Mike Rochip
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There's more info in this article including how to find any hidden accounts.
To access the other User Accounts control section, type control userpasswords2 from the command line or in the Run dialog box (and press Enter or click OK). The dialog that appears will list all the available users on the computer and provides you with some other controls:
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This article may be usefull.
It's actually about creating a hidden account but maybe it will help you figure out what's causing the problem.
Normally when you log into XP, you see the startup screen where you see all the icons for the users who can access. What this tip does is allow you to hide a desired account from this screen. If you want to log on as this user you have to press Cntrl+Alt+Del twice at the Welcome screen to make a Windows Security dialog box appear. Here you can type in the user name and password of the hidden account and log in.
Hope this is of some help.
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REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. was hoping new voice-recognition software would impress an auditorium full of financial analysts, but a glitch turned the demonstration into a bit of an embarrassment.
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The bad guys who want to steal your personal information have added a new twist to the "phishing" scam. They're now using the telephone to capture your account numbers and PIN codes. Fraud fighters call it "voice phishing" or "vishing" for short.
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This is just a guess but go to Control Panel>Internet Options and then click on the Connections tab. Make sure the "Never dial a connection" option is selected.
This still allows you to create a connection when you want to instead of automatically creating one when you start the PC or programs that may need Internet access.
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Yeah and they could easily loose a hell of allot of profit when someone bitchslaps them with a lawsuit for several millions of dollars. Companies never learn.
Andavari hit the nail on the head. If consumers don't fight this by suing Cingular it won't be long at all before a whole lot of other companies use the same methods at our expense.
It will be interesting to see how the government and the judicial system respond to companies that pursue shady revenue enhancing tactics such as this. In this day of hands off regulation and "what's good for big business is good for the consumer" I wouldn't count on these institutions acting for our benefit as opposed to big business'.
I firmly believe healthy competition where a company's products and services sell themselves based on their own merits is much better [and fairer] than a system where companies lock in their revenue by tricking us into accidentally binding ourselves to a "legal" contract that becomes more expensive whenever they decide they need to increase their bottom line.
Think of all the products you own that require you to pay for a service to use them like cable, home security systems, internet access, extended warranties, utilities, club memberships, etc. If the companies that provide these services are allowed to charge you extra for using a product or service you purchased in good faith earlier that is now not the most current [or expensive] product they offer, you are in effect being held hostage. You basically have three choices all of which will make the company money at your expense:
Continue to use the older product and pay the surcharge.
Purchase the newer product and/or service at greater expense.
Cancel the service and pay substancial early termination penalties.
The purchase of an improved product or service should be the choice of the consumer based on the advantages that it would bring and not because a company or provider wants to arbitrarily increase its revenue.
It almost seems ridiculous that a company could legally be allowed to control you simply because you purchased one of their products. But it's already happening with Digital Rights Management [DRM]. You agree to subject yourself to legal action if you circumvent DRM protections because by doing so you may cause an unfair loss of revenue for the recording artist, their label, the distribution company. etc. How do they know [or care] that you only want to make a backup copy? However, the fact that these protections are being used to try to prevent the LOSS of legitimate earnings for the companies and their artists makes it very different than what Cingular is doing which is trying to GAIN unearned revenue at the expense of their customers. I'm no fan of DRM but at least I can see what the intent is and can choose for myself whether or not to purchase products that use it. I can feel pretty safe knowing that my Bruce Springsteen CD is not secretly plotting to steal money from my bank account. I guess I can't say the same for my phone.
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NEW YORK - About 4.7 million Cingular Wireless subscribers with older phones will have to pay $5 extra each month as the company tries to prod them to get new handsets so it can devote its entire network to one type of signal.
The new fee, which will generate $23.5 million a month for Cingular, adds to a confusing array of surcharges and government taxes that, regardless of the wireless company, can boost the average cellular bill by up to 50 percent from the advertised rate.
If you don't pay the fine Cingular will issue a warrant and have you arrested. Not buying new stuff when you're happy with your old stuff is a felony I think.
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You can find out from this website. You input a picture of your face and it uses face recognition software to compare you to celebrities in its data bank and shows you the closest matches.
I apparently look most like Marlon Brando and a little bit like Snoop Dog.
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Thanks everyone for the help. The connection has been pretty good lately. The phone lines seems OK so maybe it was just a temporary problem. So I guess I'll keep using NZ for now until I can afford a cable connection. If it gets bad again I'll probably try PeoplePC.
Thanks for the New Connection Wizard idea Andavari. It did connect and log on to NZ but NZ restricted access to everything but the NZ website. I think it's because exec.exe [NetZero program] isn't running.
Many years ago I couldn't get online but I could hear a baseball game from my modem speaker. I had used the wrong type of phone cord between the modem and the wall so I guess maybe it acted like an antenna for the modem. Took awhile to figure that one out.
