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IE cannot display page

admin — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:52:15 +0000

Whenever you get that from IE check in the Tools – Internet Options or go to the Control Panel and open Internet Options there, then go to the Security tab and click each Icon, Internet, Local intranet, Trusted sites and Restricted sites, click one and then click the Default Level button, after you have reset them all to the Default Level, click the Apply Button and then OK to close, you should be able to connect. If not reopen Internet Options and go to the Connections tab, then go to the LAN settings button, { this only applies to Broadband connections } uncheck everything in that panel and click Apply. Then go to the Advanced tab, click the Restore advanced settings button and then click Apply and OK to exit, try opening IE. This will happen when you upgrade IE, rollback to an earlier version of IE, or if your computer got infected and you remove the infection and cannot connect.

Site Updates

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:58:14 +0000

Updated most of the Computer Help pages. Added a new section to the Windows 7 section on the New and refined Backup and Restore Utility. You can now restore individual files and folders, go here Backup and Restore to learn more. Also added information on SEO, Search Engine Optimization in the ajax Webmaster do section. Go here SEO Webmaster to read more. Updated the PDF Book Is your Computer running Slowww, click the link to read the updated book. Added more Windows Error Messages, go to link to see the new ones. Added more games to the Forum Arcade and the main Arcade site.

Pictures as Thumbnails Vista

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:18 +0000

I recently help a lady with her Laptop running Vista and she wanted her pictures to show as thumbnails instead of Icons. If you go to Documents, then go to Organize, then choose Folder and Search options, then open the View tab, uncheck the first line that reads Always show icons, never thumbnails. Click Apply and OK, your pictures should now be displayed as thumbnails. This works in Vista and Windows 7.

Windows 7 and Linksys Network card

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:10:18 +0000

I just recently installed Windows 7 on one of my computers which had a Linksys NC100TX Network card in it. 7 will not load drivers for it and Linksys has no updated drivers for this card. I bought a brand new Linksys LNE100TX EtherFast card and that will not work with 7 either, it is not even listed on the box that it will work with Vista and I learned on the web that Linksys does not plan to make driver updates for these cards. So before you install 7 use the compatibility program and see if your Network card will work. I will no longer be buying any Linksys products. I bought a new D-Link Network card and it says on the box that it will work with Vista so it should work fine with 7, I ended up putting in a Realtech Network card in place of the Linksys and it work perfectly and they had new drivers for it that I downloaded and installed. I guess Linksys doe not give a hoot about their customers so why should I give a hoot about them. I can not believe they did not even update their drivers for Vista, sad shame on you Linksys.

Dell Dimension 2400 Physical Memory Dump Error

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:32:42 +0000

Here is some of the page info, to read the rest go here XP Dell Dimension 2400 Physical Memory Dump Error

I worked on a dell dimension 2400 that had lost the onboard video, Start Menu, Task Bar, internet and it only had PCI slots no AGP or PCI express slots. I work on family and friends computers for free, so I looked around the basement and came up with an old PCI 3dfx Voodoo 3 card, I really wondered if XP the OS on the computer would even have drivers for it. I put it in the number one PCI slot, that slot is always reserved for a video card and hooked the monitor cable to it and it worked. I tried booting the computer and was able to get into the BIOS. I was going to disable the onboard video but it only gave me the option for Auto or Onboard, so it got set to Auto. So now I had a monitor to see what was going on with the computer. The owner said she had no Start Menu or Task Bar and could not get online, that she kept getting error messages, the first one I got was a IPmon.exe error message. I did a search on Google and most sites indicated it was a malicious Trojan. I rebooted into Safe Mode and download Malwarebytes on my flash drive and then dragged it onto the wounded computers Desktop. It installed but gave a message error when I tried to open it.

Make your own External Hard Drive

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:55:56 +0000

Well I finally got my enclosures and made my own External Hard Drives. It was very easy and they work great!!! I put together a How-To on this page Make External Hard Drive. Hope it helps and you make one of your own.

External Hard Drive, Make one

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:47:16 +0000

I have always looked at those external hard drives and then looked away because of the cost. I have a couple 120 gig hard drives laying around that I do not use anymore or if you have old computers laying around you can take those drives out. Anyways you can make your own External Hard Drive by just buying a $19.99 enclosure, plug in the old hard drive and bingo External Hard Drive. You can get them for IDE or for Sata drives, ordered two for my 120 gig drives and will do a how to, it is always good to save money.