DooDiddley

I'm not trying to offend anyone either but when I upgraded to Win2K pro, I had 512 meg memory and my once speedy system turned into a dog. Day ... search this forum for all the tweaks you can find. This is where I found most of my registry tweaking information and now my system runs as it should. As always, back up your registry just in case. Here are also some good links with tweaks: http://www.winguides.com/registry/ http://arstechnica.com/tweak/win2k/others/memory-1.html http://www.ntcompatible.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17024&highlight=alec+staar

Wellllllllll...I THOUGHT I had it. I'm doing this on my main pc. I don't know why I thought I had to test on the other...DUH! So, I guess my question now is, can I share the dialup and cable on the main pc? Here's what happens...if I use the dialup, the dialup "seems" to take over the connection even though I haven't done anything with the cable access (but I'm not sure). I test it by trying to send email. If I have my dialup activated, I can't send email because my email is routed through both Mediacom and my ISP. When I disconnect the modem, I am able to send email. Also, my ftp uploads are ALOT slower when I'm dialed in, as though it's uploading via the modem. Once I disconnect the modem it appears as though the cable takes over again. Are these "tests" accurate or is this just something I'm imagining. What do you think...got it or NO got it?

Hmmm...I "think" I've got it. Thanks anyway.

I must be doing something wrong because it's not working. The only two network connections I have are the dialup and the LAN. The LAN doesn't offer the option of whether to ICS or not. Is there another alternative or an explanation of what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks for your reply. For the life of me, I couldn't figure it out. I know it sounds stupid to have a dialup AND cable but I create virtual tours that can have very slow load times because of their file size. I need to test loading via dialup. Thanks again for your help.

I have both a dialup account and cable. Is there a way to get my secondary network pc to access the internet via the dialup rather than the cable? On my main system I dial into my ISP but when I go to the other PC it wants to access the internet through the cable. Is it possible to select one or the other?

I saw this on a previous post and saved it for myself. See if this works for you. It did for me: "By default, Windows 2000 logs the I/O traffic of your hard drive. While this is a very useful setting for servers, for workstations it doesn't do anything except use up system resources. To disable it, go to the run menu and type diskperf -n to disable the logging."

As I say "usually", I just got stuck at 9.6 after rebooting. Bummer. Thanks for your reply but I may be misunderstanding something. You say "56k modems of ANY kind cannot get over 4.7 kbps really!" I'm not talking about my download speed, I'm talking about my computer to modem port speed. I didn't used to have this problem. It seems to coincide with my messing around with the modem and registry settings. I've saved a backup of my registry and imported it to see if that would correct the problem since it is the pre-messing around in the registry verion, but that didn't help. Is it possible it could be something as simple as an incorrect desktop setting? I understand that I may just have to work this out by continued trial and error. I was just hoping that it might be something obvious to all of you experts. If you ever think of anything else, I'd sure welcome the advice. Thanks again.

Hi folks. I'm having a weird problem with my modem port speed. I'm using a 3Com US Robotics 56k Voice Faxmodem (EXT) with Windows 2000 Pro. When I dial in, I connect anywhere between a whopping 7.2 kbps and 115200. I usually don't have a problem when I first boot/reboot. The low connection speeds of 7.2 and 9.6 kbps usually occur after my pc has been inactive for awhile and no matter how many times I disconnect and try to re-connect, I get the same low speeds until I reboot. Here are my modem, port, and some registry settings: Modem port speed: 115200 data protocol: standard EC compression: enabled flow control: hardware data bits: 8 parity: none stop bits: 1 modulation: standard Modem Com2 bits per second: 115200 data bits: 8 parity: none stop bits: 1 flow control: hardware MTU: 576 RWIN: 256960 TTL: 128 I've made other registry changes, too. Did I screw something up, maybe? I welcome any suggestions anybody might have and if I didn't give enough info, let me know. Thanks.

I have a great program I use called BigFix. You can either leave it open in your system tray and it will notify you of all fixes as they come out or you can run it periodically. It scans your system against the available fixes and loads only those your system needs. It can be downloaded from: http://download.cnet.com/downloads/1,101...n=&ca=10001 and it's FREEWARE! Very handy program.

I'm running Win 2000 Pro and was moving along just fine. I don't know what I did but now I'm getting really weird error messages when I try to start some services like ftp and web publishing. I also no longer have a web server because of this. I can still connect to the other computer in the network, though. Here is my error message: Could not start the...service on the Local Computer. Error 1008: An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist. The only reference to this error message on Microsoft's site is just a list of error codes or a one-liner to contact the software manufacturer. No explanation as to a possible cause. Has anyone else run into this? Thanks.