6 Responses to “Wednesday’s Daily Round Up”

1. By El Di Pablo on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

   For Joe: After you have ensured that the prots have been opened on your router and are pointing to the correct IP address for the machine on your network, the next step is to ensure that you have enabled remote desktop on your computer. To do that right click on “My Computer” selct Properties, and click on the remote tab. Check the box to enable remote desktop and ensure you set yourself as a remote desktop user. Next, make sure that Windows firewall (or any other software firewall) allows incoming connections on port 3389.

   For Todd: Some things that bog down PC’s are spyware. Get an anti-spyware utility like Spybot or Ad-Aware. After you have cleaned up the spyware, try running a defrag on your hard drive. After all of that is done, Right click on My Computer and go to properties. Click the advanced tab and select performance. uncheck all of the unnecessary bells and whistles. I usually check the “best performance radio button, then go to the bottom of the bells and whistles list and select the last three only. If after all of that is done, you might take a look at which programs are performing poorly. Sometimes it might only be office products or Adobe products. In add/remove programs there are usually repair options for those programs. If after all of this, you still have a slow computer take a look at your processor and RAM. If you have something less than a Pentium 4 with 1.8Ghz for a processor it is certainly time to upgrade the whole thing. If your processor is okay, look at the RAM. I personally like to have at least 1GB of RAM if not more.

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2. By Karl L. Gechlik on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

   Nice. I think you got them both but let me add:

   To check your external IP address you can goto http://www.whatsmyip.com and it will be displayed.

   To add to checking the firewall I usually advise to shutdown any security services one at a time and give it a shot after each one.

   For example goto start run type services.msc to open your services up find windows firewall and stop it and then try… Trial and error.

   Todd - one word Microsoft One Care. Ummm not one word but still free. Just dont choose any of the pay options at the end.

   Can you send us the specs on your machine todd?

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3. By El Di Pablo on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

   “To check your external IP address you can goto http://www.whatsmyip.com and it will be displayed.”

   Good point, I recommend using a free dynamic DNS service like DynDns.com. You set your public IP, and they give you a domain name that points to your public ip. The problem with only using your IP is that if you have DSL or standard cable you have a dynamic IP address that may change over time. DynDNS.com also has a free update utility that updates your account with the correct public IP as soon as it changes.

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4. By totallyTodd on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

   My machine is a pentium 3 1ghz with 512mb of ram running windows xp.

   this windows one care scan is running now and it found 165 problems already.

   i will be back to let you know. thanks Admin.

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5. By Karl L. Gechlik on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

   Todd that machine is getting on in years and either get a new machine or if you are happy with your current machine before your BIG SLOWDOWN then if you are able to backup your files save your drivers to cd and format that mother.

   Reinstall Clean and it will do wonders for you.

   Joe are you still out there man?
   Did that help - are we on the right track?

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6. By Anonymous on Jun 20, 2007 | Reply

   THANK YOU ADMIN IT WAS THE WINDOWS FIREWALL. I STOPPED IT AND ITS ALL GOOD NOW.

   J

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