I don't know if anyone else has had the oportunity to play with this
aspect of vista yet, but, in Vista is it a security feature to not be
able to autoconnect to the internet using a wireless connection? I have
done a lot of searches in the help files as well as the KB for

I have tried to plug in the 128/MB pen driver but it is not reading it i
also plugged in the USB2.0 52 in 1 card reader that too is not recognized by
my sysstem but if i plug the same in the front panel of the usb slot it is
reading how. and why is the back slot not working

Is the Matshita UJ-840D drive compatible with DVD-R DL disks? I am
attempting to burn with them, and it appears that the drive does not
recognize the disk. I don't know if I need to buy DVD+R DL disks, or if
the driver/firmware needs to be updated.

Hey guys,
have been having a problem with my printer/s for a while now and am yet to
find the cause...
Basically, I bought a HP multifunction printer and it all worked fine for a

  As part of a larger QA project I'm working on, I have to
programmatically tell the wireless card in a windows laptop to connect
to a certain wireless network.  This is to test to make sure that the
installed network card is working properly.  The problem is, I'm not

Having recently spent some time trying to configure my TV as a second
monitor on my HP Media Centre - Graphics card nVidia GeForce 6600 - I
am left with an irritating problem.
Each 3-5 seconds the screen freezes for 1/2 second or so. If watching

When I put a CD in the drive, the light flashes and it sounds like it i
trying tor ead the CD, but nothing happens.  If I try to play it i
Windows Media Player, nothing happens, the computer doesn't recogniz
that a CD is there.

I upgraded to XP Pro from XP Home and now my network card and audio (record
or play) drivers aren't found.  When I attempt to create a Internet
connection, I get an error message that no hardware is found.  I used my
original recovery disc to load the drivers and went through ...

I have two freezing problems with my Toshiba laptop.
Intermittently, my mouse will freeze for just an instant in about
one-second pulses.  Also, I will be writing and the keyboard will
freeze for about 2-3 seconds.  I think it's video since when it

I have an old nordson controller that drives a mechanical insertion unit for
the factory floor. An older software helps the controller communicate through
com ports. It's running fine with windows 98, but were trying to upgrade all
units to XP and it won't talk to each other.

I have just purchase a new computer with Windows XP Home Edition.
I just realised that there is no "3 and half inch" floppy drive in it.  How
to I create a BOOT UP DISK without a floppy drive (is a "boot up disk" the
same as a MS DOS start up disk?).  

I have the Media Center Remote keyboard, which runs fine in MC itself (except
for teh mouse, it seems to be inactive all the time...). Unfortunately, as
soon as I get out of MC and back into "normal XP", the keyboard does not
respond anymore and I need to switch to the plain old ...

When I connect my WD USB storage device (USB drive) to my computer
Windows will pop up a notification message that shows USB Mass Storag
Device, and then Disk Drive was found. However, I just simply can’
access the drive, and there is no automatic “Autoplay” prompt too, eve

Hi, I hope someone can help me.  I just installed a SATA drive (Maxtor)
as a storage device.  I also have two IDE drives - one with XP.
Everything seemed to go well except for a new optical device showing up
that I don't have (and never did).  My actual DVD burner is still there

I have a few partitions on an existing drive.  I would like to delete one
(say drive F) and increase the size of the existing drive drive E
accordingly.  How can I do this?  I am running xp sp2.  Files are NTFS