GaryB - you are dealing with 2 or 3 possible issues here. All are easily cured. Speed / duplexing The switch portion of that router (or any...
Sounds like you could have gotten a virus or some really serious spyware on the PC to cause this sort of mess. First things to do - Online...
Thanks for posting the fix. Certainly not an obvious one and may help someone else with the same issue.
I'm moving this to the networking section. Will try to compose a reasonable answer tomorrow. Way too late tonight. Brief note - IMO the tech...
Try Here. You may have had problems searching since the term you need is SCSI (but pronounced scuzzi). Stands for small computer system interface.
If you inserted a DOS boot floppy and the PC gave you an NTLDR error, it wasn't seeing the boot floppy. Either the floppy drive is bad so it...
Alice - try taking a look at This article that may give you a better feel for dealing with .pif files. More info Here. Duplicate or rubber or...
Chances are you are dealing with two different issues. Startup stuff - take a look at what Black Viper has to say about XP startup items and...
Can you get into the recovery console?
Do you have the latest version of Windows Media Player loaded? Ver 9 clears up all sorts of problems.
Karles - take a look Here. And please be extra careful when putting an error message on the forum. Spelling errors make it tough to search...
Errr - does the 'startup directory' in the .pif file point to the location of the app on the hard drive or to someplace else?
Take a look Here for more information on the same issue.
Why are you using a DNS Suffix Search List entry? From Here
I'd bet on the problem PC having a firewall running that is blocking things.
Not really sure what you are asking for or what problem you are trying to solve, if any.
Not sure anybody is going to have a magic-bullet fix for this one. 98 is often shaky with USB of any sort and USB networking can be quirky on...
Spookie - Dumb would be if you didn't ask. Word & Excel Viewers are free downloads from Microsoft. Both can be set as the default to open...
Options are written in English. You pick. TweakUI does the work.
Spookie - think of all the items you mentioned as programs that can do things. Things on a web page OR things on your PC. If I were an evil...
Separate names with a comma.