Please can I have some advice re. my home network of two
PCs, one with ICS enabled on one of its two network
adapters:
Is it better to:

I have just formatted my hd and installed XP Pro.  All was
fine.  Then I installed SP2.  I have installed absolutely
nothing else on this pc yet - yet my internet connection
has died.

OK I hvae searched and can't find this problem I am having discussed, so
here goes:
Running Windows XP Pro on Dell Latitude D800 (Laptop); 1.6mHz, 768MB
Ram; 20GB HD

I have windows xp. An unknown website is forcing itself
every second time I'm trying to log to a website. I can't
get rid of it. I tried to change the default website when
I open explorer and again this "Bad" website change my

Client trying to access website and getting "Page can not
be Displayed. Other workstations working ok with SP1. Had
them turn off new firewall capability but didn't make a
difference. Any Ideas?

Whenever I use certain network intensive things, like
MMO's my network connection hangs and will not respond to
repairs, removes, or anything untill restart (this happens
after about 30 sec - 10 min of being connected).

I have recently tried to network my laptop(WinXP) and my desktop PC(Win 98).
After installing the drivers and connecting the computers an error appears
on the connection which says "Limited or no connectivity".
I have tried a number of options to remedy this fault:

Windows XP.
1.  How do I set my Windows XP workstation to permit
remote connections?
2.  How many remote connections can be active at a time?

I have 2 computers and a combo ADSL modem/router.  The
desktop computer is always connected and works with no
issues as long as the other computer, the laptop, is not
connected.  When I connect the laptop, I can ping the IP

I'm new to Windows.
I'm trying to make a new ethernet network connection on my friend's laptop
which is running XP.
He uses his ethernet NIC both at home and at work, and they need different

I have 2 computers - a desktop running XP SP2 and a laptop
still on SP1.  I also have a Siemens Combo ADSL
Modem/Wireless Router (NAT type).
The desktop can connect to the internet via its ethernet

3 computers. 2 of them have XP Home and 1 has XP
professional. I have the 2 with home working fine but I
can't get them to recognize the one with Professional and
it won't recognize the other 2. What should I do? Thanks!

I recently bought a new computer to upgrade the one I had.
there are two laptops in the home network both running xp
pro. On one I can access the web and the other's shared
files, but on the other one (the new one) I can access the

Recently.  I lost an 80gb hd.  One way to fill in the
blanks from the loss was to service pack my xp install.  
So I did so through MS update.  It went smoothly until I
started surfing again.  I started to notice severe

I just in installed XP Home on a small network with 6 workstations.  I can
only get 5 stations to connect to the XP machine at a time.
If I upgrade to XP Pro will that give me more connections?  I saw XP Pro
allows 10 connections, but I wanted to make sure the correct limits are 5 ...