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A wireless Dummie!
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, I'm new to networking, and am looking for a wireless solution so I can avoid wires running to my media PC in one room, I'm getting a laptop for my Home business which will also be mostly...

System hang
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

My computer boots and loads the Window XP without problem. But just after that or sometimes a while later, it hangs. I have checked the event viewer and have found the following message: "Error. Disk...

chkdsk
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi all, Does anyone know what the command is to check several hard disks for errors on a restart is? TIA Dave

explorer will not open upon bootup
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi Yesterday my computer worked fine, but suddenly the windows update logo pops up in the tray, telling me that my pc is infected with spyware. I tried to make it stop, as it kept popping up -...

listing ALL files on hard drive?
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 15 Comments

How can you list ALL the files on your computer in a single list that you can sort and/or edit using Excel and that includes file size and location, etc.? (This was easy in the old MS DOS days, but...

USMT to migrate specificfiles
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comments

I would like to migrate a specific file called isys.ini located in the C:\winnt to the new XP installation to exact location C:\winnt. Can anyone please advise how I do this I have added the...

Windows XP is not booting up
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comments

Windows XP is not booting up. I press the power button to boot up my computer and it does not boot up. It just hangs there. It does not show the normal boot process.

Cannot not run Windows Update
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 12 Comments

Hi there! I'm unable to run windows update. It goes to the website and then gives me the message: "Files required to use Windows Update are no longer registered or installed on your computer. To...

capturing video
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 3 Comments

How can I capture video from a DVD that I have. I have a collection of DVDs that I transferred from my digital camera to a DVD recorder. I would like to put those on my computer and edit them...

XP Home, 2 users, autostart program ?
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 3 Comments

I'm running XP Home Edition, and have 2 users - myself and my "teaching identity". I'd like to run my temperature monitor program whenever the machine is up, but, even thought I have it in autostart...

Problems saving to disc
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

I would say that the system is asking for a favour of a spring clean. How long have you been using the system for? If it is more than a year then considering the sort of work you do such as copying...

60 seconds???
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 3 Comments

Using XP Pro, select Start, programs, accessories, entertainment, sound recorder. The recorder that comes up will only let me record for 60 seconds. I need at least 4 or 5 minutes of recording time....

Offline Files alternative
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 0 Comments

Can anyone suggest any alternatives to the Windows Offline files solution? We have a Company Shared folder hosted on our Windows 2000 server that we'd like to make available to all our external...

Client Server Setup
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 6 Comments

Good morning All, Iam in an office that has a server with windows server 2000. But I have this gut feeling that it is all setup peer to peer not client/server. With the server computer just being...

Remote Desktop no longer maps printers
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 1 Comments

I have just rebuilt my laptop due to a harddrive failure and when I connect to our corporate server using Remote Desktop, it no longer maps the local printer on the remote server. I have the option...

Where does the automatic update tool store the updates?
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi, The automatic update tool downloads from MSFT site. Where does it keep the updates and does it delete them after the updates are installed? I notice that my free space decreases after the...

help to delete or remove shortcut keys.
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 6 Comments

i've accidentally created a bunch of shortcut keys by banging my keyboard to clean it. i don't even know how many i've created but normal typing bring up different windows or characters. i'm running...

RE: Active desktop opens all links in a new window?
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 0 Comments

Did you ever figure this one out - it doesn't seem like it should be that hard, but I have not come up with a solution either. I would like to make my sharepoint page my active desktop page, but...

Ctrl+C on any file(s) in resource explorer crashes explorer
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 8 Comments

Hi there, It's OK to right click the file(s) and select "copy", or select some text from any editor and press Ctrl+C. I guess the the explorer doesn't handle the Ctrl+C correctly in my case. This...

Losing Internet explorer history
Posted on December 22nd, 2005 | 3 Comments

I seem to lose intermittently my Internet Explorer history information. Up until a week ago it displayed the 21 days as per Tools/Internet options. It is currently displaying upto two/three days and...