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DjLizard

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  1. But if you set it to manual, it will start the instant a program requests an IP lookup (edit: a lookup that isn't present in HOSTS), so that is nearly the same thing as setting it to Automatic, and will help you with nothing. edit: you'd need to put a line for each site you plan on visiting, with the current IP of the site, to prevent normal browsing from starting the service. As soon as you sign on to MSN, AIM, check your email, or browse a site, DNS client (while set to manual) will start right up (edit: providing that there is no HOSTS line for it). You'd have to put a hell of a lot of IPs in your HOSTS file to prevent casual browsing from starting the client.
  2. Why would anyone disable the DNS Client? So that every time you visit a site it has to re-request the IP address? That is extra network traffic for no reason. Setting it to Manual would almost be the same thing as setting it to Automatic, as the instant a program wants to find an IP address, it will turn itself on. I figure most people browse the web, check their email, or connect to instant messaging networks and crap as soon as their system is loaded anyway, so why bother putting DNS Client on-demand?
  3. What the hell are you talking about? "Modifying" your physical memory? You are just lost. You do need to try Memtest86+, or take your computer to someone who knows what they're talking about.
  4. http://www.stardock.com/products/windowbli...ocs/perapp.html Add Firefox.exe, and choose "Ignore this application and do not skin it", and that is it.
  5. Another thing is WindowBlinds doesn't support Firefox - you need to exclude Firefox.exe from being skinned.
  6. All-in-One software, usually for printer/scanner/fax devices (usually HP). Also, are you sure "A10" isn't really "AIO"?
  7. You may have applied some "security" feature that has changed Merge to open with notepad. Restore this by doing the following: Start > Run > cmd.exe When the black box opens, type each of the following exactly as-is and hit enter after each line: assoc .reg=regfileftype regfile=regedit.exe "%1" Here it is again outside of a code block, in case the font is too hard to read in the above code block: assoc .reg=regfile ftype regfile=regedit.exe "%1" Both will echo what you typed back at you, which is normal. Then try double clicking on the .reg file again (or right-click > merge, as you did before).
  8. Highly doubtful. A front-line tech support drone from India is quite likely to have made a mistake about the functionality of an upcoming, undiscolosed fall WGA update. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I'm fairly certain he meant to say Windows Update would disallow access if you did not have the WGA installed. A ZDNET editorial about a single blogger who received a forwarded email from someone else who received a response from a (probably) Indian tech support lackey... now that's journalism. edit: ^ who cares if it sends hardware information? Does your sound or video card have something to hide? (Besides, it only sends your product key, product ID, Windows version, and build)
  9. Do whatever you like with it. If you want to hang on to it and get subsequent new versions, visit my site. It may come in handy at some point for you, like if Windows Update stops working for some reason.
  10. 300 issues show up in Safe Mode but not in normal mode? Is it still like that?
  11. Go ahead and remove it and see if it comes back. Safe Mode is almost never necessary. If it remains, post a screenshot of the window with the key's full path and value visible.
  12. You probably just need to make a new Firefox profile (uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't remove profiles) -- http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile
  13. Yes CCleaner can be run in Safe Mode, but typically it is a permissions problem that would still occur even in safe mode. See my sig for a link to the article about this issue. Download Dial-a-fix medium and follow the instructions provided.
  14. Yeah, MSN, and anything else that wants to do NAT traversal. UPnP is pretty good at making you connectable from behind a router. That's all UPnP really does (NAT traversal). The vulnerabilities are old and patched, and nothing new has come out in a long time about it - it's pretty safe to leave them on.
  15. Grab Basic or Slim from http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds.aspx
  16. That's what I'm saying - take the screenshots again as PNG, and they will fit under the limit.
  17. Once you resize them, they're resized permanently. Start a new thread about this problem and post the full images, unresized. Save your screenshots as PNG in the future, they will be a lot smaller (even mspaint.exe can save PNG). A 1152x864 screenshot using PNG is only 134 KB for me.
  18. This program is awesome if you want to capture just a portion of the screen in order to highlight something: http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/
  19. I didn't mean it harshly, but he did make it seem kind of like a conspiracy. At any rate, several Microsoft KB articles tell you to do this procedure whenever they've recognized that it can help.
  20. There's a lot of guessing algorithms in place, for those programs who didn't follow all of the (optional) ARP guidelines. See here for more information: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/.../09/178342.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/.../09/623793.aspx Tony: Start using the Start Menu entry to run Ad-Aware, and it will update the Last Used item.
  21. This is why the environment variable "%appdata%" exists, because other languages will change the wording, but %appdata% will still point to it properly.
  22. Does anything on the motherboard look like this? (capacitor plague) If so, it's new computer time.
  23. What browser, what homepage? Not a whole lot of programs use the Unicode guessing API, just ones that have to deal with saving and opening unmarked content (and most websites are properly marked with UTF-8, etc).
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