I routinely clear my internet explorer history and also clear forms, but for
some reason there are 5 miscellaneous google searches from a couple of weeks
ago that persist.  They always appear as drop down list whenever I type
"www.g" in the address bar.  All other URLs are ...

hi.  i have a weird issue with one of my pc's.  i am able to work fine - get
on the network, get on the internet, etc.  i installed pcanywhere the other
day, and to configure it, i have to go into network connections and assign it
a static IP address.  under network connections ...

My wife has a Dell Dimension 2350 with an integrated Broadcom
440x NIC. It was working fine, then when we returned from dinner,
she had no network access. You cannot ping any external IP
addresses, either on our home network or the Internet.  You can

Morning,
I have several computers in my house and they are all networked together. 2
are using XP MCE and the rest are using XP Pro.
What i would like to know is, from the main computer is there a way of

I have a laptop that could always be plugged into our domain and obtain
an ip via dhcp. You could then browse, ping  etc etc. I have a
wireless/wired network at home. If I go home I can use both the wired
and wireless network.

I have an XP network (without Domain) in a computer shop. We have a number of
resources in various shared folders on several different PCs. We also have a
PC specifically for customers to check their emails and surf the web while we
fix their bug-ridden PCs.

We have added a 6th computer to our office Workgroup LAN. All units are
running Windows XP Professional (SP1, except the 6th which has SP2). The
original 5 units operate normally on the network. The newest unit only stays
visible in View Workgroup Computers (or to the "net view" ...

I installed IE7 a few weeks ago and i cannot get streaming videos and audio
to play.
They come up in a new window but will not play even if i press the 'play'
button.

i know that after you enter a domain name into the address bar of your
ie, you computer first will check your hosts to see if there is any DNS
entry to match that domain name. if yes, the computer will use the
corresponding ip to see a request to the server. so i think  if i put a

We have a dynamic ip ADSL service to our home network with dynamic ip
addresses assigned to each computer. My wife needs to access a secure
site for work which restricts access to a limited ip range - i.e. she
needs to provide the security team a fixed ip address for which access

Here is an interesting delema I am facing.  I am running a VPN server
on a windows XP Pro box which is sitting behind my linksys WRT54GL
router.  I have all the needed ports forwarded and people can connect
to my VPN and get a valid IP (192.168.1.160-170).  The VPN server shows

I connect to the internet by broadband most of the time, but also have to
keep a couple of dialup accounts for maintaining a couple of websites.
Whilst using the net in general, via broadband, the network connection
dialog box frequently pops up half-way through loading a web page ...