[CGUYS] While we're on the subject...
Who in our group will admit to being addicted to cell phones, or better put, portable digital devices with telephony? How many folks do you know who are addicted, and if so, what do you think of that? Regarding this question, I believe that we are all adult enough to know what is meant by addicted. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] chrome
http://gizmodo.com/5434741/can-googles-chrome-banner-change-the-course-of-the-browser-wars The article points out that with google's near monopoly on search, can a simple banner for chrome on their homepage change the course of the browser wars? *Would Mozilla whine about this now, like they did about Microsofthttp://gizmodo.com/5383382/mozilla-whines-about-apple-being-first-in-microsofts-web-browser-ballot-screen? Would the Department of Justice keep an eye on this? Would the European Commission order Google to place banner's for Firefox, Opera, Safari, and, o the irony, Explorer in Google's home page, alongside Chrome's?* * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] chrome
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: *Would Mozilla whine about this now, like they did about Microsofthttp://gizmodo.com/5383382/mozilla-whines-about-apple-being-first-in-microsofts-web-browser-ballot-screen? Whatever is listed first when there are but five listed altogether is a rather silly concern. People who would be prone to choose something based solely upon its placement in a listing that contains but five choices deserves whatever they get, and particularly so if they choose IE. I say let MS put IE first. That'll be a good way to cause such clueless computer users to try a different browser. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] chrome
The last windows weekly they discussed this, apparently it was already solved and the browsers will show up randomly with each time. The ironic thing is that this was proposed years ago by MS and the EU refused. Years later they are right back to one of the original plans. Opera remains the constant whiner in the scenario, and the more they whine, the less they have in market share, they have been the loudest complainant during this whole process and the only one who lost share. So the question remains, with google's market share, should they be allowed to run adverts for their own products on the home screen? I think some would answer differently if it was MS doing the same thing...or Apple. On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:12 AM, phartz...@gmail.com phartz...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote: *Would Mozilla whine about this now, like they did about Microsoft http://gizmodo.com/5383382/mozilla-whines-about-apple-being-first-in-microsofts-web-browser-ballot-screen ? Whatever is listed first when there are but five listed altogether is a rather silly concern. People who would be prone to choose something based solely upon its placement in a listing that contains but five choices deserves whatever they get, and particularly so if they choose IE. I say let MS put IE first. That'll be a good way to cause such clueless computer users to try a different browser. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] Media Center hacks
I found a couple cool programs this weekend for media centers. XBMC is a freeware app that provides a full 1080p interface to your media. The provided skins are beautiful on a big full HD screen and allow you to easily access your pics, videos...online information. XBMC is available on OS X, linux and windows. http://xbmc.org For six bux I bought a bluetooth usb adapter the size of a pinky nail, with any number of programs for windows you can get a wii remote to work as a fine remote for XBMC. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again
HI again ... My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in advance! Gail Miller - Original Message - From: Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN That is the one I was looking for thank you Tom. (I could not remember the name of it.) The ultimate Boot disk is FREE for download. It includes all the wonderful utilities I was talking about. Download it and use it. Stewart At 07:25 PM 12/24/2009, you wrote: Yes it would. Scroll back on this thread to where I posted about the Ultimate Boot Disk. I has lots of malware fighting tools including a DOS command line. Or you can keep pissing and moaning with the it can't be done crowd. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again
He must use it and run Fdisk to see and then remove the partitions. Stewart At 02:41 PM 12/27/2009, you wrote: HI again ... My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in advance! Gail Miller - Original Message - From: Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN That is the one I was looking for thank you Tom. (I could not remember the name of it.) The ultimate Boot disk is FREE for download. It includes all the wonderful utilities I was talking about. Download it and use it. Stewart At 07:25 PM 12/24/2009, you wrote: Yes it would. Scroll back on this thread to where I posted about the Ultimate Boot Disk. I has lots of malware fighting tools including a DOS command line. Or you can keep pissing and moaning with the it can't be done crowd. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again
Gail, It will be a little faster for you to google the answers to some of the tech questions like how to delete partitions with Windows 7 http://www.google.com/#hl=ensource=hpq=how+to+delete+partitions+with+Windows+7aq=faqi=oq=fp=e8aec8f715611eed and use us for the bigger picture stuff. I myself ... like a few others... would not be limiting the fix to delete partitions, reformat and reinstall.No way Jose! As some of us said... if you do just that and do have a boot sector (pretty common) or BIOS virus (less common) ... you will have completely wasted all of your labor ... because the virus/ trojan whatever will just re-infect your OS in no time flat. And if these procedures are too much for you to execute you might be better off spending $100 or whatever to have a computer repair shop do the comprehensive fix. Or as someone else said... send the computer back while you still can and start over... db Gail Miller wrote: HI again ... My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in advance! Gail Miller - Original Message - From: Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN That is the one I was looking for thank you Tom. (I could not remember the name of it.) The ultimate Boot disk is FREE for download. It includes all the wonderful utilities I was talking about. Download it and use it. Stewart At 07:25 PM 12/24/2009, you wrote: Yes it would. Scroll back on this thread to where I posted about the Ultimate Boot Disk. I has lots of malware fighting tools including a DOS command line. Or you can keep pissing and moaning with the it can't be done crowd. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again
Yes, but you and a few others that think boot sector viruses are common are either deluded or just ignorant. Did you even bother to try to find a common Windows 7 boot sector virus before you posted this statement? The shame is that with so much noise in the thread she got totally swamped and missed the few actual helpful answers. I myself ... like a few others... would not be limiting the fix to delete partitions, reformat and reinstall. No way Jose! As some of us said... if you do just that and do have a boot sector (pretty common) * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
[CGUYS] NTFS file system go poof.
