Posts by chrisbliss18

Short answer
Yes, it would be very unwise.

Long answer
"I feel that I am properly protected without it". What do you base these feelings on? Do you base it on research that you have done that indicates that your software solutions are just as good at protecting your machine from attacks without NAT protection as they are with it? Do you base it on a full understanding of how attacks are made, how they can be guarded against, and the differences between hardware and software solutions against these attacks?

My words may be harsh, but my point is valid. Unless you are a security software and hardware expert, you have little idea of how complex attacks can be and how vulnerable your machine truely is without layers of comprehensive security. How do I know this? I'm an IT professional. I maintain a number of web servers, and I see how our boxes get attacked all day long. The more I have learned about how attacks work and how they exploit weaknesses in security, the more I realize that I know very little about the intricacies of designing and maintaining software and hardware that will offer the most protectection possible against all foreseeable attacks.

The way I think about it, there are four main lines of defense in computer security.

The first line of defense is your hardware. Think of the hardware security as being an armored fortress. It may not protect you from …

Sounds like you have Scroll Lock turned on. Excel is one of the few programs I can think of that has ever made any use of that useless keyboard function. Turn Scroll Lock off, and your arrow key functions should return to normal.

Justin01, he mentioned that he has System Restore disabled.

jaishankar, try running BootVis. Follow the instructions on that page to get the most out of it. Let us know if this addresses any of those issues you are having.

petercoti, can you please start being more verbose? Please use full, descriptive subjects and put complete questions so we don't have to interpret what you are wanting. We don't mind helping you, but you have to help us help you.

Do you mind sharing with us what you did that fixed the problem? It could help someone else that has the same problem.

Is sound affected in any other way?

Does sound work when you play local (files on your computer) MP3, WAV, or WMA files?

Did you install any new software just before the problem started occuring?

After loading Firefox in Safe Mode, load up your themes browser, select the default theme, select "Use Theme", and uninstall the remaining themes. Then load up your extensions manager and uninstall all of them. After doing this, try to start Firefox in standard mode.

Sometimes a theme or extension can cause Firefox to load improperly. My recommendation is to install extensions one at a time and restarting Firefox each time a new one is installed (if it won't start, start up in Safe Mode and remove the last one you added).

im not entirely sure, but judging by my router lights, he is must be downloading a very big file, as the wireless has been constantly flashing for about 2hrs.

Constant flashing doesn't mean constant high-bandwidth pull. It means that the connection is being actively used. The wireless light on my router flashes rapidly when my roommates are doing nothing more than playing games, which doesn't use much bandwidth.

The reason I asked about the peer-to-peer software is because improperly configured peer-to-peer programs can cause an abnormally large amount of upload usage, which can severely hinder the download ability of the connection.

I recommend talking to the people who use the connection. Tell them what the problem is and find out how they are using the connection. It would be much cheaper and easier if you set ground rules on how the connection should be used rather than buying a solution that will limit connection access.

If both of you are using the web at the same time, you each should get download speeds of about half the total capability of the connection. Something is wrong if your speeds are so severely reduced. Is he running any type of peer-to-peer or bittorrent programs?

I know there are ways to do this, but I don't know what they are.

I'm curious why you want to set the connections up like this. The router will portion out access to the connection intelligently. Unless all the machines are trying to do downloads or uploads continuously (as in they never, ever stop trying to take bandwidth), you would severely limit each machine's total bandwidth availability by setting up the connections like that.

For example: if your network were set up like that and both of your wireless connections were downloading large files, only half of your total available download bandwidth would be in use, which, in my opinion, is very wasteful.

So, my question is: what is the problem you are trying to solve that causes you to want your network setup like that?

A quick way to format the drive is to right-click My Computer and select Manage. Select Disk Management under the Storage section on the left of the Computer Management console. Find the new drive on the right pane, right-click it, and select "Format...". From there, it's up to you on how you want to configure the new drive.

Go to Tools -- Internet Options -- Security -- Click Custom level in internet --
Scroll down to "Downloads" - "File Downloads"
Check the "Disable" circle
All done!

