Windows XP Networking

It's the wierdest thing, I noticed today that my UPNPhost service is no longer working on two of my XP machines. I noticed it on my desktop first, so I went to my laptop to compare, and found out that it's not ...

I have a couple of shares on my XP  (+SP3) system, that I want to access from a Vista Business system. When I activate the Windows Firewall and then try to access the shares, then that access always fails. If I disable the firewall on the XP system the access works fine. How do I convince the Windows Firewall to allow access to those shares (given, the remote user supplies a correct user-id and pwd, of course...) ...

I have several PCs in a domain and on one of the PCs are two folders that are needed to be shared (\\PCName\Share1 and \\PCName\Share2). From all of the PCs, I'm able to get to \\PCName (and it shows the two folders), and ...

I have a windows XP home edition PC which i am trying to connect to my Office server through a VPN link. The server is a 2003 Server with Small Business Sever SP2. From my XP home pc, i can connect to the office network through the VPN and ...

I have an XP desktop and a Vista notebook.  My wife has an XP notebook. We are all in the same network with the same workgroup name. My wife's notebook cannot see the other PCs although the others can see each other. ...

I have set up eleven of these under my user account and would like for them to appear in three others also, without having to add them manually in each one; all four have administrative rights. This is a Toshiba Tecra A7 laptop ...

I am working on access speed issues since March 12, 2009.  I got two PCs that use a 7Meg DSL service via a broadband router.  None receive a reasonable upload access speeds (21 Kbp/s or less) thus rendering ...

I have a customer that has windows xp pro workstations, service pack 3, in a domain connecting to a small business server 2003 system.  Throughout the day he clicks on a shortcut that points to a program on the server and gets the ...

Hi. I am an IIS and FTP service newbie. I installed and got FTP to work in updated XP Pro. SP3. I was able to FTP into my XP on LAN (not opened to Internet for security reasons) into the folder/directory (not ...

Hello, How much memory is considered normal for this app? I have an older P3 running XP home and in task manager this app uses over 50,000kb of memory. When I check my newer P4 running XP pro it only uses 6,000kb tops. The P3 ...

I recently ran a health check for my computer and received two failed systems messages. Modems and Network Adapter: Network Adapter: [00000001] Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC (FAILED) IPAddress = 192.xxx.xx (FAILED) (I purposely left out the IP address, wasn't ...

Hi Recently i downloaded something form the internet which infected my system. Now i cant access internet coz of the virus,trojan or a malware. all the antivirus software like Norton, spybot search &destroy, a-squared and adware which i have  were not updated and now i cant update them coz no ...