Recent content by rickety_goodman

Whenever the computer is on, there is a full-height, single-pixel-wide vertical bar that slowly slides back and forth across the screen from about 1/3 to 2/3 of the width of the screen. Absolutely nothing affects it, although one time I walked off and left it to find it missing when I returned...

I tried resetting the tcpip stack on the windows10 machine and it made NO difference. Remember, everything is working normally when you are reading and printing information from the internet or from that machine's local hard drive. But you cannot find information from any of the 3 NAS units...

On both my Win10 machine and my WinXP machines, internet networking works normally. However, on both machines (2 different versions of Firefox), if I type in a direct numeric address (i.e., 192.168.0.167) which happens to be a network printer, which was addressable this way until 2 days ago, I...

I have a Windows 10 computer (Walmart Acer) only because my bank won't let me access my account from Win XP anymore. I sometimes only touch the mouse or keyboard every 3 days (at the most-often), sometimes longer. When I then need to use the computer, I'll find the screen saver swirling away...

I'm on Social Security so I have to make do with an old Logitech trackball. (I don't want to cripple myself by "upgrading" to a mouse.) It suddenly started wandering around after I moved the pointer into position. In WinXp, I can't use the red "X" to close a window because I position the mouse...

I can't figure out how to post a picture here!

The only thing that shows is: on the left, it says "Disk 3", and assigns the drive letter "G:"; under that it says "No Media" on the right, where there is usually a white box with information, there is nothing. If Xp cannot enumerate a drive, I am used to seeing it listed as "Mass Storage...

I have a flash drive which shows up in WinXp drive management with a drive letter, but says "No Media". I don't ever remember buying a flash drive that didn't have a file system on it, so I'm wondering if I used it while I was repairing an NAS problem (LINUX?) I really don't want to tear down...

My use of the word "random" was intentional. Sometimes everything acts normally, sometimes, out of the blue, it refuses to give me access. If I wait long enough and repeatedly try randomly, it will eventually start giving access again. This happens even though I haven't made any account...

What do I have to do to totally destroy Win10's ability to declare that I don't have permission to access my own NAS drives ? I'm the only person on my computer and my network. My only work-around is to try to save everything I'm working on and shut down my computer. My WinXP computer on the...

Notice the line that says: "This is the first time that I have actually put the removed RAID right back into the computer to run the old install so I could write down some data." There was no USB adapter connected during this attempt.

When I re-install WinXP, I buy 2 new identical hard drives, set them up in RAID1, and install WinXP, SP3 from scratch onto the new RAID. I have old pairs of disks going back 15 years, with both disks carefully marked as RAID1 and RAID2. I then use a cable-type USB to SATA adapter to copy over...

firefox has severe trouble opening new urls. wdnslookup reveals 2 error codes: 11018 invalid QoS provider-specific buffer 11010 A QoS error occurred due to lack of resources I get these errors when I try to ping or tracert "microsoft.com" I've already tried the netsh winsock reset...