I have set up a crossover cable home network connecting my dual core Pentium
Hewlett-Packard machine (host) to my older Athlon Packard-Bell (client).
Both machines currently run XP Home, I  may re-install XP Pro on the client.
The connection works perfectly for file and printer ...

Network Diagnostics pop ups while the dial up modem is working fine.  56K.    
Why?
A network card is disabled.  
I'm tired of the program. My other computer with XP Home doesn't have the

I just loaded XP Home on a desk top computer. I shared a hard drive on the
desktop but it doesn't show up in My Network Places. I also have a home net
work with two computers and a hub. On my laptop I can see the other desktop
but when I click on it i get this message (Desktop is ...

Can you force XP to connect to the LAN before executing other (dependent)
tasks? For example, Messenger tries to sign in before the connection to the
router is fully established on a PC using XP and a Netgear router - and
consequently the sign in fails.

I would like to allow an xp pc that has a shared printer attached to
it  via usb to hibernate and then wake up when remote print is sent to
it.  
The bios have been set to allow "wake on lan" and the network card in

I would like to transfer data from my desktop pc to my notebook using the
firewire ports.
Desktop PC:
Windows 2000 Pro

I just re-installed Windows XP Home from my manufacturer disc and then
SP2 from a separate disc. It seems as though it is missing a lot of
drivers, because I can't set my resolution above 640x480 or the color
depth above 4 bit. As you can imagine, it's not too pretty.

Dear PC experts out there,
For unknown reasons, my Win XP Home desktop PC (HP Pavilion 750n)
cannot connect
to the Internet. This happended immediately after a power surge on

How come I cant get my 2 computer to share files?I just the setup wizard but
ever time I do this folders from main PC dont show on 2nd PC same with 2nd PC
folders dont show up.I left network name default MSHOME.
Ive got it to work before I reformated main PC.

I've cross posted this here as I'm not sure if it is a network or security
problem.
I've got several new XP Prof machines running in
a peer to peer network. Whenever I try to run a program or installation

I have a user runnig XP Pro and the computer will not get an IP address at
all, not even a local IP address
168........
I have ran the netsh command to reset winsock

I have been around and around with this issue.  I can no longer join
any xp machines to my 2003 domain.  I can file browse the server and
other machines on the domain but cannot join the domain.  I can browse
by name and IP address just fine.  I was able to join several

I can't configure my DI-524 properly : i can't reach my dynamic dns with
no-ip via internet.
It works perfectly without the routeur.
IIS is located on 192.168.0.1

Could anybody help me with this issue?
The setup:
One computer (A) has a wireless connection to a NAT router, which is
connected to a broadband cable modem.

When I try to run the Network Settup Wizard I get the following message;
-----------------------Cannot Complete the Network Setup Wizard
The wizard cannot find your network hardware.
Before you use this wizard you must first install and configure your