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  1. yes, but I have the option set in Control Panel / Mouse
  2. The gateway is indeed your router. The fact that the PC sees the xbox discovered on the network, and displays your router in the network connections as a 'gateway' icon both indicate that UPNP is enabled on the router, the xbox, and your PC. 'Gateway' is also the networking term for the router or device that directs traffic from one network to another (in your case from the LAN to the internet). also, a quick note: On my set up at home, I have disabled UPNP on my PC, because I have no interest in media sharing on the XBOX and grew tired of the discovery messages. I know if I want to connect to the router, I just type the router's IP address into my browser. This in no way has a negative impact on the xbox's ability to use the internet.
  3. The only things I would be careful about are OEM specific applications for built-in peripherals such as webcams, memory card /smartcard readers, thumbprint scanners. Things such as 'solution center/system update/big fix' type crap I get rid of. Also any online backup offerings. I also tend to despise any kind of toobars One thing I like to keep on a laptop are the OEM's brand of power management when available. ...but that's just a personal preference.
  4. I also think that sandboxing his browser would be a perfect option. He can still watch his porn. Delete all shortcuts to the original browser executable file, and change the sandboxed browser icon to iexplore.exe or firefox.exe or whatever his default browser is
  5. You can take the screen apart. Look for a white rectangular label on the back of the actual LCD, and match that up by part number. If you have difficulty finding a match, they are very helpful over the phone.
  6. Yes, we order from them all of the time.
  7. The chances of these 2 screens matching are very slim. Go to www.screencountry.com and select the specs for a replacement screen as if you were buying a new display for each system. If both systems return the same part number, you might be in luck.
  8. In addition to what Firefox said, if this was a 'built' PC and not a name brand, you can make note of the vendor and/or device ID by bringing up this screen in device manager (right click 'ethernet controller' and select 'propertes' -- then go to the 'details' tab... Once you get the VEN (vendor) and the DEV (Device), you can go here hxxp://pcidatabase.com/ and type the numbers in to hopefully find a link to your network and other devices. Even if it is a branded PC (Dell, HP, Acer etc...) I like to check the VEN and DEV against pcidatabase whenever the OEM site gives me too many choices, and I am not sure which driver to download.
  9. I do mine with Paint Shop Pro v8. It started with a celeb's face, I copied the mouth, shrunk the pic 50%, then pasted the mouth back on
  10. The fastest, easiest way I know of to get files from a system with minimal screwdriver use is to download TRK (Trinity Rescue Kit) on ISO Burn it to a CD, and boot the affected system from it. If you are on a trusted network, choose the 'file share all drives as guest, no security' startup option. Make note of the IP address (you can type 'ifconfig' to find out what it is if you didn't make note of it during boot up) Go to another working system on the same network and 'start' 'run' \\192.*.*.* (whatever the IP of rescued system is) You can now browse the entire filesystem and start dragging files or folders to another location
  11. I don't know what you mean by 'NAS software' , unless you are referring to the very common web-based configurability of most NAS drives. Most of them just throw a share on the network that you can access from Linux, MS-Windows or any OS which knows how to speak SMB style network file sharing ( \\servername\sharename ). You can then browse to the NAS via network neighborhood, then map a network drive (right click on the share, and select 'map network drive') It may also will depend on the Manufacturer of the NAS drive. Most NAS already have an embedded system (often Linux based) which can be reached/configured via a web interface -- either on firmware or a partition on the enclosed hard drive. I am not aware of a NAS which would need software to make the drive appear to be attached to your system directly -- it sounds like something that would malfunction easily. I am not sure if I answered your question, but I hope the information helps
  12. For almost the past year, I have seen increasing infections via malicious PDF documents. For almost as long, I have made it a point to disable my browser's ability to automatically open a PDF right in the browser. For the past couple of weeks, during malware cleanup jobs, I have noticed that some of my customers also have the PDF AddOn disabled in their Internet Explorer browser. This was not by my doing, nor did the customer have an idea how things got this way. Is this: 1) something that Adobe is starting to do during Adobe Reader updates? 2) a side-effect of the malware infections? 3) Malwarebytes disabling the plugin?
  13. I am a big fan of TP Link products. I haven't used the TL-WN722N model yet -- but the price, features and reviews caught my eye.
  14. Very rarely, but on occasion, I have seen some wifi clients connect better when the RF channel number in the router is changed. Also, MS-Windows built-in wireless network connection manager is the best. If you use the application which came with your wifi card (especially Linksys, which is crap) try disabling that, or find the option that says something like 'let windows manage my wireless connections'
  15. It sounds like the hard drive is on it's way out and the file system has become corrupt. I would remove it, and try to capture an image of the drive with Acronis, Ghost, Easeus (free), or other HDD imaging application. Then run a chkdsk on it, reinstall into client PC and try to boot. After the chkdsk has failed and the hard drive has gotten worse, then restore the HDD image to a new HDD of similar or larger capacity and attempt to boot the client's system with that.
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