1 computer on a wired network loses connection to the server but not to the
internet.  When I try to reconnect i get "network not started or not
available" error message.  
Rebooting machine works to reconnect to server but it only lasts a few

Hi i have a Winxp home with 256 mb ram and a laptop with win vista premium.
I have ethernet cards in both of them and a cable connecting them too but i
don't know how to setup the network.Any help would be appreciated.Thanks

i put more hard disc space from 30.G until 110.G and i put more Ram from 256
to 1 G since i put all Hard disc space and Ram space My Pc Restarts  it!s
Self every after 10 hours i used please help me to solve my problem thanks.

We have 2 PCs connected to the internet via a router.
My PC is connecting fine, but hubby's PC has suddenly decided that ther is a
problem with Internet Explorer.
On the Control Panel, under Network Connections - Connection Manager it

I suffer from a rather random issue lately connecting a 2nd PC to my network.
Usual setup was my PC here with an ADSL connection over USB Modem (Alcatel
Speedtouch USB), with Windows XP Professional SP2. IP Address assigned from
the ICS Configuration is 192.168.0.1. (Lets call ...

I have a XP host and a Vista client on my adhoc network.
I've reinstalled...
1. The OS for my XP host machine.
2. AOL for internet

We have a Windows 2003 domain controller with a mix of windows XP and windows
2000 computers.  One of the Windows XP computer is very slow to diplay the
contents of the network shares off the Windows 2003 server.  All of the other
computers are just fine.

There are 11 computers in our office, networked via 2 routers
9 of them on Win XP, 1 Win 2000, and 1 Win98
On Computer A (WinXP-Home) placed an Access database file, contains tables
of data.

Have tested my DSL speed.  It is fine.  I can download files like lightning,
but I cannot browse.  Have tried IE6,7, Firefox, Avant, Opera, nothing makes
any difference.  Will try to load a web page and my browser will sit idle for
15-60 seconds, then begin to load the page.  ...

I have recently installed a Dell Lattitude D520, with WindowsXP. The odd
thing is, that it cannot browse the Internet via a private network at home.
The networks are okay. I've tried several. It gets an ip adress, DNS and
stuff like that. Internet explorer keeps saying "Page ...

I've got this problem of clients not updating their PTR records and
(sometimes) even their A records.
Below is event log message. DNS servers addresses are correct. DNS zone is
AD-integrated. The problem I see in this log is that the client is sending

Hey All,
I'm stumped on this one!
We have a small workgroup consisting of 3 xp home users, 1 xp pro user, 2
printers, and a 2003 workgroup server. From the xp pro box, I can only ping

I have a new laptop and I want to transfer a bunch of old files from an older
XP computer to this new XP laptop. Can I use an ethernet cable to do this?
How would I set that up? Doing it over a wireless network takes ages.

If I run this command:
route -p ADD 172.020.109.012  MASK 255.255.255.252  192.168.109.254  METRIC
3
It responds with:

I want to clarify something about setting up routes in Windows XP:
If there's a general subnet route:
192.168.1.0   255.255.255.0    192.168.1.2
(which I understand to mean that anything on subnet 192.168.2.0 goes to