"WorkGroup" to "Home Network." Spaces in the workgroup name are a very bad idea. Home-network would be OK as would Home_Network.
Sometimes it absolutely hates them. Always safer to avoid spaces since that is never a problem and spaces often are.
Could be any of a number of problems. Try booting to safe mode. That will sometimes clear up this issue when you reboot and go into normal...
Note that tasklist.exe is not part of XP-home but if you download a copy from Here it will run fine on your PC. It runs from the cmd prompt so...
FWIW, my wife and I both own cheesehead game hats. My only consolation is that the entire team picked the same game to fall apart. No one...
Hmmm. If you have NetBEUI loaded I'd have expected it to work. Ah well. Set the values for TCP/IP as shown in the pictures. Note that the...
Yup. "So Hijacked" is a bit of an understatement. Print a copy of this before you start. Download LSP-fix. You may need it if you can't...
HJT and check for removal O2 - BHO: (no name) - {8E3AD6D6-3A40-4A81-AC29-33FF662C2BC0} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ipxnic.dll O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [P2P...
Click on start => run =>, key in services.msc, click OK and make sure your entry for RPC matches the picture below. Do you have a regular XP...
Dez - that's for XP-pro only. XP-home lacks the option and will only operate in Simple File Sharing mode. ofergal - basic rule of thumb for...
Hi mpnx2 and welcome to the forum. Help should be along but probably not until late this evening or possibly tomorrow evening.
I was too busy watching the Packers get stomped yesterday and then trying to recover from the shock and grief. I would make the same suggestion...
Do you have the NetBEUI protocol running on both PCs? If not, you should. It can be done via TCP/IP but the setup is slightly more...
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Could be any one of several things. Make sure the following files are in \system32 Stdole32.tlb Stdole2.tlb Stdole.tlb Take a look at...
There may not be any way with their 'recovery disk' although with a normal XP install CD it would be fairly simple. Even if you got it done (and...
Here is it.
Try clicking on start => run, keying insfc /scannow and clicking OK. Note that you will probably be asked for your XP CD.
No/yes/sorta but mostly no. If you are doing a number of systems you can certainly set them up with sysprep.exe and use a single key for all...
Good advice above. "AMLI: ACPI BIOS is attempting to write to an illegal IO port address (0xcf8) which lies in the 0xcf8-0xcff address...
Separate names with a comma.