home office

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...

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...

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...