I posted a problem about this and found a solution, or rather aworkround. My Outlook 2003 hanged up whenever my network printer wasn't turned on. The problem dissappears as soon as I swicth the...

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I have discovered that the problem goes away when my network printer is turned on !! Seems to be caused by an off-line network connection, anyone else experienced this problem?

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I'm having problems with Outlook 2003 hanging whenever I try to Save or Insert attachments. In either case Task Manager shows Outlook as 'not responding'. I have tried restoring back to...

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Sorry I don't have an answer but I have a similiar problem. When I try to add an attachment I click on the paperclip and it defaults to 'my documents' folder but then when I click on the drop...

Many thanks guys, that's very helpful

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I am having the same problem, but it only happens with IE, I don't have the problem with Firefox browser. I have disabled my desktop firewall and it still happens with IE. I have played about...

Answering my own question here, I notice that Firefox doesn't seem to have this problem, maybe thats the answer !

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I am running XP Pro with SP2 and IE6. Whenever I try to open an html file in IE6 containing javascript on my Local drive, I get the message saying that IE has restricted the file from showing...

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I have a 4 port router to share my ADSL connection which claims to have a built in firewall. My friends advise me that I should be running a firewall to monitor inbound and outbound network...

Just a long shot Eamonn,
but I was having BIOS problems, machine not booting up, incorrect beep codes, BIOS errors etc .. As a last resort I decided tp replace the button battery on the...

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I did that recently, I just booted the machine up with a DOS boot floppy disk and used FDISK to delete the primary partition (don't reformat the drive). Then I went into setup to set the...

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I don't know if you have had any response yet, but for what its worth heres what I think. If you only have the MSDE engine, then all you can do is run existing applications. To create and...

Hi Catweazle,
if there is such little difference between Home & Pro, I wonder why there isn't an upgrade patch available to convert Home to Pro? Is it because Microsoft doesn't want us to do it?

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The main reason is because I want to run Internet Information Server (IIS), so that I can develop ASP.NET applications.

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is it possible to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro without loosing settings and having to reinstall applications? Is a complete reinstall of the OS the only answer?

Maybe I am partly answering my own question here, is it that you install the OS first then the drivers after, so in fact in a RAID 0, (striped), set the OS is only actually installed on one of the...

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I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard which supports SATA with RAID. I want to fit 2 drives as RAID striped, (motherboard manual briefly describes how). However, can I leave my IDE UDMA...

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think I maybe answering my own question here. After a bit of poking around it looks like SATA has a totally different kind of connection to the motherboard, a bunch of about 7 wires, whereas...

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newbee here, I wish to fit an additional drive to my PC and make it the boot drive. The drive adverts seem to specify SATA or UDMA133, but I don't know which one to buy? My PC is over 2 years...