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I have a HP dv6 laptop running Windows 7/64. It's been working fine but all of the sudden my wireless connection stopped working and there were a number of messages regarding the network, system security and audio services not running. I've rebooted, but many of the services under Control Panel>Admin …

Have a HP c7280 All-in-one series printer that will no longer printer wirelessly from an Apple MacBook. It connects to the wireless network okay, but the Mac can't see it anymore. It prints okay when connected via USB. I removed the HP software and drivers and reinstalled, still no wireless …

I have a client with a domain and they have a few laptops running Vista Home, which of course wont join the domain. However, the laptops do connect to the wireless routers and lease a IP address via DHCP. I recently added a new wireless router as one of the …

This is the strangest thing I have seen. Computer running Vista 32, Office 07. User reported strange printing. Some PDF's would print, others not, some Excel files would print, others not. Same for Powerpoint files. This computer prints wirelessly to a Ricoh network printer on a domain. Throws an error …

Have a HP dv6000 laptop with Vista 64 Home Edition. Thursday morning the user reported it booted to the desktop and then the screen went black. He rebooted, and now the system will boot past the Windows progress bar, but hangs on a black screen displaying only the mouse cursor. …

I have a friend that has a T61 Lenovo Thinkpad. He was typing and claims that he hit some unknown key or key combination and the screen shrank and now has a black border around it so that the display area is not filling the screen edge to edge. I …

I recently had a scare with my PDC running Server 2003 SP1. This server is out of HDD space and has two failing HDDs so I fear it's not long for this world. I have two other servers also running Server2003 (but SP2, I don't know if that would matter) …

I have a small wireless LAN running a box with XP Pro as the primary computer. It has an HP P3005d printer connected via USB and shared to a Vista Business box. The XP machine prints fine. However, the Vista machine takes forever to print even 1 page docs. Doesn't …

I have a PDC Server running Windows Server 2003 that was on SP1. The server was low on disk space, but I was able to clear enough were SP2 indicated that it could be installed. Unfortunately half way through, it ran out of space and quit. When I tried to …

I am looking for a utility to track and log a computer's vitals over time for later review, preferably free My friend has a T60 Thinkpad that I recently replaced the HDD in. It's a fresh install of XP Pro, with all the latest drivers and 3GB of RAM. I've …

I have a small wireless LAN running a box with XP Pro as the primary computer. It has an HP P3005d printer connected via USB and shared to a Vista Business box. The XP machine prints fine. However, the Vista machine takes forever to print even 1 page docs. Doesn't …

I have a Sony VAIO PCG-8P1L laptop that only says "OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND" on boot. BIOS still tells the correct time so I don't think its the CMOS battery. I tried to boot to CD (Windows, Ubuntu and diagnostics cd), but I don't get an option for boot order …

Hopefully this is the right forum for this. I remember reading about two tools for assisting with remote tech support and I can't for the life of me remember the URLs. Can somebody jar my memory? The first was a website you could direct your user to to record a …

I have a machine running XP Pro and a Creative Labs Audigy 2 ZS sound card feeding an Altec Lansing 2 speaker system with a subwoofer. The audio out goes into the subwoofer which then has outs for the speakers. Into a second audio in on the subwoofer I also …

I have an old Powerbook 165 that has a bunch of Word files on the HD. It runs fine and I also have a bunch of floppies with additional documents. I want to pull the data off the computer. Any ideas how to get it off the HD? Apparently it's …

I have a Dell Dimension 9100 running XP Home that is freezing fairly regularly. It boots and performs fine, but after a period of time ranging from a few minutes to 30 minutes it gets sluggish responding to events and then freezes completely. I ran a malware and AV scan …

I'm looking for a couple of dimensions on the 21" iMac L-shaped stand if someone has one to measure: 1. The width of the stand 1" above the cable hole 2. The width of the stand 2" below the cable hole 3. The material thickness of the stand 4. The …

I have 20 or so hard drives that have accumulated over the years. We're in the process of moving to a new facility and my boss wants me to index all the drives and create basically a printed inventory of whats installed on them as well as all the Word, …

I've got a server running 2000 Server which is just about out of space on drive C. It has two logical NTFS drives, C and D on one physical HD. C started out several years ago with 4GB. Over time it has filled up. I've done the following, which has …

Have a T61 Thinkpad running XP Pro and a Blackberry 8330 (Verizon). I've been trying to pair them via Bluetooth so I can use Blackberry Desktop to synch Outlook as well as use the BB as a cordless modem. I can get both to see each other (they correctly identify …

Have a LaserJet P3005 printer. When switched on the indicator lights come on and stay on as if it's ready to print, but the LCD remains blank and no longer displays anything (normally displays READY) either during POST or when it is Ready. Printing fails. Tried a cold reset holding …

One of my clients went out and bought a cheap HP at Costco last spring which unfortunately has Vista Home Premium on it. It originally connect to the office network which is actually a domain without a problem. That is it couldn't log on the domain, but it was able …

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop which is actually running fine. However, when it's shut completely down it makes a tiny squeaking sound every couple of minutes and the fan twitches. When the laptop is running it does not make the sound and the fan operates as it should. If …

We have a HP ML350 G4 (actually 2) with a Smart Array 641 controller and drive bay which currently has 2 72GB drives configured as 1 logical drive under the HP Array Config Utility. There are 4 slots still open in the drive bay and I need to add more …

My parents have a Macbook and a wireless network. Rather than using their network, which I have setup to use WPA-PSK, the MacBook keeps jumping on the neighbor's wireless, which is named Linksys and is wide open. It does this any time the computer is woken up or rebooted and …

I have a Windows 2003 server configured as a RRAS (Routing and Remote Access Server). This server was configured by the previous IT person, who didn't do a lot of things correctly. The VPN works okay, in the sense users can connect via VPN and then use remote desktop to …

I need to replace some network cable for one of my clients because a contractor cut the existing, which happened to be ScTP. The cable will run from their offices out onto the plant floor and across a wall that is covered with electrical conduit. They have all kinds of …

I've got a Vista Home machine that is not playing well with my XP workgroup. I originally tried to connect to a printer shared on an XP machine. Jobs from the Vista machine would cause an error on the printer. So I connected the printer to the Vista machine and …

My boss just bought a cheap-o Dell with Vista Home for our small office. We're running a workgroup with 2 other XP Pro machines. Had a huge amount of trouble with Vista Home but now have everything working except the backup to an external drive hanging off one of the …

A friend of mine has a Compaq Presario v3000 laptop that is 2-3 years old. About a week ago she reported it wouldn't boot when the pwr button was pressed, no lights, no screen, no POST, no nothing. I got my hands on it and removed the HD to get …