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The 98 to XP story is funny - microsoft always tries to sell you on upgrades, but the reality is that OS and other programs leave tons of junk around the place, and an upgrade is often less than effective because of those little issues... a wrong dll, a corrupted file, a 98 only driver... whatever.
Kat, sounds like you got caught behind a firewall. Microsoft installs one pretty much "like that" with sp2 now, so you may have to manually re-open the port that your cam software is using. I am sure the manufacture would have info on their website, as I am sure you are not the only one. You could also go and disable the firewall completely. XP home - now there is a winning product! A dumb, neutered, full frontal lobotomy version of an OS that needs all it's brains to survive. A bad idea, bad choice, delete and install XP pro or just don't bother using the machine. A waste of space. Finally, as for the Microstar 6167 mb, well, running AMD is always a crap shoot. You will often require special driver, and special OS patches to match up to the processor. Some of the AMD motherboards were also less than compliant at times, so there can be issues. This is a 6 year old mb design as well, maybe even 7 or 8, so you really are pushing it (their last driver update at msi for it is dated 1999). Those were the bad old days for compatiblity issues amd to intel / microslop. Alex |
I haven't required any support from Microsoft ever. I notice that they had to buy another company to try to prevent their current OS from being infected/corrupted, so I suspect they aren't too well informed about the activities of their in-house coders. :)
98 re-calibrates it's cache fairly frequently unless you tell it not to. Just go into virtual memory and set it to a fixed size. HS - a few things about Norton make you suspect that they are not too stessed about people getting infected - it probably means they can sell them a bit more stuff or an upgrade. |
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I not a big fan of Microsoft products, but I can remember the misery of supporting NT 3.5 and 4.0, and XP Home seems to be a fairly decent desktop OS compared to where Windows was at 9 years ago. After installing Cygwin and a few other tweaks my Presario Laptop with XP Home is almost the Powerbook that I really wanted, but at 1/3 the cost. |
yea amd shouldnt have any business making mother boards theres allways some patch for them i do like there processor for the ability to live has long has they do. combined with asus mother boards i havnt had any trouble with that combination however i would very much like to throw away via chipset based mother boards cuase they have conflics with anything a month newer then the actual chipset.
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There are a few other firewalls that outperform ZA-- And offer more advanced controls. ;) Anyways, there's probably a reason why you're still using ZA... Either that, or I'm just too obsessed about my incoming and outgoing traffic. |
airdick, XP home is just not as robust, there are things in the way it looks at networking, system control, etc that are just not the same as XP pro, and it leads to "issues". My sister is a horribly bad computer person, shares a system with 2 kids a hubby that is even worse. They had XP home, I was up there every other week fixing something, patching whatnot. reformated the system completely, put on xp pro, and all of those issues just went away.
Now if I could just get them to stop downloading spyware, we would have something. Alex |
I installed W2k3 Enterprise the other day. When it gets done, it asks you if you want to connect to the mothership to download updates.
The first box that pops up says: windowsupdate.microsoft.com is not a trusted site. You should only allow sites that you trust to be moved into this zone. It did this about 4 times with different .microsoft.com hostnames associated with the upgrade. Sort of makes you feel all warm inside when even Microsoft doesn't trust Microsoft sites. :) |
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I'm not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to this. So would manually re-opening my port apply? And if so, how would I do that? |
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In case of trouble, I always just have my os on it's own hard drive and install all programs on another so I can see what I had, what I still want, etc. I also always try to keep a mirrored hard drive on hand at all times in a removable case just for problems |
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Sure, it probably wouldn't stop a knowledgable person who specifically wished to do me harm, but it's effective against virtually all of the idjits that are probing for open ports. |
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Interesting personal firewall info here from GRC, my fav security site. For the average user, these are fine. They are really not obsessed with in/out.. The best by far is to have a hardware one and not think about it. |
Any "professional" that uses Norton products loses all my respect. When I was installing and maintaining networks I would refuse to work on any system that had any Norton product on it. They just caused too many problems. In most cases removing Norton fixed the problems anyway. It now seems to be impossible to remove Norton though.
Norton are still spamming, and it's only benefit seems to be in providing employment for local businesses that offer a virus removal service for home computer users. |
Norton's is a pain in the ass, very true. Unfortunately people are afraid to try other things if they've used it for years and "love" it.
Refusing to work on a system that uses it, tho, is imho not exactly condusive to business if you are in the business of working on computers and networks. I'd never recommend it to begin with. I try to convince people to switch to something less intrusive, say panda or avp or something else, and give them reasons why. That usually works. But if they won't, well I'd never turn them down. I have a system I use to test different things and I tested Nortons system works 2005, pos (piece of shit). 2004 firewall really blocks a lot of stuff but, like all the rest of nortons, is very intrusive and slows the pc down quite a bit. Norton's has a tool to remove it but it never really does get all the nasty little bits it leaves behind. If it becomes a problem, I wipe out the pc and be done with it. That usually convinces people to change. |mml| |
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Since I've had XP home and the sp2 patch in place and the quickheal full protection package, I'd have to say things are a-ok for me as well for quite sometime now. The only time I ever have any real problem is if I have about 30-40 windows open and 10 billion applications running at the same time. |
i let the xp auto-updates run. haven't had any issues yet (fingers crossed).
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Holy crap!
After reading this whole post, I'm sure glad I'm on a Mac - LOL!! Bill |
I seem to have a talent for bringing posts to a screeching hault - lol!
Bill :D |
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