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Fruitbat
Member
08-07-2000
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 7:05 am
I have Outlook for my email. Right now 5 emails are stuck in my outbox. This has happened before and took hours to clear. I can't delete them, I get a message saying they are in the process of being sent. There are are not huge, nor do they contain pictures. I think I remember deleting them somehow last time but I can't figure out how I may have done that. Has anyone had this problem?
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 7:37 am
I have a question..I was looking at this site: http://www.inklineglobal.com/adsales/betanews/pcb_offer_468_bn.html?mcp=CA Does this actually work for a computer..I have dial up connection speed (cannot get dsl where I live) so anything to make it faster would be wonderful...any input would be greatly appreciated thanks
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 10:28 am
Glenn reads in the Computer thread?????
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:15 pm
Whoami: BIOS is an acronym for "Basic Input Output System". This is the code which the computer uses to understand how to talk to all of the basic components such as the processor, memory, hard drives, floppy drives, etc. before the operating system and higher level drivers are loaded. Updating the BIOS can be dangerous if you are not careful. In the unlikely event that something goes wrong during the upgrade, it could render your computer useless. This is very rare! On the other hand, BIOS updates are usually the result of some identified problem being corrected in the BIOS for your computer. I would recommend that you look closely at the information about this upgrade you were told about and determine if it is suitable to you. Hope this helps.
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:17 pm
Glenn--- 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:23 pm
Thanks Dra. The only thing my "update alert" says is: "You may have experienced slow booting times when you first turn on your computer. This could be a result of not having the latest BIOS on your Dell Dimension 8300 computer." So I assume if I'm not having a slow boot time, I should just leave it alone? Or, since its a Dell computer, and a Dell Update, I could trust its just a routine Dell upgrade? Sorry, I know I'm a pest. Especially since there are so many other questions in this thread too....
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:34 pm
Mygetaway: It sounds like your firewall is protecting you by blocking the incoming scan of some known vunerable ports on your computer. Any good firewall should protect you. If you are a highspeed connection, you could try rebooting your modem to allow it to assign you a new IP address for your connection. This would move you away from the IP that is being 'probed' by whatever hacker or trojan program is out there. To reboot, you just need to turn everything off, disconnect power for a few minutes then restart. That should help. You may also want to contact your ISP and let them know about the information you have posted. They may be able to configure a filter to keep the problem from getting to your computer in the first place. Hope this helps.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:38 pm
Tess: The way this board works, any time a new post is made, the thread it is in, along with every thread/topic above it is assigned a new 'tag' number. This number appears in the link to the right of the question mark which is after the .html extension. (ie: .html?12389123) The purpose for this is to give browsers the appearance that the link is different from the link in your browser history. When this changes, the link color on most browsers changes so you would know the link has been updated. You can actually safely leave off the question mark and the numbers to the right of it when posting links if you want. They still work, regardless. Hope this helps.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:41 pm
Whoami: You may want to visit the Dell support site and read the information about the update. I suspect there would be more to publishing an update then simply a slow boot problem. The information page about the update should give you a detailed list of all the problems the update is supposed to address. Based on that, you can decide whether or not it is right for you. The cautionary note in my post has to do with the process of updating the BIOS. While it is being updated, if you for any reason were to lose power to the computer during the process, it could cause serious problems. I would especially discourage you from running such an update during a time when you might possibly lose power. Otherwise, you should be fine. And keep in mind, the time it takes is usually very short so the risk is relatively minimal anyway. Hope this helps.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:47 pm
Fruitbat: There are a number of articles regarding your problem posted on the Microsoft Knowledgebase, some are specific to different versions of Outlook. Can you provide any more details about the problem, including the version of Outlook you are using and what type of E-mail service you are accessing with Outlook? Let me know please.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 3:54 pm
Skootz: The program you linked to looks like it's an optimizer for your computer. These usually provide an easy way to perform maintenance you could do yourself, such as defragmenting your hard drive and running scans for potential problems using programs like Anti-Virus, AdAware & Spybot. You can also manually optimize settings such as your virtual memory settings. Depending on how much memory you currently have installed in your computer, you could achieve a significant performance boost by simply upgrading the memory alone. Hope this helps.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 4:00 pm
MGA, DH found this link http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9687837~mode=flat for you.
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Mygetaway
Member
08-23-2000
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 4:28 pm
Thanks Lum and Lum's DH. That link has made me feel slightly better. And thank you SIR Draheid. Poor guy, you must feel like you never get a day off from here.. We really appreciate all you do for us! I know Norton is doing it's job, I was just getting so mad last night at how aggressive it was. I have dial-up, so is there a way to reset that? I did try calling customer service and got the runaround on the automated bus. Fun, fun, fun! 
