Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread JeffM
Lester Caine wrote: >Not having any pigging windows disks for the machine, >I ended up hitting it with 'HP Recovery', >and to my surprise it worked reasonably well. >Only taken 2 days to put back all the windows updates >and restore the programs it missed > - so now can I charge the customer for tw

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread Lester Caine
Lemuel Johnson wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I've got Seamonkey on an XP(SP3) machine and it's running fine EXCEPT. It's not displaying some websites. Googel and ask come up fine, but when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same search and link works

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread Lemuel Johnson
Lester Caine wrote: I've got Seamonkey on an XP(SP3) machine and it's running fine EXCEPT. It's not displaying some websites. Googel and ask come up fine, but when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same search and link works fine on the machine ne

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Jay Garcia wrote: On 27.03.2009 00:51, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: --- Original Message --- Roy Smith wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Mort wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread Terry R.
The date and time was Friday, March 27, 2009 6:21:43 AM, and on a whim, Martin Feitag pounded out on the keyboard: Jay Garcia schrieb: On 27.03.2009 00:51, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: --- Original Message --- Roy Smith wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Mort wrote:

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread Martin Feitag
Jay Garcia schrieb: On 27.03.2009 00:51, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: --- Original Message --- Roy Smith wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Mort wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com eithe

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-27 Thread Jay Garcia
On 27.03.2009 00:51, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: --- Original Message --- Roy Smith wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Mort wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run window

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Roy Smith wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Mort wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update with SM Why not? I have a problem with Wi

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-26 Thread Roy Smith
Mort wrote: > Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >> Mort wrote: >>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: > Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I > can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update with SM >>> >>> Wh

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-26 Thread Roy Smith
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: > Mort wrote: >> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >>> Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( >>> >>> but you can't use windows update with SM >> >> Why not? I have a problem

[OT] Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-26 Thread NoOp
On 03/24/2009 05:54 PM, Lester Caine wrote: > JeffM wrote: >> Lester Caine wrote: >>> [...]It's only the one machine that is NOT seeing these sites. >>> Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com >>> either so I can't run windows update :( >> Further to my other post in this thread - my

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-26 Thread Bernard Mercier
Mort a couché sur son écran : > Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >> Mort wrote: >>> Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: > Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I > can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-26 Thread Mort
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Mort wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update with SM Why not? I have a problem with Windows Update wit

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Mort wrote: Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update with SM Why not? I have a problem with Windows Update with SM and Vista Home Premium, but my ol

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread Mort
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update with SM Why not? I have a problem with Windows Update with SM and Vista Home Premium, but my older XP machin

OT: Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
JeffM wrote: 2) Wipe the drive clean (*NOT *just* a FORMAT --FDISK the partition to get any boot sector viruses). 3) Fresh install of Windoze and apps. in all the years I've had windows of various sorts, I've never had to resort to that type of tactic. WARNING: cross posted and followup s

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread JeffM
>>Lester Caine wrote: >>>[...]trying to update the pctools anti virus fails, and >>>following the link in seamonkey also fails. >>> Lester Caine wrote: >[...]The reason for going to the site >was because the on-line anti-virus update was failing. >THAT was when I found that seamonkey was having tro

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread NoOp
On 03/25/2009 01:17 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > > Since the important stuff IS working, I thought I'd just ignore these > problems despite the fact that we can't update the anti virus, but I'm > also having a problem getting email working. It will not connect to the > email server. > > THIS fla

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread Mark Tyndall
Lester Caine wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I've got Seamonkey on an XP(SP3) machine and it's running fine EXCEPT. It's not displaying some websites. Googel and ask come up fine, but when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same search and link works f

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-25 Thread Lester Caine
JeffM wrote: Lester Caine wrote: [...]when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same search and link works fine on the machine next door. [...]trying to update the pctools anti virus fails, and following the link in seamonkey also fails. A quick pe

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread JeffM
Lester Caine wrote: >[...]when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying >the domain does not exist, >jet the same search and link works fine on the machine next door. > >[...]trying to update the pctools anti virus fails, and >following the link in seamonkey also fails. A quick peek at that

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread Lester Caine
JeffM wrote: Lester Caine wrote: [...]It's only the one machine that is NOT seeing these sites. Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( Raise your right hand and repeat this: I know that these sites use the LEAST-SECURE mechanism on the plane

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread JeffM
Lester Caine wrote: >[...]It's only the one machine that is NOT seeing these sites. >Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com >either so I can't run windows update :( Raise your right hand and repeat this: I know that these sites use the LEAST-SECURE mechanism on the planet yet I am wil

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Lester Caine wrote: Just discovered that it does not like microsoft.com either so I can't run windows update :( but you can't use windows update with SM -- *IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help Emails to me may become public Notice: This posting is protected under th

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread Lester Caine
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: Lester Caine wrote: I've got Seamonkey on an XP(SP3) machine and it's running fine EXCEPT. It's not displaying some websites. Googel and ask come up fine, but when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same searc

Re: Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
Lester Caine wrote: I've got Seamonkey on an XP(SP3) machine and it's running fine EXCEPT. It's not displaying some websites. Googel and ask come up fine, but when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same search and link works fine on the machine ne

Sick windows machine

2009-03-24 Thread Lester Caine
I've got Seamonkey on an XP(SP3) machine and it's running fine EXCEPT. It's not displaying some websites. Googel and ask come up fine, but when I select www.pctools.com it seems to be saying the domain does not exist, jet the same search and link works fine on the machine next door. There was