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- Windows XP Network >> Workgroup displays nothing on laptop with XP ProI just added a new Dell desktop (running XP Pro) on my home network, and am unable to see it on any of the other machines when looking under 'Entire Network' / Workgroup (ie, my laptop (XP PRO) and my other desktop (2000)). However, I can ping the new machine and access it from the Run command on either machine by simply typing in the new desktops IP address from either the laptop or the desktop, but for some reason it will NOT show up on my laptop or on my desktop machines under the Workgroup. In addition, my laptop now fails to show ANY of the other machines on my network too. I have double checked the Workgroup names (ie, all are set at WORKGROUP) , can ping each machine, etc
Any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks much
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- Windows XP Hardware >> USB External Hard DriveJust wondering if someone could give me an idea of what kind of USB
external hard drive is the best to buy.
I'm hoping to get a light-weight, portable, very reliable USB hard
drive.
So far, I've found these brands - do any of these fit what I'm looking
for?
* LaCie Porsche (or just LaCie)
* Western Digital Dual Option (automatic / on-demand backup)
* Comstar
* ADS Tech
* Acomdata Photon
* T-One
* Iomega
Are there any others?
In addition, what is Firewire 400/Firewire 800 (connectors 6 pin and 9
pin) ??
And, what does HFS formatted mean??
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- Windows XP Support >> Hard disk LED on with or without activityWindows XP Pro SP2
Hard drive light was working normally - on off. Ran system hibernate for
first time, came out of hibernate and hard disk LED stays on all the time.
Shutting down and restarting normally doesn't stop the behavior. Disabled
hibernate, didn't help. Not a hardware problem, hard disk LED flashes on and
off while starting, then remains on when Windows loads. Hard drive activity
causes the LED to become brighter, but the LED never goes off. I heard that
this is similar to a Windows NT/2000 problem, but MS doesn't have a solution
yet. How do I fix this?
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- Windows XP Security >> start up problemUntil yesterday, before doing windows update on my XP home
edition, my computer used to boot right up to my desktop
and skip the "select user" screen. Not anymore. I'm the
only user and I don't want the extra step of pressing my
user name button, can I get rid of it?
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- Windows XP >> scanning a document to a fileI have pressed "scan to file" on my printer but where and how do I find this
file or do I have to create a file for it to scan to and how do I create a
file for it to scan to? I know nothing about creating files or finding
files. I have been asked to upload a file of my scanned documents. I use
XP Home.
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- Windows XP Security >> 16-bit %TEMP% is broken in XP, stillI just spent the past week with some tier 1 tech at Microsoft assisted
support. He believes I'm insane.
16-bit apps use the System settings for TEMP and TMP, which points to
%systemroot%temp, which don't work with limited user accounts.[1] Only the
user that created certain temporary files can change or erase them, and
other users won't be able to use those apps.
By comparison, Win2K SP3 and earlier make 16-bit apps use the User settings
for TEMP and TMP, which points to %userprofile%\Local Settings\Temp.
Starting with Win2K SP4, this was broken like XP is, but a patch supplied
under KB 840214 changed that behaviour back.
Now XP's used the wrong 16-bit TEMP behaviour since its release. At least
US English versions have. I can't seem to convince this tech at Microsoft
that this is a problem that needs fixing.
[1] Yes, there's no guarantee 16-bit apps can work with limited accounts -
that's my problem and it's usually fixed by granting Modify access to Users
to the app's installation folder. I don't want to do this to
%systemroot%\temp because it will expose that to abuse - system processes
and services store their temp files here and it's possible to break them by
messing with temporary files here.
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- Windows XP >> Resource readingI used to operate on the ME platform. Right clicking on
the MY COMPUTER icon would let me see how much of my
resources were being used at that moment.
Is there somewhere in XP Pro that will give me the same
information?
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- Windows XP Network >> Software to monitor NIC/Wireless portIs there any free software to monitor the NIC/Wireless port. All
software I have found have common features, but some features I am
really looking for are missing.
Features I would like:
A. Know what program/file is communicating with the network
B. How much bandwidth is the program utilizing currently and also
keeps a total for the time the program is ran.
C. Real-Time, either able to log or watch
All software I found just tells what IP's, protocol, and numerous
other handy stuff. But without knowing what software/files are
communicating defeats some purposes. I know some firewalls monitor
stuff im asking for, but I do not want to install those.
A good example of what im looking for is something as follows:
Firefox.exe - TCP - 200.12.57.21 - 54.6K
blah.dll - UDP - 200.12.57.21 - 3.4K
Instead of:
192.168.1.3 makes a TCP call to 200.12.57.21
Thanks
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- Windows XP Setup >> User ID doesn't appear on XP welcome screenI removed several programs from my computer (Gator &
Adobe vs 5.0). I also installed MS's latest XP Patch.
When I reloaded my computer, my User ID wasn't on the XP
Pro welcome screen. I logged in as administrator and
went to Control Panel - user accounts. The ID wan't there
either. I attempted to recreate my user ID, but am told
by XP that the user account already exists.
How can I
1) Reestablish the account so that I can log back in
using it?
or
2) Delete and recreate it?
Ideas anyone???
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Jerry
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Windows XP Update >> memory
Hello,
I play poker alot and for some reason now my computer says it does not have
enough memory to bring up a tournament on certain websites. I have never had
this problem before and would like to know why it is happening now. Thank you
Abram Hart
Windows XP1140
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Windows XP Update >> memory
Do a disk cleanup and reboot.
"honestabeybaby13"
<EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in
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news:EMail@HideDomain.com...
| Hello,
| I play poker alot and for some reason now my computer says
it does not have
| enough memory to bring up a tournament on certain
websites. I have never had
| this problem before and would like to know why it is
happening now. Thank you
| Abram Hart
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- Windows XP >> Auto-run on insertion of USB pen driveI've just been asked by my boss if the following is possible.
