yordan

I guess that display 4 is used in order to watch movies which are physically files on the PC And the reason is that probably the Television in the Lounge has a wider display and there is more room for friends watching the movies.

Of course not! If I had purchased such hardware and such extra options, I would have obtained the user manuals, and I would have already posted the concerned pages here. I don't personally have this device, I don't know where you have bought it, I cannot go the this shop and ask for the extra administration tools not included in the standard package

I agrree, the basic administration interface is still accessible at the same address, which is the way it should behave. Simply you need more administration options, which are not given for free with this device. Now, the next step is to see if these extra administration options are available from the manufacturer, for free or not free.

I did it, the answer is very simple. 1. The hard drive is wiped off completely, all user's partitions are destroyed, the system is re-installed in a single partition using the whole disk. 2. The user is asked : you will loose your data, if you agree click "OK". I expected this to mean "your system data will be re-created and your user partitions will remain untouched", and I clicked OK. And all my data were lost, exactly as stated by the question. 3. My two partitions were distroyed and replace by a single one containing 2 gigs system, so no way for restoring the lost data. So, the first thing, after installing a new system and having created user data partitions, is to start a backup campaign on a daily and monthly basis : every do a differential backup of your text data and pictures (for instance a xcopy with the appropriate date syntax in order to avoid backup up untouched text/picture files. And every month, a system backup of your boot disk, and a differential backup of your whole data disk, in order to copy all the new files to an external disk. Of course, you also should have a look at the external disk health, I just lost my picture and music external disk, one week after having lost the motherboard of my main PC!

OK. Previously you had a very standard device, so a lot of free or paid programs were able to do the simple job you were talking about. Now you have a wifi hotspot, everybody connects directly to that hotspot. Now the only thing you can do is probly disabling some of the mac addresses, in order to allow only some people the Internet access, and deny to the other ones. And also, as usually in the cloud world, there are a lot of things open due to the cloud organization, and a lot of headache for system administrators who want to see and control what happens on their datacenter/home. So, the best thing is to look at the EVO WIFI CLOUD organization website and see which private software they can sell in order to control your your device from an external PC. Or have a look at the modem user guide and/or administrator guide, in order to see if some of the features you need happen to be already included in the device you purchased. Regards Yordan

Hi, salih, You have to register in order to access the private message system.

All OEM PC's today have this feature. This avoids the need from the customer to buy the Microsoft installation disk. The manufacturer pre-installs windows, and this pre-install settings can be written to a DVD (this should the first thing to be done by the customer). If you don't want to burn this rescue disk by yourself, you can buy it (from HP for instance). When you boot off the rescue disk, it will re-install the PC exactly as it was delivered by the factory. This is the last-chance action, if nothing else could help you. This is also the state your PC will get if you have a giant hardware or software problem and you ship it back to the manufacturer, they will put the system in the initial factory state.

You should first explain us how your PC is connected to the internet. Usually, nowodays, a PC is connected, throuwh an Ethernet cable or through wifi, to a DSL box. The DSL box is connected to the phone line, and converts the phone signal do signal received by the PC as a connexion to the network. Il this your setting? How is your PC connected to the internet? Once we will have understood the way the PC's are now connected to the internet, we will refine the proxy things. The best private proxy I have used is WinGate, unfortunately it's rather expensive. I also have used privoxy, it's less comfortable but it's free.

I would say that there is an easy way. Your modem is a proxy server, and a DNS server, that's why all computers are connected to the internet. Simply disable the DNS and the proxy server facilities, limit them to a single computer, your computer. Then install a private proxy (privoxy for instance if you want a free one, some commercial private proxy are even better). And give all the client computer a fixed IP address, outside the DNS and DHCP range of the modem. Configure your own privoxy computer as a proxy for all your client PC's. On the privoxy server you wil see which website is accessed by each client PC's, and monitor the activity. Of course, adding a network sniffer will improve your capabilities. Hope this helped Yordan

That's a point of view. Last time I used the rescue disk on a friend computer, it said "do you agree all the data will be lost?", I said "Yes", and it wiped off the whole disk. Current computer are sold with a "create a rescue disk" program, which creates a rescue DVD. No Windows disk is currently sold, it's a way limiting the illegal copy problem. And of course, the rescue disk works only if you did not modify your hardware, no disk change or other hardware tricks. And last time I thought it would only format the c: disk I was really stuipid, it dropped everything and all my friend text writing work was lost.

Hello! Nice single keyword, isn't it?

Not totally agree. Hardware components you often need, I'll for sure forget which Ethernet adapter I have and which burner I use on my computer, moreover which webcam and wich microphone are embedded on my laptop? Also looking what softwares are currently installed will help checking if I have all of them ready to be installed again. And of course we are here talking about a clean full install, so wiping everything in order to get the full disk space available could also be interesting.

Thanks for the info, velma. And thanks OpaQue for the good job you are doing.

Fine, life is nice today, let's enjoy!

Ahem... Brom... sigh... I must confess... not a single one

Hi, Feelay, nice to see you back! Yes, OpaQue did a great job with the last forum upgrade. Only some plugins have still to be fixed. Unfortunately, the shoutbox is in the to-do list.

Thanks for the link, Velma. I love the "list your installed software" part, I would never have though using the "remove software" from ccleaner in order to find the list of the software installed. One thing is missing, and I find it very important. When you start from scratch, I recommend starting from a very clean professional state. I mean, you should have your operating system and your data in separate spaces. So, during the "Step 4:- Pop in your windows CD" I would recommend, do not use the whole hard drive for Windows, use a small part of the drive for the operating system (XP can survive with as few as 4 gigs, and Windows 7 can survive with 60 gigs), so create a c: disk for Windows and an D: disk for data. Then, in case of big problem (Windows bad update or destructive virus) you can re-install windowss on the C: disk without loosing your data which are still unouched on the d: disk. And of course, in case of operating system problems you will not have to re-install from scracth if you have a system backup available. And a system backup is smaller the system disk to be backed up has only the system, no pictures and no movies. So you can make every month a system backup, in case of crash simply restore it it will not touch your data. And of course, do not forget to frequenly back up your own data on a regular basis using an external disk, or a previously old internal disk plugged on a disk docking usb device

That's why I bought a old-blackberry-like phone, with real buttons for text typing purposes. Leaves a rather small dislay, of course, but it's enough for phone calls and SMS jobs.

Not sure my wife will appreciate, but why not?

Aaaaargh! What does that mean? I cannot edit boot.ini any more?

starting with the shoutbox?

Ouch! How did you guess that?

You should give us some more infos. Which kind of website is this? Did you create this website? In that case, which tool did you use?

off-topic : moving to linux does not teach how to speed-up the system or remove unwanted service. By the way, linux has the same problem, tweaking drivers is really not very obvious for beginners.

Isn't the slow website site also coming from your internet provider? The images have to go out from the host, and then to go on your display, the slow down can also come from your local network area!