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Great! That's what I need it to do. Thanks guys for your time! I'll give it a shot!

Hey linney! Thanks for the reply. Played around with this again tonight. I did what the link stated. Cleared and all was well, but........please read below, copied from the email I had sent to my clients...it explains it all. --------------------------------------------------------- Here’s...

Hi and thanks for your time in advance! I have a P2P setup for a client (desktop xp pro acts as a simple file server) and two laptops (both the *same* laptop). We have "offline files" enabled, and have selected the appropriate folders to sync at logoff with the shared drive on the file server...

Attempting to delete a user account in an XP Home machine. Go to user accounts via control panel, and the dialog box opens, but NOTHING appears below to modify or delete any account. Any ideas are greatly appeciated. Thanks!!

All, After playing and playing with this problem, I wound up reformatting it and all is well of course. Registry hacks, spyware removal programs, a/v, you name it, couldn't kick it out at all. The great thing that has come out of this is everyone's suggestion for Ewido. That program ROCKS...

Here it is. Any thoughts? FYI: I did already try the winsock xp fix (resets the host file...been very successful before with it). Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 6:55:32 AM, on 12/28/2005 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180)...

Current situation is as follows: *Dell on XP Pro runs like a champ. *Can be on the internet for about 10 minutes or so, THEN, pop up stopper kicks in and then the browser's connection is lost, HOWEVER, I can ping any site all day in the command prompt. *It will also then not allow Firefox to...

Hi! Here's the details of my situation: 1)Upgrade a 98SE machine with an ECS K7S5A mobo / Athlon 1.3 Ghz chip, went from 256 PC133 to 512MB. Unit has an Acer CD-RW and a basic 52X cd rom. XP Pro clean install went perfect as can be. Owner did state he had CD-ROM problems with it before...

Situation: Client had an old mouse, PS2, which would "smoothly scroll" when using the wheel. In other words, it would not jump line to line, just a smooth scroll of the page. Replaced with an optical mouse (Logiteck) and the wheel jumps quite a few lines at a time, not smooth anymore...

What brand of HDD are you using? I've had a similar situation with Maxtor.

Hey Roger! Thanks for the reply! No, Ibuddie does not use an internal battery at all. The other question I just had sent to my client in thinking this through is that I delivered the new set of external battery / AC cord to his house up north and I believe it worked fine. He has a second...

Hi! Having a situation with a laptop. Here are the details: *I-buddie 928A *External battery pack *AC Power Cord *User noticed that the AC power cord will run VERY hot to the touch, to the point that you can not hold it. The AC plugs into a three prong / upside down triangle connection. The...

Having a serious situation attempting to connect via the internet using the wireless. Here are the details: *Acer Travelmate 291 laptop *512MB DDR / Pentium M 1.4 *Integrated Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG *XP Home / SP2 / All Critical & Optional updates complete *Windows Firewall Off / no other...

Hi! A couple of questions... 1)What is the brand / model of the laptop? 2)This crashes with *any* USB device? Proper drivers installed for the devices? 3)Have you removed / restarted / reinstalled the USB drivers from device manager? 4)Windows XP critical updates up to date, including SP2...

Hi again, Check out www.snapfiles.com. Look under freeware > system utilities > data recovery. Quite a few goodies there.