Find Your Android After The Horse Left The Barn

Plan B can be downloaded to the phone from the play store and it will email the phones location to you. Have not tried by next time someone in the family loses their phone let's hope I remember to look here for answers.

So now I have 3 possible solutions.
1. Where's My Droid
2. Life 360 GPS tracker
3. Plan B
4. Avast (trying now but see it as the solution)

All for free

Cerberus may be worth a look even though it costs moola. This has a free trial for one week, then you can buy a lifetime license for a small price (2.99€) from within the application: no monthly or yearly fees, just a one-time payment. You can manage five phone from one account. Cerberus is so feature rich and so cheap that I'm going to grab it. The only reason I would not is to avoid having more junk running on the phone.

So $3.99 and explain to me how the miserable Euro is worth more than the dollar. Maybe I will let politics stand in the way of my purchase? No - I'm bigger than that so let's extend our magnanimous hand of friendship (filled with an extra dollar) across the sea and do business.

Lookout is another option. I got sick of it scanning everything and full feature is monthly fees.

SeekDroid Lite appears similar to Cerberus.
SeekDroid for $4.99 lifetime

Avast has a mobile security app for free that is popular. Can we turn off the anitvirus? Installing as we speak. Open interface by call Avast PIN. When you confirm the email it looks like you need to invite friends. Simply access the site another way to avoid. You can turn off all the anti-virus scanning (which I did) but it is a pain in the butt. Only took a minute.
Yep, that's me.

AirDroid v2 is an interesting possibility but not for locating. It failed to locate. But to get things on or off your phone it is slick.

Access Your Desktop From Android

Splashtop it worked out of the shoot but then gave up and so did I.

Access your windows desktop on your Android device and maybe even iPad. Yes your desktop needs to be running. I'm not clear if you get a number of days trial. I set it up on the home computer and everything worked fine. When I set it up on the office computer I couldn't get by the "buy me now" page. But maybe for $16 per year it is a good deal? It will take more investigating. On the home computer I could run everything.
Does one paid account allow several computers and several devices ... hard to tell.

Checking LogMeIn again. Yikes $39 annual for each device or each account ... I don't get it.

http://www.splashtop.com/splashtop2

Windows 7 Wired Connection No Internet But Wireless Works

Solution: Run Rizonesoft Complete Internet Repair and set a fixed IP on the PC. Just doing the fixed IP should have worked but it would not. Four of the PCs are Windows 7 and three are XP. They worked fine for awhile but one day computer after computer needed to have a fixed IP set to get internet. The XP machine's internet speed increased dramatically with a fixed IP. Now they are all fixed and happy.

I'm leaving this for posterity:
I have 7 computers that hook to a second router in a two router network. The second router hooks to the first router which is connected to the cable modem and to several other machines. So the second router handles a network within a larger network and wireless radio is turned off.  One of the 7 Windows machines on the second router stopped accessing the internet through the wired connection. Adding a wifi connection to the problem PC connects it to the first router and internet works. The problem PC sees the other computers and accesses them fine but no internet. Virus does not appear to be the problem.

I am stumped so far. Below are some things to try.

The first router is 192.168.0.1, the second is 192.168.2.1, When set to auto select IP the problem computer picks up a 192.168.0.xxx IP. It seems like the second router is passing this computer straight through to the first router and that router is assigning the IP. Setting the problem PC to a fixed IP of 192.168.2.xxx does not produce internet.

Start - All Programs - Accessories and right click on Command Prompt, select "Run as Administrator" to open a command prompt.

Do First
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
net stop "dns client"
net start "dns client"
Reboot

if not work

Do this

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults: netsh winsock reset catalog
Reset IPv4 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv4 reset reset.log
Reset IPv6 TCP/IP stack to installation defaults. netsh int ipv6 reset reset.log
netsh interface ip delete arpcache
Reboot

Run these on working computer and compare to non-working
Minitoolbox
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/farbar/MiniToolBox.exe

Hijackthis
http://www.trendmicro.com/ftp/products/hijackthis/HijackThis.exe


FarbarServiceScanner
http://download.bleepingcomputer.com/farbar/FSS.exe

Rizonesoft Complete Internet Repair
http://www.pendriveapps.com/goto/HERE/6635/1