Ski

Just watched my boys clobber Tebow!!! Super Bowl bound!!!
I'll post this question for all you night owls, then I gotta go to bed!

Had a botched install of Acronis True Image 2012. Didn't make it far enough to register as a program so I could delete it the proper way. I have managed to delete all but 2 files timounter64.dll, and tishell64.dll. The directory is empty otherwise. Windows won't let me delete the files because.. 'they are in use with another program'. I can't find where. Tried taking ownership with the 'takeown' command, but another error comes up precluding that.
They are still in use even in safe mode.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. The files don't seem to do anything, just an annoyance....

TIA

Ski

This morning, did as usual - went to check mail, news, etc and low & behold my Belkin N300 router started throwing runtime errors with any type of attempted access - setup - options - and even trying to read the on-line manual from the task bar icon. This has not been a good router since I bought it in August - likes to reset itself a few times a day, under the auspices of 'Scheduled Reset', and drops more connections than a throw away cel phone. Tried to reinstall the software - kept on failing something about not being able to replace another file. Spent 2+ hours on the phone with half of India and Pakistan only to be told it is my ip's fault - no connection, no matter how much I tried to tell them I get the same software errors weather I am connected to an ip or not. Have reset routers modems and computers til I'm blue in the face....

Called RoadRunner and was told I had a good connection, which I knew, and they tried to get me connected - no go. Bad router.

Got my old Belkin router back out and tried to set it up til I decided what to do with the 'newer' one. It won't connect either, I can ping it but no connection. Spent another few hours talking to the other half of India and Pakistan trying to get this one resolved. They decided the old router was bad. Got an RMA for both. The old one is warranteed for life, the newer one is only 3 months old. Maybe things are looking up........

Nah....

Now have no more routers, so try to connect directly to the cable modem.
Main machine won't connect, can ping it, but won't connect, even after resetting it numerous times. My backup (server) machine connects to the modem just fine, that's what I'm using now..... Gonna replace cat5 cables tomorrow and try to delete all the old stuff, as much as I can find, and try to straight connect the main box to the modem. Got internet with the backup box, but no mail client - only keep it on one machine. Hafta reinstall printers, wireless printer is completely out at the moment, and just a bunch of stuff you don't realize you lose when a small home network goes on the blink....

Any Ideas on how to get the main box to reconnect directly to the modem?

Thanx

Ski

I get these things once or twice a month, from both sides. Normally, I ignore them - but due to the recent market fiasco, and just other things, I decided to respond. I may disappear throughout the night, but this is what I sent...... OH and signed with address and telephone #

What I got..... This was in a nice HTML format - all colors and stuff.... Guess I can't copy that.



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Dear Friends,

In an opinion piece I penned for today’s POLITCO, below, there’s a specific solution to the nation’s economic woes. We have to stop the partisan finger pointing. And we have to realize we can’t just cut our way out of this mess. Take a look and let me know what you think via an e-mail under the “economy” topic. Thanks.





Close the tax loopholes

"There’s no mystery about what we have to do. It’s just common sense. In addition to the spending cuts Congress just made, we need tax reform. And by tax reform, I mean closing loopholes, special interest tax breaks and corporate subsidies. It’s just plain wrong to be protecting tax breaks for oil companies and to be rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas." - Sen. Bill Nelson

By: Sen. Bill Nelson
August 10, 2011

After watching Standard & Poor’s performance in the Enron and housing debacles, it’s hard to stomach their decision to downgrade America’s credit.

But even coming from S&P, there is a message we should hear: The finger pointing and hyper-partisanship has to stop. If it doesn’t, we really will be on the road to ruin.

Democrats need to see tea partiers as something other than debt-limit hostage-taking Republicans. And Republicans need to see President Barack Obama and Democrats as something other than big-spending socialists.

We’ve got to stop this attack madness. We have to bring civility back to the public square. We have to put the country back on the path to fiscal sanity.

To do that, we need to cut some $4 trillion to $5 trillion. We made a down payment on this with the $2 trillion dollars we cut just last week. Now we need to go further.

To understand what we have to do, though, we first need to look at how we got here.

We went from a $236 billion budget surplus in 2000 to a $1.3 trillion deficit last year — and a record $14 trillion debt. A huge chunk of the debt comes from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re bringing the troops home.

Another significant piece stems from the Bush-era tax cuts. Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, says the tax cuts for the wealthy should be left to expire. They’re set to do so at the end of next year. We should let that happen.

Agree or not, don’t you think most Americans were better off before the tax cuts than they are now?

Much of the rest of the debt comes from the economic downturn since 2008.

That brings us to today. And there’s no mystery about what we have to do. It’s just common sense. In addition to the spending cuts Congress just made, we need tax reform.

And by tax reform, I mean closing loopholes, special interest tax breaks and corporate subsidies. It’s just plain wrong to be protecting tax breaks for oil companies and to be rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas.

