Ran into an interesting problem here.
   For troubleshooting purposes I am trying to connect to an FTP site using
the windows command line. Using a test computer (same system model and
network using the same routes) I can connect fine to any FTP site and

My Toshiba Satellite (T7200 Core2 Duo, 100 GB SATA HD, WinXP Pro SP2) laptop
was purchased with 1 GB DDR2 (667 MHz) SODIMM and upgraded almost immediately
to 2 GB RAM, similar speed, etc. Office 2003 Pro, Visio 2003 Pro, MS Project
2002 Pro, IE7, Adobe Reader 8.11, and Webroot ...

I am having trouble figuring out how  to get my start menu to re-appear.  I
have 3 identities on my computer, and the start menu bar has dissappeared
from all 3, but when I added a new user, the start bar was present.  Any
ideas about what is wrong?

My system properties under the general tab shows I have 512 MB of memory,
when I check it in system info I get 384MB of memory, have run memtest-86
3.3v for sixteen hours and have no errors, also BIOS lists 512MB of memory.
Tried memory in different slots, with same results. What ...

When I click on any midi file on the internet, it always wants to open the
file with the quicktime player. These midis are always very choppy in their
playing. So much so, that you can barely recognize the tune. If I save the
midi to the computer and then open it with another ...

I am running Windows XP Home Edition
I lent my computer out for a week. I just got it back and when I turn the
computer on, it goes through the very beginning of the boot-up process (no
part of Windows comes up during this) and then a black screen shows up with a

My Windows XP desktop startup gets stuck on the black screen with the
scrolling progress bar.  The progress bar keeps scrolling but I never
get to the Logon screen.
I tried various restore points and they don't help.  I can start it up

So when you 'Upgrade' an XP machine with Vista, Vista insists that XP be
installed on the machine as Microsoft says the licensing is per machine and
not person.
So if that's true, once Vista installs, can I use--what is now old and no

Windows XP is having a problem with USB flash drives on my system.  When I
plug them in they are assigned a drive letter, but if I try to open them up I
get a "disk not formatted" error.
I've spent hours working on this but am getting nowhere.  I know the USB

My daughter lost a two and a half thousand word essay using Word
yesterday, she thought she had saved it to file but it's disappeared.
Is there any way of retrieving this document?

I have installed XP on C drive and chkdsk has found an unreadable file record
segment on the F drive (a Raid array). After chkdsk reports the error, the
system reboots. How do I fix this please? I have read that chkdsk /f can take
days to run on large disks (eg 70GB). My F drive ...

Due to "unsafe" removal from an XP computer, I now have a corrupted 1Gb
Flash Drive that cannot be Erased, Formatted or Changed as any action
results in a "Write Protected" message. There is NO access to any Write
Protect switch on/inside the device. Can anything be done to restore

win xp pro. removed Norton  antivirus, symantec security, and AOL.
roadrunner internet service works on another computer ok. shutdown zone
alarm pro, did not help. ran SFC, defraged hard drive, installed internet
explorer 7.0, added pci nic, it works and one on mother board works ...

My daughter's laptop, running XP Home, started not allowing her to access
secure sites. It would come up "page cannot be displayed" for every secure
site. She was running IE6 so I upgraded her to IE7 so I could compare all of
her settings to mine. Now every single web page comes ...

I am having a startup problem in my Windows XP Desktop.  It hangs
prior to the logon screen (I'm at a black screen, windows logo, and
progress bar scolls continually).  I just posted this problem on
http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windowsxp ...