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- Windows XP Network >> It was the firewallI came to the group several days ago seeking the solution to my networking
problem. Several MVPs (Chuck in particular) responded with great info and
asked me to come back to the group and share any insights I might have had.
So in that spirit, here I am and here is what happened:
I had/have a desktop Win2K machine and a laptop Win2K machine that
shared/share files with no problems at all. Then I bought a new laptop with
XP Home.
When I tried to add it to the network, it could share files with the desktop
but NOT with the laptop. I tried everything and finally gave up.
Meanwhile back at the ranch ... a few days ago ZoneAlarm announced they had
a new update to their firewall, and I decided to install it, on my Win2K
laptop. They recommended a clean install -- that is, resetting everything.
Suddenly, out of the blue, the two laptops started sharing with no problems.
Here's what happened: Since the desktop and laptop were already sharing
flawlessly, I was lulled into thinking all was well with them, and that the
problem must lie with the new laptop. But in reality I had made the settings
of the laptop firewall very specific, to allow traffic only with the
desktop. Whereas I should/could have allowed traffic in a more general way
(e.g. "any computer in your subnet").
It was the laptop firewall that was blocking access to the other laptop. By
pure chance, the desktop firewall was set in a more general way and masked
the problem.
Moral of the story: remember that *all* firewalls in the net might
contribute to the problem when a new computer arrives. Re-check them to make
sure they're not blocking something.
John
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- Windows XP >> Re-Install XPHave a Fujitsu laptop with only USB inputs.
Have Formatted the hard drive and am ready to re-install XP but am unable to
access the external liteon combo SOHC-5232KX drive.
A:\ drive is working fine via an external usb floppy.
Assume I have to add a driver to the Config.sys file but am unsure.
Is this true and if so need to know what command to use.
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- Windows XP Security >> Setting password policy in Windows XPHello,
I'd like to set password policy( account lock out after 3
wrong attempt) in my workstation. When I open Account
lockout threshold under Account policies, the settings is
grayed out and I can not make anychanges. I am logging on
as administrator. Please help me where else should I make
changes as well.
Thank you,
Terry
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- Windows XP Security >> IE Address is not working?When I type a normal address in IE, it always goes to the
search engine of some sort and prints out the results. I
can't even go to yahoo.com by typing it. What should I
do? Help! I will appreciate any hints. Thanks!!
-JC
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- Windows XP Network >> Has anyone seen...?Where's my message gone?!
Search finds it (19Aug03 8:46am "Frequent disconnect
after...") but it's no longer listed in front list, so I
cannot lookk to see if anyone has replied!
Any idea?
Thanks from Steve
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- Windows XP >> Can't install IIS on XPI am trying to install IIS on my XP SP2 box and having this problem
I went to Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs - Add/Remove Windows
components
I check IIS and then click OK
The installer starts and then brings up a message window that says "Could
not find staxmen.dell" and pointed to C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386
I browsed to the path indicated and found the file "staxmen.dll"
I repoint the installer back to the path and still get the error message...
The other part of the error message says "insert XP service pack 2 disk" The
service pack 2 I have is one I downloaded and is a compressed file. I even
uncompressed service pack2 to a temp folder and then pointed the installer
to that folder still IIS won't install. Anyone know why and what I should do
to install IIS?
Thanks in advance
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- Windows XP Network >> Need help in seeing my computer on my home networkI have a laptop with XP on it and two desktops with 98 on it. I can see and
browse the two desktops from the XP laptop but I can only see the XP laptop
from the two 98 computers. I can't open up the XP laptop at all. It keeps
asking for a password? This laptop did come from a campany who had upgraded
and were selling the laptops off. Anyone have any idea how to get around
this? Thanks.
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> How to remove a file that's infected?A file has been identified on my pc as being infected
with a Trojan Horse virus but when I try to locate it, I
can't find it. I only get the warning of the virus being
detected after I start up Internet Explorer and it resets
my home page. File name/location winnt/DNSErr.dll
I have WinXP home and am running Norton Antivirus 2004
but it can't remove the virus.
Any suggestions?
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- Windows XP >> ME to XPI just upgraded to XP and I cannot find the folders that
I had on my desktop such as some word documents and waht
not, and I also ran a search and it dosent come up with
them, even with a hidden search. Is it possible that
hundred documents that were on a folder on the desktop of
ME be gone when I upgraded to XP prof.
