Another IT adventure: I still can’t find all the XP drivers for a Toshiba A135 Laptop.
Date: Wednesday April 16, 2008Posted in: Computer IT, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows XP
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!
My latest IT support Adventures - Removing a very nasty Zlob trojan virus.
Date: Wednesday April 16, 2008Posted in: Computer IT, computer virus removal
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.
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!
What is the best Internet Marketing Program out there?
Date: Tuesday April 15, 2008Posted in: Internet marketing SEO, scams, work from home
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:
and I want to add 100 more ebooks to it. But it is too time consuming.
