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Not1worry
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 7:48 am
Dra, I set up the full ZoneAlarm for the 15 day free trial period and I've got no problem buying the thing if it works. So far, I've had no pop-ups! YAY!! However, I can't get into the Members area without typing in my name and password on every single screen. It still has my name/pw on the regular topics, but it won't hold onto it for the Members room. Also, TVCH keeps telling me my username/pw is invalid and I have to delete it from the pw box and retype it. I'm sure I need to adjust something, but I have no idea what. HELP!! I'm not trading no pop ups for no TVCH!
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Weinermr
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 10:05 am
This is not really a question, more of a rant. I'm finally ready to upgrade my laptop PC from Windows ME to Windows XP. I have been delaying taking this action for a year. The laptop was working fine, and was stable, so I didn't want to upset the apple cart if I didn't have to. Now that I'm ready, I have gathered all my resources in preparation for the upgrade. I got all the requirements and specifications from the HP support website, which indicated I would have to update the BIOS. Fine. I've done that before. I searched all the nooks and crannies of HP support, and couldn't find the link to download the required BIOS update. Long story short, I emailed HP support and received a brief little email informing me that the BIOS update was not available, and that I should keep checking back periodically. Now I swear that the BIOS update had been there for months, while I was hesitating in performing this upgrade, but now that I'm ready to use it, it disappears. Yeah, I could have downloaded it at any time, but never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it would suddenly become unavailable. I have several options, and will now have to mull those over. I hope I don't take another year doing so.
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Zachsmom
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 10:51 am
Weinermr, what are the specs? Did you google to see if you could download the BIOS elsewhere?
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Weinermr
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 11:00 am
Hi Z I've googled my butt off trying to find info on the motherboard specs or any other sites with BIOS updates. I haven't found anything useful yet. I would have to take the laptop apart though to identify the motherboard make and model and go directly to the motherboard website, but I'm not quite ready to do that. My luck, the motherboard and BIOS would be tweaked for an HP OEM, and I wouldn't be able to get the BIOS update anyway. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm open to anything.
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 11:10 am
Weinermr: If you'd be willing to post the model, I would be happy to do some research for you. I get 'lucky' sometimes with this type of venture so I'd be happy to try if you're interested, just let me know.
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Zachsmom
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 11:17 am
Weinermr, back at you! On my PC, when I boot up my computer, it tells me the name of my BIOS. Not sure on my laptop. ALSO, I am not sure if I press "DEL" to enter "SETUP" when booting up my computer to get to the BIOS screen if it's mentioned there. Like Dra, I would be more than happy to google for you!
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 12:33 pm
Weinermr: If you can get 'close' to the 'SoftPaq' number you need, you might try browsing the HP ftp site and see if the file isn't on there. If you have a standalone ftp program, that works best, just ftp to support.hp.com and go into the /pub folder for a list of available softpaq's and update files. Hope this helps.
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Weinermr
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 1:16 pm
Dra, I don't have FTP set up on my PC. The PC is an HP Pavilion XH485 Notebook. The BIOS company is Phoenix. I came here ranting and not expecting help, but I'm delighted you guys have given me some hope. Thanks for all your great knowledge and assistance.
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Weinermr
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 1:51 pm
UPDATE After some persistent emailing with HP support, I was provided with the BIOS update that I'll need. I searched unmercifully on their support site for the right link and couldn't find it. Two others in their tech support insisted that the update was not available. As I suspected, the motherboard is described by them as HP OEM. Thanks Dra and Z for your help. I'm sure I'll be back to this thread at some point along the way.
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Mygetaway
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 10:58 pm
Not1.. I am NOT a computer smart person, but I know I had to disable my Norton firewall to get a cookie for REAL deep into the system for BigBrother. If you had cleared your cookies recently, you may have to disable the ZoneAlarm long enough to recookie TVCH (?) Does that make sense? Maybe someone else will know more. I also know now when I clear my cookies I always save a select few.
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Draheid
| Sunday, December 21, 2003 - 11:05 pm
Not1worry: I'm so sorry I didn't see your message earlier. Zonealarm's free version works just fine to prevent what I suspect is the popup problem you're having. As for regular popup screens, I highly recommend Netscape 7.1 as their popup block is working extremely well on my computer so far. Even the 'sign up for e-mail' popup at Walmart hasn't popped up since I upgraded to 7.1 here. On the other hand, I've had various problems with ZoneAlarm pro and cookies to the point that I've finally just disabled that privacy feature on mine. The cookie blocker in Netscape 7.1 is great also. You might try setting the security level for cookies in ZA to 'Medium' and see if that doesn't take care of the problem on here. Or you might try adding tvclubhouse.bomis.com to your 'trusted' domains in ZA. Hope that helps. Let me know please.
