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Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of sygate. It has some nice blocking options but often goes way beyond the realm of usefulness.
Matt Newman
All rise for the honorable Judge Stone Cold Steve Austin - From Dilbert Episode 30
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I like Sygate far better than ZoneAlarm, in terms of functionality, but I miss ZAP's easy configuration. Sygate is more effective and less intrusive, but it is much harder to configure properly.
Some people think of it as a six-pack; I consider it more of a support group.
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Roger Wright wrote:
I like Sygate far better than ZoneAlarm, in terms of functionality, but I miss ZAP's easy configuration. Sygate is more effective and less intrusive, but it is much harder to configure properly.
I totally agree with you there, another problem I had was high amounts of traffic would completely hose my system. even if the traffic was on a NIC that it wasn't supposed to be listening on.
Matt Newman
All rise for the honorable Judge Stone Cold Steve Austin - From Dilbert Episode 30
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Got a call from a friend. His internet connection stopped working last night and he couldn't figure out why.
I went over this afternoon and had a look. His NIC and Switch both said he had a network connection though Windows didn't think so. It had everything set to an auto supplied IP Address. Funny thing was his wifes machine worked fine.
Trying ipconfig /renew resulted in the following message An error occurred while renewing interface local area connection: an operation was attempted on something that is not a socket..
I couldn't make any sense from this and headed off to try my luck with Google. I found a few sites mentioning that this is a side affect of removing certains pieces of spyware. One also pointed me to WinsockFix[^], it fixed the problem and internet connection is now up and working. Have a look and keep in your kit bag for when you need it.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Handy tool, Michael! A number of viruses hijack the winsock dll, and deleting it will leave the machine without networking capability. If this is what the tool fixes, running SFC might do the same, detecting the lack of a critical file and replacing it. I checked this link, just in case, and it won't let me in. It's at the University of Virginia, and requires a user account.
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It fixes stuff in the registry that is screwed by the viruses/spyware, it doesn't replace the DLL if it's missing.
I lied about that link. I didn't remember to write down the error message or the website I found the fix on or anything. So I Googled from memory when I got home and found the error message correctly, then just posted a link to the first site that came up fron WinsockFix Homepage.
Google for Winsockfix.zip and you will get the utility.
<edit>Try this[^].<edit>
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Got it...;)
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Does anyone know how to read and write to LIF formatted disks?
I can do it in Win 95 and in DOS using a program called LIFUTIL.EXE, but this program wont work under NT, 2000 or XP. Something to do with the way these OS's restrict access to BIOS and old DOS int's.
However I really need to be able to do this on win 2000. Some code ideas for C# would be great.
Either a way to use BIOS and old DOS int's under win 2000, or some idea's for doing the same thing with WIN API's would be good as well.
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hi, i have a problem with my windows xp pro. i create 4 user account in my computer. but sometime when i turn on my computer, it display only 3 user accounts. does any one know the problem is?
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Windows Xp does have a way to hide a user account. Usually though, it is only the Administrator account that is hidden.
One way to see investigate this a little more, would be to start your computer in Safe Mode. It should show all user accounts.
Aaron Eldreth
TheCollective4.com
My Articles
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Hi, thank you very much for you idea. I know that the administrative account is hidden automatically when we change the log in screen to the “Welcome log in screen”. But the account that not show is the account that I have created for my family member. Of course all of the new account I permit as “Administrator”. For login to safe mode, I think it is difficult for us because we need to work and the graphic in safe mode is not easy to read as in normal mode. Do you any idea about that?
Roath Kanel
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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I have a file that is created (0526000004.TMP) in one directory. The file is creating daily and has the format of today's date being in the name (ie. file above is the file for May 26, 2004).
I need to go to that directory and grab that file (based on today's date, but formatted like the filename is formatted "MMDDxxxxYY".TMP), copy or move that file to another directory called "Backup", then copy that file to another directory called "Renamed" and rename the file "Import.TMP". From the "Renamed" directory, I will be importing that file daily into an MS Access Db.
This will be a daily occurrence.
Im rough with DOS commands, so any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Cavall
"Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are nothing compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The directory that the file is first created in. Is it the only file in the directory that has the file extension .TMP ? If so then it shouldn't be to hard. If not then it might be a challenge that requires something more than a simple bat file.
