m_phoenix83

Hi there all. Would like some advice on the following matter! Websense is the in-house web filter at my work-place. Our network is comprised of two parts. 1) Client side & 2) Staff side. I am on the STAFF side, obviously! The web filter operates over the two sections and therefore, most off my web-browsing that I do at home cannot be done at work, because some pages are blocked under the different sections of the web-filter. Ok! Yes, I know I shouldn't use work PC's for personal use, but some sites are blocked, and would like to gain access to some of them. Does anyone know how if it would be possible, for me access (and change some of) the settings on my work PC so that i can access the sites i would like to go to! Is there a way around WEBSENSE? I have been to their website, and they, naturally, dont give anything away! I have an ADMINISTRATOR account on my work PC, so permissions are not an issue! Thanks in advance, would appreciate a speedy response. Kind Regards, Phoenix

Thanks to relic, ruffneck19111 and others for contributing to this thread! this has had me over a barrel this past week, with my head up my ars but now, obviuosly with help from you guys, i have solved the problem and can listen to my favourite movies with a lovely injection of some 'solid bass'! Thanks to all. Phoenix ps: Im now off to the shops to buy something that i can watch with my bass speakers turned up, oh so VERY LOUD!

hey zombie. i know what ur saying, and i wish it was that easy but its not on mine! (for some reason!) this confusion has led me to my manufacture's website, 1 very expensive (premium rate) telephone call, and many friends of mine are stumped! i wont buy a new audio card, out of principal, not to mention the fact that i am skint, too! everyones help on this would be brilliant! although i have noticed one thing..... THE PORT THAT I PLUG THE SUBWOOFER INTO IS LABELED 'SPDIF', and when i go to alter the volume of this, it is faded out (by default) so i can't manuallly change it! anyone have anything to say regarding SPDIF? THANKS IN ADVANCE! Phoenix

hey relic....PM'd u bk! speak to you soon!

Try and locate them in safe mode!

you have installed XP Home over XP Pro haven't ya! i have sent u a PM. check it out. and get bk to me! Phoenix ps: it dont look very good!

i thought that my dxdiag would give u that info..check your PM's and get bk to me once u finish work! thanks.

i have done as instructed (via control panel) but to no avail! I have sent u my dxdiag hoping that it will help! Any other suggestions? Phoenix

Hey relic. thanks for your quick response..i'll keep my eye on this page every 5 mins, and what info do you need on my mobo? would a copy of my dxdiag be helpful? Phoenix

Hey all. My audio setup is the basic, at present, with just 2 crap speakers on my desk. So in the attempt to boost my sound that little bit, I had just recently got hold of a sub woofer. It’s a SONY SA-WMS215 (if that helps!). Now I have cheated a little bit to get this Sub. I have "temporarily borrowed" (not nicked it!) from my parents 5.1 setup in the front room. I wish to add it to my PC to give it a bit of a kick up the ass in sound. Its absolute beast of a SUB and it performs magnificently! So I wish to have it for my PC! My sound card is on-board and the driver is Realtek Audio AC97, I have the port on the back of the PC tower to plug it in, and I do get some sound from it, although, it’s not the sound I expected. It’s a kind of muffled sound that the 2 front speakers give. So I know it’s not configured properly. Basically, I know I need to alter some options/config/setup in terms of software on my PC to make this Sub work. But I don’t know how! It’s turned out Not to be a Plug and Play kinda thing! Any help on this situation would be great. Thanks for taking the time out to read this, and help! Very much appreciated! Phoenix

Hey all. I'm having a problem getting my Lexmark Z815 printer to communicate with my Win XP Professional PC. I know that the hardware is not to fault, because I have installed the printer with no problems, also its BRAND NEW OUT-OF-THE-BOX. I presume the problem is to do with my USB ports. I have 2 USB ports at the rear, and 2 USB ports on the front of the case. I have 2 USB devices; a mouse and the printer, and they are both plugged into the rear ports. I have tried the printer in all 4 of the USB ports. But to no avail. I then went to driverguide.com, and downloaded the latest drivers for my USB ports, installed them (again with no problems) and after a couple of restarts, I thought that would be me problem solved. But it wasn’t, and now I have a fully functioning set of USB ports and a fully functioning printer, but they CAN'T and WON'T communicate with each other. NB: When I want to print something from MS Word, the Lexmark printer is displayed under the available printers and it IS MY DEFAULT printer, and also when I first connected the printer to the PC, via USB, a balloon tip popped up from the taskbar and, supposedly, “Added New Hardware”, realized it was a Lexmark Z 815, and asked for its driver off the CD. This is a very weird problem, and I hope I have explained it well enough for you all to provide some input in this bizarre problem. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you all so much. Phoenix

Thanks Wilhelmus

Posted by theefool: Quote: Usually, I do SFC first, then I try an overlay. Then reinstall (if needed) any windows updates. Pardon for asking, but...What do mean by an SFC? Thanks Phoenix

Hey asdf12345. I had the same problem last week, very annoying, isn't it!? Anyway, all i did was re-install my operating system. Took about half hour and my problem was solved. No need to format your drive before hand either, just install win98 again over your old setup. All your personal files (My documents etc...) will still be in place. Let me know how you get on! Phoenix. Good luck.

Hey, thanks for replying. Problem sorted. although, it was a 60GB hard drive not 80. i backed up everything and made 3 partitions on my computer. C:\ drive is 30GB and has Win2000 w/SP4 D:\ drive is 22.5GB and has Win 98 SE E:\ drive is 7.5GB and holds all my music ont he PC. Thanks for helping. Didn't realise how easy it once, until i was actually doing it. Now, i'm off to driverguide.com to get some...well...drivers! Phoenix.