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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...

I use Citrix to connect to my office computer from my home computer. For the past couple of weeks, I've been having trouble connecting. Sometimes it works, but more often it does not. The error message I get says the following: "The specified remote computer could not be found. Verify that...

It has occurred to me that maybe I should mention this... Electronics and specifically, PCs do not like static electricity. W/out explaining the science or physics of it here is my point... Often I have gone to clients' homes or offices and discover PCs sitting on carpets. Remember, if you...

So I 2 weeks ago I did a fresh installation of windows 7 to try and get rid of persistent BSOD's, and it seemed to work until today when this morning I got a blue screen within 15 minutes of turning on the computer while surfing the web. I though okay maybe its because of the cold humid weather...

Hi I have 5 computers at home and one printer. All machines are windows 7. I would like to network these together and have a seperate storage device. What I plan to do is buy a router and plug all the machines into that. Then I would like to plug a usb storage device into the router so that all...

Hi Guys, I really love my Lenovo T61p, specifically I love the 1920x1200 resolution that you don't get nowadays. Even though it's a well spec'd out laptop, the problem is that it is choking at times with the payload of software I want to run simultaneously - I'm a web developer that works from...

When I'm away from my home office, I like to use Remote Desktop Connection to log on to 3 of my home computers. I have done this before without problems, but this time I found that I could connect but the remote computer would not accept my login even though I was using a user name and password...

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hello again... my new office box (ASUS) came from best buy; & when I fired it up for the 1st time...it was configured for windows log-on (win 7 pro). I have stop zilla on this machine...which is already a pain-in-the-butt in terms of exceeding long load time. my audio machine in the music...

Hey everyone, Frustrating day as I'm sure you all know. I have scoured these forums trying to find similar problems and solutions to this one..... but I have come up with nothing. Fresh install on a system that was having some issues prior to this. The display driver (nvidia on an evga...

You can soon start sharing files on a home network with simple steps, if you have an environment where each computer is connected to the Internet. It is not difficult to build a home network even if different versions of Windows such as Windows 7,... Link Removed - Invalid URL

I made a thread on another forum about this, so I'm just copy and pasting what I wrote so I don't have to write another essay. Hi, So last night I went to reformat my laptop, halfway through I thought nah I don't wanna do this anymore so I clicked cancel. Now whenever I try to turn on my...

:( hello all i have 3 PC's in my home based work office. all on a work network , not homegroup PC-A running Win7 ultimate PC-B & PC-C running Win 7 Pro PC-A andPC- C are used by humans, PC-B is the "file storage" PC accessed by and saved to from A & C if i create a folder on B from A i can...

Hi All seems am missing something here,, my host pc is connected wirelessly via a dlink air plus usb adapter to my home wireless router and i am trying to connect another pc in my home office via a Ethernet cross over cable to share the internet connection i have changed the settings to share...

Good afternoon. My wife has Windows 7 on her computer.( Am a Linuxuser myself). We have an HP Photosmart 6100 (wireless) networkprinter. After each update fromWindows Update, the printer shows offline. Until now the only cure is to remove the printer and to re-create/add.I have no problems on...