How do I fix task scheduler?

[Peter]

Your are getting too technical for me I'm afraid. I've enabled windows fw
and disabled McAfee firewall... you want me to run those tests again? I'll
do it anyway

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Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
Can you enable Window's firewall, then disable Norton's firewall (in that
order so a worm can't get you - or go offline to do it).

Does anything change. Both TS and the netsh et al?

The other thing it does is cleans the hosts file (forgot to mention that).

I didn't need to reboot after running it, though I was offline and it was
working.

So you log on, run this program and TS starts working but your network
doesn't?

Type in Start - Run
%temp%\vbdata

and you'll find the reg files it uses.

Merge the 2 files.

Then in Start Run
%windir%\system32\drivers\etc
and open the file Hosts with notepad and paste the contents.

 

[Peter]

Started doing the %temp thing....windows can't find vbdata

--
Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
Can you enable Window's firewall, then disable Norton's firewall (in that
order so a worm can't get you - or go offline to do it).

Does anything change. Both TS and the netsh et al?

The other thing it does is cleans the hosts file (forgot to mention that).

I didn't need to reboot after running it, though I was offline and it was
working.

So you log on, run this program and TS starts working but your network
doesn't?

Type in Start - Run
%temp%\vbdata

and you'll find the reg files it uses.

Merge the 2 files.

Then in Start Run
%windir%\system32\drivers\etc
and open the file Hosts with notepad and paste the contents.

 

[David Candy]

The program deletes them after you click OK or Cancel. Do it while the Do You Want To Reboot dialog is open.

 

[Peter]

I'm lost now. Can't get vbdata. This is wearing me out! Do you want to
remote connect?

--
Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
The program deletes them after you click OK or Cancel. Do it while the Do
You Want To Reboot dialog is open.

 

[David Candy]

On my 33.6K modem, not at all. It's very fustrating. I have a 56K modem as well that I don't use cos the 33.6 was $400 new but the 56K is only a $30 modem. And 56 isn't significantly quicker than 33K.

I'll email them to you. Send me a mail with a valid return address. My address is valid so hit Reply rather than Reply Group.

What about the Hosts file. That should be there.

 

[Peter]

The hosts file, as before, just contains the standard sample document..no
other info. There are also hosts.bak, .bho, .sbs files

--
Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
On my 33.6K modem, not at all. It's very fustrating. I have a 56K modem as
well that I don't use cos the 33.6 was $400 new but the 56K is only a $30
modem. And 56 isn't significantly quicker than 33K.

I'll email them to you. Send me a mail with a valid return address. My
address is valid so hit Reply rather than Reply Group.

What about the Hosts file. That should be there.

 

[Peter]

My modem is at 1gig !

--
Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
On my 33.6K modem, not at all. It's very fustrating. I have a 56K modem as
well that I don't use cos the 33.6 was $400 new but the 56K is only a $30
modem. And 56 isn't significantly quicker than 33K.

I'll email them to you. Send me a mail with a valid return address. My
address is valid so hit Reply rather than Reply Group.

What about the Hosts file. That should be there.

 

[David Candy]

So where's the mail?

 

[Peter]

Must have got caught up asomewhere.. I'll email you now

--
Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
So where's the mail?

 

[Peter]

OK - sent

--
Peter in Toronto, Canada.
Windows XP Home SP1
Pentium 4 @ 3.00ghz, 160gb HD, 1.00gb DDR.
Rogers Hi-Speed Extreme Internet on Cable.
So where's the mail?