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I guess he better go back to Europe, as Mexican’s, and most of Latin Americans, are part European. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Why are you gringos still here? We will cleanse you! We will impregnate your women and make them bear warriors for La Raza! "Bear warriors" – that’s kind of scary.
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Thanks man, I thought I was loosing it. Notice how many of them did it!!!
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Nah, white-eyes, they’re in the wrong thread/group. Probably, reading this when they suddenly started to reply without changing the thread…hmmm…. Did my system go completely haywire or are you guys posting on the wrong thread?? I want my money back for Gravity. Wait a minute, it was free. That I can read. I’m using Netscape Communicator 4.5 I’ll go back once I install Opera. But I can’t recall ever having that problem elsewhere. Thanks.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – [snip] Install the free MS TweakUI, http://www.d-sheppard.f2s.com/tweakui.htm [snip] Could you recommend some display settings for me to use to be able to view this site? I see text in a pale green on a white background and the contrast is insufficient for me to read easily. I remember visiting this site before and leaving immediately because of the vision problem. And I’ve never failed a color blindness test! 
Aloha Must be a fault in your browser not loading backgrounds,Here’s what it looks like to most people, http://www.shep.08002go.com/tweak.gif :O)
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As for ghost you can create a boot disk that will load their program. If you are creating an image to a CD their is an option to make the CD bootable (You will need a bootable floppy). You also need to have an image of your drive to recover any data. If you want to only restore a partition, then make an image of each partition. If you make a drive image you will get both partitions and the MASTER BOOT RECORD. I recommend that if you are not sure to use the drive image. A drive image with -id set will recreate your drive and dual boot records. I don’t know enough about goback because I removed it from my system.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’ve read the posts here on creating a dual boot for win98 and Win2k. 1st install Win98 then Win2k to a separate partition. Can I use ghost to create a recovery disk? Do I do each partition separtely or the entire disk? Will the entire disk create an image of the dual boot situation? Can Goback be used with each OS? Any pitfalls or recommendation on how to do that? Warren Delete $ from email address to reply by email. This is done to prevent spam.
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Why are you gringos still here? We will cleanse you! We will impregnate your women and make them bear warriors for La Raza! "Bear warriors" – that’s kind of scary.
I guess they’ll all look like Jack Nicklaus, Jeff.
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Did my system go completely haywire or are you guys posting on the wrong thread?? I want my money back for Gravity. Wait a minute, it was free. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – That I can read. I’m using Netscape Communicator 4.5 I’ll go back once I install Opera. But I can’t recall ever having that problem elsewhere. Thanks. [snip] Install the free MS TweakUI, http://www.d-sheppard.f2s.com/tweakui.htm [snip] Could you recommend some display settings for me to use to be able to view this site? I see text in a pale green on a white background and the contrast is insufficient for me to read easily. I remember visiting this site before and leaving immediately because of the vision problem. And I’ve never failed a color blindness test! Aloha Must be a fault in your browser not loading backgrounds,Here’s what it looks like to most people, http://www.shep.08002go.com/tweak.gif :O)
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Now that you mentioned it, white-eyes. Yeah, we do!
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I think maybe the Indians wish we would ALL go away. LOL! and who’s la raza anyway? The bear trainer? in message Why are you gringos still here? We will cleanse you! We will impregnate your women and make them bear warriors for La Raza! "Bear warriors" – that’s kind of scary.
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Nah, white-eyes, they’re in the wrong thread/group. Probably, reading this when they suddenly started to reply without changing the thread…hmmm….
