RE: [H] Cell phones
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Dodge Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:40 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Cell phones OK, Ill ask, what is this hack??? Essentially, taking full advantage of all the phone's wonderful features that VZW has chosen to block. OBEX/Blutooth DUN, ability to transfer pix and ringtones from PC to phone and phone to PC. Not really a big deal for Cingular folks, but certainly a marvel of modern engineering for those of us that choose to suffer with Verizon's fee-based service model. They're called seem edits. Risky, tricky business running the risk of hosing one's phone, but well worth the effort. http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/e815seem.html Bill
Re: [H] PC World anitvirus reviews
At 02:25 PM 02/02/2006, Robert Turnbull wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124163,pg,2,00.asp Pretty meaningless review, unfortunately. T
[H] Disappearing mouse pointer
Anyone ever see this? An XP Home system, works fine most of the time, but once in a while the mouse pointer disappears (doesn't matter what mouse I use, USB or PS2.) The mouse continues to work, as I can click on things and figure out where the pointer is supposed to be. T
[H] Removing unwanted services
I've noticed from time to time that when I uninstall a program, the services it installed are still there. I can disable them, but I'd like to remove them. Is there anyway to do this in XP? T
Re: [H] Removing unwanted services
At 10:51 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've noticed from time to time that when I uninstall a program, the services it installed are still there. I can disable them, but I'd like to remove them. Is there anyway to do this in XP? In Xp Pro go to AdminTools Services you can turn off any service that you want. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
At 10:50 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Anyone ever see this? An XP Home system, works fine most of the time, but once in a while the mouse pointer disappears (doesn't matter what mouse I use, USB or PS2.) The mouse continues to work, as I can click on things and figure out where the pointer is supposed to be. Sounds to me like a video driver issue I would update that to see if that helps. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
Video driver issue maybe? Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: Anyone ever see this? An XP Home system, works fine most of the time, but once in a while the mouse pointer disappears (doesn't matter what mouse I use, USB or PS2.) The mouse continues to work, as I can click on things and figure out where the pointer is supposed to be. T
Re: [H] Cell phones
Some phone companies, Verizon being the worst, do everything in their power to try and suck more money out. If you have a fully Bluetooth enabled phone you can synch it with a PC or whatever. But if it is crippled, you have to download your music/pics/etc over their data network, which they charge you minutes for. They might cripple the web browser in the phone so that it only works through their network or using their servers. I know that you can send a text query to Google and get info back via a regular SMS message and not actually have a broadband connection. But Verizon, at least in my local area, is blocking Google's address. Most of the hacks like this can be undone, just takes a little knowhow and the risk of damaging your phone. http://www.cellphonehacks.com/ On 2/3/06, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Dodge Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:40 PM To: 'The Hardware List' Subject: RE: [H] Cell phones OK, Ill ask, what is this hack??? Essentially, taking full advantage of all the phone's wonderful features that VZW has chosen to block. OBEX/Blutooth DUN, ability to transfer pix and ringtones from PC to phone and phone to PC. Not really a big deal for Cingular folks, but certainly a marvel of modern engineering for those of us that choose to suffer with Verizon's fee-based service model. They're called seem edits. Risky, tricky business running the risk of hosing one's phone, but well worth the effort. http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/e815seem.html Bill -- Brian
Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
At 12:47 PM 03/02/2006, Wayne Johnson wrote: At 10:50 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: Anyone ever see this? An XP Home system, works fine most of the time, but once in a while the mouse pointer disappears (doesn't matter what mouse I use, USB or PS2.) The mouse continues to work, as I can click on things and figure out where the pointer is supposed to be. Sounds to me like a video driver issue I would update that to see if that helps. I'm running the latest NVidia drivers. Can I go back to an earlier version of NVidia drivers just by installing the older version, or do I have to somehow remove the drivers (other than add/remove) first? T
[H] Windows Laptop ACPI Lid Function
I want my laptop to shutdown when I close the lid. Under the Power Config window in the Control Panel, I'm only given the options of Do Nothing, Standby and Hibernate. Anyone know how I can add Shut Down to this menu? Thanks.
Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
At 12:09 PM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I'm running the latest NVidia drivers. Can I go back to an earlier version of NVidia drivers just by installing the older version, or do I have to somehow remove the drivers (other than add/remove) first? I believe you're suppose to uninstall first but it's been so long that I may be in error, error, error... --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Removing unwanted services
- Original Message - From: Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, February 3, 2006 9:46 am Subject: Re: [H] Removing unwanted services At 10:51 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've noticed from time to time that when I uninstall a program, the services it installed are still there. I can disable them, but I'd like to remove them. Is there anyway to do this in XP? You can edit the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and remove the extra services - they're listed by their Service name in the service properties (from the Services console). Jamie
Re: [H] Removing unwanted services
At 01:22 PM 03/02/2006, Jamie Furtner wrote: You can edit the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services and remove the extra services - they're listed by their Service name in the service properties (from the Services console). Perfect. Thanks. T
[H] Removing McAfee
When McAfee Security Centre is the only option in add/remove programs, and removing it tells me that I must remove all the other McAfee products first (which aren't listed) how do I uninstall this piece of junk? Is there a utility like Symnrt from Symantec to forcibly remove McAfee? T
Re: [H] Removing McAfee
At 02:08 PM 03/02/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote: When McAfee Security Centre is the only option in add/remove programs, and removing it tells me that I must remove all the other McAfee products first (which aren't listed) how do I uninstall this piece of junk? Is there a utility like Symnrt from Symantec to forcibly remove McAfee? Follow up to this: I'm chatting with McAfee's tech support (and I use the term loosely.) Gabriel Williams: Hello Thane, thank you for contacting McAfee Online Support Center. Gabriel Williams: How can I assist you with your McAfee software today? Thane Sherrington: Hi there. Thane Sherrington: I'm having a problem uninstalling Security Centre Thane Sherrington: It tells me I must uninstall all other McAfee products, but no other products are listed in add/remove programs Thane Sherrington: Do you have a way to manually uninstall McAfee? Thane Sherrington: I know that Symantec has a utility to remove Norton when the normal uninstall fails, you must have something similiar. [Pause of about three minutes.] Gabriel Williams: Your reference number for this chat session is 17419200. Thane Sherrington: ok Thane Sherrington: Do you have a utility to manually uninstall McAfee? [Pause of about two minutes.] Thane Sherrington: hello? [Pause of about two minutes.] Gabriel Williams: Please hold on. [For what? Is he typing on a stone tablet with a chisel?] Gabriel Williams: Did you uninstall all the other McAfee products prior to uninstalling McAfee Security Center? [WTF? Didn't I just say they I couldn't because they aren't listed in Add/Remove Programs? Maybe he missed it.] Thane Sherrington: I can't. They aren't listed in Add/Remove programs. [Pause of about three minutes.] [Meanwhile, I've done a search on their website and found instructions to edit the registry and manually remove the folders. That's a BS approach, in my mind, as they should have a utility to do it just like Trend and Norton have. And if they don't, then this moron should have had time to search himself, but obviously he hasn't.] Gabriel Williams: Okay, please hold on. [Ok, he's just discovered the search function, apparently. Let's see what he finds.] [After about five minutes, he gives me the stuff I've already found in the search system. So much for McAfee. Not only does the AV suck, they also have crappy support.] T
Re: [H] Removing McAfee
Final follow up to this. Here is my lazy man's approach to getting rid of McAfee. Create the two following files RemoveMcAfee.Reg REGEDIT4 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McAfee.com] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\McAfee] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Network Associates] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] VirusScan=- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] VirusScan Online=- [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] SOChecktTask=- [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\VirusScan Online] RemoveMcAfee.bat regedit /s removeMcAfee.reg if %OS%==Windows_NT goto NT :9X deltree c:\MC?.tmp deltree c:\program files\McAfee.com deltree c:\program files\McAfee deltree c:\program files\Network Associates deltree C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee.com deltree C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee goto end :NT rd c:\MC?.tmp /s rd c:\program files\McAfee.com /s rd c:\program files\McAfee /s rd c:\program files\Network Associates /s rd C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee.com /s rd C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\McAfee /s :end Boot into Safe Mode. Run RemoveMcAfee.bat This appears to work, but doesn't remove all the McAfee crap from the registry. If anyone has ideas to improve it, let me know. T
RE: [H] Removing unwanted services
or type run, msconfig -- services 007. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:47 AM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Removing unwanted services At 10:51 AM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I've noticed from time to time that when I uninstall a program, the services it installed are still there. I can disable them, but I'd like to remove them. Is there anyway to do this in XP? In Xp Pro go to AdminTools Services you can turn off any service that you want. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [hardware] [H] Removing McAfee
Not sure what you have installed, but I've got McAfee Personal firewall. Nothing else. In Add Remove I have McAfee Security Centre Personal Firewall . By default I think you'll find that the Security Centre is like a container all other Mcafee programs are installed under it. So to remove Security Centre you have to uninstall the other proggiesand for my installation PF is listed separately in Add Remove - Original Message - From: Thane Sherrington (S) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 5:08 AM Subject: [hardware] [H] Removing McAfee When McAfee Security Centre is the only option in add/remove programs, and removing it tells me that I must remove all the other McAfee products first (which aren't listed) how do I uninstall this piece of junk? Is there a utility like Symnrt from Symantec to forcibly remove McAfee? T