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee, I’ve scheduled a hearing for early September to investigate closing many of these loopholes. Doing so will likely generate $2 trillion over the next decade. Add that to the $2 trillion in spending cuts we’ve made — and we’re in the $4 trillion range that we need to hit.

It’s time to stop the shouting and bickering and political attacks. It’s time to show the world that America can take care of business.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is a member of the Senate Finance and Budget committees.

© 2011 POLITICO LLC






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My response..


Dear Senator Nelson;

This response in not specifically directed at you or your office.

Why is it that all the possible 'fixes' to the monetary fiasco we are in now, say that WE THE PEOPLE must tighten our belts; WE THE PEOPLE must toughen up and accept it; WE THE PEOPLE must

do this or that; WE THE PEOPLE have to pay it back when it is YOU the politicians who put us in the position we are in with no help from WE THE PEOPLE? Did WE THE PEOPLE have anything to

say about giving untold billions to the car companies, the banks, the housing lenders, and how about all of the foreign aid WE THE PEOPLE give to others. Isn't it about time to give to

US??? Other than daily governmental operation, let the people have a say on who gets money from now on. No more monies to places like Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan - they give us bodies

back in return - no more monies to any third world countries when it never gets to the people it was meant for. To the housing people and banks - you got yourself into it - get yourself

out!! To farming out products and services to other countries to be completed and returned to the US - 100% tax on the resale value paid for by the manufacturer prior to import. Illegal

immigrants are just that -ILLEGAL!! Drugs are ILLEGAL. Killing another person is ILLEGAL. Being an ILLEGAL immigrant just insures you get lots of freedoms and benefits that WE THE PEOPLE

worked for and will not get. They claim 'My child was born in America so my child can stay...' – fine your child can stay, but you have to leave. Not many would leave their children here

knowing they have NO free benefits, no free nothing!!


Bring our brave soldiers home to protect our own borders before it's too late.


WE THE PEOPLE elected YOU the politician to do a job - and YOU AINT DOING IT. WE THE PEOPLE are UPSET!!


On the positive side, I'm glad to see Florida is the first state in the union to call for drug testing prior to giving away welfare, and other free programs! Hurrah!! It should be extended

to include unemployment compensation. A good portion of WE THE PEOPLE that make the money available for these programs are subject to drug testing on a daily basis.


Again, not directed solely at you or your office, but if the shoe fits, I'm non-partisan, wear it on either foot.

Thank you for your time.....
I signed it - it's mine, I wrote it. Feel free to disseminate as necessary.... Will sign it again, if need be.

A little assistance here would be greatly appreciated....

Have a nurse friend who helps my wife who has an HP dv4 1275mx laptop. Once or twice a year, I get to clean all the nasties out for her. I got it the other day because the screen went white. (inverter & back lights are obviously ok!) It boots to factory Win 7 Home Premium on an external monitor normally. Would it be safe to assume that only the screen is kaput? There are some articles out there referencing this machine and a factory fault involving the white screen and motherboard, which would have been replaced under warranty (hers expired last November). Being I have no 'known good' parts to swap out, should I just tell her worst case scenario 80.00 + shipping for a new screen?

Once I get the OK from her to disassemble it, I know the possibility of a broken, frayed, worn video cable exists, but probably not in my case. These things are a bit of a b*&^h to take apart.

Anything else to look for? As I said, I A$$/U/ME all else is OK, cuz it boots fine with an external monitor.

Suggestions appreciated..

Thanx

Been going around with this for over a week. My RoadRunner cable internet connection has slowed to almost dial-up speed, if it finds a connection at all. I have run all the virus scanners, malware scanners, etc, etc. If I power cycle the router, I'm kinda OK for a few minutes, or sites, or clicks - however you want to look at it. But very soon it comes back to sloooow!! So after talking to half of Pakistan and most of India the other night, they decided to send a tech to my house. While on the phone with whoever, I ran the speedtest.cfl.rr dot com test numerous times in different configurations on different computers - all showed the same - my connection speed is within acceptable limits, I have standard 10 meg down, 1 meg up or something. The speeds on all 3 computers, 2 wired & 1 wireless were 9.6 or better down, and .9 or better up.
The tech came and messed with some hi tech looking piece of equipment and ended up putting a new modem in. Still the same. My home page is simple Yahoo. On initial sign on, it takes sometimes 15 20 seconds of white screen before it finds the page. It times out sometimes with 'cannot find the server'. Once I'm finally on a page, to go to a sub page - forget it! Go to a news page and click on a headline - don't even bother, more than 50% it will time out.
I took in a laptop for some repair yesterday, hooked it thru my passworded router and it was like dial-up again. That is now 2 wired and 2 wireless machined that essentially can't access the net.
My router is a 5-6 year old Belkin that has served well til recently. Should I just take a chance and replace it? Other than HiJackThis is there some diagnostic software that can find out if this is my problem or RoadRunners?

Thanx for any help
Ski