Been asked to help to clean the system, so I do as usual, clear the cache,
history and temp folder. Then I did the defragement. In the Printer and
faxes, there are various printer icons which the printers are connrcted to
the print server. To my surprise, after the defrag, all ...

I'm running a small network at home : 2 pc's, each connected directly with a
cable from card to card.
One gets a modem and shares the connection to the other one.
Here is the configuration :

I have a simple WIRELESS network of a laptop running XP Home and a desktop
machine also on XP Home.  The problem is that while the network will work
without problems for most of the time, an irritating balloon appears every 60
seconds or so with the message "Network Bridge ...

So my office got me a new HP tc4400 tablet PC with XP Pro on it, the official
Corporate IT guy finally came round to connect it to the domain, after he
left I restarted went to log in and the thing just hung at the applying
computer settings screen. I waited almost half a day for ...

I heard that Windows keeps a log of network connections. Is that true?
Someone may have broken into one of my co-workers' computer. We know the
website that was visited and I want to see if there's any information that
Windows can provide about when the computer was being ...

This has me stumped. When I boot the machine, everything's fine. ping works,
ipconfig reports everthing ok, browsers work.  ABout 10 minutes later, Page
not founf on both IE and Firefox...BUT...other connections still work, such
as the xnews browser I'm typing into now. Ping ...

I have an FTP account and I added a network place using the Add a Network
Place Wizard and I was able to successfully create the network place.  My
problem is that I cannot save on to it.  I want a server that I can actually
save stuff on and myself and other people can access it ...

I installed one application on a Windows XP Pro Workstation as an
Administrator which changed the file association of .txe files from Notepad
to another application - which I didn't want.  I changed it back to Notepad
and it all seemed fine until another user logged on.

Hi. I have a 10 GB file that I must copy over a wireless network
that isn't that reliable -- it will probably fail about once every 1GB.
What can I use that will automatically restart after a failure, without
losing work? I prefer something I can just start and forget.

I have a user who wants to use her laptop on our network.
I can't change from workgroup to Domain. I do a ipconfig, it has all the
correct ip addresses, gateway, dns.  I cant ping the server, cant get out on
the internet.

I have a small home network of several computers used by the family.
Currntly I have them set up so that the user folders (my documents, settings
etc) are on the one machine and are shared out to be accessed from the other
machines.  The idea is that I want any family member to ...

The wireless network works! Also net access on the host also is OK so THANK
YOU, Steve and Ralf.  Now for the next problem: the laptop. It's new so runs
Vista Home premium. As mentioned it will join the network and on the network
folder it displays the host pc, the router and ...

I have a lingering problem on one Winxp home machuine on a lan with
several XP pro machines and one XP home.  (also a linux samba server).
All have good connectivity thanks to recent thread with Chuck and many
visits to Pchuck.net.

I have a Sony location free base station and I can watch video and TV
programs from my home dvd recorder.  But every 10 minutes or so, I get
disconnected and need to start the program.  It does not matter what hotel I
am in, I keep getting the same result.  Sony does not seem to ...

This is probably a no brainer.
I have 2 machines networked through a netcomm modem router.
The home network used to work.
Now my machine will not see the network or its own share folder, the 2nd