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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!!

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...

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! Please see below for a detailed description of the situation. Thanks! BACKGROUND: Windows XP Pro / SP2 Ahtlon 2600 (Barton Core) / 1GB PC3200 Asus Mobo HARDWARE PRODUCT IN QUESTION: Samsung SRP270 Receipt Printer to serial port COM1 utilized for check cashing program. SITUATION...

Hi! Getting a Parvdm.sys error (shows up in the event manager). When this happens, the computer freezes and must be restarted. I did reserach on the web, downloaded a new "parvdm.sys", copied over the existing, and still getting the same result. This happens on average two to three times per...

Hi! Each time I plug the usb wireless adapter (see subject for type), I get the dreaded blue screen of death and memory dump, restart, recovered from serious error. I've researched netgear's site, found an updated driver, and still the same result. This also happened with a linksys...

Hi! Spyware, as we all know, is a major situation. I have been working with two pretty reliable, real time protection programs for spyware: webroot's spysweeper and sunbelt's counterspy. Both outstanding programs. However, they will only operate on users that have admin rights, nothing less...

Just really diving into group policies on a standalone machine here for the first time. I see that once you set the policy (enable X policy), that will apply for ALL users, including the administrator. In reviewing the XP Inside / Out book, it states that you can set administrator (or any...

Hi! The infamous "cannot install this hardware" shows up when attempting to install a Linksys Wireless G Type II adapter (wpc54g ver 1.2) on a Dell Inspiron 2650 Laptop. Here's the info: 1)Freshly reformatted / reinstalled XP Home (due to other problems I was having), sp2, all critical...

Just performed a CMOS flash, as per IBM instructions, on a Thinkpad 570e. Now, when booting, we get a "lock" symbol that will not let us proceed any further. Any ideas on how to clear this would be appreciated!

Hi to all, After a hard drive crash of a maxtor 40gb, I have installed a new Seagate 80gb and reinstalling w2k pro. Upon bootup, I get the message "failed to arc read the boot partition to check for the signature". Tried two new disks, same result, then when loading w2k setup, it comes up...

Hi! My question is this: what is the best way to communicate that "we the web designers" will design the site, and not the customer? Case in point: contracted for a site, we put together what I feel is an awesome piece, with their colors, etc, but they had something else in mind. With that...

Hi to all! Having a situation where I run a scandisk on the C, reboot of course, it runs, finds NO problems, reboots to finish process, get the blue screen hardware error after the initial XP splash, but it flashes so quick you can't read it, and reboots. Comes up with either start normally...

Experiencing a major slow boot with W2K Pro (see my original reply to previous post). However, the only mode I can get into, besides safe mode, is Debugging Mode. All seems to operate well in debug mode. Is it possible to run programs in debug mode, including SQL 7.0 server, and be able to...

Hi! Here is the issue at hand: I have a client who has two computers (laptop and desktop) and has the same 5 email accounts set up on both. All settings verified and are the same. Both connected to a Linksys Router and DSL internet. The issue is that the laptop will fire out emails with no...

Hi to all! OK...stumpped big time. Installing an HP 6110 all in one machine. XP tries to install it twice, first round installs it fine, works fine, then you get the infamous "cannot install this hardware". Now, I already tried the usual: 1)Replace driver.cab 2)Delete / restart 3)Manually...