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I have been able to fix it most of the time by moving the Nic card around to a different PCI slot, otherwise I just put in a 192.168.....xxx...xxx address.

I always suggest that you register your domain separate from your webhost. If you ever have a problem, or they have a problem, it is a lot faster and easier to switch your DNS entry at GoDaddy or whereever you use and move on. It is more of a hassle …

I have used partition magic for years with XP/2000/98/NT4 without any problems.

I use McAfee at work with EPO and it works well, I use Norton, TrendMicro. They both work well, trendmicro seems to have a smaller memory footprint. I use AVG on a few other systems I have and it works well, but I have had a couple of viruses get …

[QUOTE=aaronN42]the thing is.. the laptop doesnt come with floppy or CD-ROM i have this external DVD burner (usb) and i plugged it in.. and it cant read it.. other than buyin the thing that comes wit it any othe way i can do it?[/QUOTE] You should be able to boot …

In MSCONFIG did you turn off rundll32 from starting, I believe explorer will not work if you do that. Odd Problem.

I have run the conversion a bunch of times without a problem, I still do not know why you need NTFS for to run games. Other than that it is a good idea to have NTFS over FAT.

Most likely there is already an administrator account? If for some reason not, go to control panel, user accounts click on your account and change account type to administrator.

Most of the time for a Hal.dll issue I run a chkdsk /R, if that does not work, I test out the drive and a great deal of the time I have a bad drive, after that I will run the repair install.

I am hoping I can get some help from you guys, I am taking a computer security course and we need to write a Caesar Cipher program, where you can input the text and offset and get the the encrypted results back. I have run into a problem with it …

Compatibility mode has worked well for me on most 95 stuff I have tried to run on XP.

2 AV software are not happy together. Is MS still giving out free CA EZArmor? I have heard good things about Avast! but have not used it myself.

[QUOTE=Sardukar]Joe posted a heck of a list on this page too, performance tweaks. I actually copied it (text) and made it into a Adobe Acrobat file. Really good list, btw Joe.[/QUOTE] Thanks I could use this...

[QUOTE=TallCool1][url]http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm[/url] has a free-download floppy disk image that, when expanded to a floppy, creates a bootable disk that will allow you to copy files from an NTFS partition to a FAT32 partition (or another hard drive) or a network. The [b]Knoppix[/b] CD will allow you to do the same thing, …

Normally around 1k uniques a day you can start to generate interest, depending on content of the site, once you get above 2k-3k month you can get places like tribalfusion to be interested or fastclick (I think that is the name)

You would have to look for it under Edit GPO, in Users and Computers, right click on the OU that the members are in are look around. I do not remember a GPO setting for CD-Rom, but that is the place to start. If not I think you would have …

I have run into this problem a few times, once I had a bad HD, and imagming the drive and replacing it fixed it. I have been able a couple of time to replace the hal.dll out of backukps. Other than that I just do a repair install and everything …

[QUOTE=NickH]To copy the file, I went to my cd drive (f), and then from there typed f:\>copy hal.dll c:\winnt\system32 thats when I got the error 'invalid directory specified', 0 files copied. Why can't I copy?[/QUOTE] If you are at a command prompt, I do not believe you can copy files …

I have run into that problem a few times, once I had to clean off the CD, and another time I had to replace the CD-Rom drive.

Sounds like a bad HD, see if you can move the drive to second machine as a slave and pull off data. If you really need the data I would suggest sending it to OnTrack, I have had good experiences with them recovering data. It is a good idea to …

if you only have a recovery cd, I move stuff off to a usb drive. That is one reason I do not like recovery CDs.

[QUOTE=Vegas_Mark]Hello, hello! I'm very happy to be making this post from my laptop. Thank you for the great advice to boot from the drivers and utilities CD. That allowed me to run a detailed diagnostics test, which gave me specific error codes. I looked up the error codes on the …

You can also try Eclipse, I know they have c compilers, I would figure they have plugins for Visual Basic. I use it mostly for Java and PHP. But I know a people who use real basic and like it also.

[QUOTE=DuncanIdaho]Here's an SP2 problem, and a link to a workaround, for anyone getting ready to update to SP2: If you are running a recent version of DiVX, and you install SP2, you may experience crashes when you try to right click your mouse. If you have this problem, go to …

I would also defrag the disk, run chkdsk /r, but it just might be that a reinstall is in order. I would also look at the task manager to see what is eating up the CPU.

