mrloupcity:
Does your router have switch (lan ports mainly 10/100BaseT)?
Did you make any management settings on your router first before you get connected on your "work" computer?

Try to find if network card on your´s wife computer is fine (in way as bitwisexor has explained you).

I don´t think there can could any problems due to ME system.

You can try to share your inet connectivity through XP system on your computer. (it´s easy to try) But disadvantage is that your computer have to be always switch on to keep connectivity for your wife.

So the best solution is to make it through ethernet cable directly to router. Than it is enought to set up your wife comp "mask, DHCP server and your IP addres (in this case you will make lan network).

For example, I have at home dsl router+switch all in one (4x10/100BaseT ports) so that we have been able to make own network and share internet connectivity from one place (and it´s cheaper :) )

After connecting ethernet cable to switch of router you have to set up TCP/IP settings on your wifes computer (network settings, TCP protocol)

my router has IP address 10.0.138
it will be also your dns address and gateway on wife´s comp
than you have set up IP address on wife´s comp staticly or by DHCP server (some routers have a problems to obtain it by DHCP)
we have in our network for example 10.0.0.1 (2,3, and so on)

set your mask on 255.255.255.0

option IP/DNS/WINS set up automatically (in this case it have to be ip address of router)

Come back and tell us what you try so maybe we can help you more (maybe :) )

Hope it will work for you.

I'M A REAL DUMMIE WHEN IT COMES TO COMPUTERS. AND DON'T KNOW A DANG THING. SO GUESS ITS TIME FOR ME TO GO. DUMMIE IS 2+2=294 LOL.THANKS FOR TRING BUT POOF...

mrloupcity: depending on your cable provider you will need to give them the mac adress for that pc , some providers like mine now do it automatically to reconise any new pc's connected to thier network

I wonder if somebody can help me, i have an Epson Stylus Photo R200, and when i print out pictures onto normal printing paper they are coming out pink. All my cartridges are full and i have cleaned the nozzle heads. Any help, anyone.

Mrs.Reeves: Try this website;

http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

This programme will let you do a powerful deep clean and you can do other stuff, like freezing the ink counter, so you actually get to use ALL the ink in your cartridge!

harley: WOW thank u, gonna download it now

I have recently won a samsung digital audio player. I dont use a computer yet, but have access to a friends. I have downloaded from the CD that came with the product to this computer the programs needed. BUt I just dont know how to go about getting music on to the player! I have tried to folow the instructions but nothing seems to work out like it shows in the directions. What is the easiest way to do this? Can I just put one of my own cds into the computer and load it into this player? Is there free music on the web that I can download? (legally) Do I first have to download it to the computer then to the player? How is this done? Anything will help, please and thank you!

Czuch Chuckers: www.yourmp3.net is a place to download free music. Not sure if it's legal there or not though.

Czuch Chuckers: i like CDex a lot. its a free program with which you can easily convert your cds to mp3s

After I download music to my computer, how do I get it onto my player?

Czuch Chuckers: thats different per player .. often via an usb cable .. sometimes the player can be inserted as an usb key itself .. sometimes via bluetooth .. sometimes via a memory card

Hrqls: Maybe this is too much for this type of forum....
I have the usb cable, but....

Do I go to the website with the music first? Then ask it to download a song to my computer? Then go to windows media player or to my desktop to find this download file? Then how do I play it or send it to my player?

Also I want to find maybe a genre of music like 70s music where I can download say 100 mega bytes of mixed 70s music all at one time?

Czuch Chuckers: Your installation instructions must mention some way that you can transfer files from the PC to the player via the supplied cable. Either a "removebla drive" is recognised every time you connect the player via the cable to the PC and you power it on, or a special interface program appears. In either case, just go to the appropriate folders for either side of the cable and transfer away :)

Czuch Chuckers: The sites providing you with that much music are usually pay-sites. Th eprice is cheap, say $20 for a year, but you'll have to trust them then use your credit card.

About you player, first download the music to say c:\ or anywhere else on your hard disk. Then use the USB cable to connect the player to your PC. When you do that, your windows should be able to recognize the player and show you teh message: New harware found. Or something like that, near the windows clock.

