Recent content by iandoreeninvan

CraigMan & linney, ta for the heads up. i've just spent the weekend reinstalling rules for kerio firewall. A few more details in case rings a bell somewhere... 1. timing. Shutting down. ( with a stopwatch) took 28 secs after last clik to shutdown. From Boot. from power on took 50 secs to win...

Like MikeThorne I have a similar problem ie at boot my Dell pc sits for what seems 3 mins, & also at shutdown time seems to sit for a while. I've been putting it down as spyware as a result of holes or back doors (that i have opened ) in my firewall ( Kerio -2.1 etc ). I'm preparing a...

ta ben & linney for the hands up. sheila became impatient & put the box into the local pc doctor. SO, i cant check anything at the moment. Apparently she had had the problem for a little while. It had also occurred when she tried installing a new printer. But i will have a look at the...

A friend, Sheila, had a usb port(s) --- on motherboard or on a (pci?) card go cactus - damaged sockets or whatever. Sheila is visiting from NSW at the moment. The (not so gory) details are not important <grin>. She bought a Swann Usb 2.0 5 port PCI card it came with a "driver and...

Hi linney your suggestions in square brackets. [XP uses the Read-only differently to previous operating systems when you are looking at Folder Properties. Files are the same as before and can be controlled via the Read-only check box. Cannot Change the Read-Only Attribute of System Folders...

Hi Ed & linney. ta again for your info. im worse case scenario & i will reformat & reinstall. all of my apps & data & music files etc are safely on a number of cds / dvd's going back a few years. it is just the desktop settings prog icons etc registry...

Hi Ed me 5 years past. unfortunately i didnt write enough [ well any ] legacy apps that would enable me to retire early. But i've already done that twice. i need an income to support my habits - computers - home brew, music, caravanning [ie RVs], golf - etc. here is another hijackthis.log...

hi edfair. ta for reply. i did use pcbackup years ago - i think it was part of PCTOOLS - before win95. i assume commercial software - grin - us poor old pensioners have to be selective with the $s. When writing apps for networks, we would usually include a backup item - that would run...

Hi linney, i did download( or thought i did) the gui version of Robocopy & installed it. i didn't think it fitted my needs - from memory either i couldn't get a file to execute a string of xcopy commands in sequence - or it was a single command. ie doing a recursive copy ( eg on a network)...

Hi linney I think "Security and Access Permissions, of the .bat file, and any files which have actions performed on them, is another consideration" is one of the most likely. "So is bad coding, but that is not my forte." but same backup batch files have been working sort of since ...95...

ta again linney. i've retried after running sfc /scannow. i'll try chkdsk after all else is finished, tho i did defrag all drives last weekend. i've found defrag stops if there is a problem with the file system. & safe mode the only other thing i can think of that might be affecting...

ra again linney This is a cut and paste of test1.bat REM ians backups of files on C REM REM here put wot copying ... where copying to REM REM before run this delete all REM directories under D: eg 6IanBu etc REM REM...

Hi linney ta for your reply. i store the batch files in a separate directory. "C:\0bu" batch file name is "ian_BuC.bat" i run it from an icon on the desktop ian c

Hi Blokes again. my backup batch file (buIan_c.bat) stopped working sometime. I'm not sure when AND I'm not too sure of what i've done or installed, etc. i haven't seen a another tek-tip thread that's relevant yet. generally my backup batch file sez: xcopy C:\....fred D:\1bu\...fred xcopy...

Noreen came over yesterday (sunday). i was able to d/l a trial version of 'backup now' & eventually got to restore 3 of three CDs i created AND showed her how to do the restore process. She emailed later that her restore had worked. It feels like about a ton of egg has been lifted from my face...