Cheers
uator
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Currently it is one of many files b/c it is created daily.
Once the process is set in place, though, we would make it rename the file and move it and the original copy to another folder so that the active working directory would only have that one TMP file.
Got any ideas?
THanks
"Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind."
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are nothing compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is there a free or really cheap monitoring tool out there? The network at work runs a proprietary package for sales of motorcycles, boats, personal watercraft, and parts for all. It periodically reports an error, varying in details, but always indicating to me a connection problem, too many collisions or something. The cabling in the building is a really botched job, and I suspect that timeouts are occurring in database requests, since these errors nearly always happen when a user tries to update something. What I need is a simple tool to listen in on the network - client or server side - and report the number of collisions, bad packets, etc over a period of time. Ideally it would do so from the background, recording results to a log file.
If this was a Win2K system I'd use the performance counters that are built in, but it's built around a WinNT server and Win98 clients. WinNT is too hard to configure for this (and the server is too slow @ 500MHz), and Win98 lacks the facility at all. Any suggestions?
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Thanks for the link, Ian! There's a lot of good stuff there!
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Hi,
Do anyone know how to change LAN connection settings by code/script?
More specific I want to change the LAN authentication settings for multiple clients in a company network (Win2K domain).
I want to automate the process of changing the settings for all the computers, either by using a logon script or something similar.
The client are running Windows XP.
Thanks in advance.
Ståle
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We have an off-site employee who's running Symantic Corporate Edition on his laptop, same as our internal users. Internally, we don't allow users to change their LiveUpdate settings, and the button to do so is disabled. Obviously, a remote user will need to be able to control this themselves, but his LiveUpdate settings button is also grayed out. So the question is how can I get his Symantic install to allow him to control these settings?
Thanks in advance.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Cho Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Can't remember how I managed to allow offsite users to manually LiveUpdate their systems when I had everything set to update from a local LiveUpdate server I had setup. Almost 3 years since gtting the arse and no closer to getting back to the big end of town.
Can't they just download the 4.5MB virus update executable and manually run it to keep upto date?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So i had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash 24/04/2004
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Not sure, to be honest. What I ended up doing was creating a package specific to off-site users, and shipped it to him on a CD, along with instructions on how to uninstall the version he has, and install this one. We'll see how it goes.
Thanks, Michael.
Kyosa Jamie Nordmeyer - Cho Dan
Portland, Oregon, USA
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The default www.codeproject.com address hasn't worked in days now, and instead of the quaint error messages I used to receive, I now get the generic HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error message. This is a lot like the behavior I'm seeing from my own webserver since installing SP4 and all of the latest updates from Microsoft. There's a checkbox in IE that enables Show Friendly Error Messages which is supposed to supress technical messages, which I have unchecked. And IE6 now appears to ignore wildcards in URLs placed in the trusted sites zone, too. For example, adding http://w*.codeproject.com used to expand to all hosts in the codeproject domain, but that no longer works. This is becoming tedious, having to sneak in the back door after every reply to a post.
At least it works once I get in - that's far better than my server! Why, oh why did I ever let this lot talk me into giving Windows Update another chance?  I can't even look at http://localhost/IISHelp to find clues - it won't let me in at all, or return any meaningful error message. No wonder Apache is so popular...
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I'm trying to update Windows 2000 SP2 to SP4
It hangs at the stage "running processes after install."
When I killed the dialog and rebooted, system->about suggests that SP4 has been installed correctly. There are no apparent problems (though I've only tried a few apps. so far).
I've hunted around in newsgroups, etc. and a number of items suggest stopping the IIS Admin service. However, it won't let me do that. I then tried disabling IIS Admin and reinstalled SP4. Still hangs.
I then tried stopping each of the dependent services, ftp publishing, world wide web, smtp. It won't let me stop those either. Help!
Does anyone know a way round this?
If not can I assume that SP4 is installed correctly?
I need to have it installed in order to install VS .NET 2003.
Kevin
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One possibility is to go to Services and disable startup of the Web services, then reboot. Install SP4 again, reboot, then enable Web services again as Automatic.
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