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I upgraded a computer from XP home to XP Pro. The administrator folder in the documents and settings folder now has the name administrator followed by a string of letters and numbers. Is there a way to rename it to get rid of them. Thanks.

I have a SMC USB wireless G network adaptor. The utility is set to open on the desktop every time you boot up. It has to run to work, but is there a way to stop it from showing on the desktop. There is no option anywhere to stop this. You can close it and it stays in the task bar on the right...

Our office just got an HP Laser jet 2727nf P/S/F combo. We have it connected to the network and everything works, except the fax from computer function. The fax setup utility will tell you that the "device is disconnected, or powered off" when you are loading the software. It prints fine, scans...

A computer that I support has a wierd problem. I had to reformat and reload XP Pro because of damage from a virus. After that, any sound, windows produced, or CD played in the drive would wobble. I eventually found some unregistered DLL's and registered them. This fixed the sound wobble right...

This is probably a stupid question, but I'll give it a try. Does a device exist that will interface a computer and a copier/fax machine and make it so that it could be used as a printer through the telephone jack?

A client had a system crash. Wouldn't boot up. System restore didn't work either. Client then choose recovery which put it back to day one. Question is: Are any files recoverable using recovery software, or is it all truely gone, since the partitions were deleted and restored.

I have a sata hard drive and an IDE CD Rom. The question is, do I plug the IDE CD Rom into IDE port 0 and set it for master, or slave. Or should I plug it into IDE port 1 and set it for master or slave. Does it even make a difference since Im using a SATA hard drive.

Machine running XP Pro and IE 7. Email is FirstClass. The "send page by Email" will launch FirstClass, but the "send link by Email" won't do anything. The default Email is set in FirstClass and in IE to FirstClass. The registry settings also look OK. Any ideas?

Having an interesting problem with outlook. If I delete an e-mail and then empty the deleted items folder, they will re-appear in the deleted item folder the next time that you open outlook. The only way to make sure that the folder gets emptied and stays emptied is to hit the send recieve...

I have a laptop with a bios that will only see 40 gigs. Here is the question. If I install a bigger hard drive and partition it to 40 gigs and ghost it fron the old drive, will the bios only work with that partition, or will the bios just through up it's hands. I can't be sure if the bios will...

I use several Win XP Pro machines that have IE 6 on them. On two of them IE 6 started crashing at the same time in the same manner. If you open IE to a local home page then go to yahoo mail for instance, you will get the send error report box. Afer three tries, it will work. Has anyone been...

I have an Office 2003 Premium addition CD that has a utility for creating standalone ISO images of certain programs on the disc. If I run it, it seems to go through the motions of creating the image, but the image prompty disappears from the C drive right after it finishes creating the image...

I have to change the network access setting in the Administrative tools area. When I opened up the security options menu the line for "sharing and security model for local accounts" was missing along with a whole lot of others. This was on 2 machines. the other machines were ok. I cannot find...

Does anyone have an idea how to combine the bookmarks from 2 computers running IE 6 into 1 favorites folder. Then both machines can have identical bookmarks.

I have a laptop that the manufacturer claims the bios won't recognize a hard drive larger that 40 gig. I would like to put a 120 gig drive in there. if I partition the drive into 3 40 gig partitions, will the bios recognize the bootable partition and just "think" that it is 40 gig.

We have a small network of computers in the office. 3 Win XP Pro and 2 Windows 2000. File sharing works just great between all of them, except mine. When you click on a computer in my network places, the user and password box pops up and you enter the info and your in. If any one of the other...

In Win XP Pro, when you share a folder, the Everyone share is automatically set. It has to be manually removed to properly secure the folder. Is there a hack that prevents "everyone" from appearing when you share a folder. Just in case you forget to remove it manually.

After messing around with IE7 for a couple of months, I had to go back to IE6. My HP photo director would not open and my dynamo label maker would not print. It wouldn't even recognize as being plugged into the USB. I uninstalled IE7 and both items are alive and well now.

I have a home network on a workgroup. My wife brings her work laptop home to work on it. It is on a company domain. How do I if it's possible make her laptop print to my printer that is hooked up to my workgroup computer. Thanks in advance.

What would be the best instant messenger service for use in a small office environment. It would need the ability to be able to send one messege to multiple users at the same time and be able to same the messages as well. We are just in a work group. No server.