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Sunday, July 10, 2005

Show #160

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11a-Noon

Seg 1: 10:43

Don in Rancho Cucamonga - DVD recorders

camcorderinfo.com

Scott in Los Angeles - using Remote Desktop with a router

You’ll have to open some ports. Read this article.

Seg 2: 5:14

Matthew in Charlotte, NC - restore hibernate

You can also change from ACPI to Standard PC in you device manager. 1: press Windowskey + Pausebreak to enter system properties. 2: Open ‘hardware’ tab. 3: Click ‘Device manager’ 4: Click on the + symbol in front of ‘computer’ 5: Double-click ‘Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC’ 6: Open ‘driver’ tab 7: Select ‘update driver’ 8: Select ‘Install from a specified location’ 9: Select ‘Don’t search, I will choose the driver to install’ 10: Select ‘Standard PC’ (maybe you need to de-select the ‘Show compatible hardware’ box) 11: Click next and follow instructions. After reboot, WinXP will re-detect all devices and re-map all IRQ’s. But be aware … you can not ‘roll-back’ this driver to ACPI. After you’ve installed the standerd PC driver you machine also won’t shut-down automatically anymore when you quit Windows. You will need to power off manually when it says ‘It’s now safe to turn of your computer’.

Edward in Rexton, NB, Canada added:

I have also done clean installs of XP where I lost my “Hibernate” option. However, I have always been able to get it back by installing the latest driver for my video card. You might want to try this. Hope this helps!

Seg 3: 10:09

Heidi in Mission Viejo - Getting DSL over

Seg 4: 4:30

Joe in Torrance - Canon and OS X

http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/printers.html

Noon-1p

Seg 1: 11:10

Don in Monrovia - Netgear Pre-N

Patrick in Santa Ana - which computer should he get Mac or PC

Dad wants to get him a PC

Seg 2: 5:14

Carl in Riverside - JVC camcorder won’t work

Firewire

Seg 3: 9:03

Kathy in Agoura Hills -

Recruiter, contact management, Filemaker

John O’Malley from Kings Mountain, NC added:
To learn MSAccess try Amazon for John Viescas book. Click HereKeep in mind as you setup the database that you will need a table of Companies and another of Clients. The you will be able to tie them together with a third table of common needs between them.

Seg 4: 7:27

Jerry in Northridge - cell phone for Monaco

Toss shortcut

John in KM, NC added: Here is a review of SprintPCS’s offering of an unlocked CDMA and GSM phone. I have used this in Africa and Asia since its release in March.