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The HDD is more than likely dead, from that result. If the rest of the hardware seems up to the task and you can find a suitable replacement for the hard drive, you could try adding the original...

The laptop may just be showing age, but it could have another issue. Run Task Manager, select show processes from all users and post a screenshot and one of us might spot something amiss. Otherwise,...

Does the printer have it's own network connection or is it shared from the Vista PC? If the latter, the problem is likely to do with the Windows Firewall settings of the Vista PC, which tend not to...

For many manufacturers, a workstation may have a server type CPU (Xeon, Opteron, etc.) and ECC (error checking) memory. Whether or not those features would have any benefit will depend on what you...

Do you have a reason to stick with SP2? Otherwise, a newer USB drive drive may work better with SP3. Unless you need (for example) to manage a Creative Zen Jukebox Xtra, there are plenty of good...

I enjoy France in September. Usually (but not guaranteed) still good weather, school terms have started which cuts down the crowds and hotel/travel rates start going down. Spain and Italy will be...

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Thanks for the response. I could put in a delay, but users are already complaining at how long the logon scripts take to run! http://windowssecrets.com/forums/images/smilies/angry.gif I...

When the connection to the shared printer is lost, the HP looks like it doesn't automatically re-establish it when it becomes available again. Vista seems to respond differently to the same thing...

A search function would suggest to me some sort of active content. Do both machines have the same versions of Java and Flash? I would also look at ActiveX security settings and see if any of them are...

I have users that work at two different sites (on the same LAN), who all have roaming profiles. I use group policy (2003 Domain) to deploy the printers at each site to the computers (XP) according to...

Unpowered USB hubs do not pass through any power at all, so can only be used to connect devices that have their own power supply. Otherwise, you could have four devices drawing power off a single USB...

Does it specifically look for a floppy device or default to drive A:? In a machine with no floppy controller (maybe even just no drive), would the cd rom be installed as A:? In which case you could...

According to the instructor of the Server 2003 course I am on at this very moment, the most likely cause of slow logons is a problem with DNS. There could be a problem between DHCP and DNS. Setting...

I am currently in the middle of a project to replace our existing file server due to lack of space and the availability of a faster machine to put it on. The existing server is 2k server sp3 and I...

I've never had a good video driver from Windows Update. Other drivers have worked fine, even fixed a problem on occasion - but don't touch those video drivers. They always seem to lead to system...

Does the log show a failure for the FIRST time the patch was applied? It could be that subsequent attempts failed because the first actually succeeded. I cannot remember which patch is concerned, but...

Sure this will have come up before - is the search faciclity ever coming back? Anyway, can anyone tell me what the security implications of Autopreview are? I want to dissuade network users from...

If Fujitsu don't have any diagnostics, IBM Drive Fitness works with most drives (that I have tried).

My last conversation with HP support, over a network printer that wouldn't accept print requests, led to being advised to reinstall the printer using generic windows drivers and a standard TCP/IP...

Alt + Print Screen to copy the active window, then paste to desired location.

What icon does the shortcut have? Is it the Internet Explorer icon? If you right-click the icon and select properties, what is it showing?

I gave up trying to make a living building and servicing PC's and went into Network Support because there was no way I could compete with the price of machines like that. Most potential customers...

Does the connection actually seem to be noticeably slower? The difference could be just one of accuracy in reporting the connection speed. In any case, it does seem a little slow. There are a few...

Excellent. The lack of msconfig has been totally frustrating, especially as my Win2k machine is currently the only one working. At least now I can tweak a little more performance out of it.

The amount of RAM would be the my first check. XP claims to work on 128MB, but not in any way that I would find acceptable. I am about to replace a PC for a user that she complained about the speed...