I have a small home LAN setup... 2 XP Home and 2 Win98se systems.
Most of the time there's no problem but, a couple of times, one of the XP
Home systems crashes when I go to MY NETWORK PLACES and click on VIEW
WORKGROUP COMPUTERS or I try to access one of the others PC's resources.. ...

I have been visiting this site for a few weeks and all has been fine
until a few days ago and it started to slow, slow then now its gone.
I guess could be anything except when I do a ping on the name I get this IP#
127.0.0.1  It resolves fine but isn't this IP number a generic one ...

I cannot connect to symantec website using windows xp.  I
have norton antivirus and firewall, but cannot do live
updates because when I try to sign on to symantec website,
I get rerouted to lycos.  Does anybody know what this

Windows can't connnect to the domain...... , so I logged off the domain, deleted user and computer accounts on the server and re-entered user account and password on server and rejoined the domain and fixed problem except all data and desktop and settings are lost. I found out ...

Everytime I try to go onto internet explorer the box comes up that says internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. then you get the choice of sending or not sending the report. of course you never get any explanation why it's happening. i've been using ie ...

Hoping someone can lend some troubleshooting advice.  I
have an XP Home desktop and and XP Pro laptop both
running on my network (Netgear 802.11b router).  The
laptop connects via 802.11b.  I had added them both to a

I am configuring a home network. The XP Professional
computer was connected to a domain so I went in to change
the domain to a workgroup. I provided the password and the
change was okayed. When prompted to restart the computer,

I am having trouble getting online after I wake my computer from stand
by.  I believe that the issue is with the network bridge because after
waking my computer from stand by I can't get online, but if I disable
and then enable my network bridge I can get online.  Any suggestions

I would like to create a network share on an XP computer
that forces a remote user to enter authentication
credentials(username/password).  Like how the C$ share
does.  Anyone know how to accomplish this?

im wondering if is there any way of closing ports on xp without using any other 3rd party application
got a belking router but can not find that feature. ive got
application gate way to router services through my route
virtual serve

I have 2 pc's, one with xp and one with w2000.  When the current W2000 had win 98 all was OK. I formated and installed w2000.  Both have assigned IP address. Now the W2K pc can access the XP pc, but locks up when trying to add it's shared printer. The XP pc see's the W2K pc, but ...

  Here is the equip, new custom built system, with xp
pro, plus all updates. All fresh and with all device
drivers and latest updates. Includes limited 3rd party
software such as nortons, games, office. All the downloads

Our company is using WIN2000 Server.We have users set up
to use roaming profiles. A few of them have the following
problem. They can log on to a handful of PC's throughout
the company and all their personal settings are as they

Can anyone tell me the best way to change from XP home to
XP professional? My reason for doing this is I want to
use IIS with Dreamweaver. Or can tell me that I don't
need IIS. Or can I get IIS for the Home version of XP.

I have a LAN with some systems on WinXP and some on Win98 with NAV.
Network seems to be working fine, i.e., I can see all other computers
in Windows Explorer and transfer files and play network games.  My
only question is: "Why don't the other computers respond to the ping