Archive through November 02, 2002
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Archive through November 02, 2002
Bob2112 | Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 02:30 pm     Jewels, your best bet may be to get a SmartMedia reader that plugs into your USB port. Then you just remove the SmartMedia card from your camera, insert it into the reader and copy the files to your hard drive just like you would copy other files. Assuming you're on a PC, your windows software should automatically detect the reader and assign a drive letter for it in Windows Explorer. The older Olympus models (like mine and probably yours) use the serial port to transfer files and it would take for ever to upload pictures. With the card reader, the same transfers that would take 3-5 minutes or more, now only take 20-30 seconds. They are not too expensive, I would guess $20-$40 and can be found at most stores and many places on-line. Just make sure to get the correct reader for you storage media (bring the camera with if you go to a local store). Here's just one example of a reader that would work Amazon.com This one actually supports both CompactFlash and SmartMedia. edit: <or first try reinstalling the software, like granny said below> |
Grannyg | Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 02:35 pm     Jewels, try re-installing the software that came with your camera. You may have to uninstall the software first but when you try to re-install the software it will tell you that you need to uninstall and will probably to it for you. If it doesn't double click on my computer, then control panel, then add/remove programs and find it on the list and uninstall or remove. AFTER all of that then re-install your software. It won't take but a minute to do this. Hope this helps!! |
Jewels | Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 02:44 pm     Dumb question alert!! If I uninstall the software and reinstall it, I won't lose the pictures I have stored there will I? Bob, you are probably right about getting the card reader. I never got one because I never had any problems, nor do I ever have very many pictures that need to be downloaded at one time. Thanks you for your help guys! |
Grannyg | Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 03:16 pm     Jewels, click on the folder where you pictures are stored and move it to another place. Or click on each picture and then choose "save as" and put them in "My Documents" and they will be safe there. Hope you get this straight before time for pics tonight. I have my fingers crossed for you. Good Luck! |
Azriel | Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 05:00 pm     I need advice. This is a long story and I'll try to be as brief as I can and still give you all the info on what I've done. About a week ago, I started up my computer and I got a message at startup that said something about my registry not matching and that it was going to restore it from a backup. I can't remember the exact wording and it didn't give me a choice, it just did it. After that all hell broke out on my computer. When I tried to open programs I got error messages. (This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down) When I tried to run Norton Anti Virus it shut down whenever it started to scan my computer. when I tried to download another virus scanner, I was able to download it but it shut down when I tried to install it. Today, I went online to Norton and they had a spiffy online virus scan for your computer. I did that and it found that 16 files on my computer were infected with W32.Klez.H@mm virus and they had a fix tool for it. I downloaded FixKlez and saved it to my desktop. I restarted my computer in safe mode and I ran the fix tool. It found the 16 files and deleted them all. I cheered and restarted my computer, thinking that everything was hunky-dory now. DAMN IT! It's still screwed up. I'm thinking since my registry is probably still screwed up that I'll have to reinstall windows. I actually tried to reinstall windows today before I found the Norton online scan and following the directions at Microsoft I went to add/remove programs and there is no Windows 98 to remove. I went to my command file in Windows and there is no uninstall file. ~sigh~ So, does anyone have any advice for me? I'm using Windows 98 SE. |
Draheid | Thursday, October 31, 2002 - 06:59 pm     Azriel: You might still be able to 'repair' your system instead of having to reinstall everything. Please take a look at these two links. See if have any luck with the first one. If not, refer to the 2nd link for more possible ways to repair your system. Note: These are best viewed in Internet Explorer How to Restore the Registry in Windows 98/Me Windows 98 Troubleshooting If neither of these help, you could try booting your computer with the Windows/98 CD-Rom in the drive. It *should* boot from the CD and present you with possible options to repair your system. Good luck. Please let us know if any of this helps. |
Jed245 | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 12:37 am     JuJu I have an idea that might help you out a little with your connection problems. Has there been any new radio towers or stations in the area? Or a recent storm (Prior to your connecion problems ofcourse)??? If so to any of these then you might be experiencing "line noise" I had a local ISP a few years back and they were great for a while. Then there was a large electrical storm and in the days following I had similar problems that you have described. Turned out to be phone noise and I needed to buy a (Micro filter) there are several you can purchase and they are fairly cheap. Hope that helps. |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 08:56 am     All right, already! Everybody please quit trying to help me. I don't have a problem. I am quite happy with my isp. The phone thing has happened twice in a year for a couple hours, not a problem. I was just trying to point out to the original poster in this vein, that the phone thingie occasionally happens, where you have voice but can't use modem for computer. Oh, and thanks to everybody who tried to help me. LOL. |
Twinkie | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 09:41 am     Remember folks that when you work in tech support you only hear the bad, not the good about an ISP. Juno is way better than AOL( had to help Juno customers get rid of AOL which isn't easy...AOL leaves 133 "footprints" on the registry). But when you are getting around 100 irate calls a night it clouds your judgement. |
Grooch | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 09:42 am     What are footprints? |
Zachsmom | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 09:44 am     This is a footprint Grooch
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Jo_5329 | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 09:50 am     LOL Zach Grooch -- even though a program says it's uninstalled, a lot of time stuff is left in the register to muck it up, or "footprints". |
Twinkie | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:06 am     Exactly Jo. Thanks.  |
Lumbele | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 12:15 pm     Serves me right! I took some time today to read this whole thread in the hope that I might learn something. Footprints, firewalls, backup, install, reinstall, uninstall, virus, anti-virus, germs, huhchoooo, corrupt, defrag, defrock, ROM, RAM, BAM, megabyte, kilobyte, bite me, adware, spyware, software, hardware, underwear, Trojans, Greeks, French saves, format, config, Acrobats, Windows, backdoors, drivers, links, putters, waves, midis, minis, boots, filters, chk, rar, exe, ISP, XE, AOL, PDF, tmp, CD, CD-R, DSL, M-O-U-S-E!!!!
WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT????? I just learned to download gifs and post them (but only here, haven't figured out yet how to do it at other MBs).
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Jo_5329 | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 12:40 pm     ROFL LMAO Lumble |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 08:37 pm     Lumbele, all I can say is if you find a Greek wearing a Trojan trying to do a French save at your backdoor ... . . . . . . . . . . . . .Run like Spain!!!
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Lumbele | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 08:55 pm     Ole!!!! |
Azriel | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 09:21 pm     Draheid, thank you for your advice. Nothing seems to be working though. It seems like the virus has corrupted too many files on my computer. This virus is really a nasty one. I think I'm just going to have to reformat and start from scratch. I hope there is a special place in hell for virus creators.  |
Draheid | Friday, November 01, 2002 - 10:39 pm     Azriel: You might still try booting from your Win/98 CD-Rom first. See if it will give you an option to repair the system. If not, then at least it should give you the option to reinstall. When prompted, you should do a 'clean install' which should wipe out everything on the hard drive. Be sure to copy any important personal files off of the hard drive before you begin. Then be sure to scan them with a virus scanner before you reload them! Good luck. |
Jo_5329 | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 05:56 am     And I'm still waiting on the phone company ! My husband is about livid about it too --- he tried to connect with his eArmyU laptop this morning, which he'll need to take a test on later, and couldn't even connect. I ran a line from the phone connection in the living in here this morning to my computer to see if both lines were bad and nope, I'm on just fine at the higher speed. So this proves something is wrong with the second line. At least until they get their big butts out here to look at the bad line, hubby can get on and take his test with the other line. I really think the phone company did something on purpose to try and sell their DSL services to those that have 2nd lines for computers in the area. But I looked into the cost of it and we just don't have a first born child to pay for it!!!!! With 3 computers that would have to be networked into a hub, 3 new modems, ack ... my brain hurts thinking about it actually. We are considering going with cable though -- and buying our own modems over several months and then have the cable company put in the network hub -- that would help some. Oh well -- I'm done ranting this morning about this. Jo __ |
Jed245 | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 08:51 am     Azriel, Hmmm Strange I posted this morning and it's gone now? Anyway Try this Does your antivirus software have a boot cd with it? Norton usually offers this feature. It might help you fix the problem before it's even loaded. :o) Jed. |
Draheid | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 09:37 am     Jo_5329: It's interesting that one line works fine and the other doesn't. Is a cablemodem an option for you? Both DSL & Cablemodems can be networked for multiple computer access fairly inexpensively. If it's available, you might conisder the cost difference between your 2nd phone line charges plus your ISP versus the cablemodem service. For example, in my area: 2nd phone line @ $18/month + ISP @ $22 =$40/month versus $45/month for Cablemodem. *If* this is a possibility, the initial cost isn't that great to setup a network to share the access. Approximately $80 + cables + any network cards you don't already have. Which you could use all of this to share other resources of your computers anyway. If any of this is of interest, let me know and I can give you suggestions on how to set it up. |
Draheid | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 09:41 am     Azriel: Jed245 brings up a good point. If you can get (or already have) a CD of Norton's Antivirus, it should autoboot and give you the opportunity to clean your system before anything has a chance to load and interfere with the cleanup process. This might give you the opportunity to recover without having to go the the arduous reinstalling of everything. If you don't own one, perhaps a friend might have one you could borrow for this purpose? Or maybe someone in technical support from work would have one you could borrow?? Again, good luck. Let us know how it goes. |
Grannyg | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 10:52 am     Azriel, I had the same virus several months ago. I had my Mcafee boot up disk, which runs in Dos and it took 32 hours, running non stop to completely clean my computer of that virus. BUT I didn't have to re-install anything and was able to save all my files. It was a long time but it did do the trick. So if you have a virus boot disk, it might just work. It was a nightmare but I learned really fast to always keep a fresh virus boot disk just in case!! I never did figure out exactly how I got it. I'm very careful about opening any attachment and I have Mcafee running all the time. But nonetheless, Klez is a horrible virus. |
Jed245 | Saturday, November 02, 2002 - 01:28 pm     Jo_5329 Which line isn't working with your connection? You can call your Phone company for each line and ask them to check your line for "line noise" or just noise in the line. Nearby radio stations, repeater towers, small exposed wires in the area phoneline, bad, or lose connection on your end, or even old corroded wires. All of those things and more can cause line noise and make it very hard for a dial up modem to connect. You will often get slow connection speed, booted offline alot.... unable to connect error messages. Line noise is treatable with a micro filter/noise filter. Or HOPEFULLY a simple repair on your side of the connection or the companys lines in the area. Jed. |
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