Recent content by PhilipW

From my experience this normally occurs as a result of the hard drive stopping. Sometimes the hard drive is set to turn off even before the PC goes to sleep. Go to "Control Panel", then "Power Options", then "Change advanced power settings", then "Hard disk", then "turn off hard disk after"...

nidge20 user said 1 hard drive and not 1 PC. Don is correct, you can only install 1 key on one PC. However, you can have a back-up drive for your PC and have the same key installed on that hard drive. While that is legal, Windows may call one of the installations as not genuine, but I doubt...

If there were an adblocker for IE the only kind would be some kind of a tool bar. As an Network Administrator I have seen a tool bar that I didn't remove as fast as I could. The best Adblocker is called Adblocker Plus and it is a great tool, but is for Firefox and it is free...

One of the main areas that remains the same is the profile folder it's self. If Mary Roe married John Doe and wanted to change her name, one way to do this is: First Create a new profile Mary Doe Log into that profile at least once. Reboot the computer and log in as an administrator that is...

W/out the %userprofile% it did not work on my Windows 7 Ultimate.

You may need to change that command to: "ipconfig /all > %userprofile%/desktop/ipconfig.txt" if you want to create a text file on your desktop.

I really think this is one of those cases where DOS is your friend. Go to the RUN command and type cmd to open a command prompt. The first command to type is "ipconfig" to see if you are getting an IPAddress that is a good start. Your address should be something like 192.168.1.100. If your...

I'm glad you have it working. It seems to me the Advanced Sharing is easier to use too. Go figure.. :-)

What kind of computer is it? Laptop or Desktop / Dell, HP, Toshiba, etc. Knowing that might help us to know what onboard diagnostics you may have available.

I have done it both ways. Doing it one at a time is the best way to effectively find out which one affected you. But I never had the time to reboot a computer over 60 times while the customer was being billed by the hour. My clients would of had a heart attack. If I broke that down in...

I believe Mitchell_A is heading in the right direction w/ his question on what Anti-Virus are you using. I have seen a computer startup slow down in 4 scenarios. 1) You have a virus or malware 2) You installed a large program that is slowing down the PC (e.g. launching a SQL database) 3) There...

I think the problem is you are clicking on "Share" from "Sharing" tab. Click on "Advanced Sharing" instead. Click the check box next to Share this folder Then click on Permissions I think it is easier to add users here. Also, you must choose a account that is local to the PC you are...

On the run command type "gpedit.msc" Go to "Computer Configurations" > "Administrative Templates" > "Windows Components" > "Remote Desktop Services" > "Remote Desktop Session Host" > "Session Time Limits" Then on the right you will see various options for setting limits. I don't believe you...

Short answer : you need to move the folder. Go to C:\Users\Public\Documents and right click on Notes and select Cut. Then go to C:\Users\us\Documents and click Paste This assumes the name of the administrator account is "us"

Windows 32 (XP, Vista, & 7) install most programs in the folder "c:\Program Files" Windows 64 (XP, Vista, & 7) install 64 bit programs in the folder "C:\Program Files" and 32 bit programs in "C:\Program Files (x86)" Most programs update the registry and add dll files, etc to the Windows folder...