I normally base it on a combination of traffic and PR. If you are looking for link building you might be able to get a few bucks more. You would then sell links at an SEO site like Digital Point. Now if a advertiser is looking for traffic, 100 users …

You might also want to run a chkdsk /R, I had a PC that did that and ran chkdsk and it went away. But this problem could be almost anything. I would also run a drive test on the hard drive, boot into Safe mode and see if you have …

I do not think this will help you but I have seen before where DHCP get hosed on the host machine, I just go into services and stop and restart dhcp client, and that fixes the problem. If it is a problem the normal test is to put in a …

I believe you can boot into safe mode and change it? I do not normally deal with XP Home, but I thought it went something like that. You can also use ERD commander to do it but that costs money.

[QUOTE=gemini4]Go to Internet Options/Advanced and take the check mark out of enable 3rd party browser extensions.[/QUOTE] That really helps get rid of some annoyances of those Pop Ups.

in Changes from Changes from InCD 4.0.1.21 to 4.0.5.3 they made this fix Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with IMAPI turned ON (Windows CD recording): improved write algorithm to reduce CPU usage and increase write speed the date is 9/8/04 though. Can you upgrade to a new version if …

MSN seems to also like anchor text a great deal on links. MSN does not bring me as traffic as Google or Yahoo, but the quality is also better for my sites.

I am running dual monitors with extended desktop and I did not notice the same issue on my system.

I like to use usb to IDE connectors to do that myself, those drives are fat16 or could be fat32. XP should pick them up so you can move the data over.

I would just run a system state backup and then backup folders you want backed up. I normally try to store a ghost image also which helps if I need to do a full restore.

[QUOTE=Tyr]hmm thanks. any ideas why the dns server ip would suddenly change?[/QUOTE] Your ISP might have retired a DNS server, and just rotated a new one in with a new IP Address.

are there group policies on the PC, or can you log in as admin and make the change. I do not believe there are any local policies that cover the firewall, but it could not hurt to check them out.

[QUOTE=kada]forgot to mention, both comps are using windows XP pro. I tried changing the workgroups on both to something new, but still no luck. Thanks[/QUOTE] can you ping the other computer?

try from the run line "cmd /k ipconfig/release" "cmd /k ipconfig/renew" , now to do it from a giu, go to control panel, then go to networking, double click on the Lan connection to to support then details you can click repair which should do the release and renew.

That is very odd, I am assuming he has tried to setup another keyboard with similar problems? If you boot into bios, do you get the same problem. I would also try to use the XP install disk to get into the repair utility to see if that problem is …

[QUOTE=MartyMcFly]This help? [url]http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318689[/url][/QUOTE] Good to know I have not used %0 in years good to know I don't need to.

Take a look here if you have Roxio 5 on XP [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q311806[/url] If you have a logitech trackball, search around, there was some problems in the past with the trackball I believe that would cause the problem. I have also read before about Windows Washer causing that problem. If you …

you will need to purchase a new motherboard and cpu. You can checkout TigerDirect, NewEgg, and Fry's Electronics/Outpost. Now depending how old your system is it just might be better to work on a new build, with a P4 system.

I would disable giant spyware app and see if it still crashes. If it does, I would run a chkdsk on the disk, test out your memory, run some programs like adaware, and antivirus scan to see if they pickup anything, and run hijackthis also.

Spyware is a bigger pain to me than Viruses, then some spyware just opens up a door to viruses. It is just a pain.

Look at it in disk management, if you right click my computer, go to manage, then disk management. Does the total size there show 160GB?

I have not seen any real life difference, but I have not benchmarked them, I prefer to use 2 slots over 4. So down the road you have room to upgrade.

Have you checked to see if you have a firewall running either Windows, or McAfee/Norton. Windows normally will not do that but I know Norton can do funny things. Now does the browsers start up but no connect. I would also run a adaware or spybot to clean things out. …

can you boot up on safe mode, You might be having problems when you hit mup.sys (I think that is the name of it). You might want to try a repair install, and or update the drivers. If you are spending much time on it, a clean install is also …

For a low priced good server try the low end SC Servers from Dell, you can get the SC430 with a P4 for around $300. Now if you want higher end hardware, which I do not suggest for starting out, I would suggest the Dell PowerEdge 1850 for a 1U …