Jump to content

HybridShadow

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    229

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Donations

    0.00 USD 

  • Country

    Australia

 Content Type 

Posts posted by HybridShadow

    IE7

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    In Tools --> Internet Options --> Connections --> LAN Settings is Automatically detect settings on or off. Try alternating this to see if it helps you.

    Go through your add-ons to see if any bad ones are there, try running IE7 in no-addons mode and try that for 5-10 minutes.

    You could clear your cache.

    0

    Vista x64 from MS Action Pack

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    On the action pack website Windows Vista Business has four *'s which means:

    ****In some regions, Microsoft will provide the UPGRADE version of the Windows Vista desktop operating system in the Action Pack, which is consistent with how this product is distributed to our Volume Licensing Program customers.

    I would contact them, shouldn't it have come with two discs one for x64 and one for x86.

    0

    Probem: Booting from a USB Drive without built-in BIOS support.

    in Windows XP

    Posted · Edited by HybridShadow

    I'm running a crusty Acer 3000 laptop with a 55gb hard drive, it's about a year old and it's BIOS doesn't support booting from a usb device. Bugger, since I've just inherited a 120gb hard drive which i've shoved into an enclosure. I've googled around for possible solutions to my problem, the most viable being to create a bootable floppy with a script that lets it boot from the usb drive.

    There are two problems with this - 1) I don't have a floppy disk drive, and 2) even if I did I wouldn't want to go through all that just to start the system.

    I know there are other ways to do it. Unfortunatley I don't have the patience to read through masses of articles and forum topics to find a solution.

    I've tried to flash the BIOS with an update that I found on the Acer site (after spending what seemed like hours of frustration trying to find driver downloads), but it only updated support for SCSI and bluetooth. ****. I did find a copy of Phoenix BIOS - no idea if it's an updated version, though.

    I'd greatly appreciate any help with this.

    UPDATE: I got through the text based setup fine, but when it goes to boot windows I get a Blue Screen with the code 0x0000007B

    My next step is to stop that Blue Screen :)

    0

    My new Blog/Forum

    in Websites and Boards

    Posted

    I don't know if this is the right place to post this.

    But i'd just like to share that I am starting my own forum

    http://hybridshadow.com/forum/index.php

    But i don't know much about skinning IPB, and i would like if I can get a community going and then get some people to help me with it.

    One of the things is that when you get 40 posts a new section will open "Beta Testing Realm" where you can download some special things.

    I don't mean for this to be spam but I just want to get a community started and try and run a forum, it's also for my multimedia cert 2 course - well she's letting me do this and i'm also getting some acreditation for it.

    -Thanks

    0

    [Question] - windows mce oem licence

    in Windows XP

    Posted

    I rang them [Australian] and they were very nice to me. I'd try the making up a story as i dont think the people on the phone would do that because they can get in trouble.

    Its an OEM licence so it would mean that its for your computer only, just tell them and they should give you a new CD key.

    I got 2 of the one I spoke to both valid, i said the first one didnt work [it didnt but then i realised my 8 looked like a B]

    0

    cmd is not a valid win32 application

    in Windows Vista

    Posted

    The cmd file must be corrupt, try and get it of your XP cd, it may be named cmd.ex_ , just run a search on the xp cd for cmd you should find it. If it is ex_ then you need to rename the extension to something like rar or zip then extract the file because obviously you cant use the dos based expand program.

    0

    DNS Cache Question

    in Networks and the Internet

    Posted

    Yes it ended up being the hosts file, I would now recommend that no one use programs like I mentioned in my above post.

    Now when I displaydns i see some sites I recently went to and my Google Toobar Favourites??

    But all is good my ADSL2+ that has been slowed to 64k is running as quick as it can lol.

    Its funny now having the full "64k" it feels really fast, I cant wait for 6 days when my bandwidth counter is reset

    0

    DNS Cache Question

    in Networks and the Internet

    Posted

    Thank you

    There were alot in the file

    They reference to this and claim to be added from WinHelp2002

    Here is a link i found in Google

    http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

    It also says a hosts file larger than 135k slows down the computer, mine is over 400k.

    They had a work around but i am just going to clear it out and not worry about it. [Possibly check it every now and then over the next few days]

    But when i get vista im going to reformat anyway so if anything is left from the virus or the hosts file it will be gone.

    Thank you for getting back to me. I did have a picture attached but it didnt upload, i didn't even know this topic finished uploading.

    I will let you know if a still get those sites in ipconfig /displaydns

    0
×
×
  • Create New...