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I looked through all the warnings today and it looks like they are because Avant Browser is altering registry seetings for Internet Explorer to add buttons and feaures to Avant.
Apparently everything is OK.
I was trying out Avant but Firefox is still by far my favorite browser.
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I've been using NetZero for a long time now and lately I've been being disconnected a lot more than usual, sometimes every few minutes or every 1/2 hour to an hour or so. Since I've been getting "Unable to contact our network" messages upon reconnect attempts the issue appears to be on their end. I can't find anything on my PC or the phone line that would seem to cause this.
Are any other NetZero subscribers having this happen lately?
Anyone have opinions on PeoplePC as far as usability goes?
I hope to get cable or DSL service sometime in the future but for now I have to dwell in the Stone Age
...Thanks for any help and make jokes if you have to, someday I'll advance to the 21st century!
Monetary donations will be gratefully accepted.
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Just wanted to give a heads up.
I'm pretty neurotic about checking Event Viewer on a regular basis and had a stroke when the System Events was full of warnings today. Both Avant Browser and PC PitStop generate quite a few warnings when they are initialized but apparently are not a cause for concern as I found out by Googling for information since MS wasn't too helpful.
Is it possible to set Defender to give an alert when a warning is generated? It would be nice to know when an event is generated to see what the reason is.
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Microsoft keeps moving the release date back. Obviously they're trying to get all the bugs worked out. Since it's bound to have bugs anyway maybe they should just release it and let us real world people find them.
That didn't sound nearly as stupid in my brain as it does printed in this post.
Looks like it's Long Island Ice Tea time for me
!Now THAT sounds good either way...
If piracy is evil and Vista is evil, a pirated copy of Vista must be the Devil's work.
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During a summer when a popular documentary asks, "Who Killed the Electric Car?," the electric car seems to be contrarily alive and well and going like a bat out of hell. What's with all the speedy electrics?
"There's a big market for green," says Chris Paine, EV advocate and director of "Who Killed the Electric Car," "but not as big as the market for something more primal. Speed and power have always sold cars."
And I learned that "yare" means agile and lively, lol.
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Thanks Andavari for the link to Total Uninstall and Krit for the IE7 Beta 3 info.
Very helpful!
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I thought this was a good way for a government to help its citizens.
PARIS - Low-income French families will be equipped with a computer and an Internet connection for 1 euro ($1.27) a day under a new government proposal.
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In the battle for the dominance in the digital music industry Sony and Yahoo have made a daring step: they are now offering more expensive tracks, but with no DRM.
The first MP3 that can be downloaded from Yahoo Music is Jessica Simpson's A Public Affair. The implication of being DRM-free is that the tune can be played on any MP3 player, no matter the brand (iPod from Apple, Zen from Creative, Sansa from SanDisk, etc.). Other famous sites that allow music downloads only offer tunes with DRM, which makes them incompatible with some MP3 players (it is the case for Apple's iTunes, Napster or Rhapsody).
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AHHHH I HATE REALPLAYER SO DAMN MUCH!!! AHHH I HATE IT!! I MEAN IM STEAMING RIGHT NOW!!! AHHH FEEL THE POWER OF CAPS!!
I assume you're breaking out the C4
!And the BLASTING CAPS...
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This is a video from a few years ago that is pretty interesting. It shows a strange occurrence involving the Space Shuttle. During a live video feed from shuttle mission STS-48 a mysterious object was seen outside the shuttle which changes course and then it appears that a laser beam of some kind passes by the object after it changes course. NASA apparently says the explanation involves ice particles and tricks of light.
It was the last live video feed allowed from space shuttle missions. Apparently NASA removed the video from it's public archives as well.
These are links from a Google search if anyone wants to read more about it.
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That's a good point Andavari. We're still finding life here on Earth in places we assumed were too inhospitable for it to exist. Volcanic vents, buried far below the surface of the Earth in ice fields, etc. I think they've even found life within solid rock.
If I remember the common denominator for all life is water. People may believe that in the universe there is no life but I can't imagine anyone would argue there's no water. So in my humble opinion the possibility of life must exist wherever there is water.
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I was at a presentation given at a museum one time hosted by a NASA scientist. At the end of the talk he made himself available for questions and answers. I finally got to ask a question I'd always wanted to. Every test that was conducted by a soil sampling experiment done on Mars came up positive for indications of life. I asked him why in spite of that they decided that there was no life. He said they decided the tests were flawed. An awful lot of time and money to conduct flawed tests I guess.
Some people say that if there is life other than us in the universe, and given that if there is some of it must be far more advanced than us, why haven't we been contacted?
Since the vast majority of the signals that radiate from the Earth into the far reaches of outer space consist of television broadcasts I figure they're too busy laughing at us and feeling sorry for us to waste their time
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As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis's laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens.
In April, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples -- water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis's home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 -- contain microbes from outer space.
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Have you tried creating a new account with a name other than your roomate's?