Windows XP Networking

XP home edition + SP3 My notebook starts having a problem with browsers. I have firefox and iexplorer on it.  They behave the same. The problem is, after startup, sometimes, if I start the browser, it does not show up. If I start Task Manager, I do not see it under "Applicatiosn", ...

I have three PCs on a home wireless network, 2 XPs and a Vista. One of the XPs cannot access the 'Net or e-mail. No problem with the other two PCs. This problem developed very recently during a Windows update. It is ...

A few months ago some Internet-enabled applications in my system will not load for around 10 minutes after Windows starts up. The process will launch and show in the  Task Manager task list but will then stay at the same memory ...

I am trying to connect a laptop running XP Pro to my home wireless LAN.  I have been able to connect before but today I am getting a message "Windows was unable to find a certificate to log you on to the network..."  I haven't ...

Hello.I'm a novice.I will try my best to describe the problem.I have windows xp sp3 32 bit. When the PC starts and the desktop is displayed i have to wait about 1 minute for the lan icon which shows aqquiring network adress and eventually ...

I have a pc that when connected to the home network shows that it is connected. I can see data moving when I go to status, and can ping yahoo.com, and other web sites, and have an ip address, but when I double click on ...

Through the years I have acquired a variety of equipment which was working just fine until I added a new laptop running Vista64.  I have 5 computers in my office, 3 in my living room and one in my child's room.  They are all ...

Hi, Just want to know if there is any way to find IP Address, Gateway and DNS on LAN system with the help of some commend/utility. i.e. form PC1 and PC2 are on LAN and want to check the PC2 IP, Gateway and ...

I have a situation that seems impossible- 3 systems, all running XP SP-3 into the wired ports on a LinkSys WRT310N Wireless/Wired router: all 3 work fine for internet access, but one system can't see the others on the network at ...

I'm using XP with SP3.  I would like to know how to delete (not disconnect) a network drive listing.  Through several iterations of setting up neworks, I have multiple useless network drive listings which I would like to delete. ...

How to login in FTP (Client) from batch? This works interactively from CMD but cannot login from batch. My batch file is as follows:- cd c:\file_copy del /f  /q C:\file_copy\*.* ftp -i open 172.xx.0.yy ...

Dear NG: Windows XP Pro Version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.080814-1236 : Service Pack 3) Internet Explorer Version: 8.0.6001.18702 No Spybot, No Ad-Aware AVG free 8.5.323 D-Link DI-704 I have a small Ethernet LAN - 3 Win XP Pro machines - connected through ...

I have an XP box that reads and writes most of its data from a network server or the internet. The server is running linux, and has dual NICs bonded to do load balancing. I would like to do this for my XP box. I have two NICs ...

I map a drive to specific service folder, sometimes when I click on this drive, it takes 1 minute to show all folders and files within this drive, but sometimes, it displays immediately. Does anyone have any suggestions whether it is network or server problems? and how to identify it? ...

I can access the internet but I can't download anything after I used a registry cleaner. Also the menu and toolbar are missing in xp home. Help!!! ...

Looking for methods to improve network browing over VPN .    Currently the browsing is bad.   'My computer'  takes up to a minute to load and often crashes.   When a network drive does come up in explorer it has no contents ...

I have Windows XP Home SP 3. My wireless home network uses WPA2-AES encryption. The WLAN management utility supplied by the manufacturer of my wireless equipment (D-Link) has no trouble seeing my wireless network. Windows Zero Configuration does not see my wireless network. What could be the problem here--something I'm not doing correctly? ...

Most of my workstations and laptops have the local computer browser service off.  I have a notebook user that when he connects to the VPN via a sprint broadband card cant see any of the contents of his mapped drives.  I was ...