I am trying to help a friend fix a strange internet problem. The
problem is that although his network connection works, he can't browse
the internet. The story he told me is that he was trying to upgrade
his IE to IE7, but he didn't complete the upgrade. Instead, for some

i am facing this new kind of problem with my file sharing.
it's been there for a while but i have sorta ignored it all this while until
now that i really need it
The problem is:

I have a small home network with three computers connected via a
single router/modem.  There is a laptop and desktop running XP Pro and
a desktop running XP Home. All these computers have had clean Windows
installations during the past 2 months and there have been no changes

Hello to all,
I have a couple of problems but I will address one at a time here. First, I
have a D-Link DGL-4300 wireless router. I had 2 desktops connected by wire
and a wireless connection to a laptop, all had access to the internet. All

I have 3 networked computers (my kids) they never turn off there
computers at night.  Is there software that will let me reboot or shut
down any computer on the network.  Either shareware or a retail
program.

I have a pc that can't access the internet, but works fine on the
network. This is the only pc that is having this problem. Other pc's
experiance no problems at all.
It can't ping (IP or domain), surf, ftp, or access anything on th

The brief version is that I want to either:
(a) create a phony address (i.e. \\SERVER\FolderA\) so that a Win XP
workstation thinks it is a valid address
(b) be able to set a "server" alias for some valid server that is already

Whenever my computer restarts or comes out of standby, the "Use Windows to
configure my wireless network settings" in the Wireless Network Connection
Properties box, Wireless Networks tab is unchecked and the internet will not
work. Once I check on the box, everything's fine.

Hello, I updated the driver with a digitally signed cert imported. During the
updating, WinXP warns, "Installing this device deriver is not recommended
because Windows cannot verify that it is compatible with your hardware. If
the driver is not compatible, your hardware will not ...

I have renamed my account from "cho" to "christian". On another XP
workstation (workgroup configuration) there is a user named "christian".
Let's name that machine the "host"
Problem: From another computer with an original named "christian" account I

We have one PC connected wirelessly on network. All of a sudden browsing
internet no longer possible..
1) We can ping wireless router just fine and other PC's are able to browse.
Skype works just fine on this PC (even voice which is very bandwidth

I'm having a strange internet connection issue - some programs are able to
connect, while others can't seem to find that I have a connection.  Those
that can are, for example: IE6, Windows Media Player 10 (features like
internet radio), Windows Automatic Updates, Symantec's Live ...

Following the April 4 and 5, 2007 updates, we lost the use of our peer to
peer network.  Firewall, sharing and permissions look okay.  What did the
update change that is causing us trouble?

I have attempted this many times in the past, and have decided to try again:
Need to synch files across two XP Pro machines.  Here's what I did, per Help:
1) went to folder for which I want synch
2) set it to share out, including 'let network users change my files'

Hi, All,
I am running a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop, 3.06GHz HT, 1.25GB RAM, Windows XP
Professional.
I recently did a format/reinstall of Win XP, and have just finished