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Hi Webhead. Thanks for the tip. I've tried sticking the flash drive into the other 3 usb ports (the laptop has 4). No luck. But I'll check the inf file. You're right, I've installed a lot of...

Okay, NooNoo. I'll check the Toshiba site. Thanks very much for the help!

Hi Platypus and NooNoo, many thanks for your replies.

On the WinXP version on my Toshiba, I actually upgraded from XP Home (preinstalled on the Toshiba laptop) to XP Professional (using a...

hi. it's been quite a while since i last posted. i've had trouble using flash drives with 1gb up, at least with my laptop (toshiba satellite a40). when i plug in any flash drive with 1gb or higher...

hi again everyone,

i'm having problems 'sharing' some video files through itunes for winxp on the office network. while i already placed the files in a shared folder for everyone to download, i...

hi Ylving, thanks for the input. yup, tried the ssl since day one. still no go.

one thing, though. when i tried it on my laptop (where i installed dialup connections), thunderbird will ask for a...

you're right, confus-ed. i guess i'll have to stick it out with the browser for the meantime; besides, i have gmail notifier on firefox and it works great. it's just that i need to protect email...

hi confus-ed, thanks for the reply. so far i haven't had problems with firefox connecting to gmail and other secure sites (like yahoo mail). that's why i got frustrated with thunderbird not being...

i'm in a bit of a jam here. just downloaded thunderbird 1.5 and tried to get it working with my office's gmail account, which by the way has worked well with my oe6 at home. i followed the...

i dont know if this belongs to this category, but here goes.

when we returned from the weekend, either someone broke in and logged into all our office pc's as "damcellet" on yahoo mail. all of us...

hi confus-ed! thanks for the input. i'll be looking for an external combo so my desktop pc and laptop can both use it, though my brother advised me to get an internal drive for the desktop instead. ...

hi, 3fingersalute. thanks for the suggestion. i borrowed a disc cleaner from a friend, it still didn't work out. the drive can still read cd's but no luck with writing files. to be sure, i used...

uh, i have a problem with my laptop's cd burner (combo drive). it can play and read cd's/vcd's/dvd's but won't burn files on cd's anymore. my laptop is a toshiba satellite a40, purchased june 2004....

is there a way to get wikipedia.org into the search box of ff1.5? the mozilla site offers it but when i clicked on it, nothing happened. worse, when i looked at the search box, there is now a blank...

hi. has anyone tried skype beta 2.0, the version that offers video chat? i'm not sure if it's a bug, but i had conflicting experiences with it lately.

the first time i installed it on a laptop...

Thanks, Matridom. i'll check it out; jmarshall.com is blocked by websense on my work site. Appreciate the inputs.

Thanks, Matridom and El_Squid. The remote proxy is rather interesting, though i don't know how to set one up, especially if it's going to be inside a controlled area like a press center. But then...

Thanks, Ferrit. Unfortunately, i don't have access to the press working area anymore as i'm no longer in media, so i can't see the hardware/software installed for them there. In fact, it's the...

Hi guys, got another set of, uh, government-related questions.

A close friend of mine is a reporter covering a 'presidential' government agency. Recently, the agency 'offered' to provide the...

Hi slgrieb, thanks for the suggestion! Good thing too, because i bumped into the IT people this morning. They said they just installed the new server, which includes Kaspersky and BitDefender as...

Hi everyone. Question: Can updates for free apps like AVG Anti-Virus and Firefox (extensions/themes) get around proxy servers? A colleague works in a government agency that uses a proxy server to...

thanks guys! i tried the pcinspector freeware, it managed to recover many of the files. sad to say, some of the files were corrupted, but i guess more than 50% isn't bad. i'll know on monday if...

uh, i need help again. i upgraded a colleague's os from win98 to winxp today because he's been complaining that his pc keeps hanging. before i set up xp, i backed up his important files to another...

hi everyone, long time no log. i have two questions about using xp, the answers to which i could not figure out:

1. on my laptop (toshiba satellite a-40, 256mb, 2.6ghz celeron), my icons look...

thanks for the suggestion, i'll try portable firefox via usb. you're right, it may be something in the system that corrupted firefox. windows xp on pentium 3 is already slow as it is.