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  1. darnell1

    starting a business using eBay

    Can you guys provide me with some feedback (good and bad) if this is a good idea. I'd like to find some distributors and start selling either computer parts, dvd's or videos. I'd like to hear what you think so I can round out my opinion before jumping in with both feet and maybe forgetting...
  2. darnell1

    Desktop Wallpaper Problems

    Why do you buy wallpaper when there are millions out there on the internet? For your problem, can't you open a jpeg in Internet explorer or MS Paint and say set as wallpaper centered or tiled?
  3. darnell1

    Mal-ware vs. techs

    Hey Dollie, You said you do this in your spare time. How much do you charge and where approx do you live? I have been helping friends but have not charged anything as of yet. I really need to start charging them something but don't know how much to charge. I live in the midwest Thanks
  4. darnell1

    Cordless phone interferes with wireless network?

    Can someone tell me if this is true or not. I bought a 108 Neatgear router because someone told me the 54G's would be interfered with by 2.4 cordless phones? Thanks for sheding some light one this!
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    File recovery after format

    I cleaned up a friends machine that had a lot of spyware, adware and a couple of virus. I ended up re-formatting after they said they didn't need any of the files. As it turnes out, they need a couple of word documents. Is there a way to recover these after formatting the machine? I did not...
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    VoIP question

    My experience with this is limited to using callwave when it was free. I was on dial-up then and it cutout quite a bit. Now, I have a cable modem and was wondering what products can I download for free or buy that would get me to the point that I can call land-line telephones from my computer...
  7. darnell1

    Sandboxer is drining me up the wall!!!

    ur uninstaller works when the add/remove programs will not work. I think you can download a shareware version that will work a couple of times before you have to buy it
  8. darnell1

    Known Malware on the net

    Please share with the rest of the class as to what you found and where you found it. Others might be interested as well
  9. darnell1

    Win98 cleanup question

    VOP, I believe it is an education issue. When the friends son was questioned about surfing the Internet and clicking on ads and accepting the popup boxes, his response was "but I could win a million dollars" Thanks for the link on being hacked. Not sure if that was the case here. Just had a...
  10. darnell1

    Win98 cleanup question

    I was working on a friends Win98 machine. I had reformatted it last week and reinstalled Norton AV, spybot, ad-aware, etc. A week later, they cannot even boot their machine. I booted to safemode and looked at the installed programs. It had a lot of "search" toolbars, etc. I started going...
  11. darnell1

    Firewall question

    But my question is does a firewall so down or keep you from playing gaming online?
  12. darnell1

    Firewall question

    I just recently connected to the web through a cable modem. I have NAV2004. People tell me I should get a firewall like zonealarm. I play Half-Life online and was wondering if a firewall affected the performance of connecting to a server to play HL Any thoughts on this? Thanks in advance
  13. darnell1

    20 min. to be hacked.

    MasterRacker, Give me a price range for these baby routers at WalMart etc? I assume you are suggestion if I have a cable modem that I get one of these? I want to nextwork two computers together so that both have access to the Internet - is a baby router the answer? Thanks in advance
  14. darnell1

    lost internet connection symbol

    Also, you could do a find references under the file pulldown. That should work
  15. darnell1

    Evil infection?

    Are your definitions for the AV up to date to catch the latest virus'
  16. darnell1

    Home Netwrking wireless question

    I am getting ready to setup a networking (at home) between two computers. I was looking for comments about going wireless as far as security, reliability etc. I want to have both machines utilize the Internet from my cable modem. Some people at work are telling me to get the "g" over...
  17. darnell1

    DVD plus/minus re-writer problems

    I just bought a DVD burner and its a DVD+RW. The minus and plus are different technologies and mine told me to use +RW dvd's. Check your manual and see which technology your DVD is
  18. darnell1

    Hyperthreading disabled?

    I am trying to convert VHS tapes to either cd's or dvd's. I am reading some of the posts and have a couple of questions. 1) Why does the hyperthreading need to be disables in the Bios for this process? 2) Some people are saying to convert to a VCD format. I understand that you will have to...

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