yeah multiple networks... ill check around... bugging me to all hell....

 

have you run the troubleshooter? right click on the icon and choose diagnose this problem. Troubleshooter has gotten pretty good in 7, it's better than vista and vista was much better than XP. Though I'm sure the troubleshooter will just cycle the NIC for you but probably not solve why you're being connected to "multiple networks" to begin with.

 

Random bitch: Why does Microsoft insist on having all of their applications save internet downloads to your temp directory and then copy the download from temp to the actual place you specified? I just discovered that even the command line ftp.exe does this. Annoying.

 

I did try that, with hope that it might be better in the umpteenth iteration. No such luck. It was as useless as all previous Windows.

 

It has to do with you getting your gateway set to 0.0.0.0 along with your original. so you have to delete the bad gateway via cmd prompt. You may also have an imcompatibility from your router with Vista/7 so check to see that it has the latest firmware. Also you may have to disable IPv6 as well

http://www.chicagotech.net/vista/gateway0.htm
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-networ...tml#post759855
http://www.vistax64.com/vista-networ...ct-inte-3.html

 

you know what, I have a gateway with a static IP for Comcast business internet service.. which I've been meaning to switch back to residential since I don't need it anymore... maybe that's what's throwing it off....

 

Glad I could help....

 

thanks........................

 

run ipconfig /all from a cmd prompt and paste it here

http://digitalmediaphile.wordpress.c...t-text-output/

 

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Windows IP Configuration

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-23-AE-E7-27-E4
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::b429:7c6e:9f6a:fa9b%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.5(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:14:49 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:14:49 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234890158
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-12-77-1F-44-00-23-AE-E7-27-E4

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

Tunnel adapter isatap.{7CB33BE4-D78E-47D8-8B94-E01C748ED430}:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 9:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e50:823:3bbc:52f6:3cb1(Prefe
rred)
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::823:3bbc:52f6:3cb1%13(Preferred)
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

 

Stunner, give him a static IP. Im tired.

 

guys im fine... ill just cancel this business thing and I should be ok... thank you for listening to my bitching.

 

if that doesn't fix it post your ipconfig next time you have multiple networks. sorry I should've clarified that.

 

yeah I figured as much but I didn't feel like rebooting again. haha

 

that way they can start the download right away instead of waiting for you to figure out where you want it. Then once they figure out where you want it they put it there. It usually takes just a fraction of a second, I guess unless it was a real big file and you wanted it on a different drive than the C drive. But that isn't very common.

does it do it even if you have it set to automatically save to a certain folder without prompting the user?

 

FF seems to "pre-start" downloads just fine without making use of the temp directory. Or at least not making use of it to the degree that Microsoft does. It just bugs me because every now and then I'll start a download on one machine and want to watch its progress via simple file sizes from another. That's mostly at work though. Tonight I was just downloading Adobe Reader for the new machine via FTP and it was taking forever. Because of the way MS uses the temp dir, I had no way of knowing if the download was 1/16 done or 95% done. Still, no biggie. Just somewhat annoying.

 

like I said that's because FF doesn't ask you where you want to save a file it just automatically puts it in the downloads folder. Whereas IE by default prompts the user to choose where to save the file. IE should change this to be like the other browsers.

 

go to start, type "cmd" right click as "Administrator", type "ipconfig /release", then "ipconfig /renew". Hopefully that will get ya going.

Basically you're just renewing your IP address with your internet provider. It should read a weird number instead of 192.168.1.1, or something of that nature.

If you want you could check your internet modem connection by typing 192.168.100.1. It should tell you what your dbmv is for upstream and downstream levels. Your upstream should be between +30 - +51.9 and your downstream should be between +8 and -8. If the downstream is sitting a little higher than +8...like +9, it's OK.

Let me know...

 

So you don't get stuck with partially downloaded crap?

 

I'll have to try that next time I reboot, BigLizard... thanks.

in other news, I'm happy because I found a way to make a "Quick Launch bar". Enable Desktop Toolbar, position it like the QL bar, and right-click and uncheck "Show Text" and "Show Title". Now I can just leave the icons I need on my desktop, and those are duplicated in the pseudo-QL bar. It looks identical to how it did in XP. WOOT! So now I have that bar, along with the other pseudo-QL bar below it. It's like having your cake and eating it too!

 

I've got a couple gripes. Does the safely remove hardware popup context menu take forever to appear for everyone else or just me? It seems like it takes almost 10 seconds for the popup menu to appear before I can disconnect a device. Its worse if I have multiple devices I want to remove cause I can only do one at a time. Also they say Vista and W7 support S.M.A.R.T. monitoring for hard drives but there's now where to go to check a drives status. That should be included in disk management or the disks properties or resource monitor or something. I want to see a read out of how the drive's doing without downloading some crap program.

 

I found my first annoyance. If I had a CD/DVD in the drive and I wanted to grab the filename, I would just hit F2, then Ctrl-C to copy the filename. Now, Windows is smart enough to know you can't rename a read-only file, so there's sense in allowing the F2 action.

Anyone know a different or better way to accomplish this?

