[CGUYS] A real live computer question

2010-07-12 Thread Ellen Harris
Windows XP Pro Printer: HP Deskjet F4180 The printer has decided not to print any more black text. If I take any text document and change the color to blue or red from black, it prints beautifully. If I leave the text black, it does not print, however, all the graphics will print either in

Re: [CGUYS] Dead desktop computer -- what is likely the matter?

2009-11-17 Thread Ellen Harris
Power supply more likely than the switch, I think. Make sure the switch on the back of the power supply hasn't been inadvertently turned off. Ellen H. --- On Tue, 11/17/09, Robert Carroll carrollcompu...@gmail.com wrote: From: Robert Carroll carrollcompu...@gmail.com Subject: [CGUYS] Dead

Re: [CGUYS] Google's Sorry

2009-08-25 Thread Ellen Harris
I got this the other day while I was on Boingo in an airport. It stopped after a few minutes. Dunno --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Richard P. richs...@gmail.com wrote: From: Richard P. richs...@gmail.com Subject: [CGUYS] Google's Sorry To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Date: Tuesday, August

Re: [CGUYS] Sudden Mac OS X V4 Inefficiency

2009-08-25 Thread Ellen Harris
Change your DNS servers on the Mac to 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 and see if it makes a difference. --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Arnold Kee a...@expandingthecircle.org wrote: From: Arnold Kee a...@expandingthecircle.org Subject: [CGUYS] Sudden Mac OS X V4 Inefficiency To:

[CGUYS] IE 8 pain

2009-06-07 Thread Ellen Harris
I'm trying to help my husband. (First mistake.) We try to log into https://employees.faa.gov In Chrome and Firefox, half the buttons don't work (obviously done by someone in love with IE). So, when I try to open it in my brand new IE8, the page opens, then immediately goes to a search page

[CGUYS] VPN Router Firewalls

2008-12-09 Thread Ellen Harris
Hi, I have a small client who wants VPN capability into their small office. Years ago, I had a Netscreen (5?) with those capabilities, but it's kind of old, and I don't know how it would run on DSL v. T-1. Anybody have any good experience with any of the new little boxes that have come out

Re: [CGUYS] Anti Virus Suite Recommendation

2008-09-25 Thread Ellen Harris
I use Grisoft AVG and am very satisfied. Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any recommendations for an anti-virus suite (anti-virus, anti-spyware, and firewall)? Looking for an all inclusive package that is user friendly. Thanks in advance, Richard P.

Re: [CGUYS] Hard Drive Failure?

2008-09-09 Thread Ellen Harris
New Hard Drive, reinstall operating system. Put the old hard drive in the refrigerator, and when the new HDD is up and running, re-install it as a slave to see if you can retrieve the data from it (if there is data that you want to retrieve). Ellen H. Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CGUYS] Cuil Not Cool

2008-07-29 Thread Ellen Harris
The stuff I was searching for was a little esoteric (my own website, my husband's name) but Cuil found none of it. While Google finds TONS of references. Not Cuil. Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, because when there are no results, it just says can't find anything I tried

Re: [CGUYS] Can't access a computer over the network.

2008-07-09 Thread Ellen Harris
Quentin, VPN software allows you to work on your office computer from home via a Virtual Private Network. If you have this capability, then you have VPN software installed. Q. Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I find out if I'm running VPN? Do I need VPN? Quentin A. Fisher

Re: [CGUYS] kaspersky?? is it safe - is it better than Norton

2008-05-02 Thread Ellen Harris
Have you looked at AVG? Equally good to McAfee and Norton, Equally foreign, but many more positive testimonies. www.grisoft.com (Not a sales pitch, only a longtime satisfied customer on about ten network installations) Michael Drabick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to renew

Re: [CGUYS] Collocated business support (a la Kinko's, etc.)

2008-04-24 Thread Ellen Harris
Oh heck, Vicky, they never mess with them such that they can make something work better! In my experience, they're always messing with them and then NOTHING works! Ellen H. Vicky Staubly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That'll work fine as long as you trust your guests not to mess

Re: [CGUYS] External Digital Receiver and OTA signals

2008-01-31 Thread Ellen Harris
Having an externally powered antenna still does not answer for me what we're supposed to do in a hurricane? Or an ice storm? When we need to get information from the airwaves, when cable and satellite are disabled, do we need to get a battery backup to run an antenna for an ac/dc HDTV?