finally getting somewhere. Don't know what I did differently.

Am I missing something, or are iTunes rentals excluded from Home Sharing?

DH rented a couple of movies and we want to watch them on the TV (which is connected to my old G5), but they're not showing up under his account in the Shared section. Are we out of luck?

Forgive me, but different from the plug that goes into the router and the wall,

This. The AC adapter.

Sorry for the confusion.

Recommendations for a simple mp3 player for a Mac? I wanna play Caprica on iTunes while listening to the commentary podcast, which means I can't user iTunes to play the podcast like I usually do. Tonight I'm gonna use Audacity, but that seems like a lot of firepower to bring to the equation when I just wanna listen to something.

Crap, I just realized I could use my iPod for the podcast, but then I'd need an additional 1/8" stereo plug to RCA connector thingie....

Just use the Quicktime player application.

Dammit, why didn't I think of that?

Thanks.

umm, so my computer went apeshit this morning, telling me that I had a virus. I ran anti spyware, it found 15 items (mostly tracking cookies) and everything seemed to be fine. Unfortunately, a bunch of programs don't work anymore, like Firefox. Anything with an .exe string won't run.

Oddly, Explorer seems to work fine. Thoughts?

Run the virus scanner and malware scanner in safe mode, for a start.

Neither will run. Everytime I try to open something, I get an error message that says "Open with", but .exe files dont have anything to open with!

From the internets:

First Thing to Try

Before playing with the registry try this first. Open the File Types dialog from any Explorer window -- use My Documents or My Computer (Tools | Folder Options | File Types Tab). Scroll down to where .EXE would be in the alphabetical order and make certain .EXE is not there (if it is, then edit it there by changing the association to Application). Finally, select the New button, type in EXE for the extension and select the Advanced button. From the list pick "Application."

While not shown on the picture above there should be a "Restore" button you can click. If so, use that and, hopefully, this should cure the problem (thanks to forum member diginono for finding and posting this solution). The Restore button only shows up when there is a problem on the system.

If this works but there is still a problem with LNK files then scroll down to the end of this FAQ for a solution to that.

If this did not work, then you have to play with the registry.

There are other places that have still more fixes not of the registry editing, including using a restore point, etc.