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XP and a New Puter ... It's a Whole New World ...WOW
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| mercy
Posted on 01/01/2002 4:11:47 PM PST by mercy
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To: Incorrigible, Amelia
I would recommend something like Linksys Cable/DSL Routers & Modems. They're easy to set up and provide some hardware firewall functionality...
The best things about getting a hardware firewall are that you don't need to worry about the vast majority of security updates and you don't need to worry about software firewall compatibility issues as you upgrade your OS. I've closed all incoming ports on my firewall so, to the outside world, it appears as if I don't even exist. Universal Plug N' Play issue? Who cares. Nobody can even get to my network so it just doesn't matter. And since the hardware firewall is separate from my PC, I don't need to buy a new software firewall like BlackICE Defender every time that I upgrade my OS. I'm very pleased with the LinkSYS Cable/DSL Firewall/Router. Plus, the price is right. Recommend it highly.
To: Senator Pardek
This is a very pathetic request, but I simply cannot get to "www.freerepublic.com". I am forced to use "http://209.157.64.200", which makes it extremely difficult to post. Not pathetic at all. Free Republic recently changed their IP address. You have the old address hardwired in your hosts file.
Open your hosts file (usually in the Windows directory but sometimes in root) with Notepad. Remove the www.freerepublic.com reference. Save hosts file (remember, no extension, if you save as hosts.txt, it will not work). Restart your browser or better yet, reboot your computer.
To: monkeyshine
You can turn the links option on the toolbar on or off from within 'View' then 'Toolbars' Got to admit, XP is pretty cool once you get used to the differences. It still needs a good deal of patching though.
To: Bush2000
Seatle?
To: Bogey78O
Seatle?
It's spelled: Seattle.
To: Bush2000
Typo...it happens...
To: Bush2000
Weird question. I don't know if you actually work for Microsoft or are just their biggest fan. Question is as follows:
Will Microsoft add the ability anytime soon, perhaps in a XP patch for us to scale up the size of toolbars when we increase the display size? I have the setting at 1280x960 now and can't go any higher because my wife can't read the scroll bar when I go to 1600x1200 which I would love to do for super sharp wallpapers and the like.
Is this such a difficult fix for Microsoft to accomplish, are they aware of this problem for some folks?
To: dogbyte12
my wife can't read the scroll bar when I go to 1600x1200...
The toolbars don't scale automatically -- and I'm not aware of any intention to do so. However, you can alter the appearance of the toolbars by doing the following. Go to Control Panel. Choose Display. Pick the Appearance tab. You can pick any of the visual elements in the list and alter the font, font size, and color. That would theoretically allow you to use 1600x1200 but still use larger fonts for your wife's eyes. Hope that helps.
To: Bush2000
Thanks for the tip. I suppose we shouldn't expect too much from a company that expects the fed to help them make up for their lack of creativity and competitiveness.
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01/02/2002 9:50:23 AM PST
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mercy
To: mercy
Thanks for the tip. I suppose we shouldn't expect too much from a company that expects the fed to help them make up for their lack of creativity and competitiveness.
Please do enlighten us on how the company "expects the fed to help them make up for their lack of creativity and competitiveness."
To: SamAdams76
For less than half the price I paid for my old computer (which was top-of-the-line at the time), I got a 1.7GHz processer with 512MB of RAM and a 80Gig hard drive. Furthermore, it has a CD-RW drive, a DVD drive, six USB ports including two on the space-age keyboard, firewire ports all over the place and a network card built in. Oh yeah, and it has this optical mouse as well that doesn't need a mousepad. It took me maybe five minutes to learn how to burn a CD and I have no idea how I lived without the ability to burn my own CDs!I've had this PC running for about a week now and it hasn't crashed once. Hasn't even shown a hint of crashing. This Windows XP is rock solid. In fact, I'm probably going to run out and get a copy of XP for my old computer as well.
I bought myself a new puter for Christmas. Dell wtih 2.0 GHz 512MB of RAM and a 80Gig hard drive and XP is the best windows operation system to date. I've been running this thing for 2 weeks and it still hasn't crashed. Even with 50 web sites open at once. Gotta love that 512 ram... Question? When do ya think the DVD writers are going to come down in price. COMP USA has em, but they're 600 bills a pop... DVD disk will hold 5.5 gigs of space and 5yrs ago that was considered a huge hard drive.
To: VinnyTex
That's a sweet machine. I know the one you bought. I almost got one myself. ;-)
To: VinnyTex
CD/DVD-R/W drives will be standard in all new computers by this time next year. In the meantime, I'm happy just to be able to burn my own CDs! I imagine the price of a DVD-RW will drop under $200 by summertime. When you decide to buy, you can always replace your CD-RW as DVD-RW also writes to CDs.
To: mercy
When explorer browser is open, push the F 11 (F eleven) key.
To: djf
Compared to Windows 98 of course. I just don't get any crashes with XP.
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01/02/2002 7:30:25 PM PST
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billva
To: billva
I have had XP on two home built puters for two months now. No crashes. None.
To: SurferDoc
I've had XP for about three weeks and no crashes either. I love it.
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01/02/2002 8:01:00 PM PST
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billva
To: Bush2000
By gutting Microsoft for them.
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01/02/2002 10:27:13 PM PST
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mercy
To: US_MilitaryRules
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01/02/2002 10:30:50 PM PST
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mercy
To: F.J. Mitchell
bttt
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