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Did my system go completely haywire or are you guys posting on the wrong thread?? I want my money back for Gravity. Wait a minute, it was free. That I can read. I’m using Netscape Communicator 4.5 I’ll go back once I install Opera. But I can’t recall ever having that problem elsewhere. Thanks. [snip] Install the free MS TweakUI, http://www.d-sheppard.f2s.com/tweakui.htm [snip] Could you recommend some display settings for me to use to be able to view this site? I see text in a pale green on a white background and the contrast is insufficient for me to read easily. I remember visiting this site before and leaving immediately because of the vision problem. And I’ve never failed a color blindness test! Aloha Must be a fault in your browser not loading backgrounds,Here’s what it looks like to most people, http://www.shep.08002go.com/tweak.gif :O)
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Used this method successfully in both WIN95 and WIN98. It’s not mine = (somebody named Errol wrote it), just found on -line back in ‘96. Begin: I suggest that you clean out the "WindowsTemp Internet Files", "WindowsTemp" folders, and Recycle Bin before you start. C:WINDOWSCLEANMGR.EXE I recommend the Drag/Drop method. There are still a couple of problems with XCOPY that show up from time to time. My recipe is written for the non technical user, and easy for the semi experienced user to skip over some steps (DON’T DO IT<s). I am getting mail back on a regular basis where my instructions have failed because (it has turned out) a step was skipped, ignored or improved on. Be careful. Good Luck, Errol "My RECIPE" for Moving your System to a NEW IDE/EIDE HARD DRIVE (rev.12/16/96) I will refer to your present HD as C, and your new HD as D. I assume you have already installed your new HD as a slave, it is set up in CMOS, and recognized by the system. If you don’t have a W98 Startup Disk, make one now from CONTROL PANEL/ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS/STARTUP DISK. (1) Boot with your W98 Startup Disk. From the A: Dos Prompt type FDISK, select "Change current fixed Disk Drive", and Select the # of your New Drive, usually # 2. It is helpful if you have used LABEL at the Dos Prompt, or Properties in Explorer to give your Old Drive or Drives a distinctive name. My choices are "OLD HD" and "NEW HD". If you should make a mistake, you will have to type in these words at some point before you will be able to wipe out a partition, and everything in it. I did once, and it’s a sick feeling. (2) From FDISK Select "Create Dos Partition or Logical Dos Drive", then Select, and Create a Primary Dos Partition (along with extended partitions, and logical dos drives if wanted). When finished exit FDISK and restart the computer. (3) From the A: Dos Prompt type FORMAT D:, remove the W98 Startup Disk and reboot the System to W98. (NOTE: that I did not use the "/S" switch, you will use "SYS C:" later). (4) To eliminate the possibility of "WIN386.SWP" causing problems in the following step, go to SYSTEM PROPERTIES/PERFORMANCE/VIRTUAL MEMORY, click on "let me specify my own virtual memory settings", and change the HARD DISK setting from C: to D:, click on OK, (ignore scary warnings) and click YES. Reboot and make sure "WIN386.SWP" is on D: and not C:. There are several Hidden Directories, and many Hidden Files from the W98 installation. From EXPLORER/VIEW/OPTIONS select "Show all Files".=20 You now want to make a Mirror Copy of Drive C on Drive D. From Explorer Drag and Drop everything from C to D. The best way to do this is Select the Drive letter in the Left Pane of Explorer, then Select the Directories, and Files to be copied in the Right Pane, Drag and Drop them onto D:. (ALT 4 Using XCOPY to transfer Files/Directories.) Copy, and Paste the following XCOPY line in OPEN, after selecting START/RUN from the W98 task bar.=20 XCOPY C: D: /c /e /h /k /r /s /C Ignores errors. /E Copies all sub directories, even if they are empty. Used with the /s and /t switches. /F Displays source and destination filenames while copying. /H Copies files with the hidden and system file attributes.=20 XCOPY will not copy hidden or system files by=20 default. /K Copies attributes. Normal Xcopy will reset read-only attributes. /R Copies over read-only files. /S Copies directories and sub directories, unless they are empty. If you omit this switch, XCOPY works within a single directory.=20 /P Prompts you before creating each destination file. (You don’t have to worry about WIN386.SWP being on C:, if you use XCOPY with the /C switch) Do not use XCOPY in DOS, it will destroy LFNs, and more. Use SCANDISK/THOROUGH on your new HD to insure integrity of transfer. (5) Power down your computer and reset the jumpers to make your New Drive the Master. [Leave your old drive out of the System for now] Power on your computer, and EDIT the CMOS drive table settings [if necessary] to reflect the change, continue booting with your W98 startup Disk. (6) From your W98 Startup Disk, type FDISK, and select "Set Active Partition", exit FDISK. From the floppy A: prompt type "SYS C:", (this is in place of the "/S" switch mentioned above). Exit FDISK, remove the Disk from the floppy, and restart the Computer. If you have followed the instructions accurately, you are now running with your new HD, in W98 exactly the same as you were before. BE AWARE if you followed the #(4)steps W98 will be looking for "WIN386.SWP" on D: when you Boot. You will want to change it back to C:, and reboot. When you are satisfied that everything is working properly, install your old HD as Slave, (if you plan to use it) and edit the CMOS drive table (if necessary). Some systems do not like a bootable disk [your old drive C] connected as a slave, and may not boot up. If this should happen you will need to boot with your W98 Startup Disk, use FDISK on your old HD, [I assume you have a mirror copy of it on your new HD] and reboot. Good Luck Errol Hope Errol’s recipe helps, E J –=20 email address is bogus to foil spammers.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello Win-ners, My old HD got very slow over the years and so I bought me a new HD, on = which Win98 should run . To avoid the effort of installing all progs once = again to the new HD, I decided to move all data + Win 98 from my old HD to my new, already formatted HD by physically copying all HD-sectors with = the tool HDCopy V2 (Shareware). But booting from the new HD didn’t work = (error: VFAT not found). So my question is: Is is possible, by usage of any systemtool, to copy one HD to another in the way, that booting and OS-usage is possible = from the new HD? Any help would be appreciated. =20 T. Lehrmann =20 =20
