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  1. Not sure about CSS but would like to comment on the issue. Personally I turn off html and I recommend that everyone turn off html in their email clients and I know that I am not alone. Their are too many security risks. I also know that most spam programs being used will block emails or block html content.

     

    So you are probably starting off on the wrong path if you are going to use html for your emails. Just my opinion.

  2. Ok, that looks good. The USB are showing up as drives which is ok. The Drive order after the C: really doesn't matter. The CD and DVD drives can be any letters and the removable drives also.

     

    I think you're good to go now.

  3. I agree, start over. Boot to the CD and find fdisk and run it and wipe out all partitions and leave an empty Hard Drive. Then reboot and let XP create the C: partition, format it and install the OS.

     

    If this doesn't work correctly then start over again but this time YOU manually create the C: partition and format it and install the OS.

     

    Good luck.

  4. HYmmm, sounds rather odd to me...I thought C: could never be assigned as a removable drive. If this is a new system as you say I would wipe clean and start over.

     

    Did you fdisk and create your partitions before you started? Is this pre-installed system or one you built from scratch?

  5. I've only done websites on free servers like Geocities before and used the file manager to upload everything. My friend got a domain from GoDaddy and now I have to use an FTP client.
    I wasn't sure this was about TCH when I first read it so I didn't answer.

     

     

    My friend got the wrong type of account. He got the account with the templates, where you add your text and photos, ect...

     

    Pretty sure its not now.

  6. Ok, to use the Fax in XP you need a modem connected to a phone line, a document to fax and a fax number to receive it :D

     

    I'll use MS Word as an example. Open the document in word and click on File and Print. Now in the Printer name box click the down arrow for the list of available printers and select FAX and click OK.

     

    The Send Fax wizard starts and you are on your way. Fill in the information requested, I don't think its manditory but its informative for the folks receiving the fax. Once the wizard is completed the phone should dial and send your fax.

     

    Hope this helps.

  7. WinFax used to be a company on its own until Symantec gobbled them up. They had a Lite Version which was free and it came packaged with most modems on a 3 1/2" floppy (still has a few stashed away).

     

    This version was limited of course but was perfect for faxing a simple document to a single number. If you wanted the bells and whistles you needed to purchase the profesional version. This was best in its class.

     

    Now I believe Windows XP and ME comes with built in fax support and a stand alone program is not needed. But I have a combo scan/print/fax printer and have not tried them.

  8. If the slowdown on 75 is my ISP's fault, I'd like to be able to report that to them, although it seems strange that I can hit 74 and 78 with no trouble at all. I'm guessing these are colocated in the same facility since the numbers are close - and if I can hit that facility it's not my ISP's fault, right?

     

    I don't believe the numbers will always determine the server location, at some point they at different locations and that could be at server 76 :(

     

    Now slowdowns could be several different reasons and the best way to find out why is to submit a help desk ticket and let them investigate. There could be a routing issue somewhere on the internet between you and the server. There could be a datacenter routing problem specific to the one server. There could be someone on your server with a runaway script which is locking up just your server.

     

    A Tracert could tell you if there is a delay somewhere between you and the server.

  9. It seems wrong that I can only get two hops, but I can reach the sites with a browser just fine. The only thing I can think of is my routers got some super secret firewall thing built in and the tracert doesn't go through it.

     

    Yes, this "super secret firewall thing" is called NAT (Network Address Translation) and is built into most routers now and acts like a firewall. You are basically on a separate local network and assigned and IP by the router and all computers behind the router are protected from the rest of the internet.

     

    To run a tracert use an outside service with your browser, there are lots out there. h_tp://www.samspade.org/t/ or ht_p://www.tracert.com are the ones I usually use.

  10. But unfortunatley on the third day of having my site up any running, I found it had been taken down and after the last two days of swapping tickets with Tech Support, they have told me they have no more records of my site because of a mix-up, and it apparently - no longer exists.

     

    What exactly do you mean by "having my site up any running"? Having a site up and running to me means you have written some html pages and have uploaded the files to your web site and everyone can view them on the internet from their web browsers.

     

    To accomplish this you need to have purchased a domain from a registrar. You then purchase a hosting package and tell them the domain and either they or you point the domain to the proper DNS server. After you receive an email from the hosting company and your domain is "propogated" and you have written your html code for your web pages and uploaded them to your site...THEN you are up and running.

     

    Did you do all of these things and did you do them with TCH would be my questions.

  11. Just wanted to piggyback a question.

     

    Is this server going to have the time changed? Being on the eastcoast I am used to looking at the time on the posts and having them match the time on my PC.

     

    As I look at other posts today I see I am typing an hour in the future and I am not used to that :)

     

    BoB at 11:27AM

  12. So what do we do if they've closed port 25? I can't send email through my domain, only through my isp....

     

    Ok, lets see if I can explain what Thomas has mentioned.

     

    ISP's in an attempt to cut back on spam have been "closing" port 25 from being used as a "relay" for email. That means it checks the email and if it does not originate from the ISP it will not work.

     

    We'll use me as an example. I basically use 2 ISP's, I have had Prodigy since 1989 and have had my same email there since then and would like to keep it. Prodigy is now SBC/Yahoo and is a dialup service (slow) and I decided to get a faster service and since SBC could not supply me with faster service I oppted for a Cable connection which I am connected to all the time.

     

    Now I had to setup my email to receive from pop.prodigy.net and then send from smtp.cablecompany.net. The sending part is where I am affected, I cannot send from Prodigy because my internet connection says something other than Prodigy and they have port 25 blocked.

     

    How this affects you depends on your ISP and if you are doing what a few of us are doing by using multiple ISP's and crosing our email.

  13. Rob, I understand thats its not for his personal gain. But technically if a member answers the request THEY are breaking the guidelines by using this forum for a commercial gain. Its a reverse gotcha.

     

    Now its ok for non-members to reply since they are not mentioned...hmmm

  14. Thomas, I don't use Nortons since its trashed more computers than I feel is acceptable but I will give a guess here. Nortons is a collection of software packages that help protect your computer several ways and one of those is in scanning email. I would guess that it has an option somewhere that says to scan email and Outlook is selected as your email program of choice (default maybe). For whatever reason it is not finding Outlook so it is giving you this error. Open the security consol or whatever Norton uses and find this option for Outlook an replace with your email program or just turn it off.

  15. BellaAna, there is more to making a "very high quality" than just increasing the "dpi" (dots per inch). But you can't take a low quality and turn it into high quality, you need to start off high to begin with. There is color depth and number of colors and lots of other things that just can not be increased to make a an image better than how it starts off.

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