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Okay how would I change my admin password for every pc on my LAN without going to each station?

we currently have windows 95 installed on our 5 year old PC....my question is are we able to install windows 2000 professional on our computer????

I bought the intel motherboard...and now I just bought the rest of the PC... 2 x 256MB kingston memory 1 x 60 Gb seagate HD 1 x 80 GB seagate HD 1 x P4 2.8GHz processor 1 x 64 MB GEForce video card Now, Im a little reluctant to start the building...so guys anyhow can you point me to useful links? or can you give me some tips? Its the first one Im building from scratch...!

Are they any good? Im about to buy one for a P-IV 2.8G 533Mhz, I cant remember the other specs since I have them at home...please throw your thoughts

Hi Folks, Im new here and just popped my head in looking for some help on software I require. Imagine you have 10 laptops that you give out to members off staff regularly for a certain amount off days. Now imagine that these members of staff are a bit reluctant to return these laptops? Lets say you want to give out a laptop to someone for 3 days lone. Is there any software out there that you can use to make the laptop stop functioning after this time period has elapsed? Forcing them to return the goods as they are no longer any use to them? All help appreciated. Andy

Whenever I've installed an NT-based OS, be it NT4, 2K, or XP, the installer always seems to want to load a massive number of drivers, most of which seem unrelated to the system I'm installing on. I mean, I counted 10 separate keyboard drivers once! Is there some way to speed up the install process by specifying which drivers are needed ahead of time?

Will SP2 have native support for SATA drives like the western digital raptor??

I have WinXP and AOL 9. I took the free 3 months of service now when I tried to get local ISP it will dial but times out. It connects fine to AOL. Had Norton Fire Wall but did uninstall this and all of Nortons stuff and made sure my firewall for XP was disabled and still not connecting to local ISP but able to connect to AOL. Uninstalled AOL and still unable to connect. Are the adapters for AOL somehow interferring?? Where do you find them? Can't find AOL dialer??? help me please. Appreciate it.

I have had this problem for quite some time now.Sometimes I boot my computer and I am able to connect to the internet without any problems. Other times I connect, in other words, my DSL WinPoET dialer connects , but when I open my browser it will not find any web sites except the website for my local library. All other sites return the usual cannot find website message. It doesn't matter which browser I use IE, Netscape 7.1, Avant Browser, My IE2, or Mozilla Foxfire, nothing connects. I have updated my AV definitions and run a full system scan and it comes up clean. I have two spyware programs installed, Ad Aware and Spybot, I update and run these frequently,and they sho…

Hope one of you can help me. As you can see, I can get online to some sites via IE 6.0. I am running Windows XP Home and have already done a reinstall of IE 6, Outlook Express, and even XP. Still, same thing. Some sites come up without a problem (Yahoo), but if I navigate further into sites like Yahoo, it gives me a server error. I am running on a Comcast cable account, and they have verified that I am rec'g full bandwidth without any timeouts, so they're saying it's my browser. I've done everything I can think of. It's starting to become very annoying. Does anyone know why this happened, and how I can get rid of it? Will I have to wipe out my hard drive and reinstall my …

I've been trying to get FTP running from my webserver, but have come to a bit of a problem. The server appears to work fine, as I can connect to it and perform FTP operations both locally and on my LAN. The problem comes when I try to connect from outside. Outside clients can connect and authenticate, but when I try to get a listing or perform a transfer, it stalls. I run the server over my cable service, with the appropriate ports forwarded through my router (I've tried several ports). Anyone have an idea?

My old Motherboard was finally dieing, so i got an ASUS P4PE-X Motherboard. I thought the first one didnt work, so I got a new one with the same problem, no POST or anything to the monitor, just a continuous loop of beeps. Here are my hardware specs 350 Watt power supply P4 2.4 GHz Processor 400 MHz FSB 180 GB Western Digital HD 512 MB Kingston RAM @ 333MHz 256 MB Kingston RAM @ 300 MHz ( Ive tried both sticks seperatly) Sound Blaster Audigy Sound card VisionTec Xtasy GE Force 4 64 MB Video Card Someone out there please help, im going nuts without my computer.

I have just brought a wireless router and PCI card for my old PC a PII 233mhz and upon reading the box of the PCI card - it says it requires a P3 class processor. I havent tried it, as i didnt want to break the sellophane. Realistically will it work?

Hi I am looking at buying a new hard-drive for an old machine, but would want to move it to a brand new machine in about a year or so. I was thinking about buying a UDMA-100 drive, i assume this would work with an older computer that currently has an old hard-drive from about '97? I know it wouldnt run at UDMA-100, but doesnt it run at the max speed the motherboard would support (in this case probably UDMA-33). Can i at a later stage put this in a system with a new SATA drive? Or do i need to have the same type of drive in the entire system? Thanks.

Hi Again, I got a new PS and got everything powered up, but still having booting problems. First I cleared the CMOS. Then I turned on the system. The POST screen came up. Pressed F1 to continue, another screen came up and it asked if I wanted the Windows to boot normally or safe mode. I chose safe mode. After that it took a few seconds as if the something was going to happen but it reebooted, and I was back to the POST screen. Here now I could see a new line added ' CPU unworkable or has been changed. Please see CPU softMenu'. The Abit Bios has a softmenu to change CPU clock and other stuff. So I went into that and checked it out, I left everything at default (the way …