What operating system(s) are you running? XP is about the only Microsoft OS that has reliable firewire networking support from what I read. ME...
ANSI = ASCII? Well, yes, sometimes, even usually, maybe. Click For the purposes of the rat file, yes. But if you do it up in notepad or edit...
You still got problems. Moving this to security section. Did you update ad-aware and spybot just before you ran them? Ad-aware should be...
Some work, others don't Yes, absolutely leave the passwords on the accounts. If you are using different logon accounts on each PC, make sure...
If you leave the PC running and do nothing, does your lease get renewed?
Interesting. Evidently the system has decided to use the XP partition as the boot partition. Should be possible to set things right though....
Dan - FWIW, you can get back up to speed fairly quickly if you want to. Changes, surely. But mostly toward simpler. My first computing (1963)...
Hi FatBak and welcome. This one doesn't ring any immediate bells but to make sure I have it correct, as long as you are using the system it is OK...
With word closed, try renaming normal.dot to normal.dot-old. Next time you open word it will build a new normal.dot and that may cure your...
Also, you will have a text file on C:\ named boot.ini. Hidden system read-only file. Open the file in notepad and copy the contents then paste...
Do you really need to let the users log on to the domain controller? That's usually not a good idea at all.
The XP SP2 release will have a vastly improved firewall and one of the main new features I like about it is the fact that it will try to detect...
Something is busted for sure. And if you deleted or damaged notepad.exe, this is exactly the problems you'd be seeing. Easy enough to find out...
2K & XP like DNS. NT4 can be made to use it. From the symptoms, it sounds like that wasn't done. In the TCP/IP properties, make sure the...
Hard to tell for sure from the picture but if you have the address and netmask blocks filled with the underscore character ___ then can you delete...
Block all of the 64,000+ ports that you don't need. Browser needs port 80 open for http. Email for send and receive needs ports 25 & 110 open.
Log on to both PCs with a username and non-blank password. Use the same one for simplicity. See if that fixes you up. If so and if you don't...
skaler2k - there is rarely a PC that can't be cleaned. As to AV, I use Norton myself and it's been fine. I will probably stick with it unless...
Sounds like you have been pretty well hijacked. Can you get ad-aware, spybot, and cwshredder from the links in his sig? If so, do that then...
Interesting link though. Never heard of that particular glitch before. Hmmmmm.
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