Windows XP Re-installs

Posted on May 30, 2012 by venise

I know a lot of people use the most up-to-date OS like Windows 7 but in my profession I have still seen a lot of machines running Windows XP.

If your XP system becomes corrupt or crashes on you, make sure that when you re-install or repair, you run your Windows Update. Windows XP Software does not come equipped with a lot of the drivers that you will need for it to work properly. They must be downloaded separately.

You can find windows update in your Control Panel under Security and click Automatic Updates or you may go to www.update.microsoft.com

If your Windows XP does not have Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 be sure to install this as well. To find out what Service Pack your system has, you need to right click on your My Computer and click on Properties. You will see what kind of operating system you have and it will also show if you do or do not have service pack.

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How to Create a Wireless Network (At Home)

Posted on April 17, 2012 by venise

I know that a lot of people are wanting to learn how to create their own wireless network, so that they don’t have to rely on their internet provider to send someone out to create one, which could cost a pricey installation fee. Well, here’s how:

1) Make sure that your cable modem (your plug up internet) is working, because you are going to need this to help establish a wireless connection. This is run by your internet provider, so if you are plugged in, and you can’t get internet service, it’s either a regional issue or a payment issue on your end. This looks kind of like a router.

2) Make sure you plug up your new wireless router, as this is what you are going to use to connect to the internet.

3) Connect your wireless router to your modem, so that your router can establish internet connectivity. Your router must detect an internet connection before you can draw one from it.

4) Try to wirelessly connect to the internet through your network settings, this will let the computer scan for the wireless signal you are trying to find

5) You will need to configure your wireless router. This is very simple as Windows 7 computers will walk you through most of these steps. If not, each router has a web address that you can go to to control the settings of your router. For instance, if you have a Linksys router, you would go here, where the username and password are “admin”. Once you log in, you can of course change both the username and password to secure your router.

6) You will then need to set your SSID or network name. This is the name that will appear whenever someone is scanning for networks in the vicinity of your residence. You will also want to set your WPA or WPA2, these are passwords that secure your network from outsiders accessing it.

7) Voila! You should have a wireless network that is secure! You can now connect any and everything to your new network

Should you need any more help, or have anymore questions, feel free to contact us at All Compute!

Venise Baxter
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Posted on April 8, 2012 by Larry

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Sync Music to your Smartphone!

Posted on April 7, 2012 by Jack

With the popularity of SmartPhones one of the best features is the MP3 player. Which has allowed many of us to just place are MP3 players in our desk and forget about them. Below is a quick look at how to sync music to your SmartPhone.

Plug the phone into your computer vie the USB cable, your computer should automatically recognize the phone and begin downloading the drivers for your phone. If your computer doesn’t recognize the phone go to your cell phone provider website for quick links to assist you in downloading the drivers.

Verizon http://www.vzam.net/download/supported.aspx

AT&T http://www.wireless.att.com/businesssupport/chooseDevice.do?universe=att&make=All&dest=phone-device-support

T-Mobile http://support.t-mobile.com/index.jspa

After the drivers are downloaded open Windows Media Player and it should recoginize your phone as an external device.

In the right hand corner of the Media Player select the Sync tab.

Select and drag the music that you want from your library into the Sync List box in the right corner. You can drag single songs, entire albums or play list into the box. After selecting and dragging the items you wish to place on your phone select the start sync option.

Windows Media Player will then open another window which gives you the status of the sync and notifies you when the sync is complete. After syncing the music to your phone be sure to properly eject the USB. Some Smartphones will automatically update the SD card to show the synced music on your phone. If your phone doesn’t show this update, simply reboot your phone and most of time it will then recognize the sync items.

Next time you go to the gym leave the MP3 players at home and use your SmartPhone to listen to your tunes.

Jack

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Error: 1606 Could not access network location %APPDATA%

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Larry

Guys,

Read a bunch of threads about this one and was having a pretty good laugh at some of the responses. Like “you get this when Oracle servers are too busy”, I do not think there will ever be a day when Oracle servers are too busy! I know what the error says, but you cannot take all error messages for exactly what they say. It has nothing to do with networking. It has everything to do with your windows environmental settings. Your first clue should have been %something%, that is a Microsoft environmental variable and has very little to do with networking. Go into your systems environment settings and I bet the environmental variable %APPDATA% is not present. So create it and the error will go away. On most Windows systems it should be set to C:\USERs\<administrators_name>\AppData.

and from the command prompt

set %APPDATA%=path_string

echo %APPDATA%

Now you can proceed with your operation and will not receive Error 1606.

Larry Catt

info@allcompute.com

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Windows reset your network connection

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Larry

You can reset your network connection in any windows version with the ipconfig command. As the system administrator go to START-> All Programs -> Accessories  Command Prompt, right click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. A command window will appear ipconfig /renew


C:\Windows\System32>ipconfig /renew
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::789a:54ea:5fac:adb3%11

   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.3

   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Tunnel adapter isatap.{9ADBAA7A-8413-46AC-BE8B-A7266EF1E641}:
   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
Tunnel adapter Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface:
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :

   IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2381:0:4137:9e76:c0a:2548:3f57:fffc

   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c0a:2488:3f57:fffc%13

   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : ::

C:\Windows\System32>

Larry Catt
info@allcompute.com

Displaying System Variables in Windows

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Larry

Unlike UNIX or LINUX you cannot simple put ‘echo variable_name’ to display variables in Windows. You must first tell windows that you are passing it a variable with percent signs and not if Windows does not think it is a variable it will simple repeat what was passed to it.

First I will show you how to display your PATH variable from the command prompt:

C:\Windows\System32>echo %PATH% C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\Wind owsPowerShell\v1.0\

C:\Windows\System32>

Now if windows does not recognize what you have passed it as a system variable it will simple echo the string.

C:\Windows\System32>echo %THIS_VAR% %THIS_VAR%


C:\Windows\System32>set THIS_VAR=Try this variable
C:\Windows\System32>echo %THIS_VAR%

Try this variable

C:\Windows\System32>

Larry Catt

info@allcompute.com

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