Thanks for the clarification. That helps. The XP networking wizard does a nice job of creating an install disk that works on other XP systems....
The trash your 2K machine has probably picked up is very capable of completely hosing up the other PCs and can even give the router heartburn....
Take a look Here for the port that MSN Messenger requires be open in your firewall and also for a link to more details about IM use.
Just to make sure I'm clear on what is happening here, I gather you have - a PC with two network cards. One connected to a broadband modem...
How To turn system restore off and on in XP.
The newest version, 1.4, is listed as a beta version but seems to be stable and has been problem-free for me on 5 systems to this point. It...
Not a general use item but for times when it's appropriate (and since the cost is $0.00 it's nice to keep around 'just in case')...
start => run => eventvwr.msc and OK or Right-click My Computer, left-click Manage, left-click on Event Viewer or Control Panel => admistrative...
I give up. What about them?
There is a way to set the PC to not autorun any CD if that's what you want. I'm not familiar with any way to make it specific to music CDs...
Hi jaydee2202 and welcome to the forum. Please do start a new thread. We try to keep tech issues to a single issue on a thread to avoid confusion.
Hi Barb. Do you mean the address bar shown in the picture below? If so, what OS version and what browser (including version)? If not, I'm...
I only run the SP2 firewall and it does nicely for me. If I stop baddies from getting in, I'm fine and the XP SP2 firewall seems to do a great...
There will be an event log entry that has full details of what was done.
You can either remove them while keeping the current OS install or you can use an XP install CD to completely scrub the current install and do a...
If the file is compressed - part of a .cab or .zip or similar, Norton can see it but cannot deal with it. However, the file can't do any damage...
Hmmm. Puzzling and I don't have a quick answer for you. Have you checked your event logs for entries that may be related? Do you get...
Maybe. Do you have an I386 folder on either your hard drive or the CD? Sometimes the outfits that give you those 'recovery CD' abominations at...
Yup. Zulu does for me but GMT/UTC are fine as well. I stuck with GMT for the post since that's still the way Windows has the time zones labeled....
Boot from the CD to recovery console and from the prompt, do chkdsk x: /rwhere "x" means do it for each hard drive/partition on your system. It...
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