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Well its been around 3 hours since I've been awake trying to fix this.
As of now it has been fixed but I hope it is stable and I'm not in the eye of the storm.
What I did with my Vista was tried to retrace my steps and go into my network settings.
My original problem with my XP computer was I couldn't find my network computers in my network places. How I got them to appear I do not know. My assumption is XP and Vista computers conflict or something because when I tried to use my laptop to find my desktop computer I couldn't find it. I was clicking around shit randomly, and then I hit my modem and out of no where I got an error that said "Cannot connect to DNS" or some shit.
Then my internet stopped working.
But what I did was reset my modem/router - hit the reset button in the back and its working again.
It was the third time I reset my stuff so I guess three time is a charm.
I really hope everything is fixed, and I literally have no fucking clue what has happened.
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By the way I didn't fix it, I spoke to soon.
I even completely wiped my laptop to see if it was a virus.
Well, after like 40 minutes of my computer reverting back to "factory-state" lols I log on and still have the same problem. This is definitely a network problem that is fucking bullshit.
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United States898 Posts
i like the part in the OP that says that the problem occured before, within or after the stars. haha. Sorry man GL with your problem
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Something interesting I found out:
If I turn on public file sharing on my vista computer I lose internet connection. THE FUCK?
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On October 30 2008 15:27 SCC-Faust wrote:
Something interesting I found out:
If I turn on public file sharing on my vista computer I lose internet connection. THE FUCK?
recover disk pray?
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Your network probably just realizes what an awful game WoW is and it's trying to save you :/. My suggestion would be to listen.
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Russian Federation4235 Posts
1) Folders can't be malicious. There's absolutely no way you can copy a folder on your machine from another machine, without running anything, and get infected.
2) I don't know if Vista has a Task Manager, but if it does, your first action is to look at the list of running processes and see what actually consumes so much processor power and memory.
If it's a system process, it's either a Vista bug or you're infected with a virus. If it's an outside service you know, stop it and, if you're willing, google on what it can be conflicting with. If it's a process you don't know, google it - chances are high it's a malicious process.
Opera browser sometimes starts eating unlimited amounts of memory, you can easily spot that at the task manager.
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Did you try ending one of the many svchost.exe's that are in your task manager?
I only ask because the "Cannot connect to DNS" occurs when a certain svchost.exe is ended.
A restart should fix that problem.
The network problem might be outside of your control, and it could be your ISP. My ISP is crap, and my internet moves at a snails pace sometimes. The actual problem of folders and such opening slowly could even be something like the RAM going back. Maybe it has somehow lost its timing, or it just has some sort of a bad connection.
Are you by chance using a FAT32 drive on the laptop?
Folders that are larger than 32K must be completely parsed to the FAT32 drive before being opened. At least in Windows
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I got like two hours of sleep and when I woke up my WoW download from Blizzard finished and my internet is perfect, this is really gay.
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Russian Federation4235 Posts
Eh? You were running Blizzard Downloader for all that time?
It's known to lock up the system while it's working and it's goddamn OBVIUOS what causes problems when it's running. Holy cow.
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When you download things on bittorrent near the max capacity of your connection, your ping will go up massively and your connection will be generally terrible. The blizzard downloader uses bittorrent and has no way to throttle itself.
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I've got a pretty decent computer, and uTorrent still kills my computer processes.
Well, at least you know now.
(I assume you won't be giving out the prize now)
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United States22883 Posts
On October 30 2008 19:59 BluzMan wrote:
Eh? You were running Blizzard Downloader for all that time?
It's known to lock up the system while it's working and it's goddamn OBVIUOS what causes problems when it's running. Holy cow.
I said it! It's a torrent, of course it'll fuck up your internet.
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On October 30 2008 13:48 Jibba wrote:
Not to make you feel dumber, but I'm 80% sure Blizzard lets you download it from their site if you've got an account. I also assume you're running into problems with Blizzard updater off, because I think its a BT.
even without an account the trial version is actually a full install.
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