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When I download Windows Media Player 7.1 from Microsoft and it loads, X10 registers is as "X10 Media Player". Does anyone know how to get rid of this? I also have some kind of X10 virus. It seems that almost every website I go to a second window of X10’s site open at the same time. Any ideas? Thanks. Rob
Short discussion at alt.comp.freeware.discussion <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&th=afbe0fcfd2cbc7a8,2 Also, take a look at this — From the NY Times … <http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/technology/ebusiness/23WEB.html?sea… [quote] July 23, 2001 Pop-Up Web Ads Pose a Measurement Puzzle By SAUL HANSELL The landscape of the Web has changed. Or maybe not. The widely followed ranking of Web sites by Jupiter Media Metrix (news/quote) indicates that X10.com is now the fourth-most-visited site on the Internet, after America Online, Microsoft (news/quote) and Yahoo (news/quote), and ahead of Terra Lycos (news/quote). But Nielsen/NetRatings, the other major Web audience measurement service, ranks X10.com at No. 116. The discrepancy is only one of the issues raised by X10 Wireless Technologies, a Seattle company that sells gadgets to appeal to the do-it-yourself James Bond. The reason so many people visit X10’s Web site — and the reason Nielsen/Net Ratings does not count much of the company’s traffic — is that X10 uses an advertising technology that opens an X10 Web page on a surfer’s computer screen, whether the surfer wants it there or not. This type of ad is a relatively new form called a pop-under. And X10 has been most eager to take advantage of the new willingness of the major Web publishers, desperate for advertising revenue, to sell the sort of big and intrusive advertisements they would have shunned even six months ago. Pop-under ads are distinct from the pop- up windows long seen by users of AOL Time Warner (news/quote)’s flagship America Online service that appear on top of other pages. The X10 ads open up in a separate, full browser window — a window underneath whatever site the user is viewing. Only after the user closes the chosen window, presumably because it is time to do something else, does the lurking pop-under window become visible. The technique was originally developed by the online pornography industry, and it has raised a debate among publishers and advertisers about whether this format is simply too obnoxious to be an effective way to sell things. Richard V. Hopple, chief executive of Unicast, which makes technology to provide pop-up ads with sound and motion, argues that the X10 ads are giving such advertising an undeserved bad reputation. "An ad ought to play on a page or in between pages of a site," he said. "In a pop-under, the ad plays on my spreadsheet after I close my browser window. I paid for the spreadsheet; the advertiser didn’t. It’s like running a commercial after I tried to turn the television off." But what better time to run a commercial, counters Emmanuel Schalit, president of Flipside. Mr. Schalit’s company is the online games unit of Vivendi Universal (news/quote), the French media conglomerate. Vivendi, through a series of mergers, has come to own a small Los Angeles company called Traffic Market Place that has developed the technology used for pop-under campaigns by X10 and others including Vivendi’s own game site, Iwin.com. Pop-under ads, Mr. Schalit said, are "more attractive both to publishers and to consumers than classical pop-ups because they do not interrupt the flow of your Internet session," Mr. Schalit said. But Marissa Gluck, an analyst with Jupiter Media Metrix, said the data shows that consumers find the X10 ads anything but attractive. "X10 has sparked the most violent reaction from consumers," she wrote in a recent report. She found that 73 percent of the people seeing the X10 ads left the page within 20 seconds. That is a much more rapid defection, she wrote, than even for pop-up ads. Nonetheless, some of the biggest Web publishers — including Microsoft, Yahoo, Primedia (news/quote) and TheNew York Times (news/quote) — have decided to accept pop-ups and pop-unders. Other advertisers besides X10 that are making heavy use of such ads to draw traffic to their sites include eBay (news/quote) and Real Networks. Quite apart from the question of whether pop-under ads are too intrusive for users is the debate about whether they should be treated like any other Web site for the purposes of audience rankings. For some industry executives, the controversy over the ads includes whether Jupiter Media Metrix should be counting pop-under ads as visits to Web sites in the same category as visits to America Online and Yahoo. For these critics, it as if TV ratings counted beer commercials as part of prime-time programming. Steve Coffey, Jupiter’s executive vice president, argues that if a Budweiser commercial were in fact a 30- minute infomercial, it would indeed be tallied in the Nielsen ratings. Similarly, once a Web ad grows large enough to appear in its own browser window (rather than as a part of some other page), Jupiter will count it like any other Web page. "There is a danger in making editorial