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In Internet Explorer click "Tools" then "Internet Options". Choose the "Advanced" tab. Put a check mark in "Disable script debugging" I had to do that as well on my machine. Just out of curiosity, did you just install MSN8? mine seemed to start doing that about the same time I installed it. Jim

I've got a laptop that died but the hard drive is still good. It's a Win2000 pro install on a FAT32 formatted drive. The laptop is dead... no boot, no power up.. nada... zilch... boat anchor. I need to get the data off the hard drive and dump it to a desktop drive, or another laptop drive. I can put the drive into another laptop I have available to me, but the configuration is different enough that it'll lock up before it finishes booting. I could probably do a repair from the Win2000 cd, but damn... I can't back this stuff up first and trusting Microsoft stuff like that just gives me the willies I have Ghost 2000, so I could go LPT to LPT but that's butt slow. I only have 3-4 gigs of data on the drive to take off, but thats several hours over parallel ports. Something I've thought will work is find a minimal live cd linux distro, boot from it and use samba to share the drive and just download it to another computer. I haven't been able to find a live cd distro that offers samba on it though. I could probably make one if I wanted, but I'd rather not spend the entire weekend working on this if I don't have to. Does anyone have any suggestions? Basically, I'd like to boot from cd, have FAT32 read capability, networking (ethernet), and file sharing. I don't need no steekin GUI... but pointy clicky is cool too I don't mind spending a little (under $100)money for something useful. Jim

OK.. I was wondering why I hadn't seen the options for TCP on my ghost program. It wasn't in ghost 2000 It is however in ghost 2003, which is in my hand now I just did a test run to get a feel for it. I was able to make an image of my test machine and transfer it over my network just fine. My hard drive only had 670MB worth of data on it, but only took 2 minutes and 30 seconds to complete! This is the way to go for me! thanks to everyone for thier suggestions! Jim

Quote: Something else you can try. Install Ghost on the good laptop with its hard drive and make a ghost boot disk with network support. Then swap out the drives and boot from the ghost disk. This way you can map a drive via ethernet to the desktop machine and create the ghost image. Then all you would have to do is use ghost explorer to get the files you need out of the ghost image. Thats cool! I didn't know Ghost would do that. I've used the ghost boot disk thing a few times, but it's only offered lpt. I'll dig around the readme files to see how to add network support to it. Thanks for the info. Jim

Quote: So, if you ever want to change that, that's pretty much all the data you need to alter system-wide search paths for DLL's &/or EXECUTEABLES... apk Whoa! go easy on me there... I just woke up! haven't even had coffee yet!! Thanks for the info though I never really knew how Windows dealt with search paths. I'll keep this though since I can remember a few times I've wondered what the order was for searching. Jim

I'd really doubt it. It's pretty tough to find anything that works in just DOS anymore.

Quote: Thing is though, I don't know if it IS native to XP or not... I do have it online here, but this setup is coming up on a year old now & over time I have forgotten EXACTLY what I extended the OS with in that folder! Man, I can't even count the times anymore I've said that too! But, yes it is included in the default install of XP Pro. Probably is in home also, but I'm assuming that as well...

Quote: Quote: Try this... Open a command prompt start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt then type in shutdown /? Jim Is this a Win2k Server command? I can't get it to work for Win2k Pro. It's not built in like it is with XP. It's in the resource kit though. Sorry about that... just kinda assumed you were using XP for some reason

Try this... Open a command prompt start->All Programs->Accessories->Command Prompt then type in shutdown /? that'll give you some options to use with shutdown. the /? option is pretty helpful when you need to use a command but aren't quite sure about how to use it. /? simply means help on this command. Hope this helps Jim

What are you using to edit the site? If you're using something like Dreamweaver or Front Page it's pretty easy. Just open a find box and select search entire site option. I don't know how big your website is but if its not a lot of pages you could just open each page in IE and do ctrl+f. Or are you looking for html tags? Jim

If you're using Outlook 2000 there is a "sharing" feature. You can use it to share the contacts, calendar, and tasks. I don't think it will share the inbox though. You'd need a separate e-mail address for each person to use it but it does work pretty well. Unfortunately, if you're using Outlook XP this feature has been removed. Jim

Quote: Is it possible for multi computers to access one .pst file? Nope... the first computer to open it will "lock" the file. Anyone who tries to access it afterwards may or may not get an error message. To see what happens, open multiple instances of Outlook on your desktop computer. If I remember correctly when you don't get an error message, you can use Outlook normally, but nothing is saved. No contacts saved, outgoing messages,etc. Jim

