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  1. smactek

    Format THOROUGHLY

    Wow, thanks for the Info. I must admit technology never ceases to amaze me. With the abilities we have at our disposal, seems like we could slow down world hunger or find a cure for cancer. :) "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  2. smactek

    University Networks and XP Home

    i believe this is what you were reffering too. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262635 this is also a pretty good read: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;328459 however I have had no problem with xp@home connecting to my domain etc. along with 75...
  3. smactek

    New ICS Thread...

    the only thing about analogX's proxy is its inability to use many of the ports you have aavailable. I love analogX's programs but if you do any mirc, icq , or plan on playing online games with both machines. analogx's proxy doesnt cover the needed range of ports. If just web surfing and email is...
  4. smactek

    New ICS Thread...

    OK, first off. before you think about ICS. the 2 machines need to talk freely.best bet unplug the cable modem temporarily. are you using a reverse lan cable between 2 boxes or do you have a small hub. hub is best method. set the ip address for one nic on each machine in the MS Residential pool...
  5. smactek

    Multi-boot question?

    you need to modify the boot.ini file to give you the boot options your after, or use power quests boot magic :) your boot .ini should be similar to this: [Boot Loader] timeout=30 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS98 [Operating Systems]...
  6. smactek

    Format THOROUGHLY

    Alex has it right, I just attended a seminar given by the worlds leading data recovery company. I asked him flatly, If I use the hard drive manufacturers low level format utility, is there and recoverable data on the drive. He said No. that is the only way to absolutely clean the drive. they can...
  7. smactek

    Hard Drive Partitioning

    Little Miss muffet Did It I heard! :O "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  8. smactek

    Stopping users from erasing IE history?

    An excellent text editor to view .dat and .log files as well as many other formats is Textpad. Heres a link to their site: http://www.textpad.com/ "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  9. smactek

    Hello, I have a question about Gr

    great link wolluf!! "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  10. smactek

    Very slow Win2k startup & MS office errors as a result

    And Just one more to add, Have you done a virus scan lately? "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  11. smactek

    Registry "difference" file before and after an installation

    Kewl, cute little proggy. Brings back flashbacks of norton monitoring every single procees a program did during an install. Lets was that norton utilities 2 lol. "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  12. smactek

    2GB RAM Crash

    Thanks for updating everyone on not only the found problem but the logical cure. It really helps those of us who see lots of different machines a month. So nice to pass on a problem solved post. :) "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with...
  13. smactek

    Win2k format & Windows reinstall

    I have found the best way to do a real clean setup is to first download the low level format utility from the hard drive manufacturer (maxtor, quantum, etc.) these utilities create a clean hard drive by writing X's to the entire drive, this is desireable because you have no partial file info for...
  14. smactek

    quick launch icons change

    I have found that downloading and using the microsft utility TweakUI (tweak user interface) the icons seem not to get visualy corrupt as easily. Also it has some great extra little features. You can download it from the microsoft website for free. There are also a few registry tricks for most...
  15. smactek

    How do you get past a screensaver that is passworded?

    Also there is always the old method. Reboot the machine. "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  16. smactek

    Lock user out of internet Explore?

    this can be done realatively easy. Just a couple of things you do need to do. Need to make sure the user doesnt have admin rights. the user doesnt know the admin password. After that is accomplished. Just download the newest version of tweakui (tweak user interface) from microsoft. its free, and...
  17. smactek

    How to lock CDrom ?? Prevent software installs ?

    Excellent Thread People! Another now added to my growing list in "How to do the seemingly impossible, In Windows" Cheers to You and Yours, SMac "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  18. smactek

    Dual Boot XP with XP

    LOL, "Ditto" wollul "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"
  19. smactek

    TOO MANY partitions??

    This isnt going to be of much help, however. I have heard of this problem with McAfee and XP Before. It seems to me that I reacall a couple of registry settings that need to be manualy changed (a couple McAfee makes that cause this ) I will try to find the thread or url for you. SMac "Never...
  20. smactek

    Dumb Question, but what the H***

    Kewl thanks jim, eh? LOL "Never Argue with an Idiot. They will Lower You to Their Level, Then Beat YOU with Experience"

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