean, XP Home box with IE 6.0, with Spybot, Ad-Aware, and ZoneAlarm loaded on it. I also am using the Grisoft AVG Antivirus software. I update each of these about once per 2 week intervals. I...
  22. B

    MS Outlook 2003 Niggle

    My work computer: XP Pro, brand new, clean, yadda yadda yadda uses MS Outlook 2003 as the email client. Only when the program loads, (and not at start-up) it places an icon in the system tray. I'm not talking about the 'new mail' notification, I'm talking about just an icon that tells you ME...
  23. B

    Outlook Express v6 Antics

    On my Win 98 machine I saved two *.dbx folders, a couple months ago rfom my Outlook Express (version 6). I would not like to retrieve a few messages from those two folders, but I can't seem to get them loaded so that OE recognizes them. I tried copying the (dbx) folders into the location the...
  24. B

    Can I recover deleted files from Outlook Express 6?

    I use Outlook Express version 6 (very well running win 98 machine), and I accidentally dragged two files into the deleted items folder and then subsequently deleted the contents of that folder like the idiot that I am...aaarrrgh! Is it possible to recover those two files? I know that OE stores...
  25. B

    MS Outlkook hijacked my attachment

    Microsoft Outlook 2002, configured for a single user in Win 2000 Pro is not permitting an email with an *.exe attachment that I sent to myself. Does anyone know how to configure it to configure it to permit attachments? I get so tired of everyone and everything trying to protect us from...
  26. B

    NetZero

    Happy Thanksgiving! Does anyone have a copy of Netzero version 4 they could email me? fizixx@yahoo.com Thank you....hope someone can help. b- :)
  27. B

    How to Eliminate Network Settings ??

    I just got an old 233 (MHz) pc from an acquaintance that used the computer as part of his companies network. I got the computer to give to a friend, but am having trouble setting it up to be used for a single user (no network). I want the computer to logon seamlessly without asking for...
  28. B

    Annoying popping up of IE

    At work I like to use my ISP's (Earthlink) webmail ap to check my home email. Fine and good..... Whenever there is any kind of screen change or refresh, there is a bit of a delay upon it actually doing anything. So I minimize the screen and go back to doing whatever I was doing before...
  29. B

    White Screen of Death...Ahhhhhhh

    Ok....this is driving me crazy. I've got a Dell Latitude, CPx (J), PIII, 650 Mhz, 256 M RAM and a 12 GHD. Nothing elaborate and I just got it off ebay. It's been working great so far. No hint of any trouble whatsoever. I just loaded XP Pro on it yesterday, and other software as well. The hard...
  30. B

    Excel Elapsed Time Help Please

    Hi all..... I'm trying to figure out a way to calculate the elapsed time in Excel 2000. I want to input two dates and times of this format: 3/25/03 1:15:23 PM -and- 3/26/03 10:05:12 AM I'd like to know what the total number of days, hours, minutes and seconds are. I've tried using the...
  31. B

    CD Burner is....BURNT??

    Good day all....... I have an old WIN 98 system that's been working well actually...stable and all that. I have 2 HD's in it and a CD ROM and about a year ago, or so I put a CDRW in it (AOpen). Lately when I go to burn a few CD's....nothing sees the device. I can't access it thru explorer...
  32. B

    half-life help please

    Howdy all.... In the original half-life game. Does anyone know how to get out of the part where you are in the Lambda Core area. You go thru the portal opened by another scientist (maybe toward the end of the game???) and you end up on a little floating island in space I guess. No idea what...
  33. B

    half-life help please

    Howdy all.... In the original half-life game. Does anyone know how to get out of the part where you are in the Lambda Core area. You go thru the portal opened by another scientist (maybe toward the end of the game???) and you end up on a little floating island in space I guess. No idea what...
  34. B

    Help with Internet Explorer Please!!

    Hello all..... On my work computer I have my system upgraded late last week. As is usually the case, things I've noticed some changes in my settings that are no longer available and I need to have restored. I'm using Windows NT v4.0 on our network. I don't know that much about networks, so I...
  35. B

    Keyboard mapping??

    Happy holidays everyone.... I bought a used computer to refurbish a bit and then give to my dad to use. It's a Win 98 based system, Pent. 1, second HD added for more room, etc etc. Basically the thing works great and will be way more than he'll ever use, but my question is about a keyboard that...
  36. B

    Windows PW ??

    Hello everyone...... I use to know this, but I've never needed to use it, so now that I need it I'm stuck! ugh! Does anyone know how to defeat that pesky Windows password prompt? I bought a used computer for my dad. It's way more computer than he will ever need or use, but the previous owner...
  37. B

    Extracting files fom '98 CD ??

    Hi all..... How do I extract an individual file from a Windows '98 CD? I know this can be done, but I can't remember is Windows comes with this ability or if I'd need to d/l some 3rd party program to do this. I had a virus and needed to delete a file, which I think is buried in the '98 CD...
  38. B

    Plug-in problems!

    Hello everyone.... I managed to get a kak worm last week and it was caught by my NAV, version 5.0 for Win 98. I couldn't use this version to download the patch to make the necessary repairs. So I went to Symantec's website like a good little user, BUT....when I try to d/l the patch...
  39. B

    Excel Macro Woes

    I'm using Excel 2000 on an NT platform and wrote a macro to perform a menial task. Not being skilled at macros I found that what I had written wasn't what I wanted, so I deleted it. I did so in the usual way....tools/macro/macros/delete. Fine and dandy right?.....wrong! Whenever I open that...
  40. B

    In Excel 2000 does anyone know how to.......

    Does anyone know how, or if it's even possible, in Excel 2000, Win NT, to find the first blank cell in a column of data, or the last non-blank cell in that same column? I have a spreadsheet where, in one column, I am entering an ongoing series of data (numbers). The column gets longer and...