judgments about what goes on the list," Mr. Coffey said. "Our job is to report what is happening on the Internet." But several leading publishers support Nielsen/NetRatings in its contention that an advertisement is not in itself a Web site, even if it pops up in a separate window. "X10 is a completely different kind of animal from Yahoo or AOL or MSN, and it should not appear in the audience measurement," said Anke Audenaert, Yahoo’s director of global market research. And yet, the debate highlights a reality of the Web medium: the monthly rankings of the top sites have always been a hodgepodge, mixing advertising-supported sites like Yahoo with online stores like Amazon.com (news/quote) and all manner of hybrids and combinations. "You can’t buy ads on Nasa.gov, but we still rank it too," Mr. Coffey said. And indeed, the advertisers and publishers that buy the Jupiter and Nielsen/Net Ratings services do not so much rely on the published rankings as they slice and dice the data in an effort to divine the composition and habits of Web users. "The top 10 list is a data point, but we have lots of data points," said Sharon Katz, media director at Modem Media (news/quote), a Norwalk, Conn., advertising agency. She says she has no concerns about how the X10 site’s audience is reported. Ms. Katz, like many in the Internet advertising and publishing world, says she still finds the ratings services to be lacking in many ways, especially their measurement of users in offices and at universities. But she acknowledges that the ratings have improved from the early days. Whatever their limits, the top site lists published by the ratings services have played an important symbolic role during the short and hectic life of the World Wide (news/quote) Web — guiding investors, journalists and executives looking to find the Internet’s next hot trend. Rapid rises in audience ratings, for example, helped create the first public notice of eBay, the auction site, and Geocities, which let users make personal home pages. Indeed, it was the audience provided by Geocities, rather than its meager revenue, that caused Yahoo to buy it for $4 billion in 1999. If there is any real impact from the ratings for the new pop-under ads, it may be for those sites that are both buyers and sellers of advertising — like Real.com and Iwin.com, both active buyers ofpop-up and pop- under advertising. Rebecca Young, the vice president for marketing at Nielsen/NetRatings, argued that counting such both types of ads would overstate those sites audiences and distort the analysis of their users’ demographic characteristics. "At the end of day, advertising is sold based on these sites," Ms. Young said. "It is intentionally misleading to include demographics based on advertising on a site like X10." Nielson/Net Ratings has created a series of filters so it will not count windows that contain only a single advertisement, although it concedes its approach is not foolproof. X10, since it is paying for the pop- under ads is presumably motivated more by sales than ratings. It is hard to know for sure, since Robin Champion, its spokeswoman and Alex Peder, its president, did not return calls seeking comment. But Mr. Schalit of Vivendi said X10’s objective was clearly to sell more products. "Getting high on the Media Metrix ratings was not a goal of X10," he said. "Their goal was to make money." Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company [end quote]
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That I can read. I’m using Netscape Communicator 4.5 I’ll go back once I install Opera. But I can’t recall ever having that problem elsewhere. Thanks. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – [snip] Install the free MS TweakUI, http://www.d-sheppard.f2s.com/tweakui.htm [snip] Could you recommend some display settings for me to use to be able to view this site? I see text in a pale green on a white background and the contrast is insufficient for me to read easily. I remember visiting this site before and leaving immediately because of the vision problem. And I’ve never failed a color blindness test! Aloha Must be a fault in your browser not loading backgrounds,Here’s what it looks like to most people, http://www.shep.08002go.com/tweak.gif :O)
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After reinstalling windows 98SE on my system I have two problems: 1. My system won’t remember my inlog passwords even though I ticked the box remember password. I know that I have to mark or change some setting somewhere but can’t find the place to do it.
Your password file is corrupt. Delete your <username.PWL file and the equivalent line in SYSTEM.INI’s [Password Lists] section. Reboot, enter your usual username but leave the password blank. Click OK, then confirm the blank password by clicking OK once more. Now logon to your ISP. Once connection is established, your passwords will be saved. 2. My network settings and ISP have dissapppeared and I don’t see a loginbox when I start my system up. When I try to look at network neighbourhood I get an error message that the network is not setup correctly. I have checked the settings and everything looks normal.
Since you can obviously logon (according to point 1 above) I fail to see how you don’t have an ISP. And what do you mean by normal? At the very minimum you need a dialup adapter with the TCP/IP protocol bound to it. You don’t need a client unless you’re on a network or have multiple profiles enabled. Windows logon suffices for single-users. You also need a connection to your ISP in dialup networking. HTH — Peter C. Forrest http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk
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Hallo mr. Forrest, I have managed to reload the news group so I will continue the sory here….. I do have a logon problem. I checked the register as suggested. defaultusername = "username" dontdsiplaylast username = 0 there is no entry for Autoadminlogin.
