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Be aware that the latest Dells do not have ANY IDE connectors on the motherboard (they have SATA optical drives). I got caught out in a similar situation. I thought i'd just open the case up and...

You're a star NooNoo, that looks perfect.

Graeme

Can anyone help with this situation.

I'm trying to recover data from a faulty hard disk drive in a Sony VAIO TX2XP notebook. This model uses an ultra small hard disk drive, much smaller than a...

I have a client who want to use an online backup facility for their backups.

There are hundreds of companies offering this service, but which to choose?

Has anybody any experience of using an...

Ok, have looked up that error and it appears that this problem is caused by corrupt .dbx files.

I took a backup of the .dbx files then deleted them and it is now sending and receiving fine!

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Selecteing an individual account makes no difference - same thing happens.

The "Connecting..Authorizing" process you would usually expect doesn't happen, the box just flashes up and then...

Customers laptop running XP Home, IE & OE6. Outlook Express is configured correctly and internet connection works fine.

But

When you click on "Send/Receive" the send/receive box flashes up for...

Sounds like the file type .exe has been associated with WINRAR. If this is the case then:

Open My Computer
Tools......Folder Options
File Types
Look for .exe in the list of registered file...

As I said before Teenager + Broadband = Spware/Adware/Trojans/Spam/Viruses and lots of work for me!

Don't you just love the way a lot of parents are in denial about their children. "Oh no my billy...

I do repairs/troubleshooting for home users and small businesses and I have to say that Spyware & Adware is our biggest growth area at the moment. 3 Months ago this stuff was pretty rare, but at the...

They have a service from their ISP which allocates them 5 IP addresses (BT Openworld STATIC 5). I have looked into expanding the number of IP adresses but it is not practical for the following reason...

Once more, thanks for the input.

Gollo and Kato2274 - I'd love to just use a standard router, but due to the nature of the specialist software they are running they MUST HAVE a public static IP...

Have you got any firewall software installed? I have often had this problem with firewall software. You need to configure the firewall to allow access from the other IP address.

Thanks for the feedback.

Firstly, yes they do have firewall software. However I am trying to convince them that they would be better off with a hardware Firewall.

Secondly, I ideally wanted to...

When backing up customer's AOL install's I always take a copy of the "Downloads" and "Organize" folder.

After you have re-installed AOL and logged on for the first time copy the folders back to...

I have a friend that has a simple peer-to-peer network of 5 PC's setup using static IP's. They have a broadband account that allocated them 5 Public IP addresses and a combined router/hub to connect...

I only wiped the MBR on the D: drive which is not the boot drive and not set to Active in FDISK.

I'll try the suggestions in the Microsoft KB article but I think the problem is in the MBR.

I am currently struggling with a hard disk drive problem that I have not seen before.

A bit of history first - the customer has been trying to install a dual boot Win98/Win XP system on their PC....

Don't forget to check obvious things like the amount of free disk space. A customer brought in a system last week compaining that it was running extremely slow. A quick look at the hard disk drive...

Thanks everyone for the info.

Looks like it's definately Klez then as the date is 6th July on all the files. I don't know if this is a new variant but it doesn't just overwrite executables it...

A customer called me in because his PC would not boot up he was getting an "Invalid System Disk" message on boot up. I suspected that he had a faulty hard disk drive or possibly a damaged boot...

This sounds similar to a problem caused by the Sircam virus where it puts a registry entry in forcing a particular file to run whenever you try to launch an exe file.

Try the following - rename...

Do you have an ! or a ? next to the device in device manager. If it is a ? then it sounds like you need the Intel INF update. I had a similar problem on an Intel 845 motherboard, but installing the...

I believe in some BIOS's you can set the speed of the RAM (in ns) or leave the BIOS to autodetect the correct speed. I would guess in this instance the BIOS is set to autodetect the RAM speed, but...

I think this could be a variant of "badtrans". I had a customer today who also had this.

Check out <a href="http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/viruses/badtrans/default.asp?cid=2607"...