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Raul.......... that was a great presentation. Thanks. I've been to the IE redirect and found it quite truthful indeed. I'm new to the tabbed thing but about to go diving into it. Thanks for the thoughts and info. Rock Sign Rock Sign

just curious, TCH-RAUL, what browser do you use? I know you are more or less anti-microsoft, so I'd be interested in your browser choice. thanks.

Thanks to all of you. The only things I did was change my theme to walnut, and load the java and flash plugins. Guess it's just the way it is going to be. Funny how IE can seem to be the best and the worst (security holes) at the same time isn't it? Rock Sign Rock Sign Rock Sign Rock Sign

Hey folks. I loaded up Firefox because I noticed some of you really like it. I do too. But two things you may be able to steer me on: 1. My site has an amber alert ticker on it that works fine with ie6; but doesn't "tick" on firefox. It changes lines one at a time but does not scroll. 2. I click on tools / options and it quits and freezes up. can't click any category buttons to the left, can't close the options window. Then I have to ctrl / alt / del and end firefox that way and start over. ????? thanks. in advance

Thanks ya'll. I figured what madman confirmed for me. I will proceed to install ZA on in house pc's. thanks. Rock Sign Rock Sign Rock Sign

Hey gang! I just hooked up a new belkin 4 port router that , of course has its own firewall. Is that the only firewall I need or should I run another on each pc? thanks in advance Rock Sign

Rock Sign Rock Sign they won't let me brag us up because I have done it within the last 6 months. I have to wait to go again. Rock Sign

Hmmmmm. Now the setup doesn't seem to work. Question: I have a dsl modem and 3 'puters. What's the best way to get everyone together? Should I have the dsl direct to my pc, then hook the router to a 2nd nic card in my pc and the other 2 puters to the router? thanks.

Thanks, Rob. Yea, it's actually a peer to peer dealie and you have to have each pc in the house set up with the same workgroup name, then they "see" each other. Rock Sign

hey Mike... does it matter "where" in the .htaccess file I put the line: Options All -Indexes ? ..... and is that w/o quotes, I assume? thanks. Rock Sign

DUHHHHH! IF you are doing this don't do what I did...... forgot to make sure the 'puters have the same workgroup name.... sorry. Rock Sign

Hey gang. Just want to know the best way to share folders and printers between two 'puters in the same home. Both pc's are running xp home and they both connect to the internet via their own dsl cable and router. Anything I find in xp to share takes me to the network wizard where it wants to deal with ICS. There seems to be no option for two 'puters that have their own connection to the internet. I don't think I need to worry about Internet connection sharing. ??????

HOwdy! Anyone know anything about this fastrak lite bios? I'm installing xp home on a new hdrive after the old one crashed ( heh ) and it says "no array defined" thanks.

I agree. HAPPY EASTER TO ALL THE TCH FAMILY ! Rock Sign Rock Sign

Well, it's the first time I have come upon this problem also; but I think you guys are right about the reinstall. Do you recommend "clean". Thanks for all the help I really appreciate it. I also learned some good stuff as well in the process so all is not in vain. Rock Sign Rock Sign Rock Sign

Ok. I did all that. Ran the console. chose log on option c:\windows ( the only option ) typed bootcfg /rebuild identifier - home1 load options - /fastdetect rebooted and chose home1 I really didn't see any change. It worked. But same as it did when I simply copied the wife's boot.ini Am I missing something or did I mistakenly think the system would "refind" all the stuff in the "now empty" folders and bring back all the desktop icons? Am I correct in assuming the only way to bring back progs to the desktop and to the start menu is to remove and re-install? thanks for all your help. Rock Sign

Thanks madman.

Morning! I got the recovery console installed, but it asks for admin password and won't take it. I even went in and changed the password, which works to get into windows but won't take it ( invalid ) when logging into recovery console. What's up with that? thanks.

thanks, madman, I surely appeciate it and will give her a run. Rock Sign Rock Sign

That looks like the article I need alright, but I looked all over my xp home disk and can't find any recovery console to run the bootcfg. I tried running it from the run command line, but it isn't there. Does anyone know where on the xp home disk I am missing this recovery console? thanks

I checked and it's only my account, Madman. It did change the little picture back to the original; so I went to get the picture I had and low and behold ALL of the photo folders are empty. I have a very lot of photo folders and subfolders, and they are all empty. I checked the view and they are set to thumbnails. So there is apparantly a lot more stuff missing than I thought. Mad!!!

Yep the "show desktop icons" is still checked

Thanks guys. I copied the boot.ini from my wifes xp. I guess it's ok again, but I have no address book, no icons, and alot of the start menu progs have gone to include the system tools. Is it alright to run the xp install disk again? Rock Sign

No. that was a problem with getting online. I agree about starting with the boot.ini but doesn't most of the items in the boot.ini come from installations? a search for the boot.ini file only comes up with boot.ini.backup created january 03 and modified january 04. so I assume I need to rebuild a boot.ini but doesn't that mean alot of re-installs? under accessories the system tools are now "empty", so I probably need to even re-install xp.??? Do you think that should be a clean install or not necessary? thanks in advance

Hey, guys and gals, any input on this: Did a restart in xp and got " invalid boot.ini" "booting from C:\windows" then I get no icons except the recycle bin. many of the start menu items say "empty" when I hold the mouse over them. Others are intact. However, MANY programs won't run at all unless I go get the .exe from their folders. AVG came up zip,zero, nadda. Spybot came up with: common extension hijack: default registry handler. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\regfile\shell\open\command\=regedit.exe "%1" I chose not to have spybot fix it because that's exactly what that key says on my wifes xp. hmmmmm anyone run into this before. I have a sneaky feeling I will have to re-install all those programs????