I assume "username" isn’t your actual username (if it is, change it to something more appropriate by deleting your PWL file etc, and logging on once more). However, please quote registry entries *precisely* as they appear in the registry. Typos in your posts are of no use to us when tracking potential problems… The two entries above should read: "DefaultUserName"="username" "DontDisplayLastUserName"="0" If they don’t, change them accordingly. Windows won’t understand the spacing that you’ve quoted, although in this case the default value for "DontDisplayLastUserName" is zero, anyway. Regardless, please quote code precisely. now I will try and explain the problem onece again: When I start my host I am logged on to Windows but not with my username. In the Start menu I can logoff from windows and then logon again to the network with my username. This is the only way OE will remember my login password. If I donot logoff and then logon again using my username my password will not be remembered by the system. Even if I tick the box remember password!
Right – you’re certainly logging on as the default user (equivalent to hitting ESC at logon). I must have misread you earlier. My apologies. I’m afraid I’m at a loss. You say CMN is the Primary Network Logon? Yet you’re not being presented with the Network logon? That should be impossible. CMN *always* presents the logon, even if you use Tweak UI to logon automatically. The only thing I can think of is that a third-party program is somehow interfering in the logon process. Please explain in detail what occurs when you delete the PWL files and SYSTEM.INI [Password Lists] entries. When you logon are you prompted for a new Network Logon? Or do you have to logoff to enter your new Network Logon? Or do you see something else completely? Have you tried entering a password? Perhaps CMN works like Windows Logon in that it logs on automatically when no password is presented – the difference being that it logs on anonymously rather than using your supplied username. By the way I used to have Tweak UI on my system but it didnot seem to work so I removed the program using the correct process some months ago. Is there perhaps somewhere in the registry that I can check to see is this old prog could be causing the problem?
Tweak UI could actually provide a solution here – by logging you on automatically. Re-install it and give it a go. More information on Tweak UI and its Logon tab is available here: http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk/tweakui.htm If it doesn’t help, uninstall it normally. If you prefer, the manual cleanup process is as follows: Start Find Files or Folders. Enter TWEAKUI.* (tweakui<dot<star). Search all hard-drives and all sub-folders, and delete all files found. To complete the cleanup, you need to remove some registry entries. Backup the registry: Start Run SCANREGW /BACKUP Start Run REGEDIT Delete the following values – if the exist: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun Delete the "Tweak UI" value (right panel). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunServices Delete the "Tweak UI" value (right panel). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWinlogon Delete the "DefaultPassword" value (right panel). HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionUninstall Delete the entire "TweakUI" key (**** LEFT PANEL ****). This is really driving me crazy!
I can imagine. I really want to get this solved then I can really check if my network is working ok or not.
The only problem you appear to have relates to the logon process itself. It sounds like you’re logging on anonymously, but quite why that is if CMN is the Primary Network Logon I don’t know. Hopefully someone else has come across the problem or has further suggestions for you. However I’m not yet willing to give up on this. The solution is there – we just haven’t found it yet. HTH — Peter C. Forrest http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk ’The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The continuing story of…… Hello PCForrester, PCForrest, actually. First the good news, my PC appears not to "crash" anymore. I followed your suggestion and removed all the hostnetwork’s protocol components. I think the problem was in the Internet Shaping Protocol. I reinstalled: Client for Microsoft Networks File and Printer Sharing protocol Network adaptor TCP / IP Extern adaptor TCP / IP Network Card Netbeui (Network won’t run without it!) Primary login is CMN Internet works on my host PC My network appears to be up and running again but only after I follow the login procedure mentioned below Logon procedure: The problem I still have is that When I startup the host PC the system doesnot ask for a network password. I must logoff from windows and then I see the network logon screen with my username (password blank) and I click OK. OK – you’re making good progress. Let’s look at the logon procedure more closely. Previously, you stated that Logoff <username appeared on the menu. This clearly demonstrates you are logged on. So why no logon? I have a sneaky suspicion you’ve got Tweak UI’s AutoLogon enabled on the host machine. However, if that were so, you’d still see the logon prompt. Perhaps it is shown so briefly you just can’t see it (unusual, but not impossible). Fire up Tweak UI and check the Network tab. Disable the feature if it is enabled. If you don’t have Tweak UI, then simply ignore this advice. It doesn’t apply. The only other thing that comes to mind is that because you have no password Windows is logging you on automatically. I’m not in a position to test this since I have profiles enabled on all my machines (so the logon appears by default). However, it’s possible CMN works like