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My reason for going from Win 98 SE to Win XP was primarily for ease of adding devices. Speed was not really the issue for this machine. The Screen does not go blank. It stays with the blue screen with the msg "Windows is shutting down". Disk activity goes on for a period of time but eventually...

I have installed WinXP on an older machine. It works perfectly with the one following problem. The hardware is AT style ASUS P5A-B 266 mhz with bios rev 1011 beta 005. Everything shuts down normally except it never displays the message IT IS SAFE TO TURN OFF THE POWER. Disk activity has...

I have 2 Win XP Home edition and 2 Win 98SE systems networked with ethernet using a Linksys router and a speedstream DSL modem for internet access. If the XP machines are NOT turned on, the Win 98SE machines can see each other and the internet and file and printer sharing work correctly. If...

Thanks again. Was primarily concerned about the intrusions into the XP machine when only the operating system is running. No user applications or browsers or email programs. Unknown emails and unknown attachments are a NO NO in this household. Thanks for the help. Bob McBirney...

One more question, Does the router provide some protection since the internal ip addresses on my in house network are not the same as the ip address of the connection to the ISP, in this case SBCGLOBAL.NET??

Thanks, I will try that. Bobmcb

Yes, the firewall that can be turned on in Win XP

I have 2 Win XP machines and 2 Win98 SE machines networked with ethernet and a Linksys router and DSL. All machines access the internet normally. If I turn on the (Protect my computer) option in the Win XP machines, I can no longer see any other machines in My Network Places. Ths Win98 SE...

Thanks for the input. My subnet mask is 255.255.255.0. The individual IP addresses are automatically assigned by the router and start at 192.168.1.100 and increment from there as each machine acquires an IP address. I did find that the built in XP firewall does prevent the file and printer...

I have 2 Win XP home edition machines and 2 Win 98 SE machines. Each XP machine can see only one Win 98 machine. Neither Win 98 machine can see either Win XP machine. Work group is the same for all. Machine names are unique. All machines networked with ethernet and a router with DSL. All...

I have 2 Win98 SE machines, A Gateway Win XP Home edition desktop & a Dell Win XP Home edition laptop. The XP machines can see one of the Win 98 machines but not the other. Both Win 98 machines can see each other. Neither Win 98 SE machine can see either Win XP machine. All have the same...

I was recently given a Cisco 776M router but no documentation or software. Does anyone out there know the technical details of this unit ( perhaps a pdf file of documentation) and maybe a place to download any needed drivers and/or application software? Thanks, bobmcb@sbcglobal.net

I use Mozilla for email and browsing. I have it on 2 different machines. Email is sent from either machine. Does anyone know how to merge the email folders and their messages together so that I can see all the email history on one of the machines, particularly the sent mail folder. Systems are...

I have been unable to make "My Network Places" communicate with Network Neighborhood on my Win 98 SE machine. It has been this way for over a year. Finally decided to dump AOL. When I uninstalled the AOL Connection software on the ME machine, all network functions such as printer and...

I am having no luck getting My Network Places and Network Neighborhood to recognize each other. I have 4 Win 98 systems, all of which can share files and printers. The ME system refuses to see the Win 98 systems and visa versa. The network is ethernet with an Intel Hub and a Netgear hub...