I'm running Win'XP Home on two machines.  I have the firewalls diabled on
both machines.
I'm successfully pinging each PC from the other.
I'm starting in "My Network Places" on the second PC.  When I try to access

Didn't like Vista.  Restored XP.  When I turn on computer and XP loads, I get
an window that says "User Environment, Windows cannot load the user's
profile. Windows will log in using default profile.  Then I can't access my
documents, and when I click start, it won't display any ...

Hi! I really need some help from someone...
after booting my laptop up as normal the desktop is being displayed on its
side and i cant get it to go back to normal at all. I've tried rebooting in
safe mode and doing system restores nut neither worked. Urget advise required

I have a Dell Latitude laptop C600 running Windows XP Pro.  My cursor
has started to drift on the monitor.  Sometimes very slow - and
sometimes so fast I can't control it.  The laptop has a pointing
'finger' and a touch pad.  Also connected to my laptop is a Logitech

Does anyone know of any software, or way, to prevent a file with a certain
extention to be run from the device.
At our school we have students who can run executables from a USB stick, and
Bin files as well....

At the moment I have got Windows XP media edition and I am thinking of
upgrading with vista premium upgrade and my question is will the software
that runs on XP such as Office 2000 run on Vista.
Thanks

On the Add/Remove screen I have a program called Home Edition anti virus.
When selecting this prog it is highlighted in blue but the option buttons
change/remove do not appear. I have purged the registry and the msconf file
of all refs to anti virus.

I bought a computer from someone and it says Registered to: And has their
name. I'm trying to figure out how to change that name to mine. Anyone know
how to do this ? Like in the Documents and Settings Folder in there a folder
has their name on it as well and I cant change that.

When I start up my computer, I get the message "Disk boot failure, insert
system disk and press enter"
From here I can only get to setup. I can't access recovery or safe-mode.
What should I do?

in the users panel I can see the 3 users, all 3 have admin rights, but then I
try to add a particular user (user C) to the permissions on a shared folder,
the user is not available in the list of users under ntfs permissions.
what's up with that?

I use Outlook but most of my friends use Yahoo.com for some reason I
am unable to receive and mail that is a forward and no attachments of
any kind.
Can any one help with this other then saying I should use Yahoo.com

Guys do anybody have documents ir url on genearl troubleshooting
technique for wireless devices?
if so plz share with me
thanks,

I am in need of a new computer and am not ready to take on the new Vista
operating system.  Are there a lot of problems if I were to install a full
version of XP on the new computer.

Hi.  Recently I am having problems posting news messages with outlook
express, including msnews.microsoft.com!  I keep sending my messages but they
never seem to get posted even after sending the same message mulitple times.
I also click F5(refresh) to make sure!

YIPPIE I bought a new computer; IBM clone (old one died).  Installed my OS
"Windows XP Pro"; and proceeded to install updates etc. Microsoft stopped me
stating my OS is copied.  How do I remove the old computers information from
Microsoft records?  I assumed reasserting my name, ...