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Re: broadband
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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Re: broadband I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was droppe…
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Wireless access point periodically fails...?
by Guest Kenneth- 20 replies
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Howdy, We use a Linksys wireless access point in our home... On occasion (and apparently randomly) the systems show a message saying "Unable to connect to wireless network." At that point, if I try to reconnect, I see a dialog saying "Waiting for network" but no connect is created. When that happens, I have learned that if I power down the wireless access point, and power it up again, all the systems will connect in moments. What might be causing such a failure of the wireless, and might there be a way to correct it? Many thanks, -- Kenneth If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line.
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line. I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for le…
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RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line.
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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RE: Using two computers on the same Cable or DSL line. I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for le…
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Re: routers
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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Re: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …
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Re: routers
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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Re: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …
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RE: routers
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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RE: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …
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RE: routers
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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RE: routers I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was dropped …
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Search mysteries in xp
by Guest Cheska99- 1 reply
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I've finally got one of my computers to run search really fast--and it's becoming a really useful tool for me, finally. But I'm confused about many of its ways. For example, when I look to see where the file it's found is located, it will give me incomplete information. It says a file is on my desktop, but it's not visible to me on the desktop and must be within at least one folder. Do you know of any good tuts that delve deeply into the search feature so that I can really make it work for me?
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Hi, Is there a fix for there not being buttons to remove or change installed applications in the Add/Remove part of the Control Panel? Most entries do not have the buttons, but some do. Any ideas? -paul
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taskbar annoyance
by Guest Paul Pedersen- 6 replies
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I use applications that have buttons near the bottom of the screen. If I move the mouse to those buttons and click, the taskbar unexpectedly jumps up and intercepts the click. I assume that Windows thinks it is being helpful, but this is really a pia. How can I turn off this "feature"? "Enhance pointer precision" is off.
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msn mail
by Guest Kyle- 3 replies
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all of a sudden I can't send e-mail using msn explorer I have no idea how or what is causing my issue please help.
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Windows XP Theme & SP3
by Guest WJB- 3 replies
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Hi, I just installed Windows XP Pro SP3, and when I rebooted, my display theme reverted back to the old Windows 2000 classic theme. The original Windows installation was Windows XP Pro SP2, so there's never been any hint on this computer of Windows 2000. The display theme does indicate it is set to Windows XP (the default blue theme). I even tried to change it to Olive Green then to Blue again hoping to trigger a change, but no success. Is this an SP3 issue or is there something I can change in my configuration? Thanks
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Automatic updates becoming compulsory?
by Guest spamlet- 12 replies
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I have noticed of late, a tendency for automatic updates to just start up on their own without any warning. On a laptop with little space, I recently had to pull the plug pdq to stop service pack three loading without so much as a by your leave. Then today I turn on my pc (XPPro) and instantly the little shield appears telling me it's downloading updates, with no indication of what or why. Again, luckily, I have a wireless connection and can instantly pull the usb dongle... I always have my machines set to inform me of updates and only allow those that I particularly want. Now I find that the pc has been reset to completely automatic without any ac…
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Cant Install Some Programs
by Guest JCO- 8 replies
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A friend of mine is running Windows Media Center. He had a virus and killed his system so I restored it from an image that was a year old. We put Service Pack 3 on his computer and updated all critical patches. Installed Explorer 7 too. Before the virus, he never had Service Pack 3 or IE 7 but I installed them since I wanted to get him all up to date before he takes his computer home. When he took the computer home, to install his personal software, he ran into similar issues with two of the installations. Quicken 5 and FireFox will not install. Firefox error indicates that it can't write to the Registry and the Quicken 5 error states something si…
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Wanted: Help translating from bash to cmd.exe
by Guest Siegfried Heintze- 0 replies
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How do I translate this from bash to cmd.exe: ../myprogramreadsstdin <<EOF this is data read by my program bash sends my program and end-of-file signal when it sees the following token: EOF ../myprogramreadsstdin <<XYZ this is data read by my program. bash sends an end-of-file signal when it sees the following string: XYZ Thanks! siegfried
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email message with music
by Guest ~~Alan~~- 8 replies
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I want to send an email message with an embedded .mp3 file that will start playing when the message is opened. How can I do this with either Outlook or Outlook Express? ~alan
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username and password
by Guest Ron- 2 replies
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I installed a program on my pc and the program wants me to give my username and password which I forgot, I'm new to this so how do I find out my username and password?
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Re: Winsock provider catalog
by Guest isee- 1 reply
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Re: Winsock provider catalog I am having the same problem, but only with IE, Firefox works fine. I have a router and have reset it. No change. Any new info? -- isee
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ftp error since sp3 upgrade
by Guest donnyp- 1 reply
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since sp3 was put on my system I cannot access the ftp site for a website I maintain i am using ftp commander free edition the error coming up is 500 conection timed out(winsock error#10060), If I disable windows firewall I can gain access I have the software set as an exception but it still times out. I have norton av 2008 and norton sytem works but I don't think they are the problem because it only appeared after the sp3 upgrade.
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Remote desktop typing wrong keys
by Guest Mltwwlco@noemail.noemail- 5 replies
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I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 system that seems to re-map the keyboard from a standard QWERTY US 101 keyboard to the strange one displayed in the enclosed jpg. This occurs AFTER login, because I am able to type both the username and password without problems. Rebooting the remote system did not solve the problem, and the same wrong keyboard mapping occurs when connecting from a Vista Ultimate SP1 laptop (numlock was not the cause of the problem) as well as an ancient Windows 2000 Pro SP4 desktop. I need to fix this ASAP, since using the onscreen keyboard is killing my productivity!
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How can a file be in MyComputer?
by Guest AAaron123- 1 reply
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Name In Folder abc My Computer abc officroffers(officeoffers.com) I search for a file and get 4 hits. Two make sense to me but what about the two above. What folders (or whatever) are they actually in? I don't think they are real files because their size=0 What are they? I said to search the hard drives so why does search companion find them? thanks
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Windows XP Logon - Auto
by Guest Simon- 2 replies
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Hello, please could I ask for some tips from more expert users of XP. I have a standard PC running XP Pro with an Administrator account. Our need is to add a limited user account, I know how to do this. Ideally what I need to happen is when the PC starts up it automatically logs onto the Limited account. Its for a hospital radio station and runs some overnight music. The program would be in the start up menu but I just need the PC to log into the Limited account as there may be no one around. Many thanks for your help
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Runas issue
by Guest mgent- 1 reply
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Hi, I'm trying to setup a little bat file to load the diskmagement system. When I run it though I get the following message. I've got local admin access. Sadly it doesn't work, dont' know where to turn either. I'm also looking to get to run over the network, but I just want it to work locally right now. PHP code: -------------------- runas /user:or\Installxp "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\diskmgmt.msc" -------------------- PHP code: -------------------- C:>runas /user:or\Installxp "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\diskmgmt.msc" Enter the password for or\Installxp: Attempting to start C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\diskmgmt.msc as user "or\Installxp" ... RUNAS ER…
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Need to open explorer to folder in "My Documents" via command line
by Guest Ralph Malph- 1 reply
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I need to be able to open an explorer window showing a folder found in the users "My Documents" folder. I need to do this via a .bat file. I know I can use variable like %userprofile% to find the users profile folder under "Documents and Settings" but on some of the systems where I need this function "My Documents" will not be found under "Documents and Settings". For example I have several PCs where it is found at the root of drive U. (A thawed part of a frozen computer). Whether "My Documents" is found in a profile folder under "Documents and Settings" or ANY OTHER place on the system I need to be able to have an explorer window open up to it. I am cu…