Thanks, Mark
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- Windows XP Network >> Internet connection really slowWhile logging onto the internet it usually takes about 3
minutes to load up a Web page. Even if not going through
IE, downloads and browsing are slow, whatever I use. I've
ran adaware to get rid of a lot of junk. but still no
change. Anything I can check?
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- Windows XP >> delay between IE and OE view of this newsgroup?I had trouble finding my own post in this newsgroup using Internet Explorer,
so I set up this newsgroup in Outlook Express (following the instructions on
the MS community website). However, when I check the headers for this
newsgoup in OE they seem to be about 11 hours behind the ones visible in
Internet Explorer.
Is there some way to get up-to-date messages from the newsgroup in Outlook
Express?
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- Windows XP Setup >> actve desktop, view videosI am unable to retrieve any windows from the desktop. I
receive messages that state access denied and the start
menu will only allow 2 functions which are shut down, and
log off. The windows media player will play music and
display visualizations but will not show the actual
video. The real.one player doesn't come up at all
because it it always preceeded by the Acrobat 6.0
window. What is going on with this system. Has it been
infected with a virus or does the system need to be re-
booted. I belive I was told something about "cookies
being enabled"' whatever that means. Help please!
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- Windows XP Security >> Michelle KightleyI am currently using Windows XP. Every time I access Internet Explorer security messages pop up. This prevents me from using several web pages
Microsoft Internet Explore
" Your current security settings prohibit running ActiveX controls on this page. As a result, the page may not display correctly
I have tried changing my levels of security from medium to low and high. This hasn't made any difference. The messages still pop. My security setting is currently set on 'low'
Any ideas???
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Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Task Manager is gone
My task manager is no longer showing up, and I can't find
it through any other means. The only place it shows up is
when I use find and search for it, and then it's a class
file and my computer can't open it. How did this happen
and what do I do? My ctrl-alt-del does nothing right now.
Windows XP1336
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- Windows XP >> Standard mouse won't right-clickHi all,
A friend of mine is having trouble with her standard mouse (PS/2 connection)
on a Windows XP machine. She is using the standard mouse driver since the
mouse is a "no name" bought at Office Depot. The problem she is having is
that the right-hand button doesn't do anything. She's gone into the control
panel and changed its settings, but nothing works. She got a mouse from a
friend and it has the same problem on her machine (although it's fine on her
friend's computer). The person who owned the computer before my friend used
a trackball "mouse", so did something get messed up in the registry? Any
ideas?
We haven't tried reinstalling the operating system yet because that takes a
long time.
Thanks,
Bob
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- Windows XP Setup >> windows xp pro activationi had windows xp home on my computer for 2 years. it had a valid key and i
never had a problem with it. i bought a windows xp pro disk from a friend at
work and it is valid its one of the etvched diskcs with the special rainbow
coloring and "valid" and "genuine" on it. it is not a burned disk. but the
cdkay that is on the certificate of authrnticity does not work. i made sure
that it is a windows xp pro cdkey as well. i do not have a phone line where i
live and i use an internet cafe's wifi for internet connection. but i cant
get my windows activated. is tehre a way to get it activated online with the
key im useing?
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- Windows XP Support >> AdvertiseFor exampel when I browse http://www.webshots.com witch is probably an
american site I see that they have advertises on the site from my country
witch is Sweden. My question is how does that web page reconise that I i'm
from Sweden?
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http://www.shareaza.com (free and free from ad's and spy-ware)
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- Windows XP Security >> Limited accountHi,
I have a XP home edition. I wanted to give read only
access to other users so that its not possible for them
save any files to disk , install anything.So i created a
limited account. But still i am able to install software
and save files to the disk through the limited account.
How to make read only for accounts other than admin.
adhi
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- Windows XP Update >> windows update for 2000having problems updating win 2000 can get through to the update page but when
it tries to detect software version and updates already incorporated the ie
home page changes from wanadoo to about:blank and loses the microsoft page.
software loaded inc. win 2000 and norton antivirus and utilities, with
spyblock 2.0 anti spam.
where am i going wrong as i cannot get rid of it.
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- Windows XP Network >> wireless access pointHi
I have created an wireless LAN at home using 2 pc's and a
wireless access point.
