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Are there any cautions when upgrading XP Home to XP Pro?
Posted on February 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I've looked around the forum and it appears that upgrading my laptop from XP Home to XP Pro should be straight forward and handled by the install wizard. Is this true? Can I buy the upgrade online...

Windows XP Media Center & router
Posted on February 12th, 2007 | 0 Comments

My wife's Dell is running Windows XP Media Center. If I connect it directly to the cable modem we can get the 3meg download speed from the internet. If I try to go through our SMC router, the speed...

Fonts, Points
Posted on February 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Yes, that worked fine. Thank you for your help -- Wkm "Yasin Aalipour" wrote:

Boot up problem xp home edition
Posted on February 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Thanks for answering and attempting to help. My computer died a few days later and has been buried. But thank you for trying to assist. "Byte" wrote:

Accessing Raid 0 HD without Format
Posted on February 11th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I am running 3 Hd's. #1 for the OS #2/#3 running raid 0 with just files on it. Recently i formatted and reinstalled windows on #1 however my raid HD will not appear as a drive anymore. Under disk...

Windows rebooting continously
Posted on February 11th, 2007 | 8 Comments

"Akshay" wrote: Try to scan for Viruses and Malwares on your computer to be sure it is not an infection scenario. Run the Panda and download these software from...

HELP, Error Message, No socket, error 11004, error #Ox8OOCCOD
Posted on February 10th, 2007 | 1 Comments

"Thomas Curtis" wrote: Hi Tom, If you have Anti-virus with E-mail scanner try to disable it and also Re-Enter the POP, SMTP or the HTTP servers names again with the account name and password...

Disc drive is gone
Posted on February 10th, 2007 | 1 Comments

for cd/dvd driver there is usually a little hole on the front to insert a small probe to get the drawer to open. problem is why did this happen. mikeyhsd@sport.rr.com

System Error - IP address conflict w/another system on network
Posted on February 9th, 2007 | 3 Comments

Glad you sorted it out, and thanks for the feedback much appreciated. But sure you know enough to be useful now LOL. Regards, nass "codesmom" wrote:

Search function in XP is out of work!
Posted on February 9th, 2007 | 0 Comments

the "search for files and folders" function in xp is out of work! none file can be found out whatever I input in "Search for files or folders named:" or "Containing text" text box. why? anyone can...

1394 External Storage drive stops responding in Windows XP SP2
Posted on February 9th, 2007 | 0 Comments

Does anybody know where I can get the patch for the following problem. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;885464 My external harddrive has been working fine for the last 4...

FORMAT???
Posted on February 9th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Have a look at: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/drivecleanser/ Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0 The proven solution to securely obliterate hard disks There are other products around if you...

How to create a custom default user profile
Posted on February 9th, 2007 | 0 Comments

The procedure detailed in "How to create a custom default user profile" (Article ID 319974) does not specify, at step 1, whether the "local user account" created in this step should be given...

PASSWORD
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments

Replied to s message : Click Start | Control Panel | User Accounts 1) Click On Guest account and turn it off. 2) Click on your account and set a password. For more info, read the link on my...

Bringing computer back to like the day I bought it
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 8 Comments

Keep pressing F8 every second or so, it should eventually give you the boot menu. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question...

links in email
Posted on February 8th, 2007 | 1 Comments

"james jacobs" wrote: Hi Jim, Open a run command and type in: regsvr32 urlmon.dll click and Reboot your computer and see if you could open the link. What happen when you right click and...

HELP ME PLEASE
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 16 Comments

"Browser" wrote: Hi Georges, All looks okay but I have preservation about : Logitech Hardware Abstraction Layer : This for your mouse to configure NvCplDaemon ; This for your Display Card by nVidia

drivers
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 0 Comments

i have been trying to install a device via usb, but when its searching for the drivers, which are already in the C/: doesn't find it. Its not firewall or antivirus, neither hidden files. I'm missing...

xp home trying to access IIS?
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 0 Comments

I have recently upgraded from win98 to xp home (sp2). On startup I get an error in the event viewer regarding a DCOM timeout. This is caused by inetinfo.exe -iisadmin which is present in many...

suddenly unable to play "you tube" or any other news or net videos
Posted on February 7th, 2007 | 0 Comments

my xp media center wont play "you tube" videos or msn news video or anything thats plays right on the screen like that, it did with no problem til a day ago. You tube, says either java script is off...