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My Dell laptop has always worked fine with my Netgear wireless router. Yesterday the laptop stopped connecting with the Internet. I restarted, and it started getting the Internet again. Then after and hour, I lost the Internet access again. The laptop is still receiving a very strong signal...

I was told that my 11 year-old IBM A22m W2000 Pro ThinkPad laptop will not work on my home wireless network. I was told that W2000 can't deal with WAP or WAP2 encription. Is this true? I use an old Linksys wireless card w/the the laptop -- that works fine at Starbucks Wifi's, etc. I have...

I've been successfully using my Outlook 2007 for 3 years on my XP/Dell 4600 desktop. Starting last week, everytime I try to open a new message (or any message in my inbox), the full window containing that message will not open. I can see the message(s) in the preview window. But when I select...

My 9+ year-old IBM A22 ThinkPad recently started refusing to boot-up, and would instead display the BIOS screen. I would re-set the time/date each time -- and then it would boot-up properly. I bought a new CMOS battery and installed it. However, the computer still is opening with the BIOS...

My Dell desktop has worked fairly flawlessly for about 4 years. A few days ago the original 18" LCD Dell monitor has begun to flicker badly. The screen goes black, but the monitor never lose power. It just goes black for about a second or two (it's a "long" one-second flicker; not a...

I just downloaded and installed the Windows SP3 Service Pack 3 update blocker tool. (At least I think I did. There's a new "SPBlockingTool.exe" file in my folder and when I click on it, a black background window says, "Action Successfully Completed. How can I tell for sure that the blocking...

I purchased, installed and upgraded from NIS 2004 to NIS 2006 a couple months ago. It’s been working fine. However, last week I’ve started to get a pop-up window that appears every time I start the computer or open a new application (for instance Outlook). The pop-ups are as follows: First a...

After two years of flawless operation, yesterday my monitor started to randomly go black for a second or two and then starts back up, showing the same window that it went balck on. All the programs continue to run fine. It sometime happens 3-4 times a minute; sometimes it happens once every 5...

I appologize for the intrusion, but I couldn't find a "Foxfire" Forum. I just downloaded the new Foxfire browser -- and I can't get it to work. It downloaded and installed just fine, but when I open it and it tried to go to the the default Foxfire site, I get a message that it can't find the...

I'm new to Spybot-S&D. My first search turned up several problems, all of which looked somewhat familiar -- and I successfully fixed them. There are however, two problwms which I'm usure about, one called "Alexa Related" and the other is "DSO Exploit." I'm sorry to bother you with these, but...

I recently tested my DSL speed using a broadband meter available on the cNet site. It registered a painfully low 102 kbps download. I've complained to Earthlink. I've gotten nothing but excuses from them. I've since tested my DSL speed from a few other sites that offer a broadband meter --...

I recently tested my DSL speed using a broadband meter available on the cNet site. It registered a painfully low 102 kbps download. I've complained to Earthlink. I've gotten nothing but excuses from them. I've since tested my DSL speed from a few other sites that offer a broadband meter --...

I have a new Dell 4600. I set the power scheme to go to "System Standby after 1 hour." I did it once yesterday -- and I brought it out of standby, by pressing the power ON button. But now it won't go into Standby after an hour, as it should. I re-set it a few times; I tried different lenghts...

Can someone please explain to me why XP Pro backup utility does not offer me the option to backup my files/folders/data to my internal DVD+RW? I seem to only be able to copy files/folders/data from my computer to my DVD+RW. What's up with that? One of the main reasons I ordered this new Dell...

I now understand that Outlook 2003 blocks me from sending and receiving certain attachments. I am interested in over-coming this restriction by renaming my attachments. MS suggests that you: "Request that the sender rename the file name extension and then resend the attachment to you. After...

I got a new Dell desktop. In the painful process of getting it set up with my existing home Linksys DSL wired router, I was able to get all the computers working w/the router...then a few hours later, I lost all connection w/the Internet. Sometimes I could get the new Dell to connect to the...

I just got a new Dell desktop. In the painful process of getting it set up online with my existing home Linksys DSL wired router, I was able to get all the computers working w/the router...then a few hours later, I lost all connection w/the Internet. Sometimes I could get the new Dell to...

I started getting an error mesage "WAOL caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0177:bff87edc" everytime I close AOL. Symantec's and Microsoft's sites say it's probably being caused by an infection from either the W32/KRIZ.3862 or W32/KRIZ.4092 virus. I have an...

Something must have acidently gotten changed in my system. When I now click on an Adobe Acrobat file, my system doesn't seem to know what program to use to open it. It attempts to use Quick-Time Picture Viewer to open it, instead (and fails). I have to first launch Acrobat and then open the...

Somehow a spyware toolbar called "Mirar" has gotten past my PestPatrol and is now firmly planted within my IE browser. What is this -- and how do I get rid of it? It doesn't seem to appear on PestPatrol's "Logs" list, nor does it come up in a search of PestPatrol's Web site...