Recent content by Malakili

I`ve now cured some aspect of my problem, I was alos finding java heavy sites loading real slow or not at all. When i initially had my cable modem connected to my XP box i turned off QoS to regain bandwidth. Now its not the host it seemed that QoS was afecting performance, i`veset it to 20% and...

Yes tried all that. Was one fo the first things i tried but no joy. Malakili

I am having problems with what appears to be a pure XP problem. I have a cable internet connection. Now previously i had my cable modem connected to my XP box through USB with a 2nd Win 2k Pro box connected to mine through a LAN. All worked well apart from when the ip address changed every 4...

Can anyone offer any advice in removing this trojan? My virus scanner detected and cleaned it, but after restart it appears to be back. It appears to be respawning itself on restart. I`ve looked in my start up files and in running services (xp box) and see nothing suspicious. I also read up that...

Im running a desktop res of 1024 x 768an would like a programme to run in 800 x 600, as my present res makes it too small to see. Looked in the compatabily wizard section and saw the option to run in 640 x 480. Tried that and it reset the desktop ran the prograame fine, then on exitting swapped...

Hmmmm, are you running a network card as well the modem?, if so, goto control panel/networks and select TCp/IP for your network card. Give it an IP address and subnet and apply then restart, should solve your problems for you. If your not running a network (but have card installed anyway)...

I`ve come across this error before, refused to defrag after a certain percentage. In my case it seemed to be an error on the hard disk. Though using scan disk didn`t find any errors (strange) doing either a standard search or a surface search. I finally got round it by unchecking the `Check the...

I have 2 machines both running ME, boh machines have bee succesfully connected together for the last couple of months with no real problems (only the occasional lockup when viewing object properties on the remote machine), but now both machines have lost their network connections. All protocols...

Anyone know how to change the default `save picture as.` location from My Pictures to a dir of my choice? Or whether it is possible to change the properties of the image toolbar to enable it to save to a new default location as opposed to just opening My Pictures? Malakili

Hmm, the only advice i can really offer is don`t use adaptec!, I got Adaptec easy Cd Creator with my new writer the other week, it spoilt pretty much a 3rd of all disks written, and wrote slow. I changed cd writer software to Nero (which ran my old writer, but apparently didn`t support my new...

I know that theres an update for Win ME that delays your machine shutting down for a couple of seconds. The idea behind it is to give the machine time to write any from memory to HDD. That could work in making sure that the machine has saved its settings and preventing it from running scandisk ...

Just a though on the swap file issue, i read a few days ago a suggestion to actually use your ram for the swap file, give it say a 256 stick and force windows to use it, apparently, you get a noticable speed difference doing this, I must admit it does sound a bit dubious, wouldn`t windows do...

OK, i tried removing items from msconfig one at a time, to see if anything made a difference, i finally removed my scanner from start up and its now holding the default connection, stramge though lol as the scanner and software have been installed since day one and its never done it before. I`m...

OK, i`m running IE6 with no service packs (as far as i`m aware there is none as of yet), i`ve also run the repair function, and that hasn`t helped any, makes me wonder whether its a setting somewhere that i don`t know about it, with it consistantly doing it. Malakili

No, i only use the 1 connection, it is a free connection NTLworld, but then i`ve been using NTL connection for the last 4 years, and changed nothing settings wise for weeks now. Malakili