The patient: P4 Gateway. Windows XP. 500GB hard drive. On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume. When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive. I am guessing that something how gone awry with the file system, either the master boot record, or the database of the file system. At this point, i can clone the disk and work with a copy and pull of some of the photo files, but is there more i can do with disk utility software to restore the files and the file structure that was there, or am i at the point where i need to salvage what files i can and start with a reformat and a clean install of windows xp? The hard drive is less than a year old and physically seems sound. Would/could this condition be caused by a power surge, virus, or other event? Thanks, Rocky * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] NTFS file system go poof.
I would just format the disk and either restore your last image or install Windows clean. Then restore your documents from backup. At some point, I'd check the drive's SMART status. Drives sometimes go unformatted like that. Hard to say why; presumably one important byte value might shift due to cosmic rays or something. On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, rocky lee ghostwheel...@yahoo.com wrote: The patient: P4 Gateway. Windows XP. 500GB hard drive. On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume. When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive. I am guessing that something how gone awry with the file system, either the master boot record, or the database of the file system. At this point, i can clone the disk and work with a copy and pull of some of the photo files, but is there more i can do with disk utility software to restore the files and the file structure that was there, or am i at the point where i need to salvage what files i can and start with a reformat and a clean install of windows xp? The hard drive is less than a year old and physically seems sound. Would/could this condition be caused by a power surge, virus, or other event? * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again
He should be able to do that while re-installing Windows, although I haven't installed Win7 yet. When you boot from the installation CD, read the prompts/instructions carefully. They should give you an option to remove the existing partitions, one or all. Fred Holmes At 03:41 PM 12/27/2009, Gail Miller wrote: HI again ... My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in advance! Gail Miller - Original Message - From: Rev. Stewart Marshall popoz...@earthlink.net To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN That is the one I was looking for thank you Tom. (I could not remember the name of it.) The ultimate Boot disk is FREE for download. It includes all the wonderful utilities I was talking about. Download it and use it. Stewart At 07:25 PM 12/24/2009, you wrote: Yes it would. Scroll back on this thread to where I posted about the Ultimate Boot Disk. I has lots of malware fighting tools including a DOS command line. Or you can keep pissing and moaning with the it can't be done crowd. Rev. Stewart A. Marshall mailto:popoz...@earthlink.net Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org Ozark, AL SL 82 * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] NTFS file system go poof.
http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/ Search and Recover is a product I have found useful. I've used versions 3 4, don't recall using or even installing v.5. Haven't needed anything for a long while (knock on wood). They appear to have gone to an annual fee program, which they didn't have with versions 3 4. Fred Holmes At 09:21 PM 12/27/2009, rocky lee wrote: The patient: P4 Gateway. Windows XP. 500GB hard drive. On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume. When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive. I am guessing that something how gone awry with the file system, either the master boot record, or the database of the file system. At this point, i can clone the disk and work with a copy and pull of some of the photo files, but is there more i can do with disk utility software to restore the files and the file structure that was there, or am i at the point where i need to salvage what files i can and start with a reformat and a clean install of windows xp? The hard drive is less than a year old and physically seems sound. Would/could this condition be caused by a power surge, virus, or other event? Thanks, Rocky * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** * * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] NTFS file system go poof.
Thanks, Fred. Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:58:51 -0500 From: Fred Holmes f...@his.com Subject: Re: NTFS file system go poof. http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/ Search and Recover is a product I have found useful. I've used versions 3 4, don't recall using or even installing v.5. Haven't needed anything for a long while (knock on wood). They appear to have gone to an annual fee program, which they didn't have with versions 3 4. Fred Holmes At 09:21 PM 12/27/2009, rocky lee wrote: The patient: P4 Gateway. Windows XP. 500GB hard drive. On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume. When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] recovery boot device
On Dec 26, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Tony B wrote: WTF are you talking about? Compressed data isn't any harder to recover than non-compressed; just the opposite, since it resides in a smaller area and often contains recovery info. You are dangerous. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] STRANGE VIRUS? AGAIN ... and again
On Dec 27, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Gail Miller wrote: My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in advance! Booting from the W7 disc should be sufficient, but I can't say for sure as I have only done that with XP. With XP, after booting from the disc you will have an option to erase the hard disk. If you see more than one partition, be sure to zap them all. Then create one new partition and put the OS on that. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] recovery boot device
Yes, but not completely ignorant, as some can lay claim to. On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:44 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: On Dec 26, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Tony B wrote: WTF are you talking about? Compressed data isn't any harder to recover than non-compressed; just the opposite, since it resides in a smaller area and often contains recovery info. You are dangerous. * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
