Hi papernpaste something you could try without (/before) changing the sound card: does the volume of the interfering sound change as you...
Bagby - thanks for your patience I think that IconCache.db is probably a bit of a red herring - because it's a per user account thing. On my...
rcflyerbob, thanks for the update. gosh! - and it worked?! Certainly, that would "discharge the residue power ", but then disconnecting the...
typical examples of diurnal variation before outage, after outage (orange background = via router which limits us to ~6.5Mb/s; not that it...
From what you report back I think we're probably along the right lines... Oddly, I'd just come across this same problem on a funny little thing...
Hi the Dell Dimension 4700 ships with a 305W power supply (documentation link) Unlike early Dells (some of which had non-standard outputs,...
Bagby - are you still having trouble with this issue? I've turned up something which would probably help debug the situation. If you are still...
well, I found a sort-of answer to my question: 100% packet loss is certainly unacceptable, one just doesn't get any internet at all :rolleyes:...
Hi Orlando :) thanks for posting back to let us know the good news thanks also for taking the trouble to find your way through the navigation...
Hi Tony ...which I obtained from 192.168.100.1 as you rightly suggest. Although the VM specifications are quite a bit tighter than your figures!...
aha : SuperHub ?= customised Netgear DG480 (crippled some features of UI) HJ (9149kb/s, 0%loss)
as long as we can disable the wireless part of it! From the pictures I've Googled it looks as though it has 4 ethernet sockets, so there's a...
Today wasn't too bad: - worst packet loss (only) 29% at 19:04 - slowest downstream 0.32Mb/s at 20:05 ...which is quite fast for a Sunday...
here's a thing you could try fairly quickly: try changing your colour depth e.g. from 32 bit down to 16 bit, then set it back up to 32 bit again...
puzzling what happens if you try to change the icon to something else altogether - preferably from a completely different executable or icon(s)...
Wildfire, thanks for a very useful reply! Yes, indeed the ISP is Virgin Media - and after my experiences with the (offshore) call centre during...
Greetings all... we're having horribly bad performance from our (cable modem) broadband during the afternoons and evenings - it works fine...
good shot with the link, Wildfire :) nice one very best, HJ.
Hi Bagby perhaps try repairing the icon cache? - I use TweakUI for this purpose, there may be other ways the icons you see when Windows is...
Hi Orlando cheers for the progress report :) sounding promising! Certainly, it's commonsense to make sure the change "sticks" OK + good...
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