I have a problem with my IIS on Windows XP. I cannot run the Internet
Information Services manager because I my IIS server never completes its
initialization. When I look at the services list I find that the state is
"starting" not "started" How can I find out what is the problem ...

I am using xp pro on  a laptop on my home network. i use a wireless router.
when i am on my laptop i can access files across the network but when i go to
my home pc i cannot access the files on my laptop. my laptop shows up in
"workgroup computers" but i cannot access any of the ...

I have a D-Link wired router in my home network. Do I still need something
like ZoneAlarm firewall running? My ZoneAlarm Pro does not allow my network
to be recognized until I disable it(ZA). I've gone to www.donhoover.net and
configured ZA as per instructions to no avail. Do I ...

  I have two computers, One is a labtop with a wirless card ,desktop
computer and  a D-link rountor with a wirless access point. The issue that I
am having now is that i can see the labtop computer on the desktop computer
but I can't access it.and then on the labtop computer I ...

Is it possible and practical to change the LAN domain name, where there are
2 servers running 2003 Server, without reinstalling both servers from
scratch?
The problem is that the servers were configured with the dot-com name, at a

I currently work for a charity who is investing in 7 new PC's. I would like
them all to be networked together and was wondering if that was possible
using XP home or whether I will have to spend a vast amount of money to
upgrade them to XP pro? Obviously I would like the cheapest ...

I am having problems with my VPN connection that i am trying to create.
I am connecting to a computer at my office, or vise versa. Both computers
are xp pro, cable, and I set up both an incoming connection and an outgoing
connection. When i connect to the one at work, i get ...

Someone pressed my (WinXPSP2) PC power button by mistake while I was working
on my computer, and thus shut down the PC. Ever since, the Internet Gateway
Device icon doesn't show up anymore. I knew these things were brittle, but I
had no idea they were that fragile. Anyway, I ...

We are deploying WinXP on IBM X205-8480 eServer. On this hardware
there are different revisions of the same ethernet adapter.
Under Windows NT, this was never a problem, the existing drivers worked
for all flavors of the network adapter. XP is more selective and if we

I changed some network settings from a domain network for at the office to a
workgroup for a travel network between two laptops using a wirless router.
After i did this the laptops then required windows logon. I don't know the
username and password to get into windows to change ...

My network was working fine and suddenly I was not able to access it.  I made
no changes and installed no new software I just got the error message
“Workgroup is not accessible.  You might not have permission to use this
network resource…servers for this workgroup is not ...

Is there any way for me to log when my wireless network
connection drops and reconnects? Or is there something already
logging this in XP? I installed a new router and a new wireless
adapter and I see it's bouncing but I don't see it on another

Not sure if I can explain this easily though it's a simplem problem - hope
the answer is too!
I have three pcs - 2 desktops with XPHome SP2 and a laptop with 98SE. They
are setup on a Microsoft Windows Network named MSHOME. They share internet

Please see subject. I am going through a Belkin F5D5231 router
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2&pcount=&Product_Id=151182&Section.Section_Path=%2FRoot%2FNetworking%2FWiredNet
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Has this anything ...

We have a Microsoft Small Business Server 4.5 (basically NT Server) network.  
As I have started to add Windows XP Pro computers to this network, I have
noticed that any user with a valid domain username and password can walk up
to an XP machine and use their login information to ...