Recent content by unnamedplayer

Hey guys, I have a user who has his user folder on our file server synchronized using Offline Files of Windows XP so he can work on documents at home. He is using Office 2000. Whenever he tries to save an Excel document when working offline, he gets an error message saying the file could...

Hi all, Things seem to just keep getting worse. I wrote yesterday about my Windows XP crashing after attempting to upgrade. I managed to back up everything I wanted though and said screw it let me just do a clean install. So, I do a clean install and select to format my drive from XP...

Hi all, I have quite a problem here. I was attempting to upgrade my Windows XP Home laptop to XP Pro. I selected the Upgrade option from the CD and it went along doing its thing until it got to the "Preparing Installation" portion. At this point, the computer rebooted and I got a Stop Error...

Hi all, I am having a problem here with connections to Network resources. I am on a workgroup right now and have two shared drives mapped as well as a shared printer mapped. I am on a laptop with Win XP Home and after logging into my computer I have sporadic outages where it will say that...

Hi all, I was hoping for some opinions about what LCD to buy. It will be used mostly for photo editing in Photoshop. I'd say my ceiling in terms of price is around $300. Also, I have a GeForce 6200 vid card if that makes any difference. Thanks!!!

Hi all, I'm having a problem with an HP Color Laserjet 4600. I recently switched the computer it is hooked up to with a computer that has Windows 2000. Originally the printer was connected to a computer with Windows XP. After swapping out computers I had problems installing the printer on...

Thanks for the replies. To read them off the label I will have to pull the cage from the case and I don't want to do that because the computer is currently acting as a file server. I need the serials so I can go ahead and get my rebates from WD =] I am trying Everest now. I'll let you know...

Hi all, I need a way to get the serial numbers from my hard drives. They are 2 WD raptors. I downloaded WD diagnostic utility, but I do not see the drives from it. I think this is because the drives are in raid 1. Is there anyway I can get the serial number for each drive without having to...

Well I can change the router's LAN IP and still connect to it as long as it is in the 192.168.1.x range. If I try to change it to something like 10.1.1.x I can't get back into it. Any reason for this?

Thanks for the replies. I tried making the internet IP address some random unsed address on our network. That didn't seem to help. Jack, I will look over that article. Thanks Please keep the advice coming!

Hello all, I am having a bit of a problem here. I have a wired network already setup, but would like a way for wireless users to connect to it. I have come across a Netgear wireless router that I would like to use for this. Now I figured it should be pretty simple. But I am a bit confused...

Hello all, I am trying to sort my inbox by multiple columns. I tried SHIFT + Clicking on the fields I wanted to sort by and even tried creating a custom view. However, every time I restart Outlook, it goes back to sorting by only one field (the first field that I selected from the...

Problem solved. If anyone's interested I had to repair the drive's permissions using the Disk Utility. Rebooted, then reinstalled the printer and it worked fine.

Hi all, I've got a bit of a problem trying to print from a Mac. Everything has been working fine until today. A user was trying to print a Word document to an HP Laserjet 4600 that is a network printer. They got an error saying that "Word cannot print because there is a problem with the...

Hi all, I have a HP Laserjet 1012 and I was trying to print some envelopes from Word 2000. I have about 70 of these to print and they are all in one word document. I hit print and it spit out the first 7 or 8 fine. Then instead of printing what I wanted on the envelopes it started printing...