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Left click on a folder in the start menu. Then right click and hold and drag and drop to where you whant it. That's all!

A substancial amout of time has passed since my entering of this post and the ICQ thing was fixed by installing again. The Expolrer Icons are there now. I havn't done anything to get them back, they just appeared once and now they are there to stay. I think your icons will appear too in time

Well earlies in a thread in the Hardware section I explained my probbs with my IBM Deskstar HD. As I today got my new IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80GB HD and installed it. It made disturbing noises aswell... those stopped however and after installing XP i noticed that the icons in the left window of explorer were missing? They showed up later however and all was fine untill i put in my old (not so good HD) to extract some files from it and after that the icons are gone. I have tried everything from refreshing them to rebuilding icons using Tweak UI. I also installed ICQ and then copied my ICQ from my old HD over the new one (I have done this before without any probbs) but ICQ wont connect? The difference from the other times is that this time (after a stupid mistake) my OS is on F: instead of C: (this can't have anyting to do with it, can it?) Other than this I must say that the GXP120 is a very lownoise and fast HD! Appreciate any help on the matter... PS I have tried to install themes to get the icons working, but no luck

I bought this HD (IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB) 17 months ago. I had a PII back then with a 6GB HD and this HD was a major upgrade in storage posibilities. Then about 9 months ago I bought a new Mobo, processor and ram along with another HD (IBM Deskstar 60GXP 60GB). And about 3 weeks ago I needed to whipe my XP and reinstall (It had not been whiped for a while). As I wanna install I get some strange things going... XP refuses to install to my drive. It sais that there isn't a compatible partition... So i go out in the repair shell thingy and format to NTFS (Shouldn't have to cause the install progg fixes this normally). Still it won't install... I take the drive (30GB one) to my friends and we backup stupp from another partition and we find a problem on it using partition magic. The error is corrected but i still can't install... So i take the drive to the shop where i bought it and the run IBM HD repair on it. After that all is ok. Then A week later the HD starts to make scratch noises agai (it did so before also). I used chkdsk /r to repair and recover data from unredable segments (12 at the time). Then 4 days later the sound start again... another chkdsk /r and 18 segments are unredable... that was done today. And now (4 hours later) it makes the scratch sound again and it will keep deteriorating... i know this for a fact... When my new 80 IBM Deskstar 120GXP arrives I will ghost my partition to that one and send it in again... This isn't so much of a question, but do anyone have anything to say about what i have been experiencing? -Thx guys!

I'm still using the 21.83 for my TNT2 Ultra card... the 23.11 gave me disp4.dll BSOD But as long as it works, don't temper with it!

Well things kinda got out of hand there on the end... I get the same BSOD about "irq not less than or equal" upon every shut down. I use XP aswell but I have a totally different ISP (namely Bostrteam) and I have a external ADSL modem that doesn't use any drivers.. My comp never shuts down because of the problem. Only thing that happens is that when i choos to shut down my comp, i get the BSOD... Any thoughts?

Well it sounds to me liek its the mobo. Liek you've already said. My friends comp had some serious probbs aswell and I tried everything untill i tried to boot whith only the HD and a really old 4MB videocard. That did the trick, but then i checked his real videocard in my comp and it ran fine... so i switched the ram and that was fine too... only mobo left...

Well, let's assume (just for an instant) that I have found a open proxy on another network. How do I go about, changing my proxy to that one? I am using XP. And I have no clue where to alter the proxy server choises...

Well, I've been hangin' out on DC alot lately and that is a hub based peer to peer filesharing program. Problem is, some hubs only accept ppl from sertain ISPs and therefor they check the IP number. This may not be the cleanest thing to do... but I'd like to go in there anyway. So now I wonder, is there a way to mask/change my IP (not change entirely cause i have a static IP, but only make it look like it is changed to others)?

Stay of the Via 4in1 they are known to cause trouble...

That's a load of my mind... Thx again!

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Quote: On the other hand, if that IP isn't really a static but just one that you chose No, I got a IP on a paper from my ISP. I wasn't free to choose. But nothing sais that it is my comp that uses it? Maybe the physical location but nothing else. Quote: As for sharing the connection, all you have to do is add a second ethernet card. Then in the properties for that first card (the DSL one) you enable internet connection sharing. Your second card will be assigned 192.168.0.1, and the other computer can get an IP from you dynamically (it will get 192.168.0.***). I mentioned that earlier but your way to put it was much better to understand I havn't recieved an answer yet. But I will and I dunno if they can ad anything to what You've just said... Thx CUViper!

Well I dunno if anyone has a great answer, I guess i have to call my ISP about it, but i figured i could ventilate it to hear what you know... (If no one has a clue, it's ok, I will post the answer from my ISP here later on). Well I have recently gotten a new ISP and with this DSL I don't have to connect everytime (Like with my old one. Ok I used LF connection keeper, so it was as if I didn't connect) It works like this: I put in a gateway, DNS server and a IP number that is always mine and as soon as my comp is on it is connected to the net. But if I get a second comp and whant to have them both connected at the same time, the other com doesn't have a IP that my ISP will accept. I don't know how the ADSL routers work in this manner. And I also don't know if a 2nd Ethernet card in my 1st comp that connects to the 2nd one and the 2nd gets a IP from the 1st will work? And also, if someone else uses my IP to connect, will I be "locked out" during that time? If a IP theft can be done, will my ISP notice it and log it so it won't happen again? A lot of questions here, and I will get them answered, but plz feel free to thow in your thoughts!

I experienced the same thing as you did klona (yesterday infact) My Peer to peer connection was working properly and my ICQ aswell but I could not brows or ping... I had to restart my comp too to get it working... hmm... About you having to shut down ZA everytime, can't you make a makro that (or schedule)shuts the ZA off and on again afterwards? and why would your con go down after 24h? that seems really bad? What does your ISP say about this? It surely can't be a normal thing can it?