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I have looked into several XP files, including setupp.inf and winnt.sif and pidgen.dll. But I still have not found a true answer. What happens is that I have a Laptop that came with a OEM version of XP without SP2. The HD went bad, so I wanted to use my Corporate Volume License Edition of XP Pro with SP2, which I still have plenty of unused licenses for it.  I wanted to do this instead of putting the Old OEM version of XP pro that came with the Laptop. But somehow along the process, I used another CD that was not from my volume license either. It must have been a retail copy that somebody used and made a copy of. So the key worked and let me install it. I assumed that it was the Corp VLK version, until after I finished setup and all of the drivers. This took me a few hours too.

Now I think I have no choice but to reformat again and use the correct Corp VLK CD.

Unless somebody knows a way that I can fix the version that is on it, to work, and let me activate it. I also want to know if I call Microsoft, will they be able to help me? I can give them my Corp VLK info and prove that my company paid for it too!

No matter which brand you choose, you may have experienced a sudden loss of reception from your wireless router. You may only get a signal when you are within 5 feet of the Router, or the Router may not even show up when you search for it.

I have had several Routers: Linksys, Netgear, Belkin and even a Novatech and this has happened to all of them. The router either shuts of power to the Radio transmiter or the Radio transmitter burns out completely. 

When this happens, you may get lucky by just doing a Hard Reset and then reprogramming the Router. Also it may not be the router, it may be your wireless card too. But if you find out it is the router what can you do?

Well the answer is: reset it or replace it.  You can also try doing a firmware update. But if none of this works, then this basically means that the radio transmiter or amplifier chip inside the router, or wireless card has burned out. This may have been caused by too much heat, or because of a power surge. If you still have a warranty then take it back and return it. If not buy a new one for about $50. This time buy it at a Store like BestBuy of Circuit City. Pay an extra $10 for the 3 year extended warranty. Also make sure to use a power strip.

Another thing: Always activate the WEP or other Wireless security features. It is possible that hackers can do things to your wireless router, pc’s and network that will cause the radio transmitter to burn out too. If you do not know how to setup security then you should unplug your router. Or you can call me and I will help walk you through this over the phone.

http://www.movicompservices.com

And lastly, if you ever go away for vacation, please unplug your router.

This applies to:

Linksys, Netgear, Belkin, 3com, Novatech etc.

When the weekend comes, I miss being able to go to the Hooters at Town and Country on Kendall Drive. Now I only get to go there for somebody’s birthday.

Well Why did they close it? They say that shopping center did not do so well. Maybe the Rent was too high. But Now There are so many new shopping centers being built in West Kendall. Also the population is growing and gas prices are rising. So we need to get enough people to vote for getting a new Hooters in Kendall. If we get a lot of people to post your comments here or on Facebook, Then we may be able to convince the owners about getting one back into our own neigborhood.

So Please post as many comments as possible.  Tell us your story and what you remember about the Town and Country Hooters in Kendall! 

I have this Toshiba Laptop - South American or European Edition.

Model = A135-SP4796 

Ever since I downgraded it from Window Vista - Basic Spanish Version, I am having a hard time finding all of the XP drivers. For starters, Toshiba will not help. They have some kind of evil agreement with big Microsoft, not to make it easy for anybody to put XP on it. But I am stuburn, I had Vista. I think Vista is the worst OS that MS has come up with. I do not no many people who like Vista, not even in Big corporate Offices. Everybody is still using Windows XP.

I had started a few weeks ago on this Laptop which belong to my niece. I found some drivers on Hardware Central and Geeks to Go Forums and that helped me to get the Wireless card drivers, The video and eventually the sound to work. Now I am working on it again. I am trying to find the 2 missing drivers:

1) Ethernet Driver - which I can do without as long as I have the wireless working

2) Mass Storage Device - The lack of this prevents me from connecting camera’s USB flash drives or IPODS to it.

Does anybody know who manufactures these 2 parts, The driver has got to be out there somewhere and I will not stop searching until I find it.

Also I hate Toshiba  - Curse them for not helping all of us that resist Vista! 
I almost put Ubuntu Linux, but thought that my niece who is 12 years old may not know how to use it!

Please post comments below.  Thanks!

Yesterday, I went to go fix a friends PC and she had told me that she had a virus, so I proceded to login and kill it. Well this time I was surprised to find that my first tool, the task manager was disabled! I next tried to go into safe mode and found that it was still  dissabled even in Safe mode. Next, I tried to access the internet, but no luck. This little nasty virus has changed the host file and it had dissabled lots of windows XP services and more.

As I was pressed for time I told my friend that I need to take the computer home and re-install windows. When I arrived home, I searched the internet to find out what kind of virus I was dealing with. It appears to be the Zlob Trojan. This Trojan virus is very nasty. It is hard to get rid of. I found an article on geeks to go.com. This is a virus simular to Error Guard! and it at keeps telling you that you have a virus via Windows anti-virus and it has a yellow triangle on the task bar with an exclamation that will not go away.

If you find this one you may be better of reformatting the computer, but you can also try this tool from geeks to go and it should also clean it.

http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/How-to-Remove-Zlob-trojan-Media-Codec-Goldcodec-Braincodec-t140685.html

In my case it did not work, because I made the mistake of trying to delete files and registry keys and also turning back on several services in an attempt to get back the task manager. So in this case I decided to reinstall windows and that is what I did. I totally wiped away this nasty trojan and all of the other junk that it may have put on the poor pc!

If you do a simple web search for Internet Marketing you will find Several different names like:

Sitepoint, Cody Moya, Derek Gehl, Majon, Courtney Tuttle, Jim Daniels,

SBI - Site-Build-it! or others.

There are so many of them. But which one is the best? Are they there because of word of mouth? Or is it because they pay for the Ad Words to get there?  I am looking for one myself. I want one that really makes their own money from Internet Marketing and Not from the Sales of their $200 kits. I am not willing to waste money on a SCAM.

I have a friend that bought one of those kits and he used it. He got some results, but not as much as they say you can. He also gave me the kit myself. I read it, but did not find much more than I could already learn by reading the 10,000 ebooks that I already own. The ideas are all there, but they do  not do it for you. You have to do the work and believe me it is time consuming, especially if you have to make multiple pages and proper links to each page.  You have to make a lot of content, or higher someone to do it for you. You also have to send lots of emails or spam! 

I am looking for somebody who will do it for me, but at the same time charge me based on results. So I would pay less in the beginning, but them more as I too make more money. These kit guys do not look like they would have the time to do that for me. But if any of you readers know somebody that does, I am all ears.

I have a site:

http://www.ibookcity.com

and I want to add 100 more ebooks to it. But it is too time consuming.