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Hi Grenage, No, no coincidence. In fact, the main picture and story on the front page of the Minneapolis StarTribune this morning was of a man with his first and last name so close to mine that, well, you can't get any closer. Something about him wanting to borrow $2 billion from the U.S...

Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade $90.00 (Windows 98 full version required for installation) 80gb 7,200 rpm hard drive $80.00 GeForce MX4000 128mb PCI video card $60.00 512mb RAM (2 sticks of 256 at $35.00 each) $70.00 CD/DVD ROM Burner $65.00 Here you're already at $365.00. You can by a Wal-Mart...

Hi drakantis, I had a "Whew!" moment yesterday with a friend's HP. I've had it for a couple of weeks (they were in no hurry), because they had very low volume on their speakers and the volume was cranked. Any way, I set the computer on the floor a few days ago, right behind my recliner. Well, I...

Hello, Is your XP Pro an ungrade on a Windows 98 installation? Others will possibly have some input here, but I believe your problem could be corrected by performing a repair install. Here is a very simple explanation to completing the task...

Hi judgehopkins and Frank4d, If perhaps you meant an icon in the quick launch (usually a row of icons starting from the left side of the taskbar), you can remove it by right clicking on it, and then dragging it onto the desktop. That should remove an icon from the quick launch portion of the...

Hi all, I'd like to add to your discusion, if that's alright. This is a long thread that you all have going, but about what Grenage commented on in regard to the press: "At least ISP's don't give out information to the press, especially over legal things." The press has access to everything...

Hi BH13 and everyone, It may be frowned upon by many to be so quick to open the case and work with the hardware, but I don't think this way. I suggest hooking up a different hard drive, to at least see if the computer is capable of booting farther than the current fall-down point. Kemisco...

Hello dberg35, trojanman mentioned activating your XP Pro by using the telephone, and it looks like you said that you could. It's a hassle, but you can enter the numbers with your touch-tone phone and not speak a single word or number--even though it's a voice recognition program running at...

Hello, First, you'll need to place your Windows 98 full version CD into your CD-ROM. Go to Start, then Run. Type sfc and click OK. On the window that appears, check mark the line "Extract one file from installation disk." Type NDIS.VXD in the dialog box and click Start. A new window will...

Hi chang542, Does your old PC have the XP platform? If not, that may be why there was extensive maintenance done to the drives when you placed them in the new machine (converted them to NTFS file system?). Now that they have possibly been converted to the NTFS file system, perhaps that's why...

Hi colinrharris and StuReeves, I'd like to add to your discussion with an additional step in security that is easy to take. Set up passwords and addresses inside of a router, using a computer that will never be using it. A computer that does not go online, for example. That way you leave all...

Hi everyone, Interesting thread! So much so that I went looking into my parts boxes of old printing equipment. I found an old case fan stamped July 29, 1980. It's from a Compugraphic photopaper processor. I held it up to the mounting holes in the back of my tower, and they lined up! This...

Hi Pandie2005, You mentioned that you "slaved" out the original drive and can't view it on other machines [Fat 16?]. I don't quite follow you here. Did you return it to the computer you're working on and set it as a slave? If so, try starting your computer with just the new hard drive connected...

Hi atlantisburn, Sometimes, if you accidentally plug the mouse into the keyboard socket and the keyboard where the mouse should go, a computer will hang about the time you need to type in a password. Kemisco ----- Take your computer outdoors when blowing out the dust; it's mostly skin dust...

Hi, I've had some really great results with OCR, and Will is correct; it's the software and not necessarily the scanner. I have a USB CanoScan 5000F from 2003 and a USB/Serial HP ScanJet 5300C from 2000, and both have done an excellent job. The simplest software for just getting the job done...

Hi AntonioAnsell, At the top of your screen in the browser you have the two arrow icons, then a manila folder icon with a green arrow through it, then a Search icon, then the Folders icon; next is a little square icon. Click on the little square icon and choose Thumbnails. These instructions...

Hi TFeroz, Are you by any chance using a keyboard adapter? For example, a USB to PS/2 or the old IBM PS/2 to the modern PS/2? I have an old keyboard with the old (large) IBM PS/2, and when it's reduced to the modern PS/2, it acts up on only one of my computers: the Z character always trades...

Hi beasleyd, I'm guessing that your desktop begins to load and it looks like you're about home free when you get the error message. Not knowing what make of video adapter you have, let's say, for example, it's made by nvidia. Go to Start and then to Run. In the Run dialog box, type msconfig...

Jon, I meant to write 'Printers and Faxes' under 'Control Panel.' Not 'Printers and Scanners.' Kemisco ----- Take your computer outdoors when blowing out the dust; it's mostly skin dust. A clean computer is a cool computer.

Hi Jon, You're right about a USB 2 device plugged into a USB 1 port. It will still work. XP will even tell you what you have done (2.0 device into a 1.0 port). XP will check for 2.0 ports, and if there aren't any, it lets you know and usually allows the device to still operate. It's slick to...