Interesting. I never knew that IE had such an option.

To turn on the guest account, open up User Accounts from the Control Panel, select the Guest Account, and make sure that it is turned on.

SimpleJohn said to access the share through \\computer-name\share-name not http://computer-name/share-name. There is a very big difference between the two.

Your auto-logon feature is turned off and your password is blank, that's why it is the way it is. Use this guide to turn on auto-logon.

Here's a simple bit of code I put together:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $query = new CGI;

my %vars;

foreach my $key (sort {$a <=> $b} $query->param())
{
	$vars{$key} = $query->param($key);
}

print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

if(open(FILE, ">>testFile.txt"))
{
	print FILE "$vars{'data'}<br>";
	close(FILE);
	
	print "Success";
}
else
{
	print "Fail";
}

exit;

This code assumes that you are wanting the information from the field named "data" saved in the file.

A browser basically does nothing but download files and render their contents. The web pages you go to are either html files or generated content that looks like an html file. In order for the browser to render the images on the page, it has to download GIF, JPEG, and other similarly encoded files.

There are products that you can use on a network gateway that can prevent access to files that meet certain criteria, but this requires a lot of work and sometimes additional expenses for equipment and software.

stubighead, start you own thread so we can focus on your problem and not the one that is marked solved.

If you haven't done so, go through the steps listed in the My PC won't start - Read this first! stickied thread. If it doesn't help you fix your problem, it will probably help you diagnose what component has the problem.

It looks like an older router, so finding people that have direct experience with it might be hard, but the device itself should be fine.

There are three main parts to successfully setting up a network with internet: hooking up everything correctly, configuring the router correctly, and making sure that the computers are configured correctly.

The correct hardware setup is to connect the DSL phone line to the DSL modem, connect the DSL modem to the router's WAN port with a network cable (standard cable, not crossover. You should not use any crossover cables for this setup), and connect each machine to the router using any of the router's non-WAN ports.

I don't know all the details of your DSL connection and how it's setup, so I will assume that it is like mine. When I had my DSL modem directly connected to my machine, I had to run software on my machine in order to connect. When you use a router, you do not need this software (uninstall it) since the router will handle negotiating the connection for you. You will want to configure the router to use a PPPoE connection and will have to supply the router with your username and password information for the connection. You will also want to enable the router to automatically reconnect if the connection becomes disconnected. Some of this setup may be different for your connection (you may need to contact your ISP to confirm the settings). Make sure …

The USB ethernet adapter isn't very likely to be the problem.

I disagree with SimpleJohn, you cannot use this as a router. The reason for this is simple, it's not a router; it's a switch. Most routers are actual routing devices with a switch built-in. By no means does this mean that a switch is a router, it means that most routers have switches.

I suggest that you get an actual router since that will save you many headaches in trying to tweak this setup into a very mediocre and problematic solution.

javamann... Stick to one thread. There was no need to create this thread since it doesn't ask anything that is off the topic of your other thread. Furthermore, you do not need to link to your thread in the introductions tread since it wasn't an introduction, it was simply the exact same post as the first post in your other thread.

The size of ints is dependant upon the compiler or compiler setting. It would seem that your compiler defaultly uses 32-bit ints, as most "standard" C compilers should. The same code run on a 64-bit chip with a 64-bit OS will provide the same answer.

It wouldn't make much sense that the size of your variables would change with the processor that the code is run on. If this were true, there would be great problems with running code on different chips. It is for this reason that code has to be specifically compiled to take full advantage of 64-bit chips.

One thing I didn't mention is that the specific user also has to be on that machine. The folders that you cannot access cannot be shared across a network (without going through additional steps that can be hard to troubleshoot if they don't work). Your best best is to copy the files from the area that you can't access to a place that you can access. For example, it would probably be a good idea to make a folder just off of the C: called "Shared Files" (C:\Shared Files). After you create that folder, copy all the files that you have problems accessing into that folder and try accessing them again.

