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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Chaotic on 18 August 2003, 07:20
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Im stuck with WINDOWS XP :( ,..i have to questions. How do I disable the built in firewall, and how do I delete the index.dat files, and everthing in the temp folder and whatnot?
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Originally posted by Chaotic:
Im stuck with WINDOWS XP :( ,..i have to questions. How do I disable the built in firewall, and how do I delete the index.dat files, and everthing in the temp folder and whatnot?
format c: :rolleyes:
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You should have asked, "How do I get unstuck"...
I have 2 questions:
1.) How are you stuck?
2.) Are you stuck or are you really trying to convince us to give you windows support?
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Yeah insomnia is right, format C: will fix all those problems. Please everyone, do *not* fix this persons Windows problems no matter how stupid and easy they are. If s/he wants to use Windows they can fix it themselves.
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i have a suggestion.
look at the big picture. on one hand you have m$. they claim to do,have, say, alot.
they claim to have the best support in the business. INTHE BUSINESS!
so why are you at the one of the more famous anti m$ sites looking for help?
now i could go on about this and that about m$ but im not.
my advice: your stuck in a small hole. either die or climb out.
only you can prevent dumass behavior, only you.
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Maybe its because I don't like Microsoft, but I can't get another OS cuz my mom thinks its a waste of money if we already have one, and i was just asking your help on how to make it better.
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Originally posted by Chaotic:
...and i was just asking your help on how to make it better.
Like the man said, "format: c" (http://smile.gif)
zooloo
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Originally posted by Chaotic:
Maybe its because I don't like Microsoft, but I can't get another OS cuz my mom thinks its a waste of money if we already have one, and i was just asking your help on how to make it better.
linux is free, i'll even mail it to you.
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you appear to have dsl, go to http://www.linuxiso.org (http://www.linuxiso.org)
[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: Stryker ]
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Sorry Chaotic,
This is the Anti M$ forum, if we told you how to make it better that would be totally against the whole point of this site. We do not condone or encourage the use of M$ software of any sort for reasons, reasons you only seems to know to well.
We can however suggest that you use an alternative that actually works and that would come from a company that does not engage in highly questionable business tatics. Or is not subject to frequent viral attacks because of poor craftmanship.
Why not investigate setting up a partition with one of the Free Linux distros on it, so you won't have to spend any more money, then perhaps you will then see the light and delete XP altogether.
[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: Zardoz ]
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go here for the help and guidance you desire http://www.windowsbbs.com/ (http://www.windowsbbs.com/)
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I didn't know linux was free....but someone said u need to be good with computers to use linux.
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Originally posted by Chaotic:
I didn't know linux was free....but someone said u need to be good with computers to use linux.
who?
and they probably said it (at least said it correctly) a few years ago when it was a little hard to work with. I'd suggest RedHat 9, very easy. I think most people would tell you to run to mandrake but I dont really like it, you might. you should give it a shot at least, what do u have to lose?
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Originally posted by Chaotic:
Im stuck with WINDOWS XP :( ,..i have to questions. How do I disable the built in firewall, and how do I delete the index.dat files, and everthing in the temp folder and whatnot?
i actually wrote several FAQ entries (http://belg88.com/faqman/index.php?op=cat&c=5) which you might want to read through, useful for general windows info too.
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please download mandrake 9.1 istall it and do not download it using mozilla or netscape. I recomend getright download manager.
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I installed Red Hat 9 "out the box" with no problems. (There is a problem with Win Modems but my card is ok)
I haven't had to do anything geeky. For Internet, email, word processing (spreadsheets etc) it worked fine. No tweeking at all.
I've got it on an old AMD 500.
Give it a go. It is free, but a big download - too big for most. You can buy it, if you do it's really cheap (
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Why not use Mozilla to download the ISO's? I've done that with every single one so far (a lot) and never had a problem...
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ya. mozilla is engineered better. it is faster. and more secure than IE (which apparently steals technology) and it has a download manager so you can pause your downloads!
they need to have a folder to cache the already downloaded bytes of data so if you have to restart for no apparent reason or just got done installing something, you can go back and resume your download without having to go through the dreadful process of redownloading!
[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
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Originally posted by raptor:
ya. mozilla is engineered better. it is faster. and more secure than IE (which apparently steals technology) and it has a download manager so you can pause your downloads!
they need to have a folder to cache the already downloaded bytes of data so if you have to restart for no apparent reason or just got done installing something, you can go back and resume your download without having to go through the dreadful process of redownloading!
[ August 18, 2003: Message edited by: raptor ]
it does go into a file, do you really think that mozilla would put a 700mb download into ram?
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Originally posted by Dirk Gently:
Why not use Mozilla to download the ISO's? I've done that with every single one so far (a lot) and never had a problem...
Two problems: the resume, as far as I know, doesn't yet work, so if the download stops you're stuck redownloading the whole thing - but, I have managed to resume: don't close the download window and make sure you overwrite the old file (probably only works for files smaller than your cache size).
And: If the server sends out the wrong mime-type (many do), then Mozilla may download binary as text, since text is the default. I would imagine that any site offering Linux would be smart enough to configure their server correctly.
There are several download managers that work with Mozilla: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org)
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Originally posted by Stryker:
it does go into a file, do you really think that mozilla would put a 700mb download into ram?
I think he means that it needs a different download cache, as it is it uses the main cache.
I would prefer it just use the temp directory for downloads.
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Originally posted by Bigsleep:
I think he means that it needs a different download cache, as it is it uses the main cache.
I would prefer it just use the temp directory for downloads.
same!
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oh, i see... well, I don't really have the problem with stopped downloads since they come pretty fast on this connection, and it's (almost) always on, but I can see how the MIME type thing could be a problem (I'm assuming that the fact that the md5sums always match up means they're ok)... seems like you're right about the server configurations.
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Originally posted by Dirk Gently:
...(I'm assuming that the fact that the md5sums always match up means they're ok)...
Yes, I always check with CRC or MD5 - if its available.
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Good god, a simple goggle search will turn up how to turn off the firewall. When the hell will people learn to use google before posting these little sad linux love fests.
* Right-click on My Network Places
* Select Properties
* Double click Local Network Connection or Modem
* Click Advanced
* Uncheck Internet Connection Firewall
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oh yes and remember to trust microsoft all the while you're doing those steps because nobody except them knows whether that will *really* switch off your "firewall", not even fettucini-freda-999.
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it does go into a file, do you really think that mozilla would put a 700mb download into ram?
Would it be possible if I had like over a gig of ram to cache an entire iso in there before burning it? Kinda sounds cool to me and it would help avoid buffer under run errors... Rantings of a madman or possible?
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they wouldn't though, it might be an option at somepoint. but i doubt it'll be the default way it's configured. most people have between 256 and 512mb. lots of people download big files.
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Could always create a Ramdrive, load the ISO into it, and then tell the burning software to burn it from that drive.
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re: resuming, i tend to use d4x or gdm both of which are excellent and will do resuming and all that downloading in slices, throttling the speed etc.
also galeon (which is based on mozilla) has a little option in the preferences to allow you to use gdm as the default download manager for all downloads, which makes it nice and simple.