ok, here's another good question for you experts.

Can a ham radio signal that is about 2 to 4 blocks away affect a home wireless network? I've noticed that ours will drop randomly several times a day.

ahhh, now I see! My dsl tends to drag at times.

Thanks, I had wondered what caused it. Didn't think it was a BK bug but rather something in the browser. Its no biggie. I'd still prefer firefox even with it.

LOL. I only use IE now for eBay or if I need to download something.

Lots of times when I'm making my moves, I'll go to click on whateever, and the screen jumps up a bit, and I have to click again.

anyone else get this effect?

Badinage: Its about time you got around here!

tho I do miss Aragon!

Hrqls: LOL, I never even thought about the editing part. Never used it now that I think of it.

Hrqls: I use Adobe Acrobat 7.0. It was free, although I suspect there is a paid version too.

LOL, SR, I can feel for ya!

I still think its strange that it did not show any system restore points, My Dell did for everyday.

oh well, onward and upward!

The files are still on the hard drive, but nothing would run. We had shortcuts and icons on the desktop that are now not showing.

It alnost looks like a different profile is running. When I go to documents and settings, I see a All Users, with the desktop there showing all the usual shortcuts that I expect. But they are not on the desktop running.

Also, I have a little applet showing start up files, and there is NOTHING there. Almost like everything was wiped out.

We went to do a system restore and go back a couple of days, but there seems to not be anything there past today either.

I did get the Wireless Assistant to install and run so he has internet access and he says he'll just re-install any programs he needs to run (which installed the dlls etc,) and just go from there for right now. Since all his data did not seem to be lost.

The really wierd thing is even Windows XP is now saying its a trial version. It was all registered before.

When we got up this morning, Jim's HP (bought Feb 2005) was sitting looking very unhappy.

The exsisting desktop is defaulted to Windows XP's with no desktop icons. His wireless connection is not working. No programs will run, we get dll errors. All settings appear to be gone.

My guess after searching around is that his registry is wiped out.

Ideas?

temo: I have a wireless home network, and share files with 2 other PCs along with my printer.

Do I need to keep any of those files with that in mind?

Fencer: duh! I didn't think of that! I've given it a try, and bet that will do it. Thanks!

that would rather defeat the purpose of Windows XP Pro wouldn't it?

I also use this pc for business, so don't think reformat is an option.

ScarletRose: oh, I forgot to add.... Love this, SR!!!

I got a good question for ya'll. My system refuses (yes, REFUSES) to remove MSN Messenger from the 'add/remove software'. It seems to have been installed when I installed Windows XP Pro. I have a little applet called Starup Control Panel 2.8, by Mike Lin, that I use to control what starts up. I will remove MSN Messenger so it won't auto start, but after 2 reboots, its back again! If it didn't keep starting up at reboot, I wouldn't care that its on my pc.

Any ideas?

In this world, there are 10 types of people. Those people that understand binary and those that don't.

DanDanDan: "You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop to check your e-mail on the way back to bed. "

no no no, I stop to check the boards on BK!!!! (2. October 2005, 02:35)

I use the currency converter. Its easier than having to go to xe.com. And I like the Forcast Fox.

I also loaded the Bandwidth tester. I use it if I seem to be moving slow.

my microsoft antispyware runs every night at 2am and I do not get any spyware at all. I don't think its giving you an accurate reading.

thanks Dano!

We finally got some qualified techs out today and 7 hours later, we got everything working. They had to restall all the operating systems and everything. Seems the first installer thought it would be a wonderful idea to remove ALL firewalls except for the one built into the router. Somehow went ended up with all kinds of corrupted systems.

oh the last tech apparently had implied that mozilla could be at fault. I wasn't here when he was.

Has anyone had a problem with a wireless network and Mozilla? I just installed a netgear network and we're having all kinds of problems. All the pc's are new with XP. One by one, they stopped communicating with the print server and one has trouble accessing the internet.

oh and it was installed by a CompUSA tech.

oh darn, I forgot all about that. Hey, BBW how about to add that link up top?

MagicDragon: Was that a special program that you got your Dell through? I wondered cause, I just got an '05 Focus and one perk is they are sending me a Dell also. boy, I can't wait!!!

Bubba, you need to come and set up my wireless network for me.