If I'm still missing the issue, please elaborate further about what your specific issue is. It would greatly help me diagnose the issue if you can tell me the specific folder and file that you are unable to access along with the specific error that you receive.

P.S. You're welcome. My parents are moving across the country in a couple of weeks, so I need to bone up on my tech support skills since usually I just go over to their place when they need help :).

Some files can only be accessed by a specific user (files on the desktop, My Documents, etc). You said that you tried copying the files that you wanted to access to folders that you could, but that didn't work, were you unable to see the files or did you receive an error when you tried to access them?

Were you able to get any files transferred over?

Which files do not show up (please be specific about their location in the directories)?

What do you mean by unable to access? Were you unable to access the files from the other computer? If so, did you get an error? Please be specific about what problem you had.

From your description, it seems that setting up Windows File Sharing will be the "easiest" method to transfer the files. I put easiest in quotes because it can offer problems at times. This guide offers a step-by-step way off sharing a folder. I'd recommend setting up a shared folder on your old computer using the guide (don't set up the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) since this will make it hard for you other computer to see the shared folder) and copying all the files you want to copy over into the shared folder. Once you have this set up, you will be able to access the shared files from the new computer and copy them over to a folder on the new system.

If you aren't able to set up the shared folder on the old computer, try setting up an empty shared folder on the new computer (make sure that you check "Allow network users to change my files"). If you set up the shared folder in this way, you will end up navigating to the shared folder from the old computer and copying the files directly to it.

If you are able to get a shared folder set up, update the thread, and I'll guide you through finding the shared folder from the other system.

If you aren't able to get a shared folder set up, we'll have to look at other alternatives.

Sorry... I have another question for you.

What version of Windows is on each machine?

If you have a DSL setup like me, you have a modem that you connect to the phone line. You then have a CAT5 cable (line that has jacks that look like big phone plugs) that connects the modem to a router. The router connects to your computers either with more CAT5 cable or wirelessly.

If this sounds like your setup (or even if it is different but each machine can connect to the internet at the same time), then your computers should be able to see eachother on the network.

Please confirm whether or not my description of your setup was accurate. If it wasn't accurate, please elaborate upon how your computers are connected to the internet.

One final piece of information that I would like to know is how much information are you wanting to transfer over. Are you wanting to transfer a bunch of images and documents? Are you wanting to transfer all your programs? Do you want to transfer everything? Can you give me an estimate on the total size of the files that you want to transfer?

Answering the following questions will help me give advice that is tailored to your setup:

Do you use a dialup connection or a broadband connection (DSL, cable, etc) to access the internet?
Do your computers connect to a router, hub, switch, or other networking device?
Do you have a Yahoo!, GMail, or other email account that has at least 1GB of storage space?

If you need any clarification on what I mean by any of the terms I used, feel free to ask.

Our suggestions were just to see if you wanted to use that avenue or a different one. If you would like to try the drive swapping idea, we can walk you through the process. I know the terms and names are scary sounding, but they are just words. The actual process is quite simple.

If you don't want to do that, the easiest way to transfer the files is to either burn them onto a CD/DVD or connect both systems to a network and transfer the files over the network. From your original post, these options didn't seem to be available to you. Please correct us if we are wrong.

Try this bit of code:

// Loop until the number becomes 0
while(num1 != 0)
{
	// Check for a 2
	if((num1 % 10) == 2) count++;
	
	// Chop off the last digit
	num1 /= 10;
}

Did he directly copy over everything including the Windows directory? If so, he would have messed up his install. He'll have to do a repair install of the operating system to fix it.

For future reference, his computer most likely didn't load when he added the other drive because he didn't set the master/slave jumper settings on the drives correctly.

Considering that it sounds like you can't get the machine to work at all, you should just remove the drive from the old machine, put it in the new machine as a secondary drive, and copy the files over.

I guess you could create a form that uses POST and has no visible elements (use hidden inputs). A hyperlink could then use javascript to submit the form. It's not extremely compatible with older browsers, but it could work if you absolutely had to have it work that way.

yea.. none of the programs are listed on my add or remove programs menu and the site that is on there no longer exists, if anyone knows how to get rid of the LOP on my computer than tell me.. thanks

Read crunchie's last post. Start your own thread.

