Computer help?

If indeed all items are checked then you'll free up RAM by unchecking them. Read the descriptions to get the jist of one thing RAM has to do. The shadowing under you pointer is unnecessary but absorbs both ram and processing power. Same with all the rest of the items. Did you have a go trying these Faith? They'll improve on those msconfig tips that Jazzns gave you. Let me know if you can't figure any of them out and I'll walk you through it Edited by iano, : No reason given.

Especially when someone says "I want it hot and cost is not the overriding factor" Constraints are where the fun is but when they are relaxed occasionally...Don't spend it all in the one shop, y'hearEdited by iano, : No reason given.Edited by iano, : No reason given.

Looks good Crash. As a tip in your direction I can get any MS stuff from a neighbour who works at Microsoft: full Office for $50 IIRC and post across (to Percy only - he runs the show and for all the grief given he deserves a nod every now and then). I assume your costing for legit stuff. What'd that save?Not mad about the case - looks like those doors are servo motor driven - breakdownEdited by iano, : No reason given.

That wasn't the deal ex-sis in Christ But what Percy is saying is about it. Just take it slow and don't panic. Step by step ok?

There's a neat program called VNC that allows someone anywhere else on the Internet to see your computer screen and control it through their own mouse and keyboard, assuming you give them the VNC password you set up, and assuming you're running VNC at the time. It installs in seconds and is VERY easy to use - you just run it and it works, which is untypical of most software. My mother lives in another state, and whenever she has a computer problem I just bring up her computer screen on my own computer using VNC and poke around to see what I can figure out.

Faiths up and running on her new PC and has a hi-speed internet link instead of dial-up. But she's not completely out of the woods I gather. Emails back and forth ain't doing it so I reckon a little 'poke around' would do the trick.Is this VNC thing as easy at it sounds? Which software do you recommend?Ta..Edited by iano, : No reason given.

Its likely the case that you would be able to see what I'm doing as I am doing it. Don't know though.I imagine to that you can uninstall the software when we're done meaning your PC is not an open book to me forever and ever. I'll check out Crashs link anyway to get going

Try the link Percy gave earlier where you find your IP - all whilst staying in IE. Post it here.

Thanks NWR. Faith has PC-cillinn as her security suite. Would both firewalls be running or would PC-cillin turn off the windows one and leave its own running.Would the thing to do be to close all websites but leave IE running then turn off firewalls to attempt a connection? She could turn back on at a prearranged time to give me time to check a connection.No ones said so far but I presume Faith could see what I am doing if I'm connected?

Righto NWR.I'm no geek myself. But I can't see the harm in leaving IE open if Faith doesn't open new pages/sites.Faith. You there sis? We'll try turning off your firewalls and see if that lets things flow. I tried the IP you gave and got a bit more by way of response than before. Let me know if you're there and I'll explain how to turn off the firewalls. You can leave things like that a half hour then turn them back on and start working the net again

Right. There are two possible firewalls: Windows own and the one that came with Pc-cillin. They act as barriers to people invading your PC (which I am attempting to do)1st:Without a firewall, any clicking on things allows stuff to enter your PC from the web so when without a firewall you'd best not click on anything. No click = no incoming data = no incoming bad stuff. After disabling firewalls click on nothing on the web. After disabling firewalls let it about 1/2 hour then re-enable your firewalls before working the web again. Confirm understood2ndDisabling Windows firewall.Click on "start"Click on " control panel"Click on "Security centre"Click on " Windown firewall" (down the bottom)Tick the "off" (not recommended)" dot on the pop up screen that you get and ok that. Affirm anything that comes with it3rdClick to open PC-cillan (it's probably on your taskbar.See if you can find something that says "firewall on" and see if you can find a way to turn off the firewall and affirm warning messages that may occur. Follow your nose on this as I'm not familar with what it looks like.4thIrrespective of what happens. In 30 minutes or so: turn on your firewalls. It will have either worked or no. Ensure your firewalls are back on before clicking on the web pages5thOkay this message and begin.

If you can disable all of PC-cillan then fine. That will disable the PC-cillin firewall. Better to poke around to find the firewall bit though and disable that alone. To be sure. But...Figure out if you can do that first but don't do it yet. Confirm you've found where there is the option of disabling the PC-cillin firewall then get back here and confirm. Then we'll set a 30 minutes tryout. On my go you disable the PC-cillin firewall and the Window firewall as described.In 30 minutes you renable them and get back here to say so. (If you find the Windows firewall is already ticked as "off" when you go to disable then leave as is - its already off)Edited by iano, : No reason given.

Missed the bit above about you turning off the internet. Without internet connected I have no way to connect. Will email you tomorrow.Night sis

Sorry. Was on the phone for a while. Nope it didn't work. I tried the address of msg 261 which seemed to be holding.Maybe NWR could put up your current address and you could put up the address you get when you hover over the VNC logo. If the same (again) then you know where you can find your own addressNWR?