RE: [H] Removing unwanted services
At 04:06 PM 03/02/2006, bond wrote: or type run, msconfig -- services Yes, but this just disables the services. I want to remove the completely. T
Re: [hardware] [H] Removing McAfee
At 04:11 PM 03/02/2006, Steve wrote: Not sure what you have installed, but I've got McAfee Personal firewall. Nothing else. In Add Remove I have McAfee Security Centre Personal Firewall . By default I think you'll find that the Security Centre is like a container all other Mcafee programs are installed under it. So to remove Security Centre you have to uninstall the other proggiesand for my installation PF is listed separately in Add Remove That's my problem. The other programs aren't listed. To my mind, any suite that has a container that can't uninstall all or some of the sub programs is poorly written. MSOffice doesn't ask me to uninstall Word before I uninstall Office. It's ridiculous. Another reason not to use McAfee. T
Re: [hardware] [H] Removing McAfee
At 03:47 PM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: That's my problem. The other programs aren't listed. To my mind, any suite that has a container that can't uninstall all or some of the sub programs is poorly written. MSOffice doesn't ask me to uninstall Word before I uninstall Office. It's ridiculous. Another reason not to use McAfee. That's why I'm still using 4.51 before they went hog wild with the GUI it uses the same dats engine as their latest AV app does I get the updates for free. Kind of the best of both worlds, simple GUI free updates obtw it works fine here. IMHO most of these internet security suites are just a pita. McAfee's firewall use to be no different than Zone Alarm, probably just rebranded and there are better spyware apps out there. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
RE: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer
Wayne is correct. The previous driver should be uninstalled first. Vincent Winterling Vineland, NJ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Johnson Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:10 PM To: The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] Disappearing mouse pointer At 12:09 PM 2/3/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) typed: I'm running the latest NVidia drivers. Can I go back to an earlier version of NVidia drivers just by installing the older version, or do I have to somehow remove the drivers (other than add/remove) first? I believe you're suppose to uninstall first but it's been so long that I may be in error, error, error... --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Windows Laptop ACPI Lid Function
Try turning off the hibernate capability. Shut Down is one of my lid closing options, but I don't use hibernate. Gary VanderMolen - Original Message - I want my laptop to shutdown when I close the lid. Under the Power Config window in the Control Panel, I'm only given the options of Do Nothing, Standby and Hibernate. Anyone know how I can add Shut Down to this menu?
Re: [H] Cell phones
Question for you all - has anyone out there actually signed up with a cell service provider using an unlocked cell phone you bought online? Did you still have to sign a 1 or 2 year contract? How did they connect the phone to their network? Did you have to give them some serial number or have to physically take it into one of their stores? Just trying to get a few loose ends answered before I take the plunge :) -- Brian
Re: [H] Cell phones
Okay, I that's what I needed to know. Just trying to make sure I'm not going to get a bunch of useless paperweights doing this :) One more question - will I be able to transfer my existing cell number to the new phone and provider? On 2/3/06, Wayne Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:40 AM 2/4/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Question for you all - has anyone out there actually signed up with a cell service provider using an unlocked cell phone you bought online? Did you still have to sign a 1 or 2 year contract? I just signed up with VZW using a phone that I already owned had to sign a 1yr contract. How did they connect the phone to their network? Did you have to give them some serial number or have to physically take it into one of their stores? I gave them the serial # over the phone then they programmed my phone with the new # remotely then I keyed in # 228 to update the network information. I've sold unlocked /or out of contract phones on eBay before as well. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com -- Brian
Re: [H] Cell phones
At 01:03 AM 2/4/2006, Brian Weeden typed: Okay, I that's what I needed to know. Just trying to make sure I'm not going to get a bunch of useless paperweights doing this :) One more question - will I be able to transfer my existing cell number to the new phone and provider? VZW offered to transfer a number for me but I didn't have one to transfer so it was a non issue for me. --+-- Wayne D. Johnson Ashland, OH, USA 44805 http://www.wavijo.com
Re: [H] Cell phones
A GSM phone works with a SIMM. It is a little plastic wafer that plugs into the back of the phone. Probably a flash card. The SIMM has all the information, authorizations for your account. If you have a GSM phone, which is what they use in Europe, and it is unlocked, all you need is the SIMM, ...plug it in and you are on the network. Remove it, and plug another providers one in, and your on that network. However, if your phone is locked to Verizon, or Cingular, etc, they only lock them like this in the land of free, you will have to swap your Simm to one of the appropriate providers phones only. You couldn't switch providers by changing the SIMM on a locked phone. Like I wrote yesterday, T Mobile sold my friend a Razor, and then they unlocked it for him, so he could also use it in other countries. When he is in Europe, he sticks his European providers SIMM in . when he is back in the States, he uses his T-Mobile SIMM. At 09:40 PM 2/3/2006, you wrote: Question for you all - has anyone out there actually signed up with a cell service provider using an unlocked cell phone you bought online? No, but I bought a unlocked Motorola phone, on Ebay, plugged my Cingular SIMM in, and I was on the network.