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 4:36 pm
Mygetaway: The way to 'reset' a dialup is to disconnect, wait a few minutes and reconnect. Depending on how active your provider's users are, you should almost always get a different IP address. In the future, when this type of thing happens more then a couple of times, just disconnect and wait a couple minutes. Then reconnect and you should be ok, at least for a while. Hope that helps.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 5:10 pm
Dra, you're the tops!

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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Monday, May 17, 2004 - 8:16 pm
Thanks, Dra. That does help a lot. 
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Stardog
Member
10-03-2002
| Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 5:30 pm
I hope someone can help me solve my problem. I am completely at a loss as to what to do. I keep having a box appear on my screen. It is titled Wtoolsa and in the box it says: This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. It does not shut down but when you hit the x it disappears for about 30 seconds and keeps coming back. In the details box it say Wtoolsa caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL 32.DLL @0177:bff7671f and then a bunch of registers follow this info. This is not happening when I am connected to the internet but I am unable to do anything when it is not. I have rebooted the computer and even shut it off and let it sit for awhile but nothing seems to clear it. Any help or directions where I can go for help would be greatly appreciated. Stardog
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 5:40 pm
Stardog: I recommend you download, install, and run a copy of AdAware 6 available from Lavasoft's Website. You should also get a copy of Spybot Search & Destroy, install and run that on your computer also. You will find this at Safer-networking.org's download page. If these don't clear up the problem, please let me know what operating system version you are using and any other details you may have on this problem. Hope this helps. Edit to add: Click Here do go directly to Download.com for AdAware
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Stardog
Member
10-03-2002
| Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 9:24 pm
Draheid: Thank you for responding. I have been running AdAware 6 for a while now and just finished running Spybot. On both systems I keep getting a repeat of 3 registry and 3 files that always relate to the same thing (first is a possible browser hijack attemp/reg date type/data miner, catagory this is for the first three) and then I get what is called a tracking cookie . I delete them but they keep returning. Now to my original problem it still exists. If I stay on the internet I can access my other programs without any interference but I would certainly like to get rid of it. When I downloaded Spybot they had a download called Registry Mechanic 2.1 Registry Cleaner Description: Keep your windows registry clean and free of errors. Download Registry Mechanic to fix your registry and make your system faster and more stable. Do you think this could possibly help? Stardog
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 10:07 pm
Stardog: I'm not familiar with Registry Mechanic. I did read that the trial version will only work on the first 6 levels of your registry so, unless you're interested in purchasing a license for the full version, I don't think it will help you much. A couple of things for you to try for the original problem. First, go into Add/Remove Programs and see if there is an entry for Wintools. If you find that entry, remove that from your system and see if that cures the problem. I also would recommend you reboot into safe mode and try running AdAware & Spybot again to see if they are able to fix any additional problems for you. Finally, while in safe mode, locate a folder named Wintools (probably in the C:\Program Files\Common files\ directory or somewhere similar under C:\Program Files) and delete that folder and all of it's contents. Hope this helps.
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Amchess
Member
08-27-2002
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 5:47 am
I cannot get BB Australia feeds. I reinstalled Real Player but that didn't work. I get this message. At one point it flashed that it detected Real 6.1.1.1 (or whatever), but it is Real Player 10 that I downloaded. I can't find any old versions running (but I am not good at this). Finishing Real Player detection... hmmm... we where unable to detect the cookie that we've just written for Real Player. In order to use this site you will need to enable cookies (you may have to add bigbrother.ten.com.au to your trusted zone in internet explorer) Press here to continue. When I press here nothing happens - same screen. My cookies are enabled. I am a Windows XP, Roadrunner type with limited computer ability!
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Amchess
Member
08-27-2002
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 5:48 am
ps, I added them to my trusted zone, but that didn't help either......
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 6:20 am
Amchess: Are you running any additional 'protection' software such as a firewall or other 'personal security' products on your system? Have you tried deleting the current cookies in Explorer in order for BB AU to send you a current one? Have you checked in RealPlayer itself to be sure you have cookies enabled in their setup also? You will find this setting under 'Tools - Preference' and click down the left menu to 'Connection - Internet/Privacy' and make sure 'Enable RealPlayer Cookies.' is checked. Let me know if this helps.
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Amchess
Member
08-27-2002
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 7:10 am
I have XP firewall, plus E Trust firewall (provided by Roadrunner) and Adaware. I added BB to my trusted site tho. I should be able to undo the XP and just use E Trust? Will delete cookies again too.
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Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 7:24 am
Amchess: The firewall included with XP is not as versatile as others that are available. I don't believe it would be a problem to turn off the XP firewall since it is redundant. I'm sorry I am not familiar with E Trust even though I am also using Roadrunner for access. I have been using Zone Alarm for quite a while now and usually recommend that for anyone who doesn't have a firewall currently. If you are interested, you can get a free copy from Zonelabs.com website. Let me know if clearing the cookies and disabling the XP firewall works. If not, I will be happy to look into E Trust firewall and see if there is anything that can be caused by that program when using RealPlayer. Hope this helps.
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