Recent content by doni49

When I connect to my VPN, it creates a network that Win7 is listing as an "UNIDETIFIED NETWORK" and "PUBLIC NETWORK". I'd like to have this be listed as "Home Network". But where it says "Public Network" is black and not clickable. Any ideas? TIA!

I just now read your thread (I have a question similar to yours -- at least based on the subject line). Since I'm here, I'll see if I can offer any assistance. Are you saying you lose the WiFi signal or the WiFi signal remains fine but you lose internet connectivity? If the former, then maybe...

I recently read an article on using a Raspberry Pi as a proxy server. The article talked about using my laptop on a public WiFi and how that's not secure (which is why I don't use public WiFi for anything that requires security such as banking etc). The article talked about setting up an SSH...

Ok--sorry. I thought you were saying that you couldn't find anyplace to set up rules. I use Thunderbird so I can't tell you anything about WinMail. I just opened it long enough to see if Rules capability was gone.

What version of Win? I'm on Win7 Home and just started Windows Live Mail. On the "Folders" tab, I see "Message Rules".

Also what version of Win?

Some troubleshooting questions that come to mind: 1) Are the icons that won't change in the Public Desktop folder or YOUR Desktop folder? 2) Is the shortcut read-only? Remember a shortcut is really just a special file which can be read-only.

There is a third party app that I installed on my mom's PC which read all the music on her phone and copied them to her hard drive as MP3 files. I don't know off hand what the name of that app is, but it DOES exist and should be near the top of a google search results list. I used this because...

I have a BUNCH of mp3 files from ripping my CD collection. But many songs were on multiple CDs. Is there something out there that will help me find duplicates? I'm thinking that if I could get a playlist of these duplicates, I'd just play the entire playlist to see if they are the same (there...

Thanks. I just used an external HD. But I'm still curious why it showed the DVDs as blank.

Also--Win7 has the capability BUILT-IN to alter partition sizes and create new ones. It works much better than WinVista did.

Thanks. Don't know why I didn't just do that in the first place--that's exactly what I did on my previous PC. But I'm still curious why it was asking for disks and then not writing to them. Oh well.

Quicker way: Press the "Windows Key + R" at the same time. This will bring up the "Run" dialog. Type cmd and press enter.

I've worked with every version of Windows since Win 3.11 and I've ever heard of such an option--unless you had some sort of third party app installed (and NO--I have no idea if there IS such an app). The best I can think of is to put the files in a hidden folder.

Yes, I could use Explorer. But I have 2 issues with that. 1) Let's say that I've got a folder or a file that is 5-6 folders deep. I don't want to have to stop and recreate the folder structure to match. 2) Let's say that I'm going to archive a bunch now. Then 6-12I months down the road, I...