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A friend of mine is kicking around the idea of using a new laptop as a server and as a backup to his other pc's/laptops. We found a really nice laptop on sale for $450. His network is wireless. Although we could cable it to the router. The screen doesn't have to be on. The battery can be...

I reloaded the factory image on a Thinkpad P61. Installed Service Pack 3 (xp) and downloaded 103 critical updates. Updated the video and wireless card drivers. Connected to my wireless network and surfed the Internet for two hours. Everything looked normal. Tried to connect to his wireless...

I didn't know where to put this, so here it is. A friend of mine is using AOL mail and the text of the emails is to small, we need to increase it. I need exact instructions on how to do this. HELP said something about checking 'rich text' box. But I couldn't find it. I was all over the...

Avast has found four virus's that are locked files and can't be deleted. I need a utility to unlock them and delete them.

Is there a good free utility that finds key loggers?

I'm working on a friends Dell Inspiron B130 laptop with XP. This laptop can't connect to the Internet. Wireless won't work. Cat5 cable won't work. My network is fine. I did a restore back before the problem started. Didn't help. I installed FireFox. That doesn't work either. I ran a...

A friend of mine can't get online with his dsl. I'm going over there in a couple of hours with my laptop. He's not using a router. Can I plug my laptop into his dsl modem and get on line as if it were a router? That way I could quickly narrow it down to either his pc or his isp/modem.

Anyone use a U3 flashdrive loaded with an antivirus program to check multiple pc's for viruses? I'm sure it can do a file scan but can it check the registry? I would imagine that the pc's drives will show up on the flashdrive and one could select which drives to scan. But my guess is that the...

I just got a call from a friend who has a Dell computer that is about a year old. The pc won't boot something about a missing system file. I asked her to look at her software to see if she has the operating system disk or a reload disk. She has the application disks and what sounded like a...

I'm using W2000 Professional and when I save a file with Wordpad it always saves it as a Word document. I've tried saving as a rich text format (.rtf) but it still saves as a word document. How do I save it as a Wordpad document?

I formatted my hardrive and am installing W2000 Professional. I'm at the screen that says: 'Performing Final Tasks'. The blue bar is stuck about 80% of the way across 'Registers Components'. It's been sitting there for about 3 hours and not going anywhere. What can I do at this point?

I need to transfer files and outlook express email and address book from an xp machine to an imac with osx v.10.4 tiger. Will a cross-over cable work? Or I could do it with a flash drive I suspect. I need to know the steps to view folders on my flashdrive on the imac. Can anyone spell it out...

I just ran Spinrite 6.0 on a hardrive. Initially bad: 3 bad clusters 192 bad sectors 98,300 bad bytes Is the hardrive shot or what?

I'm working on a friends pc: xp home sp2 It boots up fine but freezes (mouse doesn't work, keyboard doesn't work, ctrl+alt+del won't work) shortly after I log into any profile. It freezes in both safe mode and regular mode....forcing me to reboot. AMD Athlon 2400 512M RAM ECS K7SEM I installed...

I've got a Athlon 2400, new k7sem motherboard, 512M pc133, new 350 watt power supply, onboard video. The pc would get to 'verify dmi pool data' and the screen would go blank and lock up. I've got the motherboard, hardrive and power supply sitting on a table. There are no cards in the...

When I boot up I'm presented with only the Administrator accout to log into. How come my user accounts aren't presented?

I installed a stick of 256MB of RAM in a Dell Laptop the other day. There was only one slot so I removed the 128M stick and put in the 256M stick. I went into properties of My Computer and it said that 320M was installed. So how can it say 320 when there is only 256 installed?

I'm working on a Emachine with ME. When I log into the guy's profile there is no 'run' command in the Start menu. If I bypass his profile I see the run command in the start menu. I need that run command when I log into his profile. Any ideas?

My Compaq Presario with new US Robotics modem can connect to an ISP's server at 44K. But I can't get on the Internet. I tried plugging in a couple of IP addresses but still can't get on the Internet. I emailed their tech support but they were no help. They suggested I call tech support...

How do I enable/disable com ports on a Compaq Presario? On any other PC you do it in the BIOS/setup. I see no setting in Compaq's BIOS or anywhere else to do this. I installed a new modem and it's on com2. According to Device Manager, only com1 is enabled. I put the modem in a differant...