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HI Having the same problem - error opening hotmail within messenger and cant login to a bank site (both https) but can connect to some other https sites) I think I have tried everything, System File Check, IE 6 repair, install Sun Java, run adaware, check for a virus, tried to restore back but...

Hi I get the smtp busy wait 60 seconds and cant send any emails when client for microsoft networks is installed, the internet connections works fine, it is 256k running on a lan, other computers on the lan send emails fine with the same settins and this machine works fine when client for...

my brother used various forms of chineese water torture on me - although we didn't have windows at the time, I still would have told him the password.

You will have to charge $10 to reset the passwords, then no matter how much beer and sex they have had they will remember. Also I wouldn't like my password reset just because the star quarterback can't remember his password.

the easy way around this is to login on the windows 98 machines as the same name you login the xp machine - this is only the network login screen, this will not change the names of the machines. then if it asks for a password use the same one you login to the xp machine with (if you don't use...

I wouldn't go back to 98, but it is a bit like a 4 wheel drive truck, it wont get stuck easy, but when it does it's real stuck

unless you want to buy bill gates another gold letter opener you will have to format and reinstall.

Hi, have a windows xp machine I cant figure out, they have had it setup for a while, they then decided to add two extra accounts, then it got interesting, they are administrators, but they cant change anything, shortcuts, homepages, anything, it seems as if the registry has shut up shop - is...

in my last message, replace apm with acpi (I still don't know if I have the letters correct, but it is close)

if you go to user accounts in the control panel go to advanced to to manage passwords and delete passport.net\* this wont delete your passport, but will stop it on your comptuer, it will stop msn dailing up automatically. (I hate it when I want to spend 5 mins checking my email and get into a...

did you disable apm in the power management in the bios, check the device manager and see what computer has under it, it should be a standard computer. if you reenable apm in the bios, sometimes it will fix the problem, but other times you have to reinstall windows xp to get it shutting down...

if you computer wont support booting off the cd, do you really want to install XP, 128mb of RAM is like 32MB of RAM in Windows 98. It makes 400mhz computer into a slow machine. It is good but very thirsty.

I have xp home on networked with a windows 2000 server (that can dual boot to 2000 pro) and I have a windows 98 machine. I also do not have that log file, I use windows update on all machines, the xp one automatically updates. Hang on I have the log file on the windows 2000 Server Machine. It...

You should also check the bios to see if the external and internal cache is enabled, Once I disabled the external cache for trouble shooting purposes on a customers computer and left it off by mistake, 6 months later they told me it was running slow (I was a bit red faced)

what ever you log on as in the xp machine (administrator or your name) you have to log on the same on the windows 98 computer. so what you log on as when starting xp by clicking on the pictures, you have to use the same name when typing in the network login when starting the win98 machine

you can download a recovery program if the sophos (dont know how to spell it or if my memory serves me correctly) virus has wrecked your fat, or if you have fdisked it by mistake. I have used it when I fdisked a drive by mistake, I had a quick look throuh my download files and the file...

don't muck around updating the bios unless you have done it before, go to your hard drive makers site and dowload the hard drive install program, it will install a thing called a dynamic disk overlay - which is like a mini bios on the hard drive that steps in and tells windows you have the...

have you tried disabling the cpu internal cache and then the exteranl cache in the bios (under the advanced bios features) you may find a fault on the motherboard cache or the cpu cache? It is worth a try.

I would suggest to backup your important data, as some hard drives lockup a few times over a couple of months before the go altogeather.

sorry i forgot to mention to remove doubled up hard ware to to system in the contorl panel and choose device manager, Then look down the list expanding as you go,