Justin01, he mentioned that he has System Restore disabled.

jaishankar, try running BootVis (http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/OptimizeXP.html#Boot). Follow the instructions on that page to...

petercoti, can you please start being more verbose? Please use full, descriptive subjects and put complete questions so we don't have to interpret what you are wanting. We don't mind helping you, but...

Do you mind sharing with us what you did that fixed the problem? It could help someone else that has the same problem.

Is sound affected in any other way?

Does sound work when you play local (files on your computer) MP3, WAV, or WMA files?

Did you install any new software just before the problem started...

Interesting. I never knew that IE had such an option.

A browser basically does nothing but download files and render their contents. The web pages you go to are either html files or generated content that looks like an html file. In order for the...

One thing I didn't mention is that the specific user also has to be on that machine. The folders that you cannot access cannot be shared across a network (without going through additional steps that...

Some files can only be accessed by a specific user (files on the desktop, My Documents, etc). You said that you tried copying the files that you wanted to access to folders that you could, but that...

What do you mean by unable to access? Were you unable to access the files from the other computer? If so, did you get an error? Please be specific about what problem you had.

From your description, it seems that setting up Windows File Sharing will be the "easiest" method to transfer the files. I put easiest in quotes because it can offer problems at times. This guide...

Sorry... I have another question for you.

What version of Windows is on each machine?

If you have a DSL setup like me, you have a modem that you connect to the phone line. You then have a CAT5 cable (line that has jacks that look like big phone plugs) that connects the modem to a...

Answering the following questions will help me give advice that is tailored to your setup:

Do you use a dialup connection or a broadband connection (DSL, cable, etc) to access the internet?
Do...

Our suggestions were just to see if you wanted to use that avenue or a different one. If you would like to try the drive swapping idea, we can walk you through the process. I know the terms and names...

Considering that it sounds like you can't get the machine to work at all, you should just remove the drive from the old machine, put it in the new machine as a secondary drive, and copy the files...

See if you can run the three following commands from that prompt:chkdsk /r
chkdsk /p
fixboot c:If you can't run those from there, you will have to get your hands on a XP install CD, use the...

Bring up a run dialog and run "taskmgr.exe". Does Task Manager come up or does it give you an error?