ClareJonsson

Home premium isn't too bad (please don't start an anti Vista debate). Okay so he can't logon to domain or anything but he does have Media Center! The Media Center that comes with Vista is pretty awesome! Shame though with his on board gfx he can't output it to a mega huge television. I wouldn't mind knowing what his Windows Experience comes out at, and I wonder if it will be able to use the Aero theme?

If you really want to rate your PC, find out your Windows experience rating. To do this, right click my computer and select Properties. Click Windows Experience Index, and then click Update my score. Tell us your Windows experience rating. My present system is: CPU: Intel® Core2 CPU 2.4GHz Memory: 2047Mb Dual channel. Graphics: NVidia GeForce 8500 GT 512mb Hard Drive: 400Gb SATA. And I get a Windows experience of: 4.8 The thing that will let your system down is your graphics. From what I can tell it is on board, this is little use for anything more than basic desktop, word processing and lower end games. It's also using up some of your memory. Don't be expecting to run Doom III with all the settings turned up. The rest of your system isn't too bad. Is your hard drive IDE or SATA?

Okey dokey, joined!

If you want any help I will be please to give you a hand. I'm very knowledgeable about these things as it's my job :)

No it wont. I am behind a router and I get my computer's ip. When I do that command I only get my computer's internal ip address. When go to that website I get my routers IP address and not my PCs address. Even my personal site at work gives me the same result. I get my static IP address and not the address for this PC. Edit: Is your router NAT based, if it is (like mine is) then your internal IP address will not be sent, and the environment variable $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] will only be able to detect the routers IP.

The above would work, but it depends what IP address you're after. If you are connected to the net via a router, that website will give you the address of the router, not your PC. If you want to know your PCs IP address, do the following: Click START In the run box type cmd /k ipconfig /all press Enter

That's great, and I'm always glad to be of help. Byee for now, Clare.

In simple terms, a firewall works by splitting the TCP/IP network layer, and inserting themselves into it. If the firewall software isn't very good, it will kill the network stack and you will end up with exactly what you have described. I also have heard of, and experienced problems with people running the Panda firewall. I too have been working in the computer industry, and have been a tech in our university now for over 19 years. My advice is: Uninstall the Panda Firewall. If you're running XP then enable the Windows firewall. If uninstalling Panda still gives you the same problem, then you will need to repair the IP stack that was broken by Panda, here's a little program that does exactly that: WinsockFix.zip. That's what I have been using for years, and it does a good job too! If your hubby wants a good free firewall other than the windows one, I would suggest he use ZoneAlarm. Oh and steer well clear of Norton's internet suite too. Good luck, Clare.

Yes that is an attempt at Denial of Service, but doesn't the forum have flood prevention enabled? If it is enabled you would just get a flood prevention notice.

Yes, you will definitely need to learn PHP. PHPMyAdmin is a basic tool for creating, editing and managing your databases, that's all it does. You can't use it to construct a website. Also, dreamweaver will not write php code, you need to write all the database connection and queries by hand. Dreamweaver is aware of PHP commands, but as far as PHP is really concerned, it's little more than a fancy text editor. I doubt there's any wizards that does it all for you. Well it looks like you have crossed the first hurdle, now you will need to start coding in PHP, follow the online tutorials until you get the hang of it and then delve into SQL. By the way, Are you aware of how PHP works? Actually more than that, how a webserver works and how PHP relates to the webserver and the end user? If not, shall I give you a quick tutorial here?

Hello again, The default folder for Apache is usually c:\apache\htdocs. This is the root of your website, remember this! You should create a folder within that and extract the files there. Something like c:\apache\htdocs\phpmyadmin . One thing you may find useful is a basic command in php to check your php settings, this will also tell you if php is actually working. Create a file called phpinfo.php in the root of your website, and cut and paste the following code into it: <?php phpinfo(); ?> The quickest way to create this file is to create a new text file, and then rename it. Oh one thing about XP, it has show file extensions turned off by default, so if you don't see the .txt at the end of the text file, you will need to show extensions for all known file types. To do this, open My Computer, click Tools, and select Folder Options.... Click the View tab and then untick Hide extensions for known file types. Okay to run the script, open a browser, type in the address http://localhost/phpinfo.php and you should get a full screen of information about your setup. In the list should also be info about MySQL, if all is fine, this proves that your web server is running, the php parser is being executed, and that MySQL is installed. Addition: About the comments above that you should start small and build up to databases on PHP, I would in principal agree with this, but may I add that you should give it a go anyway as it doesn't do any harm, and you will always learn something. However, don't start with the project you mentioned earlier, instead, create a very basic database to begin with as this will give you an idea of the relationship between MySQL, PHP and XHTML. Oh and try using CSS to format your projects. You will thank yourself afterwards believe me. May I ask, do you have any previous programming experience?

