Recent content by smittywes38

I use a VPN to connect to a network and utilize a software application. Without the VPN I can print to the wireless printer from the laptop. When attempting to print wirelessly out of the application after connecting the VPN it will not print. If I hardwire the printer to the laptop I can print...

Thanks Fellas, The USB device is bootable and has on it the Windows 7 image. When I F11 I do see the device and in choosing it I see the system attempts to boot on it but bypasses it eventually and boots to windows 10.

I have an HP Probook 440 G3 and I am attempting to image the machine with a Windows 7 image off my USB device. The Probook has Windows 10 on it. I figure the bios holds the secret but after changing several things I cannot get the laptop to boot from the USB device. Any suggestions as to how to...

I have a calendar coded already and want to set a hyperlink within a specific day on the calendar. See Below. My link does not work within the day I have the link associated with. What am I doing wrong? <tr> <td valign='top' align='right' height='175' width='175'>6</td> <td <a...

I have an XPPro computer(NSLP)and wish to give a limited user the ability to run a certain program. I can run the program from their desktop icon if they have admin privileges but when changed to limited as they should be I cannot run the program. The message continues to come up that the server...

THanks Big and Goom. I will attempt all that goom has indicated and while the end result may be to reformat and load another os, I am inclined to see what I can do with this while it does seem to run ok in safemode (limited). I am thinking also of the infected possibility. I will get back to...

I have a Compaq Laptop Presario C700 that has Windows Vista Home as an operating system. If I start it in Safemode I can use it fine except for the lack of drivers that load of course. When I let the system bootup without safemode it will show the icons and all looks good until I then try and...

Thanks for the input folks. I will look at these suggestions today. We'll see if they help. I figured something was loading off the network, At any rate I hope to respond here with a success story. Thanks again. Smittywes

Hello All, I have come upon 2 computers that have hard drive issues. Operating system is XP Pro. Virtual Memory is about 720 MG on both. Each computer shows the hard drive as full. Maxed out. No room for even doing a diagostic. However, each computer should have at least 25 gigs free. In...

I have copied VHS to DVD+R and after the copy is over the DVD plays on the DVD player that I used to do the copy but when taking the same DVD and inputting it in a DVD player on the desktop or laptop computer it will not play but in fact indicated there is no DVD in the drive. Any thoughts on...

Hello Folks, I have inherited the responsibility to support a 2003 server. The server has 2 partitions with the C drive having been given very little space compared to the other partition. C drive is 11 Gigs of space and only 700 Megs free. The other partition has over 200 Gigs free. Is there...

Hello Folks, My company has many computers at various sites on a Novell network. All computers get their IP address from DHCP. I set up a seperate LAN with only 3 computers with Static IP addresses. One of the computers is looked to as a server from the other 2. The problem is, when I set a...

Hey Folks, I would like to initiate a printing of a test page upon boot up of the computer. The reason is having purchased a number of HP Lserjet 1505, they seem to have a problem upon printing out of a specific application until there is a page printed from either Microsoft Word or a test...

Hello Folks, I have several pages (tabs) associated with my spreadsheet. Each page displays numerical data. A very simple "Sum" formula is adding the numbers at the bottom of the column. All my cells that are totalling my numbers have stopped adding. What has happened? Any ideas? Thanks...

Hello Folks, Using Excel 2002, I find the 'EDIT' choice on the menu bar is missing. Any ideas where it went or how to get it restored? Somebody must have messed around with Excel and I assume messed it up accidently removing it as a choice. Smitty