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Not1worry
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 6:38 am
Draheid, thanks. I think I fixed it by adjusting the TVCH site individually. I'll try the free ZA after the 15 days are up and hopefully the popups will remain gone. It sure is wonderful having them gone! Thanks again.
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Juju2bigdog
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 9:52 am
Yay Not1!!! Yay Draheid!!!
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Daydreamer
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 7:35 pm
Please help! Something has taken over my computer. I use a cable modem and every time I click on IE, I get a bunch of windows that pop up and tell me I need to download Spyware. It says if my CD drive has opened (which it does when these windows pop up) then I need to install spyware. I get a window that fills my entire screen and won't let me do anything unless I click on it and buy their software. I have to do a Ctrl, Alt, Delete to close it because there is not even an "x" on the window to close it. Then when I open IE again, the same thing happens. I downloaded Spybot but it hasn't helped. I'm not the most computer literate person around when it comes to technical stuff but if anyone can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, is there a good program to stop all pop ups? Thank you!
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Daydreamer
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 8:01 pm
I just read through some of the previous threads and I installed ZoneAlarm. I'll try it for the trial period and see how it works.
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Draheid
| Monday, December 22, 2003 - 9:37 pm
Daydreamer: There is a FREE (no trial, no cost) version of ZoneAlarm that you can download and install. This version works just as good as the pay version, but you'll have to take a look at their site to see what the diffence is between the two. Hope that helps.
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Juju2bigdog
| Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 12:18 am
Daydreamer, you might also scan for viruses too. If you don't have an updated one on your computer, try the one at http://housecall.antivirus.com It is just temporary for a one-time scan, and it is free. It worked for me, at least in detecting my viruses. And then if you don't currently have an up to date anti-virus on your computer, buy one and keep it up to date. It will save you HOURS of aggravation. If you don't know how to do any of this, just ask.
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Whoami
| Tuesday, December 23, 2003 - 11:31 pm
I have a wierd result from the last virus scan (I use McAffee Online). It says 0 files infected, yet has listed several files as "potentially unwanted programs." Some of them I don't mind deleting. But a few of them are "joke" items I've had since day one. Why would they be showing up now as "potentially unwanted?" They say "cannot be cleaned." And then when I try to just close McAffee, I get a warning there are still "infected" items and do I want to really exit (even though the summary says, "xxx items scanned, 0 items infectes...."). I went ahead and quarantined them. I'm trying to research McAffee to see why they have this catagory now. But I figured in the meantime, maybe someone here has already heard of this?
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Daydreamer
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 5:10 am
Thanks Dra and Juju. Dra - I guess I didn't realize there was a free version ot ZoneAlarm and I downloaded the trial one that you have to pay for afterwards. It works great, though. Not one pop up or problem since I've downloaded it. I highly recommend it! Juju - for some odd reason my computer wouldn't run that virus scan. I'll have to try it again when I have a little more time to read everything on that page. Thanks again!
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Texannie
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 10:35 am
We are giving our son an MP3 player for Christmas. What are some free download sites for music besides Kazaa..hate them, they screw up our puter!
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Maris
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 10:54 am
My son uses winmx.
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Juju2bigdog
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 11:12 am
Daydreamer, you do have to temporarily download the virus scanner first but it doesn't stay on your machine. If you can't get it to work, go to www.google.com and enter some words like free virus scan, and you should find several that might let you do a one-time scan to see if you have a virus.
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Texannie
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 11:47 am
Thanks, Maris.
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Whoami
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 11:02 pm
I'm trying to figure out how to install/add fonts. I'm running Office 2000, WindowsXP. This is the same Office 2000 disk I used on my old Win98 computer. But for the life of me I can't find all the fonts. There used to be a whole bunch more on my old computer. I've tried the "add/remove components" on the Office disk, but for the life of me I can't find anywhere that fonts would be. I've looked in office tools, graphics, etc.
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Juju2bigdog
| Wednesday, December 24, 2003 - 11:32 pm
Found something for you, Whoami! installing fonts Edit: Well, and that may or may not help, now that I look at it again. I don't have Windows XP, but what about if you did a search on your computer? Should be something like, Start>Search or Find. And then it should pop up a search box. Try searching on Font and see if it locates the fonts for you. I just did it on my Windows ME and found them in C:\WINDOWS\FONTS
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