Then if you go to your 'my computer' icon you'll see an icon added to the group of icons there, that is fo ryour player. For example, you'll see C, D, E, and F as your drives, then your CD-rom drive and then another icon which is for the player.

Just copy the file you downloaded, by right clicking on it and then selecting copy, go to that new icon for your player, double click on it to open it, and then when you're in it, right click on the page, and select paste.

It'll hopefully do.

رضا: OK, so its a copy paste type of thing.... thanks Reza I will try that!

Czuch Chuckers: you can put any music that you have on cd to your samsung digital audio player ,but to save on space converting them to mp3 or some other format will allow you to hold much more tracks. i think the latest windows audio player can do this for you which is free .

Does anyone know anything about zipping files? I thought it made them smaller, but I have a programme I want to put on a disc to transfer to another PC, only its too big for the disc. I zipped it using winzip, and tried to put that on but its showing as the same size?

No they're not, I want to put a game onto my kids PC's upstairs, and a friends who isn't on the net, so it really needs to go on a disc. The disc is 800mb and the programme 1250mb.

Cheers Bunny, I've saved the page, I'll give it a go later. Thanks

playBunny: So how does one take for instance a movie she made in class.. and put it somewhere to let others see it? It is a large file.. let me find it and get the spec's

playBunny: You've seen my site? *blush*

actually I tried not too long ago to do that.. I might just try it again.. and.. I remember you giving me infor earlier.. sorry I seemed a bit dense.. been exhausted.. will mess with it a bit later..

Thanks again..

playBunny: thankies I C&P'd your instructions on my notepad.. just so you know..

harley: I think that it is better that you use WinRar, and in this program you put the split volume size on 700 mb , so this program will create 2 Rar( or also Exe with using SFX archive) and u can transfer those to another PC .I think it is the best way for transfering hight capacity files.So download this program from web ( 1 mb ) and enjoy from that .

harley: Oh and as for the game for teh PC upstairs, you can take your harddisk out, take it upstairs, connect it to the MB of teh other PC, copy the file from that Harddisk to that of your kid's PC and take the harddisk back to its original place.

Ali mentioned a good solution too. With WniRar you can split a big file into smaller zipped files, then you can copy them all onto a disk, or several disks, and copy them to your second pc, and when you want to unzip the files, the program will automatically ask for the second part of the splitted file after unzipping the first, then the third, so on.

Ahh I already have Rar but didn't think it would be much different than Winzip.
Taking the harddisk out, are you kidding?! Seems a bit drastic! I'm not good with the inner workings of these things!
Thanks for all the advice

harley: just a few screws dear.. and a good grounding.. touch something metal to get all the shockies out!! and whala..

ScarletRose: I usually let my other half deal with the hardware, he looks so good brandishing a screwdriver and later a hammer

and better touch some wood too to ward off the gremlins

I need some information about satellite internet connection and DVB conection can anyone help me in this case?

harley, the easiest is to just get an external hard drive. I have a 300g Maxtor OneTouch II. I just connect it to a computer (USB), and...Presto...I can't tell the difference between that and an internal. Put what you need on it, then take it to the other computer.

harley: you can also use HJSplit to split the files and join them back again on the other computer.

another option would be to use an usb stick of a sufficient size

Hrqls: I've used HJSplit before - very helpful when all I had was a CD burner and still have some files too big. Of course since then, I have learned about WinRar and would probable use that if I needed to. Of course since then I now have bigger USB memory sticks which can hold most files. Of course I also have a 200g Maxtor OneTouch II drive attached to my computer that always stays hooked up. I have a 100g drive that I hook up to backup all my pictures to now (since CD Backups will only last a few years before the CD's start to go bad!) - then I stash the 100g drive elsewhere for safe keeping.

BIG BAD WOLF: *nod* me too .. i hardly used hjsplit myself .. and now use my 1 gb usb stick whenever needed ... hjsplit might be easier in use than winrar though .... at least i can see my dad easily use hjsplit but not that easily use winrar to split a file :)

Great ideas. Memory stick... hmmm! I like that one. Do CD's really go bad? Not happened to me yet!

harley: CD's can go bad - mostly CDr's, rarely professionally pressed CD's. Depends on the quality of the CDr's that you buy - how much stress is put on them (like when they are in the case and you push down in the middle to get it out - it also puts "stress" on the disc which can cause the glue between the layers of the disks to start to give out.

