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Did you remember to give the new machines unique machine IDs??? Can really drive you crazy if you didn't!!!

Win2K pretty secure and tried and true. Made for mobile. My army laptop had it and if you don't have the password, you don't go anywhere. Also, does not have IE security holes that XP has.

you can also run the basic diagnostics provided in windows. Go to "Start", "Settings", Control Panel, Modem, Advanced, Diagnose. It will test the modem's ability to work at least.

You probably have to shut down computer, reboot, and try again. If that doesn't work, uninstall the drivers and reinstall the drivers. Have you done any upgrades right before this happened, like upgrade to XP?

Can you run the program that runs it through cleaning cycles? Have you tried that lately. Usually, even a stubbornly dirty and caked print head will start working after you shoot lots of ink through them (5 cycles of print head cleaning). Try that before you go off and spend money. Also, if...

When you can't get the drivers for the printer to work on your new XP computer, or; You're looking at the cost of a new drum. Then you may want to check out if replacement printer would be in the same ballpark $$wise as the new drum.

Definitely Epson. Superior printer. They set the standard and HP follows . . . especially when you're talking inkjet technology. Better bang for the buck, and they run forever also. However, they are not very forgiving when you put aftermarket ink into them. Just do more head-cleaning if...

if you haven't used that same program since you saved the file to floppy, and depending on which program you were using, . . . you may find it in the temp files.

the doc files should be opened by MS Word. Did you install MS Office on the new computer, too? You should get a dialog box that will ask you which program you want to use to access the file the first time you try one that doesn't have an internal link to the program, such as a .doc file. The...

Use the windows uninstaller program to see if you get better results. Also try to go on Nero's website for updated XP drivers. Remember, XP is not a DOS based application and will need a new set of drivers specifically for XP. I have run into similar problems with other perifipherals and most...

I also used bitware Fax and voicemail, which comes free with most modem cards. The fax software is a lite version, but I was impressed with the phone answering software and its ability to capture and print out faxes as they come in, without conflict from the voicemail software. You can also...

you can ghost your original image, after it's been defragged onto the network, make the bootable floppy disk, reboot with the floppy disk, which has the network drivers installed on it, then image from the network to the new 6 gb HD. ghost is not the most user friendly, and it depends on which...

try loading the floppy disk that came with your laptop and reloading (or loading) the CD Rom drivers. If you do not have it, get the documentation, if you have it and go to the website for the manufacturer and download/install the drivers, based on the identifying info on your laptop. It...

Is your computer networked with the computer you want to back up to??? Have you thought of backing up to a rewriteable CD disk, then copying over? Adaptec's software is pretty good at that, as well as most CD-R software (although most of them have yet to add a decent hard disk backup feature...

Have you thought of mailing the disk to her? That may be less aggravating in the long run!!! And you'd be guaranteed the integrity of the downloaded/copied into. Or how 'bout as an attachment to an email message? Just a couple of suggestions not otherwise covered!!!