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Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 6:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK, I've answered my first question. That handy dandy "hide desktop icons" feature when you right click and select "arrange icons by".

So.... that was the least important of the two issues I have. One down, one to go!


Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 7:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Issue #2 solved!

The problem turned out to be an old codger who's fingers were still moving in Win98 mode and zigged when they should have zagged.

Slow down Half, and read what you are OK'ing.


Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 11:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dang! Halfunit is good! She can solve this stuff just by thinking about Draheid!

Halfunit
Member

09-02-2001

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 6:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
( I think that's Draheidosis...)

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Saturday, April 24, 2004 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lol, you guys...funny!

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I received this email today, forwarded from a friend. Is it for real or a hoax?? I have not heard of it anywhere else and want to make sure it is a real threat before I pass it on..


quote:

New virus

A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine
has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored.

This virus acts in the following manner:
It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title "A Card for You". As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened
the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys
Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk.
Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN. This alert was received by an employee of
Microsoft itself.

So don't open any mails with subject: "A Virtual Card for You."
As soon as you get the mail, delete it!! Even if you know the sender!!!

Please pass this mail to all of your friends. Forward this to
everyone
in your address book. I'm sure most people, like myself, would
rather
receive this notice 25 times than not at all.
DON T OPEN " A CARD FOR YOU "
WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST !!




Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HOAX ALERT

Sorry Jan, here's the scoop from Snopes and McAfee, and Sophos all reporting this e-mail as a hoax.


Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Dra. Somehow it just didn't seem right to me. I watch CNN and I never heard of it. Nor did any online newspapers mention it.

I appreciate your checking it out :-):-) Have a happy day

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I decided I better practice what I preach, so I went down to the cave to see if I had downloaded and installed AVG anti-virus on Bigdog's play computer. I hadn't. He was running Norton. So I downloaded AVG and disabled Norton. Ran a scan with AVG, and Bigdog's computer had a virus!

So for good measure, I downloaded and ran Ad-Aware as well, Bigdog's computer had 102 spyware files! This from a person who is hardly ever on the internet.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 7:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Okay, I feel kinda stupid, but I can't figure this out.

After I got Bigdog's play computer debugged today, he mentions he has not had any sound for a really long time. He can't remember if he ever had sound on this computer (Compaq Presario 5170, PII, 350, Windows 98).

So I start with the obvious, does he have it turned off? I can't find the volume control panel. AT ALL. There is no little volume icon in the icon tray. When I search on Volume or Volume Control, I find nothing.

I can't find it in Control Panel, Sounds.

Device Manager Sounds and Multimedia shows several devices, all working properly.

Add/Remove Programs, Windows Setup shows sound programs installed.

Belarc Advisor shows the following devices under Multimedia:
ES1869 Control Interface (WDM)
ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive (WDM)
Gameport Joystick (no joystick connected)
Wave Device for Voice Modem

When I go to Windows Help for Windows 98 and select Sound Troubleshooter and tick the box that says Sounds Don't Play (or something like that, I am not on his computer right now), it does not take me anywhere.

It is just baffling. And no, I don't have a Windows 98 CD.


Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 7:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Juju,

Try the following:

1. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, Multimedia
2. Check the box that says "Show volume control on the taskbar"
If that doesn't work, try the following.

1. Click Start, Help, Index
2. Type the words "Volume Control"
3. On the right pane, you should see "Click Here to start volume control". Click, and the Volume Control should open.
4. Uncheck any boxes that say Mute

I hope this helps.

Ed. to add: Or you may need to reinstall the driver for the sound card. Go to Device Manager, delete the sound card, and then reboot, and Windows should reinstall the sound card with the right driver.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 10:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Weinermr. I will e-mail that to Bigdog now, and he can try it in the morning. I'll let you know if it doesn't work.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 10:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Bigdog reports it worked!!! Yay! Thanks, Weinermr. I'm not sure exactly what he did. He said the first thing didn't work, but the second thing did. He said it is one of the things we did last night but different screens came up this time, and when he clicked on the links, this time they activated. He got the volume control panel I was looking for, and nothing was off or checked to Mute, so he just moved the bars all to midway and then he had sound. Weird. Anyway thanks. I hear music coming from the cave.

Weinermr
Member

08-18-2001

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Great Juju! I'm glad something worked.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 1:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OK..changing the virtual memory seemed to help for about a week, but now it's freezing up again.

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: Try increasing the size of the virtual memory. Also, are you aware of any specific pattern which results in the computer freezing up? ie. is it typically after you've opened word or excel a couple of times, etc. that begins causing the problem? (I mention these two specifically because they are both notorious for improper memory management problems) If you can see any sort of pattern in what causes the problems, you may be able to find a 'fix' for it.

Hope that helps.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It only happens when I am surfing. It seems to happen when there are alot of pop ups on the page (that are being blocked) or alot of java applets.
What should I increase it too?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: I would increase it by 50% of the current setting or double your physical memory. You can adjust it as often as you want to go through the hassle I described above.

Note: The reason for going through the whole process of disabling, defragment, enable is to keep the swap file contiguous, btw.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This will work even though this is mainly a web problem?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 2:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie: I believe it can help - it certainly can't hurt. The fact that you're setting a fixed virtual memory size greatly reduces the amount of processing Windows would ordinarily use to resize the swap file when necessary. The additional virtual memory isn't enough disk space used to make much difference unless your hard drive is extremely full anyway.

Littlec
Member

11-14-2003

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok here is my latest problem. I am really getting frustrated and soon will be taking a hammer to this metal box. I can go on line to web sites and receive email but when I go to send an email I get a message that my server has disconnected due to possible problems with the connection blah blah blah. I called my internet company and they said everything checks out on their end. If anyone knows of any solution please let me know. And by the way I forgot to mention that this happens only when it wants too. I had this problem a few days ago and then it cleared up. I deleted all my temp files and all that mumbo jumbo. Thanks in advance.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 1:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Have you checked your email settings? sorry, no real clue.

OK..here's my frustration. When I click the back button, it will sometimes skip back 2 pages..what makes it do that?? LOL

Littlec
Member

11-14-2003

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 2:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have checked my settings. And sometimes I can send an email no problem and 5 minutes later I get that message that my sever has terminated. I never had problems with it up until this last week.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 9:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Littlec, until Dra gets here, go update your anti-virus and then run a scan.

If you don't have an anti-virus, run the scan here: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

And, uhhhhhhh, then Draheid will be right along to tell you what to do.

Juju2ain'tDra

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, April 30, 2004 - 10:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Littlec: What E-mail program are you using? What type of E-mail account is giving you this trouble? Can you think of anything you have changed recently that might affect your connection? What type of connection are you using? How is your weather tonight? (Ok, I figured I would sneak something weird in there on you. The weather really doesn't have any affect on your connection unless it's raining and you're using dialup.) Also, what version of Windows are you using?

I would recommend you follow Juju's advice about the virus scanner. I would also recommend you run AdWare on your computer to rule out any of the possible problems these are designed to remedy for you.

Let me know how I can help.