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I guess so. Go ahead and reinstall it, or pick the repair option or something. Try using Outlook Express to connect to email or news servers. It uses the settings from IE, but different ports are being used. I want to see if port 80 (http) is blocked for some strange reason. I'm just guessing now. Or just try Netscape. Can anyone else help with this?

You should still be able to use ICS though. Make sure the 2nd PC is setup to auto obtain IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS server address. And make sure both PCs are in the same workgroup.

Are you trying different websites in IE? When you ran the wizard, did you pick an always on broadband LAN connection or something like that? The Connections tab in IE under Tools->Internet Options should have nothing in the dial-up or VPN box at the top. If you see something in that box, delete it. Click setup to run the wizard. Select "Connect to Internet" then "Setup Connection Manually" then "Connect using broadband that is always on" then click finish. Then restart IE. If it still won't connect, go back to the Connections tab by clicking Tools->Internet Options. Click LAN settings. Everything should be unchecked there. If automatically detect proxy settings is unchecked, then check it and click ok. If it is checked then uncheck it and click ok. Change it to the opposite of whatever it is.

Both Music and regular CDRs are exactly the same. The difference is that Music CDRs cost more. Why? Because there is a surcharge that goes directly to RIAA (the Recording Industry A$$. of America). They are pushing the assumption that anyone who buys blank disks is a music pirate, and that RIAA should be compensated. So don't ever buy those Music CDRs!

It must be a problem with your IE settings then. Try some other apps to see if they connect, like try up[censored] your clock time, or run AIM or ICQ, or anything that is not dependant on IE's settings. Try enabling detect proxy settings, but disable it after you use it once (sometimes this can help, not sure why though). Run the internet connectin wizard again, make sure you are set up to connect through the lan.

You know your LAN wiring is ok because the 2 pc's can talk to each other fine. Your wiring from the host to the ISP is fine b/c the host can access the Internet. Check once again on the ICS tab to make sure the right adapter is selected in the drop down box. Type services.msc in the Run box. Make sure Internet Connection Firewall/Sharing is Started and set to Automatic. Maybe it's a problem with the client's IE settings. Connect to your isp, then open a command prompt and ping www.yahoo.com from the client and see if you get a reply. If you get a reply, then you're getting through, just not with IE. Do you have a modem on the laptop? Try configuring a dial up connection on that computer and see if that connection works. If these don't help, take a break from it, uninstall everything and start over again in a couple days.

eh... so what's going on here? USB? I'm confused. The DSL modem should only be plugged into the router's WAN port, and nothing else. Then each computer gets it's NIC connected to its own port on the router, with DHCP enabled on each computer.

He probably needs the drive to be accessed by Win9x or something, I suppose. Ok, after re-reading this and paying attention, the problem is obvious, even though I've never used Partition Magic. You need to decompress all compressed files on each partition you want to convert before you try to do the conversion. Here's how to do that: 1. Open a command prompt by clicking Start->Run and typing cmd then pressing Enter. 2. Type cd\ and press enter. 3. To uncompress all files on this drive type compact /U /S /I and press enter. 4. To repeat this on other drives, type X: and press enter, where X is the drive letter. Then repeat step 3.

You cannot convert from NTFS to FAT. You can only convert to NTFS from FAT. If you want to go back to FAT from NTFS, you have to reformat.

Cool, you got the Insert thing working it seems. It will work, but it will be tedious. Check HP's website to see about a document feeder. But I don't know if they will work properly with just MS Word. I know they work great with Photoshop and the like; you start it going, and come back later to a crapload of images open in the program, then just do an Auto Batch run to format them (if you want) and save them. Other alternative: Go to Kinkos.

lol, that's what i did with mine. Thought I could save a bit of money, but had to waste them on audio CDs for "friends". They're also good when experimenting with different burning techniques. You know, when figuring out if something will work, use the crap ones instead of the good ones or the slow CDRWs. Still, try them out, maybe they will work good for you. It depends on the particular batch and where they actually came from. Mine was a terrible experience though.

You got those super cheap bulk CD's didn't you? Like 100 disks for $20 or something? The ones with no writing, or matte coating on top, just the layer of aluminum completely exposed to the environment. Sorry to tell you but those things suck horribly! Probably half of them will be no good. And the aluminum layer will eventually peel off of a lot of them later, along with all your data. Do yourself a favor and stick to higher quality name brand CDR's (stay away from the "Music" CDR's though, they add on a "tax" that gets sent to RIAA). In the long run it will end up costing you more when you try to use those dirt cheap reject discs.

