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Georges @oderog (731) • Kenya 23 Sep 08

Do know how WWW started, how and when did it started and what prmpted it, and is it true that it's one of the seven wonders of the world.

computer history

internet history

web history

www

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douchrti Sure, I used my Commodore 64 to get onto BBS'es back in 85. It only had a 300 baud modem. Jeez, that makes me old huh?

23 Sep 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 19 Sep 08

Hello all, hope all is well. Theres a new nastie out there. Its Behaveslike:win32.explorerhijack I noticed it being picked up on a freinds MS Mail program. Probably didnt have the latest updates Im thinking. I put it on my...

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douchrti Thanks for the response Hichamov, Ya gotta be careful, thats for sure.

19 Sep 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 19 Sep 08

Hello all, hope all is well. Theres a new nastie out there. Its Behaveslike:win32.explorerhijack I noticed it being picked up on a freinds MS Mail program. Probably didnt have the latest updates Im thinking. I put it on my...

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douchrti Hi Mirage, Thanks for the reply. The MS Mail is on his 9 month old Dell with Vista! I was surprised too, he's gonna bring it over for me to have a look see this weekend.

19 Sep 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 19 Sep 08

Hello all, hope all is well. Theres a new nastie out there. Its Behaveslike:win32.explorerhijack I noticed it being picked up on a freinds MS Mail program. Probably didnt have the latest updates Im thinking. I put it on my...

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douchrti Thanks for the reply MC. He's using Norton, and Im wondering if he even had it set up correctly.

19 Sep 08

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douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 14 Sep 08

Hello all, hope all is well. Ive been plagued by many BSOD's since I started using Vista. I used the Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client on my XP machines for years so when I started using Vista I just downloaded and installed...

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douchrti Thanks Andrew for wishing me good luck. You are lucky to have XP. Im in the process of either going back to XP or going to a non microsoft OS.

15 Sep 08

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douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 14 Sep 08

Hello all, hope all is well. Ive been plagued by many BSOD's since I started using Vista. I used the Mozilla Thunderbird Email Client on my XP machines for years so when I started using Vista I just downloaded and installed...

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douchrti Hi Banadux, During this last set of BSOD's, the only 3rd party product I was using was my Comcast connection. Ive started using the Mail Client that came with Vista, We'll see if I get any more crashes. Thanks for the response.

15 Sep 08

arunangshu @arunangshu (60) • India 8 Sep 08

My system is affected by torjan. Can anyone suggest the best way to remove torjan completely??

computer

torjan

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douchrti What does the alert say? Does it give you the name of the virus?

9 Sep 08

rina312 @rina312 (296) 7 Sep 08

Hey everyone. My laptop (DELL; Inspiron 1501) is pissing me off. It gets overheated and automatically shuts off. It used to happen once in 2 weeks, then once in a day, now once in every 30 mins! What the heck is wrong with it? It...

overheated laptop

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douchrti You can buy canned air at most hardware and computer stores. It has a lil nozzle to direct the air into small places. Costs a couple of bucks. Works great!

7 Sep 08

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sweetierook @sweetierook (311) • United States 27 Aug 08

I am so sad to say that I have had odd things going on with my computer since shortly after I began here at mylot. I am sad about this because I really enjoy mylot and feel now that maybe it is not a safe place to be. It is sad...

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douchrti Glad to hear you got it fixed. See ya around.

27 Aug 08

minnie_98214 @minnie_98214 (10557) • United States 25 Aug 08

I am back home from my mini vacation. I feel so silly having to go to the hospital due to not taking care of my water intake. Thanks to all my friends on here I am sorry if i scared anyone. I am not having my girl yet but I will...

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douchrti Its a rare genetic disease. They tend to bouts of self abuse unless medicated. The syndrome is about the inability of chlorestrol to pass between the blood brain barrier.

27 Aug 08

semicolonp @semicolonp (518) • Philippines 26 Aug 08

My family recently bought a laptop with free Vista software but experience has taught us that Vista is not the most stable, nor preferred OS in any computer we want to operate on. Do you think we should change it to XP or just...

laptops

vista

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douchrti Pcstats is a great site and Ive used many of their tweaks in the past with great results. Most of my crashes come from driver updates. MS admitted long ago that they had trouble getting companies to submit their drivers to em. Why? Because they had heard...

27 Aug 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 25 Aug 08

I do regular backups of the registries on our puters using erunt. Have done so for years. Doe anybody else do so and why? I do it cause its a quick fix in case the restore option gets messed up. But I was talking with a couple...

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douchrti Hi darkentity, Ive run across instances where during virus removal, having to disable sys restore, booting in safe mode, ect. that the Sys restore wont allow a restore. And of course, most casual users dont do registry backups.

26 Aug 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 25 Aug 08

I do regular backups of the registries on our puters using erunt. Have done so for years. Doe anybody else do so and why? I do it cause its a quick fix in case the restore option gets messed up. But I was talking with a couple...

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douchrti Thanks for the reply drzeuss, Yeah, I started a ways back, sigh.

26 Aug 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 25 Aug 08

I do regular backups of the registries on our puters using erunt. Have done so for years. Doe anybody else do so and why? I do it cause its a quick fix in case the restore option gets messed up. But I was talking with a couple...

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douchrti Thats a good plan nahidbd. Unfortunately Ive been making backups a lot more since Ive started using Vista. BSOD's are so frequent whenever I do updates. Vista hates 3rd party products. Thanks for the reply. Its appreciated.

26 Aug 08

kimberlylynn @kimberlylynn (978) • United States 21 Aug 08

Besides the obvious things like your kids and animals, what would you grab to evacuate? I was thinking about this since Fay has been hanging around. I decided the most important thing would be to get out as fast as I can and try...

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douchrti It took me 10 years on the adoption list to get Toro, our Tortoise. Wouldnt leave him behind.

25 Aug 08

douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 23 Aug 08

Hello all, hope all is well. If you have a business, do you have a mascot? I was watching TV last nite for advertising ideas and I noticed that the only mascot I saw was the gecko. So Im curious, do you have one? And has it...

advertising

business

mascot

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douchrti Thanks for the response James, I remember when my mom worked at McDonalds. The burger was 17 cents then, datin myself. My Mentally Disabled son lives for the trip to McDonalds, and he's stayed at the Ronald McDonald house at UC Davis.

23 Aug 08

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craftcatcher @craftcatcher (3699) • United States 22 Aug 08

I am so angry right now I can hardly see straight. I just got a call from my credit card company stating that they suspected fraudulent activity on my credit card. They tell me that someone went on an online spending spree with my...

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douchrti Ive had several attempts to hack into my Paypal business accounts in the 3 yrs Ive had it. So I got the Paypal security key. It generates a 6 digit security logon key every 30 seconds. Once youre logged in, go to Security center and drill down to security...

23 Aug 08

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douchrti @douchrti (176) • United States 19 Aug 08

Hello all, Hope all is well. I was wondering if have, or know anyone who has been a victim of theses latest news Phishings. I'd appreciate the info if you dont mind. What happened, how you fixed it, the results. Im doing a...

data security

online safety

phishing

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douchrti I know what you mean by being careless, it just takes a moment of distraction. Kids, doorbell, ect.

19 Aug 08

sharay @sharay (2769) • India 16 Jun 08

Mostly in Mylot, i think we are able to recognize each other by our avatar's rather than our names..so I am just interested to know about them as to why u like them and why u selected them to be your avatar, any special memories...

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douchrti We used to have a Torti-Point and a Tonk. There were very very aloof cats. They had a great life and both died in their sleep at the ages of 12 and 13.

17 Jun 08

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