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hi, i have a 98se machine and an xp-pro machine connected via crossover cable. file sharing is enabled on both. xp can ping 98 and vice versa by name and ip address. 98 can access all files, folders, and drives in the xp machine - no problem. xp's drives are mapped as x and y on 98. xp...

hi there, i have a family member who copied her .pst files from outlook express, when she turned her office laptop in. she has the files on a cd. how can these be imported back into outlook express. i have opened outlook express and when import is selected, it says "no messages found". any ideas?

i have a laptop and a desk top connected via cross-over cable in a home lan. file and printer sharing are enabled on both of them on drive level, and folder level. on the laptop, i click a folder, and enable file sharing. when i try to click that folder in the desktop, it says access denied...

hi folks, anyone know how to uninstall mcafee in xp home? add/remove complains about "some" components missing.

i have been writing software for the past 27 years. from assembler to java, c++, vb, pl/i, cobol, sql, etc..... the principle of error handling was always to prevent possible and probable mistakes or malicious attempts. how can a software (i.e. windows) allow any agent imbed itself in a...

what could be eating up the cpu? how can one identify the cpu hog?

strange problem in start up and strange registry i'm looking at a friend's pc. it's slow to bootup and shut down it will not boot in safe mode (it lists files and stops and mup.dll or exe) i looked at atart up and it has and entry for start up item it has a single quote followed by 5 small...

i know very little about instant messengers. my son has xp-pro, with realtek sound (onboard) asus mobo. he can use the sound recorder to record sound with the mic. however, when he uses yahoo, it says that there's no mic attached to the pc. and shen it tests, nothing happens in yahoo. any ideas?

hi everyone, does anyone know how to logon to windows messenger (not msn messenger). my son has been trying to use windows messenger. he's tried putting his msn email, and his win-xp userid, and password from hotmail. but it's asking for a domain, and says: the email, user id and password that...

a friend of mine has just built a new machine. asus-p5rd1-v with pentium-4 2.66. does anyone know how to overclock a p4-2.66 in an asus p5re1-v? the bios has this option grayed out. does a special mobo driver need to be downloaded? is it done elsewhere? thanks!

hi folks. i have a network of 2 pc's connected via cross-over cable. both are using xp-sp2. the network is working properly. filesharing is enabled and working. both can see each other, access files and folders on each one's drives. i have a folder on the laptop that contains some family...

hi folks, i'm running win-xp-pro-sp2. does anyone know how to keep "my documents" from showing up on windows explorer directory listing? it lists "my computer", C: DRIVE, D: DRIVE, AND "My documents" and it's always expanded. need help on this one. very annoying.

Hi folks, i'm still having problem with home network. i've tried all the suggestions. including patches regfix, winsockxpfix, and letest updates. it started out with ip addresses changing. then i got a yellow triangle with ! i applied all the patches, no luck. here's the scenario: ibm think...

hi folks, i have a laptop connect to a desktop through crossover cable. when they connect, the systray shows the connection with an exclamation mark (yellow). but everything seems to be accessible from both machines. what can fix this? please help.

hi folks. i have a desk top (asus/pent-4-2.66/512-ram/xp-prof) connected via a linksys nic card 10/100 to an ibm thinkpad (pent-m/1.6/768-ram/xp-prof) using a cross over cable. the laptop has a pcmcia nic card (xircom - or something) in addition to wireless lan card and 1394 lan card and...

hi folks, i might have seen this error message before, but i can't read the whole thing. it was something to the effect of "not less than or equal". this is when i shut down and the blue screen appears for 1 or 2 seconds then the pc restarts. any suggestions? it's draining my battery. thanks.

hi everyone, i have a compaq floppy drive with a paralell cable (printer cable). i'm trying to install it on an ibm thinkpad-r50. can someone tell me what i need to get this to work off of the paralell port (printer port) of the thinkpad?

i build pc's as a part time job. i recently built a completely new system for a customer (asus / p5rd1 / p4 / 512mb / 20gb-hd / 80gb-hd) the customer had her own cd (windows xp professional sp2 / oem cd). after i installed the windows. it didn't remind for activation in system tray. and it's...

hi folks, when i do a windows explorer for cd driv, it shows the files from the privious cd. i have to reboot to get the new cd to be recognized. does anyone have an idea why this is happenning? thanks.

hi everyone, i have intalled a western digital 80-g hard drive on a new machine. however it's showing up as a 32-g drive. the other problem is that my cd drive (creative 52x as drive e:)somehow is retaining the file directory from the previous cd. for example, i can take the cd out and go...