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I want to have a program or .exe run as a service in the background of windows XP, i.e. when you type services.msc, I want to be able have a program running as service, like my web server and stuff like hotmail popper for thunderbird. Please note that I don't want to add this to a scheduled...

After much deliberation I managed to get a freeware server setup on my computer and I am wondering what kind of download speeds should be expected. I have read that people can download stuff between 1-10 Mb/sec which I think is amazing, however, the fastest speed someone can download so far...

I have been trying for about 5 hours now to try and get a nice simple serv-u server setup and you better believe I cannot get it. I have read the knowledge base for connecting throug a firewall and using dynamic IP addressing and I still can't get the thing to work. So lets talk about each...

I want to set up a way to share share files on a connection with my friend who is running XP Home. I am running XP Pro and I think we could set something up if he is running XP Pro, but because he is running XP Home is that going to be a problem? If it is possible, are there any good KB...

I recently installed windows XP Pro on another hard drive and installed programs that I have and everything was working fine, I downloaded all the services packs and life was good. I installed partition magic and I noticed under my computer that the drive letters were changed around, I have C...

I have windows XP on one hard disk and I have a second hard drive with two partitions. I can see these partitions when I run command or cmd in windows XP no problem. I made a bootdisk (I don't know how to boot from DOS instead of loading windows XP, something like holding down the shift key or...

I have a new hard drive that I want to put windows XP and Red hat linux 9 on and I have partition magic to do this. I install windows XP first using the option "install another operating system" that partition magic has and everything works fine. So next time I want to install linux...

My dad was messing around with his computer and he accidently deleted an important file and now when he boots his computer it says it can't find the file SYSTEM.INI which I am assuming is a configuration file for booting up windows. It says he must run Windows Setup and then it says press any...

Where you install an operating system onto a hard drive, I am not sure the exact process, I am wondering what is installed to the MBR and where the MBR is located. Is it just a set of instructions to tell the BIOS where to find the data needed to load the operating system? I'm just wondering...

I just bought a new DVD/CD burner that supports both +/- R and RW for DVD and CD, as well as DVD RAM. I have copied a CD onto my hard drive using this drive, as well I have formatted a DVD-RAM disc and copied information onto it. My problem is that when I insert a blank DVD-RW into the writer...

I just bought this new DVD burner and I installed it with no problems. I read a CD from it and copied the contents to my hard drive, so I know that its working. I'm having problems using a DVD-RW however. The burner supports both +/- DVDs as well as DVD-RAM so I haven't made that mistake...

Why is it that norton antivirus detects a virus on my computer and then says access to the file was denied and unable to repair the virus? I have a virus that keeps being detected called Backdoor.SDBot.Gen and I don't know how to get rid of it. Does anybody have any ideas? I thought the whole...

I just installed a copy of redhat linux 9 on my computer and I am getting worried reading through these pages. A lot of people seem to favour other distributors and I would like to open up the floor to give people a chance to say what version of linux they would use and why. I hope there are...

I just installed linux on my hewlett-packert machine and I have no drivers for anything like the video card, sound card etc. because they all came built into my version of windows XP. And they won't do me any good in linux anyway, so can somebody tell me some good sites to start looking for...

I used drive image to make a backup of my linux partition on my first hard drive and then saved the backup image to my second hard drive. Everything worked fine except when I go to boot from my first hard drive it won't detect the linux operating system, I just get an error saying operating...

I have this software for making a server on my computer from rhinosoft and I am wondering about something. I can name the server and enter my domain IP address, which I think is my IP address that someone would connect to if they want to look at my files, somebody correct me if I'm wrong. The...

I have this simplistic view of FTP in DOS and how it should work, but I think its wrong. My friend and I both have computers with IP addresses and all I want to do is go to the DOS prompt and type ftp and then open and my friends IP address. Then I want to be able to look at his hard drive and...

I want to set up an FTP connection with my friends computer on Windows XP to share files. Does anybody know a good website that tells how to do with with XP? Do you think your friend could feed my cat? Heisenberg wasn't sure. ~ Erwin Schrodinger talking of his revolutionary paradox

I recently switched my primary master and slave hard drives around and when I boot from the slave this screen comes up and asks me which OS I want to load. I have windows XP Pro and Home and so I can choose one and then it boots, one OS is on each hard drive. I had some problems and had to...

My computer came with a hard drive, the primary master naturally. I bought a new hard drive and plugged it into the slave plug and set the jumper to slave. My question is if I switch the jumper on my first hard drive to slave the second jumper to master, do I have to switch the plugs around as...