Windows logon when no password is present and you;re the only user. As long as the last username isn’t cleared at logon, it will automatically logon. To confirm this supposition, run REGEDIT and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWinlogon If there’s an "AutoAdminLogon" value with a value of 1, change it to 0. Make sure "DontDisplayLastUserName" is set to 0 (to ensure it isn’t cleared at logon). Hopefully, that’ll resolve the logon problem, although it isn’t really a problem if it is logging on automatically. (The client PC starts up with a Network login screen with my Username which is fantastic!) I want to wait with installing the Internet Sharing Protocol until the login problem is solved. I have tried several times to remove the file username.pwl and editing the system.ini file. This hasnot solved the problem. Also OE willnot remember passwords. Doesnot matter what I do I alway have to type in my password when logging on to my ISP. OE has no bearing on this. All ISP passwords are provided by <username.PWL, but you need to at least be logged on under that username. You also need to connect to your ISP at least once, successfully, before the password will be remembered. Make sure you checkmark the Save Password option when dialing up. If you’re still having problems, it’s possible the RNA.PWL is causing them. This is essentially used by anonymous users, so make sure *all* PWL files are deleted, and all entries below [Password Lists] are removed. You being the only user won’t cause any problems with this. Repeat the logon procedure (with no password) to recreate your PWL file. Then try logging on to your ISP. If you could give me your valued assement of this situation I would be more than thankful. Your words of support have encouraged me to continue in my quest to solve this problem. You’re welcome. I think you’re well on the way to a solution. The remaining problems are relatively minor, but hopefully the above will help you to resolve them outright. But wait… what’s this… BTW I am running ZoneAlarm 2.6.88 and donot really understand what you wrote about unristricted access and loopback address 127.0.0.1. ZA doesnot allow you to blockports. ZoneAlarm (personal use) isn’t exactly the most configurable of firewalls. It’s also the most likely cause of your network failures – it simply doesn’t support ICS. To be precise, security must be compromised in order to use ICS with ZA. Best thing to do is uninstall ZA until you’ve got the network and ICS working properly. The chances of being remotely attacked during this period are slim in the extreme. Once everything is up and running you can experiment with the firewall. However, it’s probably best to get one that is more configurable. I had to ditch the free version of ZA after installing ICS. The Pro version of ZA would be a better option since it permits blocking at port-level. But, as I say, get the network up and
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dontdsiplaylast username = 0 there is no entry for Autoadminlogin. now I will try and explain the problem onece again: When I start my host I am logged on to Windows but not with my username. In the Start menu I can logoff from windows and then logon again to the network with my username. This is the only way OE will remember my login password. If I donot logoff and then logon again using my username my password will not be remembered by the system. Even if I tick the box remember password! By the way I used to have Tweak UI on my system but it didnot seem to work so I removed the program using the correct process some months ago. Is there perhaps somewhere in the registry that I can check to see is this old prog could be causing the problem? This is really driving me crazy! I really want to get this solved then I can really check if my network is working ok or not. Thanks
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The continuing story of…… Hello PCForrester, PCForrest, actually. First the good news, my PC appears not to "crash" anymore. I followed your suggestion and removed all the hostnetwork’s protocol components. I think the problem was in the Internet Shaping Protocol. I reinstalled: Client for Microsoft Networks File and Printer Sharing protocol Network adaptor TCP / IP Extern adaptor TCP / IP Network Card Netbeui (Network won’t run without it!) Primary login is CMN Internet works on my host PC My network appears to be up and running again but only after I follow the login procedure mentioned below Logon procedure: The problem I still have is that When I startup the host PC the system doesnot ask for a network password. I must logoff from windows and then I see the network logon screen with my username (password blank) and I click OK. OK – you’re making good progress. Let’s look at the logon procedure more closely. Previously, you stated that Logoff <username appeared on the menu. This clearly demonstrates you are logged on. So why no logon? I have a sneaky suspicion you’ve got Tweak UI’s AutoLogon enabled on the host machine. However, if that were so, you’d still see the logon prompt. Perhaps it is shown so briefly you just can’t see it (unusual, but not impossible). Fire up Tweak UI and check the Network tab. Disable the feature if it is enabled. If you don’t have Tweak UI, then simply ignore this advice. It doesn’t apply. The only other thing that comes to mind is that because you have no password Windows is logging you on automatically. I’m not in a position to test this since I have profiles enabled on all my machines (so the logon appears by default). However, it’s possible CMN works like Windows logon when no password is present and you;re the only user. As long as the last username isn’t cleared at logon, it will