Quote: I'll be looking at something a bit different today, a cloth mouse pad. Yes, cloth. While I'm literally against cloth pads myself, for obvious reasons Ok, I looked at this review and it's apparently obvious (to everyone but me) that cloth mouse pads suck... badly. I didn't feel like registering at that site to ask in thier forums so I'll ask here (I like you guys here). What is it about cloth mouse pads that is so bad? I use a cloth pad with an optical mouse and I love it. It tracks nice, is comfortable on my wrist, is durable (I've had it a couple years now), the mouse slides smoothly over it. I've tried those hard pads and didn't see much benefit to them myself. They seem to track a little better with ball mice if you're one to not clean your mouse pad periodically. They just feel like I'm dragging my mouse across a concrete slab to me though so I prefer cloth. Oh well, I'm interested in hearing some different viewpoints about mousepads anyway Jim

ThC 129 said: Quote: if you ran a mouse across a desksurface and then across a ratpadz you would see why the ratpadz is better. You seem pretty satisfied with the Ratpadz. I went to the website and checked it out. Looks pretty cool. I followed the link from Ratpadz website to think geek and it's only $10.99, plus shipping I'm sure. Anyway, I've heard a few things about them before so I'll probably get one. I'm sure it won't keep me from getting slaughtered in UT2003 like I currently am... but I don't think any mouse pad will help MY gaming skillz :x Jim

Quote: I had some trouble with a dexxa (cheap) optical mouse because Oh man... Dexxa still makes mice? I remember like 10 years ago I bought a Dexxa mouse for about $15. It was worth it then because in the box they gave you a free copy of Windows 3.1. Times have changed a bit since then. Well, sounds like Dexxa still makes a crap mouse though Jim

I've used Sonicwall products with pretty good luck. They're quite a bit more expensive than the Linksys stuff, but also a lot higher quality. I've replaced about a half dozen Linksys routers in the last couple years because the dhcp server flaked out. Some of the sonicwall stuff will do antivirus as well as stateful packet inspection and vpn. Pretty cool stuff. http://www.sonicwall.com/ Jim

I'd check to make sure Internet connection sharing didn't get turned on by mistake (or intentionally I guess). I'd reset the dhcp router also (I'm assuming that's what you have). You may find that all the other computers on the lan are still just riding out thier lease. I think most routers with built in dhcp default to a lease of 7 days for the ip addresses given out.

Quote: I suspect that it could be due to the indexing service, as the index may be pointing to the incorrect locations of files and folders. Anyone else have any thoughts? Personally I have doubts on this. My understanding of the Indexing service is just to make searches faster when you're looking for a particular file etc. Diskeeper doesn't change the disk filesystem like that. There is however a service that the trial version installs and runs in the background. I'm not really clear what the point of it is though since the trial version doesn't allow scheduling or the set it and forget it thing. I used to have a USB cd burner that would hang up from time to time and it would do the same thing you're having. When I would open "My Computer" the system would have to "wake up" the drive and that would take 30-45 seconds before I could actually use explorer. I've seen failing floppy drives do this as well.

Hehe... thanks APK. It's one of those things i figured out a few years ago that works with most usb devices, especially when the device is plugged in before the drivers are installed. It's just one of those things that you're much better off not trying to fight Windows on... just let it have it's way and move on Jim

I've had this happen a few times before also. What I've always done is delete the printer and reboot. When Windows boots up it will detect it and install it again. From then on it should be ok. Jim

Who is the motherboard manufacturer? Phoenix doesn't sound right to me. Unless things have changed Phoenix makes bios, so does Award... can't be both. At any rate you'd want to get the bios update from the motherboard manufacturer not the bios manufacturer. The bios is specific to the motherboard and if you tried to say flash a generic award bios you'd likely end up with a boat anchor 8)

I know this is an NT based website, but this is one of those things that Linux and Samba are best at. No licensing issues, runs on minimal equipment, can be administered through a webpage with swat if you want to go headless. I set up something like this for one of my customers (8 pc's in a peer to peer setup also) a couple years ago and it works wonderfully. It's only been down once to install a larger hard drive.

I'm assuming d2 = Diablo 2? If so why don't you just run it in Direct3d mode? Should play just fine on your system and I think the graphics are better in D3D (personal preference tho). Jim

In IE, click tools at the top then Internet options. Go to advanced tab, Scroll down to search from address bar, then select do not search from address bar. Hope this is what you're looking for. Jim

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but if all you're really trying to accomplish is converting .mp3's to .wav maybe this would work. http://www.cdex.n3.net/ Call me a pessimist but I wouldn't be surprised if your drivers or maybe the programs you are using have some sort of DRM built in to stop you from doing that... working under the assumption that you're trying to capture copyrighted streams from the internet.