The wireless pc's can see the access point and are
receiving an excellent signal, the problem i have is that
i cannot get each pc to see each other/connect, I cannot
ping either address of the pc's and cannot manage the
access point via it's IP address, yet all functionality
regards thew wireless network appears to be ok.
Any suggestions
regards
Wayne
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- Windows XP Update >> Windows XP unstable after SP2I am having problems with my system after XP SP2 update. Now my system will
sporadically lock up hard with no option but hit the reset button. There does
not seem to be any one factor to cause this. I can be in any program at any
time or it could just lock in the Windows XP start up window. Sometimes the
system will run an hour, sometimes is crashes the first minute. Now I canâ??t
even perform a system restore as I get an error that states unable to
complete operation, this is for any point in time that I try to restore to. I
am running an Asus board with the latest BIOS as this was already suggested
as a problem. Please help, as I donâ??t know what to do next.
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- Windows XP >> standby problemsI am running a Pentium 2.4 with Windows XP home and whenever I am away
from my computer I put the computer on standby as I've had three power
supplies catch fire and ruin computers. Yesterday I get the message
"the device driver for the 'communications port (COM1)' device is
preventing the machine from entering standby. Please close all
applications and try again. If the problem persists you may need to
update his driver."
there does not appear to be any device operating on communications
port 1. The drivers are something like: "serenum.sys" and
"serial.sys"
when I remove these drivers I then get the same message regarding the
modem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the modem but it makes no
difference.
Please help.
Thanks,
Harry
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- Windows XP Security >> Set Partitioned Drive to PrivateHi folks,
I have a dell system that has Windows XP installed. I
partitioned C drive into C, D and E. I want to set E
drive as private not allow other user to access the
drive. Is there a way to do this? And How? Please give
the detail for it because I am new to Windows XP.
Thanks in advance.
Tim.
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Help - Frequency of Computer Rebooting is IncreasingIn the last couple of weeks, I have noticed that when trying to do multiple
things on the computer, the frequency of fatal error resulting in a reboot
is increasing. It has occurred when doing completely different things. Is
this a potential sign of a certain piece of hardware going bad? Could it be
something with Windows XP?
I have a Gateway 500XL PC/2.53GHz P4/512MB DDR SDRAM/128MD NVIDIA GeFore4
Ti4200G/Running Windows XP
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- Windows XP Network >> Web not accessible from LAN by Windows 2000 clientHi,
I used to expoloit my Windows xp as a server for web connection to a Windows
2000 machine. Suddenly this connection doesn't work. I still configure the
Advnce Properties of the XP dialup as followos:
Internet Connection Sharing:
Allow other network users to connect through this ....
Firewall:
I tryed to disable but no help.
Other informatio:
The XP is connected withADSL which works fine for the XP itself.
The LAN itself works fine and both PC's share their disks.
Can someone help pleas?
Regads
M. Kamin
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Limited UserI have Microsoft Office 2000 Pro installed on a Windows
XP Pro machine. It is a custom install with everything
loaded to the local drive. The user has a limited
account. When she tries to open a JPEG image attached to
an email using Outlook, she gets an open file error.
Outlook is not able to open this file type. If she copies
the file to her desktop she is able to open the image. If
I change the user account to Administrator she has no
problems opening this file in Outlook with Microsoft
Photo Editor. Is there a way to get around this Photo
Editor problem using a Limited account? I'd be
interested in other work arounds using a Limited account
too.
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- customize >> organizing folders alphabeticallyHow can I get the files and folders windows to ALWAYS
alphabetize by name without going to Details option?
Only in the first level of Windows Explorer do the files
order as such. One or more levels down and they seem
chaotic with the last file used in the last place.
I can find no way to set a default file order preference.
Thank you
Greg
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- Windows XP Hardware >> USB Storage glitchHi after using a USB 2.0 256mb storage stick, XP Pro
developes an intermittent problem in that it cannot read
the contents on disc put into my DVD/CD combo burner. Has
anyone else encountered this problem?
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- Windows XP Security >> Failed to load product info fileI get that error message everytime I try to right-click
anything on my Windows XP Professional desktop. I cannot
empty the recycle bin from the main window either. I
cannot select all items in a given window and delete them
all at one. All these circumstances give me the same
error message.
Information
Failed to load product info file
I am administrator. So I have no idea what is happening.
It also happens to the other users who are "powerusers."
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