home office

Feel like you’re squinting at your laptop screen while the displays in your home office seem to be gathering dust? Well, it’s time to liberate those oversized monitors from their dormant state and project your Windows 11 device onto a larger screen! Let’s dive into the wonderful world of...

HI everyone, I have a question about internet providers. I might be on wrong Forum so please advise where could I get info if not here. I live in rental community and have ATT internet and landline phone for 24 years. Our Community did not have designated. installed internet in apartments...

I've been working for a company for about five months from home and things are well. I installed their web based and other programs on my Dell. Today I was notified they want to install a 3rd party app for support that will need admin access. In my Dell I have a number of drives so I plan to...

I am trying to install a couple of network printers onto my new windows11 laptop. I get the error 0x00000709 when trying to install both printers. I have a HP 5 Laserjet (parallel port) and a HP Inkjet 7500 (USB) on a desktop computer with both Windows OS 7 and 10. Laptop Tech Support Guy...

Hello Windows Server 2019 2 virtual Windows 10 22H2 2 of my colleagues, in the local network, for certain jobs connect to these 2 virtual PCs (each on its own) Charles 10.100.1.53 France 10.100.1.54 Now they would like to do the same thing from their home The server has a second network...

Hi all. A few of my colleagues have been given laptop so they can be more portable. In the office we have a mapped network drive (Z). This is where we have all of our client folders etc.... Essentially, the whole company runs from this location. I've been tasked with finding the best way for...

In the past year, you’ve probably had to create workarounds and discover new ways to get things done from home (or homes away from home): your job, homework and connecting with loved ones far and near. And in the center of all that is your PC. In this era of distance and disorganization...

Hi all, I have a friend who runs her own accountancy business, she currently has a Dell poweredge server with Windows 2008 R2 Standard on it. It used to be used for regular server related tasks, such as user accounts (4-5 staff members), file sharing and MSSQL. She has since closed her...

I think my setup does not need all the wires I used although it works. I ran the wall line to the Comcast gateway which has a splitter plugged in to it. From the gateway splitter I ran a line to a splitter. That splitter ran one line to the Epson All in One and the other line from the splitter...

Where I work we have several laptops all running Windows 7 or 10. One of the laptops running Windows 10 can't see the wireless network Lighthouse. It doesn't even show up in the network settings as if it didn't exist. All other laptops see the Lighthouse network and connect normally. This laptop...

I just noticed a price increase on HP #62 Blk XL ink cartridge from $35.00 and change to $37.99. That was outragious before the increase. Does anyone have a solution for a cheaper way to make copies? I used to be able to refill the cartridges but it seems that the refills are not available anymore.

Lost external USB monitor after W10 update of 10-01-2016...need help. Hello, I use a duplicate portable USB monitor which is turned to face my clients so that they can see what is going on and understand what I am doing. I typically meet with my clients in their home, thus the portable USB...

For those of you Surface fans out there who love to use your Surface in airport lobbies, cafés and anywhere in between, you know how great Surface is for people on-the-go. But when you come back to your home or work office, many of us want to easily connect to our monitors, external mice and...

I develop at home programs for use at work. At work the pc's get data from the server \\server\data\something I want to run programs at home and have a drive or directory on my HDrive such that when program asks for file from \\server\data\something then the local folder is accessed I do not...

Setting up a Win 10 PC for shares, videos, which will be used lightly. I would like to have it sleep, and not have to do a separate operation to wake it with a magic packet before accessing. Is this possible? Any suggestions appreciated.

Hi guys I've a Win 7 PC and am looking to help out an elderly friend who has a Win 10 PC using remote software - while she only lives 2 mins away, I'm finding myself often having to go out for the sake of a 2-min fix - she struggles to explain the problem to me when she runs into error msgs and...

Hi I recently bought a Brother MFC L2700DW printer & my main computer is a desktop & is running XP Sp3 and two laptops are running Win7. The two laptops can print & scan wirelessly from the MFC but the XP machine whilst it can print from the MFC it cannot scan and I get the error message that...

Hi experts, I am facing trouble in configuring remote desktop connection between my home computer and office computer. My Home computer is windows 8 Prof. This is the computer I want to connect to from office. Home computer is configured to allow remote desktop connection, assigned static IP...

Twice, on recent start-ups, I've received a single pop-up asking if I wanted Microsoft to install Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 7x64 based systems KB2901983. Since I don't do any programming (just a home office user) I declined the offer. I was also very uncomfortable that the...

Hello everyone, I am having a trouble on my work computer that they allow me to take home. Every time I go home or to another network, I need to reconnect to the WiFi network. I asked my department IT person about it and she had no clue what to do but it would take too long to find a solution...