I am trying to help a friend get their wireless back up and protected.  The
have a Aopen AOI-908 wireless router.   It indicates in the manual the
length of a WEP128 key needs to be 13.   It also indicates that it needs to
be in the format of xx-xx-xx-xx...  for Hex.

I read somewhere that you can use Windows XP Pro to make a software mirror of
IDE Hard Drives.  Does anyone know how to do this?

hi,
i have a Emachines W2888, with 512MB Memory. I want to upgrade it a little
by adding more, i read it can take up to 2GB is that true? if it is i will be
able to put a 1GB card in along with the origional 512MB, right?  also the

I just reinstalled a clean XP Pro on my machine. When I try to make a manual
LAN connettion in My Network Places, it doen't allow me to.
So, I check Device Manager and saw that under Other Decives, my Ethernet
Controller, MultiMedia Controller, Video Controller all have yellow

windows doesnt show my cd rw or dvd rom they flash and i can put a cd in them
but its like not working please help ohh windods dosent show they even exist

Would someone know how to make sure that a driver of for example a device "A"
is a built-in WINXP Pro driver or if to install that driver vendor-supplied
drivers are necessary?
I am looking for such a list that would enable me to make sure that my PCs'

I turned my laptop on and there was a white and black vertical 1 inch block
going down the screen. I'm able to use all the functions, but it's
frustrating because I can't see anything behind it. How can I fix this?
THanks

I am looking for an optical mouse and I would just as soon not use one of my
4 USB ports (3 since the printer takes up one), so am looking for one
slotting into a PS/2. Is there any benefit in particular to using  the PS/2
or the USB?

My HP PrecisionScan Pro 2.03 gives images with different b&w threshold or
brightness, color and contrast than in its Preview window with my HP Scanjet
5p . How to make my HP PrecisionScan Pro 2.03 scan with the same adjustment
as in its Preview window?

Are there any tweaks that can be made to either Windows XP or router
configuration to improve the performance of a broadband connection?
There are plenty of utils that change things like MTU and TTL but do they
really make any difference?

I have a Sony Vaio PCG-V505 laptop.(Celeron 1.8 *NOT* M, so small cache)
It has a 40gb internal harddrive with a dirty windowsxp (school
projects). I bought a external usb2.0 & firewire enclosure and have put
one 5400rpm 120gb harddrive. I think (not sure) that i can boot off it

hi im in serious truble my pc cannot find the hardware device [code 41]
and i cant rolled back because i got password in admin account.
actually im using on screen board ;[
i tried with another keyboard and is the same problem.

    I just purchased one of the sony slim line dvd/cdr(w) drives.
Unfortunately, though, it was too slim.
are there any adapters/enclusures that can convert a slim line drive to one of the bigger notebook drives?
If this is OT for this group, please direct me to a place to which this ...

After start up the audio device is on but then at some point it shuts down.  
I get no sound.  The device manager says the device is "working properly" and
won't let me start it up per se.  Any advice?  THANKS!

   Where is the setting to manually tell XP
that a drive is removable?
Many thanks,
--Todd