A pal needs help on this site
greetings fellow newsgroupers. I recently found a site called Microsoft
Forums. In a very short time I became very known to the site and its an
excellent tool. This guy who runs it is good too but needs a helping hand.

We have a condo that a few friends share (home away from home) it's wired for
CAT5.  However, we want to go high speed and we want to be wireless.  Most
just want to take their laptops in and power on and be on the Internet.  
Which is the best way to do this?

Running windows xp - just replaced HDD and motherboard and reinstalled win xp.
Now there is no IE listed in the programs menu. I did delete MSNIE because I
only use the basic IE. (never had this trouble when I delted the buttefly
before). Now the only way to get onto the internet ...

All web pages appear only in white. certain graphics are displayed in the
pages, but there are no background colors. Also submenus appear only in
white, causing the text contained within the submenu to overlap with the text
on the web page. very frustrating. PLEASE HELP.

I seem to get alot of these messages but other pc in home on wireless seems
to be fine.  I'm thinking it must be something that I have deleted by
mistake?  Can anyone please help, many of my old favs I can no longer visit!
Have run spybot, lavasoft adaware as webroots spy sweeper. ...

I am installing a new PC and would like to copy over my autofill information
from my old machine to the new machine (from Office, IE, etc).  Both systems
are running Windows 2000 Pro / IE 6 with Office 2003.
Does anyone know where this autofill information is stored  I checked the

My IE6sp2 will not accept cookies any longer.... this started to happen
after I installed some drivers for a USB2.0 card.  In any case, I have set
IE to accept all cookies, set the security to minimum - no help.  I think I
have a corrupt file - so how do I reinstall IE6sp2?  I ...

After clearing up a major virus and spyware program I've sp2'd the xp
machine but now pages in internet explorer look weird. The fonts are
absolutely huge, for example the two buttons on google.com are twice
the width (in total) of the google logo. Also backgrounds in tables

while updating to 6.0, at 70+% installed, an alert says setup is unable to
install all the components. Please close all apps. and try again. all apps.
are closed!
Any ideas!

I have Windows XP is configured for 24hr time format, CMD command line
FTP shows time in 24hr format, other FTP applications show time in 24hr
format, but for some reason when FTPing IE6 shows file time in 12hr
AM/PM format.

Hello, XP user here. I just updated to SP2 hoping it would solve my
long standing inability to view web pages that display Acrobat PDF
content but no luck. Under SP1 I would click on a link which had PDF
content and it would show me a blank page with a tiny square icon in

I'll attempt to keep this as short as possible...
I defragged my Win98SE system, it did not finish and it locked up
computer...after rebooting I was not able to get back in, desktop flashed
icons but then all disappeared and no Start button showed up either...desktop

My problem is that when I click on a link it opens in the same window thereby
making browsing very difficult. It used to have a box to click saying open in
new window and it was just set that way now I dont have that option. Anyone
have some ideas?

When I click on the internet explorer and the internet comes up, an error
messaage comes up stating that an error has occured and the program has to
close. The only option that I have is to select is to send an error message
to MS Internet  Explorer or not, then it boots me out ...

Does anyone know what registry key controls "check for newer versions of
stored pages"?