OT.computer help

your problem is how your web rowswer sees the fonst on web pages if you're using internet exploerer you need to go to: the view menu and go down to "test size" adjust accordingly

Scott M. Toothman -

In IE, go to the View menu, Text Size, Medium. As per the photo:

Alternatively, you can hold down SHIFT and scroll with the scrollwheel on your mouse.

Sorry, meant Ctrl. Shift+Scroll goes backwards/fowards in your web browsing history.

Or better yet, go to Mozilla.org and start using Firefox as your browser. :)

Downloaded Firefox last week (it's free). Flawless! No pop-up ads, secure, easy browsing. Best of all, my Netscrape bookmarks import directly.

This is posted with Xana News (free) newsreader. Also lots of nice features.

Break the Billy Gates habit today!

Speedy Jim

I totally agree with Speedy, and you can also replace Microsoft Outlook with something more secure called ThunderBird. It does not have the same problems MS has and is much more secure.

Firefox also supports some great extensions and themes.

"Speedy Jim" wrote:

U?ytkownik Jim napisa?:

You can try Mozilla... and you should try Mandrakelinux!!

Next, if you decide you have to run windoze (I still do. *blush*), at least go to ctrl panel, networks, then remove all protocols except IP from your adapter bindings. You don't need all of that netbios crap anyway. Trust me. ;-) IP is like aircooled. netbios is like watercooled. :-D

Or download Opera, free with ad banner, not very expensive to buy either..

J.

Shaggie.

When I hit "Configure" for my fast Ethernet adapter, then "Advanced" I have the following settings (Win 2000):

Adaptive Interrupt: Enabled Connection Type: Auto-Negotiation Flow Control: Hardware Default (Auto) Network Address: Not Present Receive Buffers: 64 Transmit Buffers: 64

Would you recomend any changes?

Tanx in advance.

J.

I have no problems with Outlook Express with XPSP2.

I don't understand Opera .. why put up with ad banners for free or even have to buy a web browser when Mozilla Firefox has it all and it's open source to boot!

bug

No, I wouldn't change it. Mine looks nothing like that in win2k, but mine's a different adapter with different driver. Tweaking your

10/100 adapter to try to squeeze a little more out of it won't make a difference in speed for any of your online stuff anyway since the bottleneck will be your connection to the internet, not your 10/100 adapter. I don't mess with the client stuff with my job much at all, normally stick to the big switches. Working on a project right now (that I can talk about since it's already installed on multiple customer sites) called CSG (content service gateway) that lets users define content types for deep packet inspection for...billing. That's right, next time y'all watch a little video or something like that on your cell phone and get a bill for it... If it overcharges you then I wasn't responsible for testing that portion of the code. ;-)

I would highly recommend to download "HijackThis" and learn to use it in scanning for bad stuff infecting your computer. It takes a little research to learn how to use it, but I find it helps kill virtually ALL the garbage other "anti-spy" progams may miss. However, USE CAUTION because it's very powerful and could make your system malfunction if used improperly.

Deb 71 SB

I would reccomend: Spybot Search & Destroy - no research needed totally FREE and EFFECTIVE. I use it on all my computers and hasn't cause a problem yet - simply use it like an anti-virurs application the link is below

I would highly recommend to download "HijackThis" and learn to use it in

I use Spybot and Ad-Aware for the same purpose, Spybot doesn't recognize everything that Ad-Aware does, and vice versa.

in addition to that I have an antivirus program (AntiVir) and a software firewall (ZoneAlarm).

All are 100% free and do their job pretty well.

Jan

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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 18:02:14 +0300, Jan Andersson scribbled this interesting note:

But has Spybot been updated yet? Last time I checked it had been months and months since the last update!:~(

-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)

You're supposed to run the program's internal updater. They don't update the main program that often but they do the updates all the time.

FWIW, I generally boot a system with my PE disc

and run F-Prot, Norton and McAfee on theclient's machine. Then I boot into the machine in safe mode if possibleand run Ad-Aware and Spybot. Finally to check for home page hijackers andBHOs, I run HijackThis Then I scold the user not to click on popups or install freebies. :)