I need some help. I am trying to configure home networking between my
desktop and laptop computers. I have connectivity and I am using the
"mshome' worksgroup. When I am on my laptop and click on my desktop
icon, it gives me this error message:

I hate to be so dumb, but it's never stopped me before ----  My computer has
Windows ME on it.  I have a brand new full program, not an upgrade for Office
XP Professional.  Do I have to UNinstall ME before installing XP?  I didn't
think I had to, and I just ran the two disc's to ...

Trying to run the above to set up home network, programme keeps locking up
and wont complete any suggestions??

The White House
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Dear Concerned Citizen:

My daughter has gotten her computer in a total mess, and I am trying to clean
it up so that we can reestablish her network connection.  The problem I am
having is with two programs - TBPS.exe and TBPSSvc.exe (I am pretty sure they
are Ibis Toolbar programs), causing major loops, ...

I have a relatively new Dell P4 Intel 2.8GHz 512RAM 80GB drive with tons of
free space.  I also use XP Home.  I recently upgraded to SP2 with no
problems.  As soon as SP2 was installed, I went and took whatever security
updates were available on MS support.  Again, no problems.  ...

This  has surely been asked before, but
How can I increase the number of files in "My Recent Documents?"
Can one restrict the file times of "My Recent Documents?"

i have windows media player 9 and it run's my cpu it 50 to 60% when its
running before i had xp it ran at 20 to 30 % is there anything i can do to
fix it

I'm sure there's a ridiculously simple answer to this one.
Formatting a floppy in Win 98, the starting screen gave the option
"Display summary when finished".  This showed bad sectors etc.
In XP, I can't find such an option.  And, when formatting is finished,

Not sure where to ask this question, but here goes.
Is there a way to set an alarm on your computer, or a series of alarms, as
reminders of appointments, taking pills, etc?  Or do you need  other
software to do it/

I am trying to repair an SMS installation. WHen I try to run the repair or do
a reinstall or a uninstall I get an internal error 2813,
c:\windows\syatem32\ccm\logs\certificatemaintenance.log. When I try to open
that file it says it is corrupt. I tried deleting it, renaming it,

I inadvertently installed some SP2 updates and my computer began running
VERY slowly.
I've been removing these SP2 updates but the last one I removed left me with
a problem. I get an error (blue screen). The file that appears to be the

I am curious if anyone would have a solution....I recently switched to DSL
and now I am unable to "invite" anyone for a voice conversation.  They can
invite me and I can talk but I am unable to invite them.  I previously had no
problems when using a cable internet provider.  I am ...

I'm sure this is probably a dumb question, but I really have never seen
this before and I'm stumped. I have a clint with an XP Pro box, and
numlock doesn't enable the num keypad. These is a soft beep (different
tones for on and off), the led goes on but numlock still does nothing ...

On a new Dell P4 Intel 3.2Ghz 512RAM 80GB drive w 65GB free space;
Mother's Home edition XP has the following abnormalities that I would
greatly appreciate help on.
1)  In normal bootup mode, disk clean function from system tools takes +10