automatically logon. To confirm this supposition, run REGEDIT and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWinlogon If there’s an "AutoAdminLogon" value with a value of 1, change it to 0. Make sure "DontDisplayLastUserName" is set to 0 (to ensure it isn’t cleared at logon). Hopefully, that’ll resolve the logon problem, although it isn’t really a problem if it is logging on automatically. (The client PC starts up with a Network login screen with my Username which is fantastic!) I want to wait with installing the Internet Sharing Protocol until the login problem is solved. I have tried several times to remove the file username.pwl and editing the system.ini file. This hasnot solved the problem. Also OE willnot remember passwords. Doesnot matter what I do I alway have to type in my password when logging on to my ISP. OE has no bearing on this. All ISP passwords are provided by <username.PWL, but you need to at least be logged on under that username. You also need to connect to your ISP at least once, successfully, before the password will be remembered. Make sure you checkmark the Save Password option when dialing up. If you’re still having problems, it’s possible the RNA.PWL is causing them. This is essentially used by anonymous users, so make sure *all* PWL files are deleted, and all entries below [Password Lists] are removed. You being the only user won’t cause any problems with this. Repeat the logon procedure (with no password) to recreate your PWL file. Then try logging on to your ISP. If you could give me your valued assement of this situation I would be more than thankful. Your words of support have encouraged me to continue in my quest to solve this problem. You’re welcome. I think you’re well on the way to a solution. The remaining problems are relatively minor, but hopefully the above will help you to resolve them outright. But wait… what’s this… BTW I am running ZoneAlarm 2.6.88 and donot really understand what you wrote about unristricted access and loopback address 127.0.0.1. ZA doesnot allow you to blockports. ZoneAlarm (personal use) isn’t exactly the most configurable of firewalls. It’s also the most likely cause of your network failures – it simply doesn’t support ICS. To be precise, security must be compromised in order to use ICS with ZA. Best thing to do is uninstall ZA until you’ve got the network and ICS working properly. The chances of being remotely attacked during this period are slim in the extreme. Once everything is up and running you can experiment with the firewall. However, it’s probably best to get one that is more configurable. I had to ditch the free version of ZA after installing ICS. The Pro version of ZA would be a better option since it permits blocking at port-level. But, as I say, get the network up and running first, then worry about the security aspects. HTH — Peter C. Forrest http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk ’The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.’ – Albert Einstein Thanks PCForrest. I now seem to have my network back again but internet sharing doesnot work! Uninstall ICS, then re-install it. Also still having the login problem that I told you about Which logon problem? You’ll have to be clearer, I’m afraid. and now I have the network up and running my host pc " crashes" "explorer not responding". The shell is crashing. All the programs in my tasktray are ended and I have to login again to the network. Cannot find any link to a running program. Happens wether I am on line or not on line. Do you have a firewall running? If so, make sure all networked PCs have unrestricited access to the IP range: 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255. Each PC should also have unrestricted access to its own loopback address (127.0.0.1). If your firewall resolves your machine names, rules must also be included to permit access to and from each named machine. The ICS host will also have additional names using its own name followed by a numbered tag, such as ‘-i1′. These are used to route ICS traffic to the clients. Also, block the following ports both to and from the Internet: 137, 138, 139 and 445. Note that some firewalls don’t like ICS too much. Consult the documentation for workarounds. Your advice and help has been appreciated but slowly I am getting very discouraged and am beginning to think that I should maybe reinstall the whole PC and start again. what do you think? No – certainly not. And don’t be discouraged. When you get it fixed you’ll be far better prepared should the event ever re-occur. Since this all began with re-installing IE, it’d be agood idea to re-install it – or at least repair it. Failing that, remove all the host’s network components and start over. Get the Internet connection going first – it’s the easiest. Then get the network back up and running. Finally add ICS. Take it one step at a time – and test each stage is working before moving to the next. The number of reboots required is off-putting, but it must be done all the same. If the shell is still crashing, you’ll have to establish what it is you’re doing to cause it. Start by disabling all startups on the host and reboot. If all is well, the problem lies in one or more of your startups. If not, you should run SFC and check system file integrity. And if there’s still no success, re-run Windows setup. There are very few problems that can’t be resolved this way, and you won’t have to re-install all your applications. Re-apply updates as necessary. HTH — Peter C. Forrest http://www.pcforrest.freeserve.co.uk See below
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Why are you gringos still here? We will cleanse you! We will impregnate your women and make them bear warriors for La Raza!