What version of Word are you using? I've got Office XP here, not sure if this works in earlier versions: You can click Insert, then Image, then from scanner, and it will stick your image right there on the page. Then you can continue to insert images into the same document, producing a document with an image on each page. Then you can password and save the document. This doesn't take very long for one page, but for thousands, I'd hate to have to do that! You're employer sounds like one of my old ones, not considering time and labor costs vs equipment upgrades. It will probably cost more in labor to have you sit there changing pages for days than to buy a document feeder for $250. And the conversion process should only take a couple of seconds on a relatively up to date computer. What software are you using for the conversion? You can get a free 30 day eval version of Paint Shop Pro btw.

Actually I meant Photoshop or Acrobat. Consider PDF files too, and OCR as Alien mentioned. If you really need to have images and not OCR, and you don't have anything but MS Office, you could still stick the jpg into the Word doc, and password that, although it will be kind of ugly imho.

Do you have access to Adobe at all? You could use a document feeder to scan pages unattended then use the batch automation to convert and save them to disk. You can do this with Photoshop or Adobe.

Suggestion #1: Take a peek in Device Manager to see if you have any NICs in there that you shouldn't, and uninstall them. I suspect you won't see anything there. What happened is when you moved the card, you probably didn't uninstall it in device manager first, so you've got some rogue registry entries pertaining to the old location of the NIC. So, try this, assuming suggestion #1 did not work: 1. Disable ICS 2. Open Device Manager and uninstall your NIC. 3. Turn off the computer, and move the NIC back to the old slot. 4. Boot up the computer, wait for any new hardware adjustments. 5. If XP did not auto install the NIC, do so now, then reboot. 6. Open Device Manager and uninstall the NIC again. 7. Turn off the computer, and move the NIC back to where you want it. 8. Boot up and install the NIC. 9. Enable ICS. Now, after step 5, you could skip to step 9, unless you have a reason to move the NIC to the other PCI slot. Again, make sure the client computer is set to automatically obtain an IP and DNS, and make sure that you enable ICS only on your Internet connection (the dial-up connection) and not on any of the NICs, and that Windows firewall is disabled on all connections. I hope this helps, because I'm totally out of ideas after this.

MS tactics disgust me personally. But the OS is the best you can buy (rent?). I do wish they would just focus on the OS, and stop trying to make inroads into every software market out there. You have to remember, the apparent security of Linux is mostly due to it's not being targeted. When 95% of the computers are running Windows, who's going to waste time finding exploits for other OS's? Linux is a good idea, but sadly, is not user friendly and too varied. Lindows is another good idea, but it will be a long, hard road for those guys, and probably will lead to failure. I heard some speculation lately that Apple is considering whether it should port OS X to the PC or not. This would be a godsend to those looking for an alternative to Windows, without having to sink a load of cash into proprietary hardware. The industry needs competition badly. Unfortunately no other company has a product that can compete. It's just too hard to make an OS nowadays. Apple is probably the only hope for competition in the next decade, but they are in a tough spot. If they port OS X, they lose their cash cow of system sales. On the other hand, it's quite possible they could more than make up the difference in OS sales alone, if they do it right and keep an eye on MS. Another thing, most MS bashers have no idea what the enterprise server environment is like. They have no clue what goes into a monster like W2K Datacenter. They think an OS is a desktop, IE, and a Start Button, so they have no clue of the massive effort and imagination the programmers in Redmond have to possess in order to get these things off the ground.

I was under the impression from your post that you thought there were no 4in1 drivers in your system just b/c you didn't install them yourself. Also, I'm of the same convention that if it ain't broke, don't fix it!

4in1 drivers are included with windows XP, so if you run XP on a via chipset, you are using the 4in1 drivers, but they are not the most up to date version.

Remember, the Darth Vader everyone is familiar with is 40-45 years old! This Anakin is only 19. He has a lot ahead of him!

