Troubleshooting Home Networks

Few chores are as frustrating as debugging a small network. The last time I did it, I cursed colorfully enough to embarrass Quentin Tarantino. The one thing we can be certain of is that there’s no problem with your hardware–the successful Internet access tells us that.

MOVE

Move a file from one folder to another

FTP

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is the standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.

chkdsk.exe

Checks the file system and file system metadata of a volume for logical and physical errors. If used without parameters, chkdsk displays only the status of the volume and does not fix any errors. If used with the /f, /r, /x, or /b parameters, it fixes errors on the volume.

Extended Color Constants

Get some extended color constants. Stuff like vbWhite, vbBlue are great, but even better is vbDarkGreen, vbPaleBlue etc… Original Author: CodeJack Assumptions I ran across this little tid-bit and thought it would be usefull to others. I can’t remember where I got it, but I’ve had it for a looonggg time. Code Public Enum exColorTypes ‘vbWhite = &HFFFFFF… Read More »