The guide was okay, a little bit out of date though.

ok, creating user registration in php and MySQL is pretty easy, I have already written some myself. The first thing you need to do is to create the database. Now you can do this by hand, or you can use a tool to help you along. I suggest PHPMyAdmin. Download and install that, this will give you a range of tools from creating, deleteing, editing and viewing databases and the tables there in. Then you need to write the code to get php to connect to the database. You can do this with a basic text editor if you like, but dreamweaver is php aware and highlights commands, and it also displays line numbers making debugging easier. Here are some basic lines of code in php showing how to connect, add , edit, display and delete records: Using php to connect to MySQL: $db = mysql_connect("localhost", "userid","password"); mysql_select_db("DatabaseName",$db); ?> Using PHP to enter a new record: <?php $sql = "INSERT INTO DatabaseName (UserName, UserPassword) VALUES 'Fred', 'FredsPassword');"; //This creates the SQL Query $result = mysql_query($sql,$db); //This performs the query ?> Using PHP to edit an existing record, in this instance we are going to update a single record, changing Fred to Freddy: <?php $Query = "UPDATE DatabaseName SET UserName='Freddy' where UserName = 'Fred';"; //Create the Query $result = mysql_query($Query,$db); //perform the query ?> Using php to display records in database: <?php $Query = "SELECT * from DatabaseName;"; $result = mysql_query($Query,$db); if ($myrow = @mysql_fetch_array($result)) { do { echo $myrow['UserID'].' '; } while ($myrow = @mysql_fetch_array($result)); }else{ echo "No Records Found"; } ?> To delete a record using php: <?php $Query = "DELETE FROM DatabaseName WHERE UserID = 'Fred';"; $Result = mysql_query($Query,$db); ?> And always at the end of the script, close the connection to your database using: <?php mysql_close($db); ?> If you need any help in writing the pages, let me know and I can give you a hand when I have free time. Bye for now, Clare.

Here's something for a laugh, Fable is a game produced by microsoft, and that has glitches and problems running on vista :lol:

I presently use vista, and games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 run fine. However, there are a lot of game I own that will not run either correctly or not at all on Vista, this is why I have dual boot with XP on the 2nd drive. I'm not using a boot manager, I just select the other HDD in BIOS. As mentioned already, Vista uses DirectX10 which will never be available for XP, so quite soon, newer games will not be XP compatible. To sum up: Vista and XP are a close favourite. XP presently has the edge due to more available games, but this will change as companies release vista patches, drivers and newer games use DX10.

I wonder if that was what I said?

May I suggest you also learn CSS. You will be thankful for it afterwards. If you can't find good tutorials online, get this book: Beginning CSS Web Development: From Novice to Professional by Simon Collison. It's excellent and even covers XHTML. Good luck in your web development, and when you get to PHP & MySQL, I can help you if you get stuck. Clare.

Do you mean you want to check how much memory you have, or do you want to test your RAM for errors? To check how much RAM you have in your PC, follow blade995's instructions. To test your memory for problems, you need to run some diagnostic software such as PC-Check or Memtest. I think memtest has a free download, but PC-Check is a pro tool.

Try google!

In your original post you mentioned that you had already tried the batteries, I assumed you would have replaced them with new ones. If not, I would do so, don't bother with the present ones, get new batteries. Oh and clean the contacts if you can too!

Well yes, one of the things a dry joint causes is a bad connection. Basically a when something heats up it expands, and the dry solder joint would expand making the connection good again. A dry joint was one of the most common causes of problems in the electronic industry, especially where heat is involved as the constant heating and cooling breaks the solder around a component pin. But a bad joint can also be caused by an error at the manufacturing stage. I have had hours of headaches searching for these problems as they can be very difficult to find. Imagine how many connections there would have been on the old style monitors, Nightmare I tell you. Take a look at this: What's a dry joint? I seriously doubt this is the problem though, it sounds more like a component is failing. Presently the fault is showing up at lower temperatures, but I bet you that it will start to get worse and eventually die completely.

Nooo, Win 3.1 is a breeze! It's not even an operating system, it's more like a desktop on top of DOS. The main thing you can screw up is the graphics driver, which will kill it dead. But you can just boot into DOS and run setup from windows folder and reset it back to VGA. Never Fear the windows 3.1, it's bark is bigger than its bite :pray: LOL.

Also make sure your Java is up to date.

Go with GIMP, all you need is those two installs and you're away. By far the best option for you :)

Unfortunately, we live in the age of throw away computer peripherals. 15 years ago one may have attempted to repair something like this, but today wireless desktops are so cheap it's not worth the repair cost. If you're handy with a soldering iron I would suggest opening the KB and the receiver to check if there are any dry joints and re-solder them. It's unlikely however as these devices do not produce enough heat to cause them in the first place. But I guess if you are proficient with a soldering iron you would have done this already. What I'm leading up to is: Throw it away and buy a new one. You could always sell the old one on eBay to someone in Jamaica!