Recent content by TheDuck

Have you applied SP2? If yes or no, apply it. If that doesn't solve it, look for the latest hot fixes for 2000. There are a bunch and sp3 is right around the corner. Also if you're not on IE 6 yet, try installing that and all the latest patches for that too.

You may want to give this software a try: HYENA. It may not work, but it's worth a try and the nest part is the demo version is free and fully functional for 30 days. You'd install this on another machine and connect to the one in question over the network to reset the password and/or creat a...

A good read for you Here. If it's not causing any problems, I wouldn't worry about it. Otherwise you may want to try a clean install if you just did an upgrade.

A single faulty NIC can bring down a network pretty quick if it starts broadcasting a bunch of large packets to everything causing the network to overload.

Try swapping the NIC in the XP for a different one. Sounds to me like that may be bad. I have XP running in a multiple OS (98 to 2000) environment and everything works great.

haha:)

If I were you, I would use XP's "rollback driver" feature and wait for an updated driver for your video card to come out from ATI.

Why not just use "disk management" located under administration tools\computer management in the control panel?

I don't know about you, but I think that my Viewsonic monitor is actually a disguised x10 camera piping what I am doing directly back to Microsoft.:D

If you need to run a DOS program, it may work with the Virtual DOS Machine that's built into Windows 2000 and Windows XP (XP has some new features apparently). Here is a link telling about it.

You're not shutting down because of your sound card drivers most likely. Here's a little article about other issues and possible fixes. http://www.aumha.org/a/shtdwnxpz.htmText

You can make any CD bootable. The better question is will it let you install? If it's like some of the other upgrade CDs I got directly from Microsoft, then yes -- so much for an "upgrade" (those CDs however came bootable). You can make the CD bootable with CD Creator 4 or 5. If you grab the...

I'm using XP Pro. The security a and admin features it has over the home edition I really take advantage of. If you're used to Windows 98, Home Edition would be fine. Otherwise, if you have the money, upgrading to Pro is a good decision. A nice article on the differences...

XP boot disks: http://www.xp-erience.org/download.php?op=getit&lid=58 Try that out.

I'd like to have my start menu on the side of my monitor with the start button at the bottom of the screen. By default windows puts the start button at the top and I cannot figure out how to get it to move.