As a promotion, we want to give away a USB pen drive (aka "memory
stick"). These will have a small PowerPoint presentation
pre-installed.
Is it possible to run these automatically on insertion of the drive
into the USB port? My initial thought is "no", on account of security
implications.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Edward
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Security Configuration and Analysis snap-inI guess this is what I need to change the environment
variables in the XP Recovery Console (the Security
Configuration and Analysis snap-in)?
I can't startup my computer and need to use DEL/COPY
commands in the recovery console. Would the
aforementioned snap-in do the trick? Thanks for all the
help!
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- Windows XP >> Duplicating settings for a second accountI created a second user on my computer. I would like to use the same settings
for this user account as I do for the primary account. I would also like
future changes with the primary to be reflected in the secondary account. I
want my existing data to remain where it is.
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- Windows XP MovieMaker >> Audio Files in MM2I have created 6 different MM2 project files for a family
wedding. I have added wav files onto the audio/music
track and muted the audio portion of the video clip.
Everything worked fine, the clips played fine on the
computer and the audio sounded great.
I imported these MM2 wmv files into Roxio ECD 6 and made
a DVD project file to burn. I chose to burn to a DVD+RW
so that I could make changes if necessary. When the DVD
was played on my DVD player, the audio had a distinctive
popping, or cracking sound. There were some parts of the
project where the audio portion of the video clip was
left intact and used instead of the wav file. That
sounded OK, but when the parts with the wav file played
again, there was the popping.
Any thoughts on why there would be the difference in
sound quality between the burned wav file and the
imbedded audio of the video clip? Is it in my player, or
how it was burned?
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- Windows XP Setup >> Write Data on DVDI just installed a DVD-R on my desktop. I would like to do my backup on DVDs
to take advantage of morespace than a regular CD (4.5GB). I try to do a drag
and drop but it will not recognize or copy the files. Is there a good
software out there to accomplish what I want to do. I tried Windows Media
Player and did not work.
Please let me know if there is something I can do within Windows XP. I am
running XP _ Pro.
Thanks,
Mike
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- Windows XP >> Win xp boots to logo and stopsHello. I have been struggling with this problem for a few days now and CAN
NOT BRING Windows back (XP home eddition on a dell puter). Windows hangs just
before login screen (I see blue screen with Windows XP logo and mouse
pointer). Before that if press F8 I can't even get into the safe mode. It
shows safe mode in each corners of a black page like it wants to bring it
then it goes back to the blue logo screen. I have tried many many many times
to boot with XP cd but it does not do anything. I ran diagnostic At one point
I got this error code 0F00:136C which I googled it and everyone points to the
CD-Rom but further test of the CD-Rom and DVD came out "test passed". I can't
even boot from the floppy. Appreciate any suggestion that might point me to
the right direction!
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- Windows XP Setup >> windows xp freezeI have a Gateway laptop that came loaded with Windows XP Home Edition. After
about 1 1/2 years of running fine, it began to randomly freeze. The
manufacturer has been unable to help me. I've done the following:
- clean install of Windows XP
- wrote zeros to the drive and installed Windows XP
- ran diagnostics on hardware components (including a 3 hour system load
test)
- set BIOS to default settings
Nothing seems to get rid of the random freezes that I am experiencing.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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- customize >> Using Command Line to COMPLETELY connect with DUNI figured out how to get the DUN dialog box with the
command
rasphone -d "My ISP"
But I cannot figure out how to get it to connect *all the
way*. I still have to click or key CONNECT.
I am trying to make a batch file to COMPLETELY connect to
my IP upon every startup.
Any info would be MUCH appreciated!
ewenste
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- customize >> Can I set a login delay (tweakui)?Hello,
I have some new laptops w/XP on them using wireless
cards. THe problem is, the darn things boot so fast and
(we use tweakui) automatically log into the desktop, that
wireless communications/drivers are not yet fully loaded
with a (therefore cached) profile is loaded - causing some
of our programs to not work/launch properly.
Can I set a 3-5 second delay upon bootup before it tries
to log in?
Thanks!!!
Mike
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- customize >> Enable Quick Launch Toolbar in Unattended install.The Quick launch toolbar in the taskbar on XP is Disabled
by default (2000 - it's enabled by default).
There seems to be no mention of how to enable in the
unattended installation reference, in the MS knowledge
base, or elsewhere.
Is there an easy was to do this (even a consistent
registry key)?
Thanks
Geoff
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- Windows XP >> HTMLHello, I'm new at this.
Why is it that when I try to get the HTML page of
whatever is on the window by using VIEW>SOURCE on the
toolbar, nothing happens?
I was able to do that before. What could have happened?
Earlier today I tried it again, VIEW>SOURCE and the HTML
page popped up. I thought that it got restored somehow so
I closed that page and tried to do it again from another
window. No luck. I went back to the window where it
actually worked and this time the HTML page didn't pop up.
Can anybody help please. I am using XP.
Thanks!
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- Windows XP Setup >> Quick question re: F.A.S.T. file transfer programSaw the discussion of a couple days ago about transfering files from an
older Windows computer to a WinXP machine. I expect that it will transfer
files, but does it transfer an installed program? I.e. if I have a program
I installed into an older computer and it made registry changes etc. on that
old machine will the FAST transfer program bring it to the new machine such
that I can just click on the executable program and expect it to run?
I'm guessing it just transfers files like word processing files I made,
pictures I generated, etc. and not a functioning already installed program.
Simply transferring the contents of a folder to a new machine won't make the
program run on the new machine. The program needs to be installed, not just
files transferred. Right?
Thanks,
Chet
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