Sounds silly but worked for me once. Turn laptop upside down, give a gentle shake, THEN try the eject while still upside down. Guess it all...
RDP is NOT available in XP home. Remote assistance is "“ but never used it so not sure how that works. Instead I bought and use a 3rd party...
Have absolutely no idea. Never ran into that where can ping name of a public site but can’t ping the IP address of it. Hopefully someone else...
Little confused since said two opposite things. If you can ping the IP of a site but can’t ping the name of the site the problem is your DNS...
Update on sisters problem. Modem, computers were set to get DNS servers automatically. Apparently that didn’t always happen. A new modem plus...
Sister had (sometimes still has) same problem. She’s on qwest (dsl) "“ I’m on comcast (cable). IE sometimes wouldn’t open up her own...
Since you’re updated to SP2 the hotfix should be there. Only other things can think of: -Make sure video drivers are updated. -Try increasing...
See if holding down CTRL, ALT and Up (arrow) keys will reverse display. Hopefully you’re running XP SP2 where problem was supposedly fixed....
Ok – I’ll toss in 2 cents here. Was on AOL for 8 years as ISP before switched to broadband. They then gave me 3 months free (am I SURE want to...
Pete Was replying to part about boxes with red x in them since so familiar (original post). Especially if have Norton Internet Security 2007...
Don't know if this will entirely help but that little box with a red x in it usually caused by pop-up blocker and/or ad blocker. Turn off pop...
Sitting in Dentists office waiting, killing some time. LOL Only have my laptop n gotta do this from memory. Answer is Yes – maybe. Unless...
I’m guessing that you have OE checking for messages every 4 minutes or so AND IE7 set to "˜Never Dial a Connection’. If so either change...
When posting a reply to question - how do you get those neat gray boxes around copied comments from original? Amazing- been on here 5+ years n...
Just a couple of thoughts. 1> Are you logged in as administrator 1> Have you upgraded to SP4 2> THEN downloaded latest upgrades to WM9
Still think it may be software firewall on home computer. Did you re-start computer after turning it off and then verify still off? According to...
On the computer from home - since changed workgroup when at office (different network) - have you added new network to firewall settings? That can...
Paul, It may help with consistency if you assign static local IP addresses to your computers. That way they won’t be dependent on router for...
Yes it makes a difference where you start. Unless give full pathname of where want to go. In your case: CD C:\WINDOWS\I386 Expand command...
Is your modem a combo modem/router? If so you may need to first forward the ports from the modem to the IP address on the NetGear WGR614v6. THEN...
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