See if you can run the three following commands from that prompt:

chkdsk /r 
chkdsk /p
fixboot c:

If you can't run those from there, you will have to get your hands on a XP install CD, use the Recovery Console, and run those commands from there.

If the eMachine is like most other machines that have recovery disks, it puts a "ghost image" of the drive in factory condition on a separate partition. It sounds like that partition got corrupted. If you manage to get the machine running, schedule a scandisk with all the options enabled for each partition and reboot the machine. This will scan the partitions and fix the problems.

#include <iostream>
#include <string> 
using namespace std;

// main()
int main()
{
	int number;          
	string numeral;  
	
	cout << "Please enter a number between 1 and 10 ";
	cin >> number;
	
	{
		if(number == 1)
			numeral = "I";
		else if(number == 2)
			numeral = "II";
		else if(number == 3)
			numeral = "III";
		else if(number == 4)
			numeral = "IV";
		else if(number == 5)
			numeral = "V";
		else if(number == 6)
			numeral = "VI";
		else if(number == 7)
			numeral = "VII";
		else if(number == 8)
			numeral = "VIII";
		else if(number == 9)
			numeral = "IX";
		else if(number == 10)
			numeral = "X";
		else cout << "The number entered was not between 1 and 10";
	}
	
	cout << "The Roman numeral for the number " << number << " is " << numeral;
	
	cin.ignore();
	cin.get();

I cleaned up your code a bit. You will notice that your set of curly braces surrounding the if statements isn't doing anything. You want one of two messages printed, but you have a series of eleven conditions that can be met. Only one of the conditions prints a message. Irregardless of which condition is met, the final message is printed. Thus, if the else statement is used, two messages will be printed.

You have two options:

• Print a message for each condition

  if(number == 1)
  {
  	cout << "The Roman Numeral for the number 1 is I\n";
  }
  else if(number == 2)
  {
  	cout << "The Roman Numeral for the number 2 is II\n"; …

My top recommendation would be Microsoft Antispyware. This program is good to keep running at all times. It is very good at finding spyware and other malware that is trying to install itself. It also asks whether or not something should be allowed to startup automatically and alerts you of programs trying to change internet settings (trying to hijack your browser).

My next recommendation would be Spybot - Search and Destroy. This program used to be my top pick, but Microsoft Antispyware is better. Spybot has also been getting worse lately IMO. I'd use this as a tool to use if something slips by Microsoft Antispyware. Note: don't install any of the extra tools that Spybot comes with, they are annoying at their best and worthless at their worst.

Ad-Aware is another program I use if my first line of defense fails. I only use it as part of a full line of scans to get rid of tough malware.

To get more assistance, I recommend reading Optimize XP. This guide is very helpful in that it provides information about many tools to help keep your system clean and that it offers many tips on securing your system against future infections. I couldn't recommend this guide enough.

Norton Antivirus is not a Spyware remover. Antivirus programs handle viruses. Antispyware programs handle spyware. Antivirus programs may be able to identify some spyware, but they don't typically have the tools to remove them since they are tailored to remove viruses. If you want spyware removers, I can recommend some very good tools that are free.

This is something that doesn't have a correct answer. Everyone has their opinion on the matter. Personally, I use Norton AntiVirus. That's not to say I love it. It works well... most of the time. I've used McAfee in the past and have been very satisfied with it. I guess I would have to recommend one of those two.

If you have a pirated version of Windows (or your system fails the genuine Microsoft Windows test for whatever reason), you cannot download the program.

Have you tried running all the scans from Safe Mode?

Go to the guide that I have linked to in the bottom of my sig. Follow the optimize guide which will find and fix most any problem that your computer might have due to badly behaving software.

Bring up a run dialog and run "taskmgr.exe". Does Task Manager come up or does it give you an error?

Did you try resetting your CMOS settings?