My friend thinks I'm crazy because I told him that you can use the power
outlet for networking. Please help!

I recently purchased a Windows XP laptop and have a Windows 2000 desktop at
home.  I would like to set up a home network and already have a Linksys
router.  I have both computers connected to the router and have no problems
accessing the internet from either computer, but neither ...

I have several machines that have an issue using the search function on
network drives or network paths. When you click search nothing happens for 10
seconds and then it will search the network drive. This is not the case for
all machines.

Hello to everyone. I have a compaq armada e500 laptop currently running
windows xp pro. The dvd-rom drive isn't working and has long been lost.
I desperately need to re-install windows on this machine. I also have a
dell deminsion pc running windows xp pro also.  The both systems ...

I have PC#1 with windows XP, PC#2 with Windows 98 and laptop with windows XP
Pro.  PC#1 currently is connected to the net via ethernet cable to cable
modem.
I want to network all 3 together wirelessly and also share the printer on

im sharing an internet connection with another computer, and since the guy
who uses the other computer always is downloading things he is cutting down
on my internet speed which makes it slow for me to surf the web and makes it
impossible to play games over the net.

I have added a few entries into the hosts file, but it doesn't get processed
by the system. I have exactly the same file used in a windows 2000 system,
and it worked.
Where is the problem?

Hi;
I am trying to set up a "guest" account so people can access a specific
drive from the net.  But when I try to set-up a default file for there
account properties I recieve a error message which says create a "Valid

I would like to configure portmapping on XP (Home and Pro) using netsh.
ICS is not an option on this network.
According to all the info I can find, it should be forwarding.  But
it's not working.

i`ve been running xp64 pro
and out of the blue one day my wizard lost most of its options (dialup
and pppoe)
ive tried most of the fixes around from msft

i get this message daily when browsing the internet:
windows-delayed write failed
unable to save all the data for file C:/...the data has been lost. this
erros maybe caused by a failuer of your computer hardrive or network

Does anyone know why FTP.EXE in the windows command prompt is binding to
127.0.0.1 when issuing a PORT command on a remote FTP server on the Internet?
the FTP client doesn't support passive transfers so I need active FTP to
work. I can get it to work by using "ftp -a ftp ...

I'm sure there is a simple fix for this, but at the moment it's
elusive. I have a cable modem worked fine until we had an apparent
power surge due to a storm and I rebooted. Everything came back online
except the internet. So I did the usual unplug the ethernet cable, the

Is there any way to allow Windows limited users to Enable and disable a
network connection?
I want this so my girlfriend can enable the wifi on my laptop from her
limited user account.

I am having trouble accessing a computer on my network of 5 computers. I have
4 on windows 98 and 1 running XP home edition. I can access all from the XP
computer, but the windows 98 computers cannot access the XP computer. Any
ideas?