lol, Andy! I wasn't singling you out Manifest, I was generalizing movie goers as a whole. Obviously you are part of the minority of society with enough brains to make it to this forum and post a message, so I know explosions and tits aren't what gives your life purpose. And I sure as hell don't expect everyone to like Star Wars, or that there is something wrong with someone who doesn't like it. Anyway, I think I was just too engrossed in the story and the mystery of what Obi-Wan was investigating to notice that the acting was bad. Just for fun I watched the old trilogy, trying to maintain the mindset of an episode 1 or 2 critic, and guess what? Episode 4 - It's a campy, old, done before story line, with some bad acting by Hamill and even Harrison Ford. Owen and Beru were horribly acted out. Comic releif from the droids and Chewbacca was goofy, and editing in some parts was just strange. For example Lukes references to Biggs, and their later reunion. The original scene with Luke and Biggs before Biggs left Tatooine was deleted, so the follow ups didn't make sense. And somebody explain to me why picking up power converters with your friends is a fun pastime on Tatooine? Also the fighting choreogrophy is terrible compared to todays standards. Episode 5 - near flawless, until the Special Edition (Luke screaming as he fell in Bespin was gay.) Explain to me how a 2 ton Taun-taun, a native of Hoth, freezes and collapses before a 180 pound guy? Billy Dee Williams wasn't exactly a great actor either. Mark Hamill has improved his skills, but like his father, he is whiney at times. (when do i get to meet yoda, how far is he, waaaah waaaah! lol) Episode 6 - Ok, Emperor Palpatine was cool, and the battle against the 2nd Death Star was cool. The Ewoks though, too much cuteness there. They should have been much less fuzzy. I cringed when Chewbacca howled like Tarzan while swinging from a vine. Yoda's death was very sad, and well done. Jabbas blues band was silly and seemed out of place, especially the redux in the Special Edition. Boba Fett's death totally sucked! He was such a cool bounty hunter, and he gets accidentally knocked into the Sarlacc? Bullsh1t! I'm glad this major flaw was corrected in the Dark Empire comic series. And the ongoing monologues of the Emperor taunting Luke began to bore me a bit. The acting for the Mon Calamari was pretty bad, but Harrison Ford has finally honed his skills to perfection. As usual in every single Star Wars movie, supporting actors in minor roles are pretty bad. So you see, anyone can critique these movies to death, or you can just let yourself fall into a fun fantasy world and ignore the minor, silly flaws. I prefer to have fun!

I see a lot of people who don't like Anakin in episode 2. They mostly say that they dislike his whininess and can't see how he can become Darth Vader. I think you have to know somebody like that to understand. For example, my brother-in-law is a whining rebellious little punk. He'll b1tch about things being unfair, he is short-sighted, very rebellious, and very quick tempered. But he also has a heart of gold and will do anything for loved ones, until he gets pissed off. He has been in the U.S. Army for several years, and wants to join the police force when he is done with that. Anakin totally reminds me of this guy, the way he has good intentions, but if you say one thing he doesn't like, he'll get angry and kill all the sandpeople, and then cry about it. His ideas are not usually taken seriously, and most people around him are overzealous in their attempts to constantly teach him the ways of life. The manner of dialogue used, which some claim is bad acting, seems to me to be Anakins stumbling over his words because his thoughts are beyond him. He has these extraordinary powers and an urge to prove himself to everyone. Yet he is still immature and realizes that everything he says is taken by others as the words of "only a padowan learner." So everytime he speaks, he's working out his defenses in his head, waiting for the inevitable patronizing reply from obi-wan or yoda. And he is trying too hard to be better than those around him, when it's experience that counts. When he is around padme, he can express his discontent with his situation, and his affection for her, something he isn't used to doing. It reminded me of those awkward first dates everyone has had. (most of you I hope) I found this movie to be vastly more intellectual than all the other Star Wars movies. There were so many subtle things going on, a web of political developments. If you don't watch closely, you wont realize that everyone in this movie is directly or indirectly a puppet of Palpatine. I thought this aspect was brilliant in its subtletly. Of course this type of story bores a lot of people because there isn't an explosion every 30 seconds followed by some tits in your face.

Are you connecting to the internet through the 56k modem? If so, I hope that is the connection you are enabling ICS on, not the NICs. On the Advanced tab of the Dial-Up connections properties screen, you should have firewall unchecked, ICS checked, the proper home network interface (your lan nic) selected in the drop down box (if available), "establish dial-up whenever a computer on the network attempts to access internet" (on-demand dial) should also be checked. When you enable ICS, the NIC you select to use on your local LAN will automatically be configured with an ip and subnet mask of 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0. Leave that part alone. The NIC on the client computer should be set to auto obtain ip and dns (DHCP enabled). Make sure you only enable ICS on the dial up modem connection. And that all firewalls and IP filtering are off.

This has happened to me a couple of times. Just try again in a few days and it will probably work. Or you can find and download the update file on their website, then install it on your computer.

Try using one of those cleaning discs in your drive. Sometimes dust gets in there and causes trouble.