firewalls

Hi guys and girls.. I am a brand new windows 7 user.. I brought and installed this OS after a Black Screen of Death on my machine which was running windows Vista Business prooved to be incurable without booting from the Windows CD, which I of course didnt have as it came preloaded. The problem...

Need a little help from an expert on Remote Assistance… I use windows remote assistance (RA) often to preclude the painfully grueling challenge of explaining computer stuff to elderly (and grossly inept) computer users. RA works great to show these users how to do something in a snap, but...

Hi, I have a Dell Core2Duo laptop with Vista Home Premium 64 with SP2. It's connected to my network wirelessly however I've tried it wired too but that made no difference. On the network are a number of devices; 2 windows 7 Home Premium 64 machines and a brand new netgear ReadyNas Duo, all...

I am trying to access a network share at my workplace and am unable with the windows 7 machines. With the XP machines I can hit \\x3400 and \\10.10.1.x and accessed shared folders. With Win7 I can hit \\10.10.1.x but \\x3400 gives me the ol' unspecified MS error 0x80004005. Firewalls are...

Hi all, I really need help, I bought my PC with Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) in December last year. Connected my Xbox 360 and everything was running smooth, no issues. This past Saturday I decided to install a new hard drive ( as a new volume) and copied all my files ( video, music etc) to...

Hi, Greetings to you people seeing that this is my first post/thread here :) I bought a Dell XPS 8100 at the beginning of the year. The PC came pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) and I have had no problems with it until a couple of days ago when I started to randomly loose the...

I have tested almost all third party firewalls and security suites. I have found out that there is something seriously wrong in W7. In WinXP All software I tested filter network connections as expected. I can block incoming connections and control outgoing connections way I like. BUT: in win...

Hi, I'm having problems getting windows7 and xp to network. I've searched and tried most solutions that have worked for others but still having problems. I have 2 xp (32bit) laptops, wireless connection. 1 Win7 (64bit) Desktop direct connect to wireless router (WGT624v3 firmware...

want to transfer files but cant using windows easy transfer, primarily not working because they dont see each other on any networks, ive tried using a hub with internet, tried just doing it with an ethernet disabled firewalls, it says its even sending and receiving. so i dunno, whats going...

Just installed Windows 7 over Vista on Sony Vaio notebook. Turns out that the networking does not work. Routing tables etc are ok; I can ping arbitrary hosts on internet and on my LAN, however all www connections (with Firefox as well as IE) are dead -- both in LAN as well as on the internet. So...

I have had a problem with my wireless download speed ever since I did a clean install of Win 7 32 bit. I have seen various forums where others have had similar issues and I have tried everything... uninstalled drivers and firewalls and the whole 9 yards and updated everything and unchecked and...

A WINDOWS 7 zero day exploit has been spotted just a day after the operating system was declared risk free in Microsoft's monthly security bulletin. The newly found bug was discovered by Laurent Gaffie and details were posted on the Full Disclosure mailing list. The Vole is investigating the...

Hi there, at the start I would like to thanks for any reply and suggestions u will give me, and apologize for my pure english. I installed Windows 7 Professional x64bit few days ago. Everything was nice and awsome till I needed to connect to Internet ;) As allways whe have to get troubles :D...

The major cause of problems when UPDATING from Vista to Windows 7 are programs like Antivirus, Firewalls, and the dozen or so programs that are loading when the system boots up. Save yourself a LOT of headaches and turn them all off and run Msconfig and uncheck all the boxes under startup. Then...

For some reason when i'm playing multiplayer cod4 my ping is ridiculous. In the past (pre windows 7) I would get a good 40ping in most servers. However, after installing windows 7 and installing cod4 my ping is going crazy. All servers in the server browser show as 1000+ ping. When i'm in a...

Hi Under Windows7 RC 7100 with a modem (Nokia N91, with pcsuite driver last version), the internet connection worked well at the beginning, and after a few days, without changing anything, it now always says "no network access", with the yellow triangle. I'm in the African bush without any...

Ok, so here's my problem. When I try to connect to another computer on the network, it will connect for about a minute and then I will lose connection to both the network computer and the internet for about a minute(Faster if I repair the connection). Seeing as I'm trying to transfer files over...

Hello all... I have been struggling with a difficult problem with my pagefile not working in windows 7 RC. Every time I start the computer and log in (Even in safe mode) It opens the performance options window (found under control panel > system > advanced system settings > Advanced tab >...

Hello all, I am trying to RDP to a server that is on a different internal subnet. basic information: My networks are LAN-to-LAN (connected via IPSEC VPN tunnels with CISCO firewalls). Basically, any computer in our domain can RDP to any other computer, regardless of what network they are...

I'm running Win 7, RC1 and it's great. However, my portable drives don't show up when I plug them in. I have an external Maxtor 250 that connects to the same computer via USB and it works fine. But the portables do not. One is a SimpleTech 120GB and the other is an Iomega 250GB. Both work fine...