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Why are you gringos still here? We will cleanse you! We will impregnate your women and make them bear warriors for La Raza! You can not stop us, we will use any means necessary to destroy you! Just ask the 11 gringas in Simi Valley that Vincent Sanchez went up inside! Up in them like a jalapeno! Before you can finish another prison that holds 5,000 there are another 100,000 La Raza soldiers all around you! Go back to Europe while you can! August 1, 2001 Talk about it E-mail story Print VENTURA COUNTY Rape Suspect Charged With 57 Criminal Counts Hearing: Vincent Sanchez does not enter a plea to accusations involving 11 attacks. His roommates explain why they became suspicious. By MARGARET TALEV and TRACY WILSON, TIMES STAFF WRITERS A suspected serial rapist was charged with 57 criminal counts Tuesday for allegedly sexually assaulting 11 women in Simi Valley during the past five years. Vincent Henry Sanchez, a 30-year-old part-time movie studio employee, appeared briefly in Ventura County Superior Court but did not enter a plea to the charges, which include counts of kidnapping, rape and assault with a deadly weapon. His arraignment was postponed until Aug. 10. Sanchez is being held in lieu of $1-million bail. Prosecutors will ask a judge this week to hold him without bail, however, saying that he poses a threat to the community. "The defendant has been terrorizing Simi Valley for the past five years," Deputy Dist. Atty. Lisa Lee said after Tuesday’s hearing. "He is an extreme danger." Police said they were awaiting the results of DNA tests, which they hope will directly link Sanchez to at least three rapes. This week they obtained a search warrant to compel Sanchez to provide a blood or saliva sample, a police spokesman said. Sanchez is accused of breaking into the homes of women late at night and sexually assaulting them at knifepoint. In other cases, he allegedly kidnapped women, drove them to isolated locations and attacked them. Despite a five-year investigation that included a six-member task force, analysis of hundreds of DNA samples and assistance from the FBI and other agencies, Simi Valley police said they had no solid leads until last week. The break came after Sanchez was arrested Thursday on suspicion of an unrelated burglary at a neighbor’s home. Over the weekend, his roommates searched the house and uncovered evidence they believed linked Sanchez to sexual assaults. One of the roommates contacted police, and Sanchez was arrested Sunday on suspicion of rape, burglary and kidnapping. On Tuesday, his roommates recalled the break in the case. Their neighbors had told them that several items were missing from a house they were selling, including a shower head and a screen door. When Sanchez’s roommates checked their rented five-bedroom tract house, they found some of the missing items stashed around the yard, they said. Adding to their growing suspicions, roommate Steve Frueh recalled Tuesday, was a call from Sanchez from jail–a call that ultimately led one of the roommates to call police. "Vincent said, ‘You need to dig something out of the trash for me, personal pictures of me and my girlfriend,’ " Frueh said. Frueh said Sanchez asked him to dispose of the items. "I said OK, but then I got curious," he said. "I opened the bag up and it wasn’t him and his girlfriend. It was nasty pictures and videotapes . . . six or eight pairs of panties, gold jewelry." The roommates flipped through two dozen or so pictures, Frueh said, and saw women they did not know. The women were naked on beds or in chairs, in some cases tied up. In most, their eyes were half-shut and appeared glazed over, Frueh said. Roommate Josh Reno watched part of one video; he said it showed a man wearing a mask, gloves and black clothing, and a naked woman whose leg appeared to be bleeding. He said police asked him not to share other details about the video and the accompanying audio. "Once I saw it, it was full shock," he said. "I called 911." On Tuesday, the home Sanchez shared with four roommates had been turned inside-out by police. Cushions from a sofa had been taken for lab tests. Clothing, videotapes and other items were strewn about the living room floor. Sanchez has lived at the home for five years. He had become increasingly aggressive, reclusive and unreliable over the course of the last year, his roommates said, borrowing money and treating his girlfriend poorly. Still, they said, there was no reason to believe he was involved in anything sinister. "We didn’t have a clue," said Frueh, who has lived at the house only two months, but has been Sanchez’s neighbor and acquaintance for years. "I feel like puking. My stomach feels kind of queasy." Reno, who has lived at the house for four years, said he and Sanchez initially were buddies. The two took trips together. On their travels, Sanchez usually took a video camera, Reno said. The videos were goofy and harmless, usually involving the roommates hamming it up. Reno said they visited Sanchez’s parents in the Palmdale area, whom he described as caring and stable. Reno said Sanchez also had a brother who seemed friendly and usually paid Sanchez’s rent for him. But Reno and Frueh said their relationship with Sanchez soured over time. Los Angeles court records show that Sanchez served two years in state prison for injuring the child of a former girlfriend while they lived together in Lancaster. Simi Valley police said Sanchez also has a record for burglary. Sanchez faces consecutive life prison terms if found guilty of the rape charges and related allegations. * Times staff writer Holly Wolcott contributed to this story. Simi Valley Assaults Here is a list of sexual assaults authorities suspect were committed by Vincent Henry Sanchez from 1996 through 2000. Several of the crimes involved several assaults, and nearly all involved residential burglaries. *–* Sept. 2, 1996 Rape of a 19-year-old woman Jan. 12, 1997 Assault of a 21-year-old woman June 14, 1997 Kidnapping of an 18-year-old woman Oct. 25, 1997 Kidnapping of a 15-year-old girl March 22, 1998 Rape of a 15-year-old girl May 4, 1999 Kidnapping and rape of a 25-year-old woman Oct. 31, 1999 Kidnapping and rape of a 20-year-old woman Feb. 11, 2000 Rape of a 35-year-old woman March 15, 2000 Assault of a 23-year-old woman March 16, 2000 Kidnapping and rape of a 22-year-old woman Nov. 9, 2000 Assault of a 29-year-old woman *–* Source: Ventura County district attorney’s office
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