Couple stories about it:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-05-disc-rot_x.htm

Plus a story which tries to paint a beter picture:

http://www.mscience.com/faq30.html

My opinion: I would rather be safe then sorry with my archived data.

BIG BAD WOLF: Thank you for that information. It was very informative and a real eye opener/

What I use to do is make 1 CD backup/archive of my pictures/data that I have, and place it in a fire proof safe - which then after some research learned that even though it is a fire proof safe, it is not rated to keep CD's and such safe - meaning it would probable get warm enough to melt things - but not burn. I had since made 2nd copies of all CD backups, taking the second copy elsewhere out of my home.

I have not actually looked at any of those CD's to see if any of those have gone bad, but recently I opened a pack of CD's that I purchased many years ago, and there were a few brand new ones (few years old) that you could already tell was "going bad".

I'm going to have to dig out the old CD's to take a closer look at them here soon since I'm kind of curious now.

What will make a computer freeze up every few mins.?

Doris: Too much stuff on your hard drive comes to mind straight away. Delete old files, do a disk clean-up, a scandisk and a defrag. That may help.

harley: Yes that is about what I would say too. If your harddrive is full or nearly full it can stop the system from working properly. Check to see if it is full
Double click the my computer icon, right click on your C drive and go to Properties. See if you have much disc space left.

Doris: An overheating CPU - please make sure you're not over-overclocked and/or your PC's ventilation system is running OK.

Doris: When you say freeze up, are you saying you have to reboot each time - or does it just get REALLY sluggish every few minutes.

Other things it might be is spyware/virus that is slowing things down. Too many things that auto-start with the computer could be another.

I had the same problem a few months ago it damaged my hard drive (2 of them) i have found out since that it was overheating , but even after cleaning all the dirt/dust off the prosessor (sp) it has damaged my pc so i need to replace the motherboard now also a new hard drive. so cleaning is always a good idea every so often

Thank you all for your help. I had run our of ideas. I have already completely erased the hard drive and re-installed everything and it is still freezing and have to re-boot constantly. I will give it a good cleaning and see if that helps.

Is it just your internet connectin that freezes, or does it also do it if you're just on (eg) microsoft word without being on the net?
If its your internet check your connections, I recently moved my PC so I was plugged directly into the phone socket rather than through an extention cable and its improved my connection no end.

harley: It is my husbands computer. We have cable and our computers are networked. The cable from mine runs directly to his. It freezes up in any program. If it was the connection, wouldn't mine freeze too? I never have any problems with my puter. I gave his a good cleaning a while ago and it is still freezing up. Could it have something to do with the XP home edition? Could the disk have been corrupted somehow? I am thinking about installing my XP professional on his and see if that will work. The only other alternative I can think of is to change the HD. At one time he had over 100 virus infected files. The only way I could get rid of them all was to completely erase the HD. Could those viruses have damaged the HD?

playBunny: Yes, It freezes completely so the mouse won't move. I have to reboot it manually. Task manager doesn't come up by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del. It hangs randomly...not certain time frame in between. Yes, I opened it up and cleaned the inside. It has 3 fans and I cleaned them inside and out. The sides don't get hot.

playBunny: It is about 5 years old. The HD was replaced a year ago. It was full of viruses then too. It was freezing up like it is now and everytime I re-boot it...when the windows logo and info comes up on start...It shows a message that there is an error in the files and that it is recommended to allow it to check the file system. Each time it always finds finds files that need to be truencated. The technician that we took it to at that time told me that when that message comes up about checking the files that it means the HD is about to go out....so we had him to replace it. Now it's doing the same thing, I did check the fan on the cpu and it seemed to be blowing good.

playBunny: Thank you so much for your help. I'll go on his computer and find it....maybe it won't freeze up before It can give me some information..:}

playBunny:

> Viruses can only affect Windows and programs, not the hardware. Reinstalling Windows will get rid of viruses and the like.

They can effect any OS if it's exploitable :) But getting away from technicalities, it is possible for viruses to affect the hardware: ACPI being a good example.

You could even consider using resources up as theoretical damage to hardware (overheating due to CPU being used constantly) - but then your hardware was fundamentally broken before that anyway ;)