Probably a network connection permissions issue with the other PC. Easy enough to fix but more information if you would. - which operating...
Geri - is the MSN email piece the only thing on the PC that is behaving badly? How much fix-up and replacement work did chkdsk and sfc do on...
Tim - welcome to the forum and I do have a suggestion. You need to make a new thread in the 98 section describing your problem in detail....
There should be lots more detail in your event logs.
If you can't get on as Administrator (or possibly another account with admin rights which would work on XP-pro but I'm not sure about XP-home) you...
What does task manager indicate is hogging the CPU cycles? How are you for free resources like physical and virtual memory?
If you post his system specs, we can give you a real-world idea about how well his PC would run XP and where it might need beefing up. As to...
Mike - the move from 9X directly to XP always causes questions and confusion. Well worth climbing the learning curve again though.
Sounds like the XP firewall is blocking everything.
in ipconfig /all on the laptop it says that dhcp is disabled...could this be the problem? If you set a static IP address on a PC, you...
Safe - probably as safe as a 'file sharing' app can be. It's one of the best of this breed. However, they can't guarantee that some of the...
If you run any OS except XP (or maybe 2003 - not sure) have you tried going to add/remove programs and doing a repair? If XP (and maybe 2003)...
Both chkdsk and sfc write details to your event logs so start => run => eventvwr.msc and take a look. Glad it helped.
Not really. Outlook wants POP (usually POP3) mail and Yahoo charges for that kind of account.
By "memory" do you mean the amount of drive space shown as occupied or free?
Set up new accounts for yourself and for your wife and make both accounts part of the administrators group. Then for normal PC use, log on with...
That begins to smell like spyware/malware blocking those sites and probably your AIM app as well. Not sure what your usual anti-spyware...
What OS and are you running a firewall?
Try setting both PCs to 100Mbps Full-duplex and see what happens. If the problem gets worse, you may have a bad network card. If it stays the...
Lonny/Dave - thanks.
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