Great. Lets do this thing one stage at a time so if anything blows up it will be easy to figure out what and how to back it off.Give each PC a...
Paul - regardless of the exact cause (of this or the speed issue you posted) I think I can suggest a fix for you. I'm assuming from the numbers...
Perhaps Easter Bunny will deliver a new faster PC Should be fun but won't speed up the internet stuff at all. The oldest junker PC you can...
Thanks for posting back and glad the update worked for you. That SP did plug a few leaks and it sounds like one of them was causing your problems.
marty39 - once a year seems to be way too often for manditory reinstalls. Not to say you don't have to do them and not to say that a PC can't get...
NETWORK SERVICE can be a perfectly legit user to be running a process under svchost.exe. For a better idea of what is going on, do...
To repeat: Next time it happens, see if you can ping the missing computer from the other - and try from both. Are you using DHCP from the...
To make sure I'm clear - You have: - a w2K desktop with a modem connection via USB and 2 network cards. The desktop is running as the...
This gives good port information for most of the popular things in use these days and for MSN Messenger, also gives places to go for further...
Not tonight. This one calls for a little thought and at 1am, too late for thought. Tomorrow probably.
Still need to know - which OS went on first - which OS runs on C:
I have run AMD processors for about 5-6 years now. Some versions are not quite as fast as the top-end Intel chip at any given moment and some...
Thoughts about getting an 80 y/o to keep his PC protected? I think I'd look him directly in the eyes and tell him he either needed to keep an...
XP will work fine on one of those as long as the HD is large enough and they have enough memory. I found several adverts for the notebook with...
Glad you got it working. Sounds like you may have a marginal piece of cable though so were it me, I'd try to get HP to replace it and if they...
Next time it happens, see if you can ping the missing computer from the other - and try from both. Are you using DHCP from the router to...
after looking at my abbreviation for "follow-up" I missed the original before it was 'fixed' but I did get a chuckle thinking about what you...
Pat - stick around. The only folks on here who have not seen 'miracle cures' or 'voodoo fixes' are folks who only got their first computer last...
JimmyM - some times we have to go around the block a time or two but someone, somehow can usually get you to the correct address. Johanna - I...
If you remove the newer one, does the older version show in add/remove after you've done the unhide in sysoc.inf?
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