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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...

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...

I share an unsecured network with my next door neighbor (she knows and we pay half the bill). The Norton Antivirus trial ran out on my new Sony VAIO laptop. Immediately after, it stopped connecting to our network (and any other unsecured network). I've tried turning off Windows Firewall, turning...

I recently moved a work computer to my home to use in my home office and i now can't connect to the Internet. I have the computer directly connected to my wireless router through an Ethernet cord. All other computers that are connected wirelessly seem to work absolutely fine. When i open up...

Hi everyone, I am currently having a problem that has been troubling me for a long time, I've looked all over the internet and I still haven't found a solution. My problem is that my XP network cannot access my Win7 server, but its not the same problem that has so many solutions around on the...

I'm using Win7 Professional at home and winxp at my office. I can connect fine from home to office but can't connect from my office to home. I have gone through all of the google searchs and all of the posts on this forum without any luck. I have checked that my modem has port 3389...

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Connect at home, on the move, or in the office No matter if you’re at home, on the move or in the office, Windows 7 lets you connect and get things done. The trend these days is towards remote and mobile computing, and it’s important for an operating system to provide the tools necessary to keep...

Hi all, I started using Win 7 about a month ago and initially everything worked fine with getting on our network at work and accessing other computers, a mixture of Win 7 and XP. Everyone uses a cable connection and fixed IP address. A couple of days ago I was at another office and needed to...

I have XP Pro installed on my primary IDE drive (C:) I installed a SATA drive and installed 7 Ultimate to it as a dual boot system. XP sees the drive as E:. When booted in 7 it sees the drive as C: and the XP drive as D: I have downloaded, installed and configured the XP VM plus the patches. The...