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I have two problems which i would be most gratefull for any help with! Firstly for some reason even though i have never had tiscali as my ISP in the blue bar at the top of internet explorer it says Tiscali 10.0 ie so when i am on esato like now it says "Post Reply @ Esato - Tiscali 10.0" can i remove this?!
secondly my dad has given me his old work laptop. It has windows 2000 professional on it. He can't logg in to it anymore because he uses some card thing that randomly generates a password. but he got given a new one for his new laptop and threw the old one out. So basically i want to completely reformat the hard drive and put XP on it insted. However the laptop doesn't have any built in drives it has both an external CD and floppy drive that connect via usb. So will i be able to install off these as will usb devices work after i reformat the hard drive? and also how can i reformat if i can't log in to windows 2000 that's on there at the min?
Probably stupid questions but any help would be great! cheers
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Posted: 2006-01-10 17:51:49
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for the first question i dont really know but i would firstly check the obious of spyware etc... also have you installed anything new lately that you think could of caused it?
second one i can kind of an answer. the usb devices should work. they usually do before it loads the os (in the bios) and then again when the os has fully loaded (well thats the case for me). download a windows 2000 boot disk (1 floppy req) and put that in the floppy drive. hopefully they havent disabled the bios. if they havent then enter the bios so you can change the boot sequence. make sure its set to boot the usb first ( i have just thought that this may not work but worth a try anyway). then it should load the program on the floppy which will allow you to format (if it works). see if it works first or i would try putting a wid xp cd in and see if you can get it to boot from the cd first (you have to set the usb as the first boot device as its an external cd drive). half way through typing this i realised it may not work but worth a try or else you need to get hold of a new hdd.
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-01-10 19:04:14
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@welsh
To remove the internet explorer title, you need to download hijack this from here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html
Download it to your desktop, double click it, press 'ok' to all of the warnings and then click 'do a system scan only'.
You'll see a load of horrendous looking registry junk appear. Towards the top of the list, you should see an entry that begins with 'R1 -'. You should also see the offending title text on the same line. Tick the checkbox next to R1 and then click the 'fix checked' button. This will safely remove the registry entry and should hopefully get rid of the annoying title text.
As for reinstalling from a USB drive, as dude says it depends on your laptop's BIOS, and you'll have to have a look around in the CMOS settings to see a:) if the USB drives are recognised by BIOS and b:) if you can select them as a boot device.
@Dude
No '95 CDs and not all '98 CD's are bootable, you're going to have to get that floppy drive working and use a boot disk. It is possible that the floppy drive could be broken if you've tried all possible cable orientations with no luck.
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Posted: 2006-01-10 19:54:50
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was working before i fiddled around with it and green light comes on. not that i have done a fresh install of xp the floppy icon still appears in my computer. ive just shuved them in any old way not so they dont hang out the pc (the cables). ill have a go. just installing stuff on my old pc. ill stick with xp for a while. with some tweaks its proving to be impressively fast.
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-01-10 21:20:17
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ive tweaked my old pc and xp seems to work very fast on it now. boot times not too bad but going to try and speed it up more. also it opens up my documents or my computer very fast. i still need to sort them floppys out
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-01-11 18:04:16
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ok fixed floppy on old pc i just need to try new pc one (aint tried to fix yet)
i dont know if i should keep xp though. with the tweaks it runs ok and i only use it for games and sometimes internet
dude_se
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Posted: 2006-01-11 23:29:26
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Unless it's unbearably slow to use or you're very low on disk space, I'd keep XP
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Posted: 2006-01-12 09:25:45
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@Cycovision
I just set up my wireless network with a D-Link router wich claims to reach 56Mbps and it works great but when i click on the wireless conection icon on task bar it seems to be connected at 11Mbps.
Both router and network card are working under 802.11g so what can i do to use the 56Mbps? Most of the time I just use my wireless lan to surf on the web and 11Mbps its ok but when if I use it to transfer large files from my pc to another on my house its going to be very slow
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Posted: 2006-01-12 19:08:19
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Hi!I also need an advice: I wanna buy a notebook to use it for Internet, some graphic apps, watching movies and sometimes playing strategy games (nuthin' really heavy duty) and I wonder what would b ur ideea of a good one:512 Mb Ram, 128 shred vide, 60 gb hdd, 1.6 GB processor...
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Posted: 2006-01-12 19:50:39
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@Cycovision could you explain the strange Pf usage i had, its all on page 24 please
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Posted: 2006-01-12 20:09:51
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