TeamViewer + Malwarebytes = awesome

[kate_nepveu]

I have just used the dead-simple remote access program TeamViewer and the anti-malware program from Malwarebytes to, I hope, eradicate the nasty Personal Antivirus from my mother's computer, and TeamViewer in particular is going to be the Best Thing Ever now that I am my mother's tech support. I highly recommend it.

(I say "I hope" because the computer needed a reboot and I told her that she should go on with her grocery shopping as planned, so I can't see the results until she gets back home.)

But speaking of tech support, does anyone have any idea why her Windows XP machine won't automatically reconnect to a network drive? Dad set up her backups to an Iomega networked external hard drive, and the thing refuses to reconnect when she restarts her computer even though it's been told to save the username & password and automatically reconnect or whatever, which leads to the failure of backups and much aggravation. Frankly I'm thinking that I will just move the external hdd to be directly connected to her computer, since there's no need for it to be networked any more—it has a USB port, I assume I can do that—but in the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it.

Comments

Network Drive

[(Anonymous)]

If you create a file called something like Startup.cmd and put in it a line like:
Net Use I: \\Server\Share Password /User:Username
you can then put a link to this in the Startup program group and it will link the network drive from scratch every time you start up.

You could also start the TeamView client from the same file.

Dave

Re: Network Drive

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, thank you, I will try this as soon as I can.

(And if you're DWS Dave, hi!)

Re: Network Drive

[(Anonymous)]

No one you know or have met.

Just a programmer who like listening to writers.

Re: Network Drive

[kate_nepveu]

Well, thank you very much.