 

^^ i know what you mean, i do that sort of thing all the time but have not had a need to do such on a cd/dvd.

My gripe is opening the recycle bin and not being able to see the total size of all the files contained within at the bottom of the screen like i used to.

 

Sounds useful, but I would probably use my old habit of Ctrl-A,Alt-Enter to get a properties page with the total file size.

I was testing out a couple of things and I may just make a small little .NET app that takes the command line arguments and sticks it in the clipboard. Then I can put that app in my SendTo folder. Then I end up with Send To>Clipboard.

 

you could probably also do a batch file that you double-click and it outputs a directory list (using 'tree') of the CD drive as a text file, and probably get it to open the text file too. it's a workaround but hey that's what you gotta do sometimes. just depends on how bad you want it.

 

Don't feel like making a new thread, so......

My dad called. The other weekend, I uninstalled McAfee and put on AVG. He says now he can't get to any "password" websites, like Bank of America; he enters in his username and password and the following screen doesn't come up. He even called BoA tech support and they tried to help. He says other "password" websites are affected. Now mind you, he's not very technically astute but considering BoA tech support couldn't get him on and said it's something with the laptop, I guess there may be an issue.

He uses IE 7, I think??? Could it be something with the avg toolbar? He can log in just fine from his mac mini (no mac is better reference ), so it's definitely that laptop.

Clues on what to check for? I'll be heading over there tomorrow.

 

Try the disabling the toolbar. Try using Firefox. Do a malware scan with malwarebytes. Uninstall AVG and install MS security essentials.

 

That doesn't work either!

 

I feel bad for AVG, they're going to take a real beating form MS Security Essentials. I switched all my computers from AVG and haven't looked back.

AVG does have a URL scanner to look for phishing attempts. I've never installed it. It might be worth uninstalling it to make sure. I can't stand taht everyone has a "toolbar" for their program. Really? A Daemon Tools toolbar? A UTorrent toolbar? Lame.

 

Yeah it does and doesn't work. If everything you select are files then it will work but as soon as you add a folder to the list then the deals off. I can't remember if vista was like this or not. As long as you don't have folders selected it will work. It's dumb

 

Actually, I'm seeing that the sattus bar is working. Maybe you need to give it some time to calculate the total size?

 

@ ubuntu in the recycling bin!

 

From the Windows 7 Blog
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/win...es-by-234.aspx

Windows 7 sales exceed Vista sales by 234%

It has been quite amazing to watch the global excitement build around Windows 7, especially during a tough economic climate. It was just a few short weeks ago that we learned about Windows 7 outselling the UK's "own" Harry Potter. In Japan, anxious PC users waited in line to be one of the first to get their hands on Windows 7. And just today, according to the NPD groups' weekly tracking service, Windows 7 software unit sales in the U.S. increased 234% over Windows Vista's first few days of sales. "A combination of factors impacted Windows 7 PC sales at the outset, but the trajectory of overall PC sales is very strong leading into the holiday season," said Stephen Baker at NPD.

 

Yeah, i see it now, its a folder like stunna said, soon as you have one in there, it can't display it

 

No one's computers are working with Vista, they have to buy W7.

 

 

oh oops, that was a lotta smileys. my keyboard slipped. i swear.

 

OMG! I got the Acer Timeline in today and this thing is awesome! What a great computer, it's better than I expected and I had high expectations. First off 802.11n is fuckin awesome!! I've had an N router forever but never an N laptop. My router is badly located in one corner of the house and with 802.11n I was able to stream high quality h.264 Kill Bill Vol 1 from my PC to the laptop in the bathroom on the other side of the house which on 802.11g has been a complete dead spot with zero bars. We've never had signal in that bathroom let alone signal in the room next to it and with N I got 4 bars!!!

Performance wise it's pretty darn good. It does play youtubeHD videos full screen which is something netbooks cannot do. It's dual core, I haven't noticed any stutters or slow downs in it. So far this thing has been great.

The first thing I did was run PC decrapifier, the laptop originally had 76 processes running but after decrapifying it and installing MSE it's at 52 processes which is pretty good for 7. The screen is pretty good, it's got your typical laptop crappy viewing angle but 11.6 1366x768 screen is crisp. Battery life is awesome at over 8hrs, keyboard is solid, the laptop itself has minimal flex.

As you can tell I'm very happy with this laptop, HIGHLY recommended. It's gonna be hard for me to part with it when I give it to my niece but I know she's gonna love it!

My only minor annoyances are the trackpad is kinda small and blends in with the rest of the laptop to easily but she has small hands so it's probably perfect for her. Also the sound isn't that great, it's not very loud and it's missing some treble.

 

I've heard good things about that laptop. I would have gone for the 13.3" one.

Amazon has the 14" for $535. Where did you buy yours?

 

yeah it's for my niece so I didn't want to get a big one (not that 13 is big). The screen very adequate I could probably use it to do a report if I needed. I don't find it too small like I did with the netbooks.

I bought it from J&R.com for $550 cause they were selling the black color for $50 less than Newegg plus they had free shipping which newegg didn't have and they had 5% bing cashback while newegg only had 2.5%.