Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed....

[David C Miers]

I've been getting up to 3 viruses a day in email these days.  I'd vote for
the virus infection too.  I just recently went back to win 2000 on my laptop
and main system for the purposes of large picture file editing.  2000 runs
much faster then XP to my notion.  I did have several glitches, but most of
them were removed by installing all the updates.  Networking is much faster
and glitchless when using 2 win 2000 based machines together as well.
Another adantage to my notion that may be of assistance to you is the IE 6
repair function.  Simply go to control panel/add-remove software/ Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6 SP 1.  Click the change/remove button and you will get
options to downgrade to IE 5 or repair IE 6.

Win 2000 is a bit more difficult to repair then some operating systems, but
worth it IMHO.  Suggest going to Microsoft Knowledge base and google doing
searchs for the problems your having.  Using the event viewer to see errors
happening is very important.  I usually get the text for my searches there.
You can get there from Control Panel/administrative tools/event viewer.  You
can use the Services menu to trouble shoot problems as well stopping
operations currently running to isolate problems.  There are some services
you will not want to mess with, so you should do a search for the critical
win 2000 services before doing this.  I can't remember which ones are a
problem right off the top of my head.  You can also use regedit with the
run command to change registry settings.  BE CAREFUL HERE!!!  Go to
HKEY_LOCAL-MACHINES\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunHere
you can see programs starting that may not be in the services menu.  By
simply selecting a key and choosing modify, you can disable that key by
putting the letters rem in front of the key.  This way the key is not
deleted, but is still disabled for trouble shooting reasons.  You can also
go to the start menu and make a folder called disabled startup items  Go
into the startup folder can cut and paste anything you do not want running
into this folder.  To reenable simply cut and paste back into the startup
folder.

Check out all your running processes one at a time.  Verify that these are
not viruses.  When you get to the point that no errors are showing in the
events your system should be running seemlessly.

Hope that might help.

Dave
- Original Message - 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: Re: OT- Windows and Explorer Help needed



 Hi,
 I think the w2k.blaster.worm or what ever it's name was can be the
 course for it. There's a remove-tool, I think you can get it from the
 symantec website.

 I don't know what mouse you have, but I had problems with my mouse and
 laptop too, and that was a hardware problem. Microsoft optical wheel
 mouse (at least the older ones) has _sometimes_ problems working on a
 laptop. it worked sometimes and then suddenly stopped working... you
 could do whatever you want (reboot, etc) it just didn't work again.. and
 sometimes it started to work again days later... but at an other pc it
 was just fine... there was also a microsoft page about it, but I can't
 find it again...

 hope this helps..
 bye Katrin


 danilo [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 12.01.2004, 11:46:17:
 
  Hi,
  It seems like a virus infection.
  or, maybe, windows is bored of life, you must re-install it. But windows
2000
  is a quite stable OS, so the former seems the most realistic hypotesis.
 
  Hoping it isn't an hardware problem...
 
  ciao,
  Danilo.

Re: Re[2]: Cheap bastards? -was: Down off my high-horse... with a thump.

[David C Miers]

Unless I missed it in this thread somewhere, I've seen no one comment on the
staging of the ceremony afterwards to compensate for either the lack of
flash during or no shooting at all during the ceremony.  I've had pretty
good success and complete cooperation from the clergy in this matter thus
far, doing the actual ceremony shots in this manner.  I realize it fails to
capture the moment of the ceremony, but is much better then getting nothing
at all, or grossly blurred, off colored pictures.  I see the biggest problem
as being unprepared for what your going to encounter on that day.  I like to
go to the church about the same time of day as the proposed wedding and
burning a roll of film while experimenting with filters and the like and
maybe even an extra roll of tungsten balanced film as well.  I don't need to
get prints at this point, since scanning is enough to tell me how they are
going to come out.  I've even had clients purchase some of these preshots if
they like the churches architecture.  There is of course no guarantee that
the ambient lighting will be the same on any given day, but I feel I
definitely have an advantage this way.  It also helps me to set up all the
must get shots in my head ahead of time.  The clergies have then had an
opportunity to tell me their wish list and as a whole been much better to
work with when I took this extra step.  When your getting paid to do a shoot
it is your responsibility to do everything within your power to make this
job a complete success.

Dave


 On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, William Robb wrote:
  From: Amita Guha
   The Presbyterian church where we got married (200 year old
congregation)
   didn't allow photography during the service, but we knew about that
well
   in advance. I was actually kind of happy not to have the distraction.
   During a wedding we attended shortly after, there were cameras going
off
   all during the ceremony and it seemed to wreck the mood.
 
  My experience was that a no photos during the ceremony policy only shut
down
  the working photographers. There will always be a number of pew warmers
who
  don't observe the ban, I suspect on the theory that there isn't a hell
of a
  lot that can be done about them.
  OTOH, a pro who doesn't listen can be barred from shooting there in the
  future.