Posts by Andevian

Ah, thought there was something to that idea. Didn't realize it was 2004 specific. Except for joining a domain, I don't think Pro has anything that MCE2k5 doesn't, so that would certainly be a nice upgrade.

Linkage. I was checking on something this morning for someone and didn't see this, then this afternoon it popped up, so I'm assuming this happened today. Looks like it went from XP Home to MCE, but that might be a misprint since I...

Not sure on that model, but the 7515 I have includes a recovery CD which is OS only, a utility to burn drivers & apps to CD or DVD, and a restore partition. I first burned the D&A DVD, then wiped all partitions, installed a...

Try pointing the installer to C:\WINDOWS\INF. I've had some instances where the drivers are there, but another installer has modified the registry so that Windows goes stupid when looking for existing drivers.

Take your hard drive out before you sent it in if you want to keep the data. They took my hard drive out, wiped it, and put it back in my dead notebook, then sent the dead thing back to me without repairing the actual problem. That...

Not for me, it didn't, and never has. This is something I do regularly as Dell puts their homepage on all their machines. That in itself is OK. The problem is, that we sell all these Dell PCs to our clients, then set them up for remote...

Many cable modem providers require that you register the MAC address of your equipment with them before they'll allow your modem to distribute an IP address to you. The ISP is your first choice to call for this. However, if the MAC...

Quote: Originally Posted by KAROLOYDI That's weird. Do you press Apply afterwards? Or do you just press OK? Did you try Control Panel>System>Advanced>Performance and choose adjust for best...

When you relocate My Documents, Windows changes the pointers along with the location. Properly coded programs look for the value of the pointer and don't care where it really is. Your settings, including the location of your "My...

In the States, there are property laws that cover this. You have to notify the owner that you have their item and make reasonable attempts to make it available for them. After a certain amount of time, if they haven't acted on it, then...