manual assignment

I used a utility for years without problems on Win7 and Win10. Recently I wanted to add it now to an USB flash drive which boots into a Windows 10 WinPE environment. Unfortunately the tool crashes with the popup notification: "The code execution cannot proceed because hhctrl.ocx was not...

Trying to get two computers running on one IP through a simple dynex switch. Can comp 2 mimic the ISP's address? Edit: Or could I manually assign the homegroup an IP for the ISP and split it from there like a router? Trying to do this without a router.

I have bought a new notebook and re-installed Win7 with multiple specialized drivers. Most of these drivers have an own setup.exe and were installed successfully. There are however two drivers remaining which do NOT have such a setup.exe. When I right click on the contained *.inf file and...