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Forum: The Basics January 4th 10, 10:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 4
Views: 456
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network puzzle -- things have fallen apart.

Cyril N. Alberga wrote:
I have three computers which until recently shared all their disks via a
wired/wireless home network. Recently the networks has gotten into a
mess and I haven't found...
Forum: The Basics January 4th 10, 10:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 4
Views: 456
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network puzzle -- things have fallen apart.

Cyril N. Alberga wrote:
I have three computers which until recently shared all their disks via a
wired/wireless home network. Recently the networks has gotten into a
mess and I haven't found...
Forum: The Basics January 4th 10, 07:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 4
Views: 456
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network puzzle -- things have fallen apart.

I have three computers which until recently shared all their disks via a
wired/wireless home network. Recently the networks has gotten into a mess and I
haven't found out how to get it working...
Forum: The Basics January 4th 10, 07:38 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 0
Views: 107
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network puzzle -- things have fallen apart.

I have three computers which until recently shared all their disks via a
wired/wireless home network. Recently the networks has gotten into a mess and I
haven't found out how to get it working...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 15th 09, 03:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 181
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Reading an XP USB external HD on a Vista machine

I wanted to transfer some photos from a USB external harddrive from my XP
machine to a machine running Vista. When I plugged the drive in it appeared in
the thing I found in Vista (I don't use it)...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP February 10th 09, 09:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 2
Views: 265
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Network definition doesn't recognize change in disk names/letters.

Cyril N. Alberga wrote:
I have three computers running XP Pro, two hardwired to my router, one
(a laptop) wireless. All the disks one the various machines were
defined and shared on my home...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP February 10th 09, 09:53 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 2
Views: 265
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Network definition doesn't recognize change in disk names/letters.

Cyril N. Alberga wrote:
I have three computers running XP Pro, two hardwired to my router, one
(a laptop) wireless. All the disks one the various machines were
defined and shared on my home...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP February 10th 09, 09:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 0
Views: 184
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Network definition doesn't recognize change in disk names/letters.

I have three computers running XP Pro, two hardwired to my router, one (a
laptop) wireless. All the disks one the various machines were defined and
shared on my home network. The disks included...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP February 10th 09, 09:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 2
Views: 265
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Network definition doesn't recognize change in disk names/letters.

I have three computers running XP Pro, two hardwired to my router, one (a
laptop) wireless. All the disks one the various machines were defined and
shared on my home network. The disks included...
Forum: The Basics November 19th 08, 03:35 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 6
Views: 210
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network, can't access one drive - 1TB size -- solved!

I seem to have solved the network problem.

I created a new user id on the problem machine and the newer one. I gave
appropriate permissions and the problem disk now became accessible. So I went...
Forum: The Basics November 19th 08, 02:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 6
Views: 210
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network, can't access one drive - 1TB size

So far, so bad. As stated in another post and reply, "Active" doesn't to
anything, and yes, I do have sharing set on. There are three hard drives in the
machine in question, two of which are...
Forum: The Basics November 18th 08, 03:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 6
Views: 210
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Home network, can't access one drive - 1TB size

I have three computers, all running XP Pro, on which I am trying to share all
the drives. This works for all but one of the drives, a newly installed 1 TByte
internal drive. When I attempt to...
Forum: The Basics June 30th 08, 02:36 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 3
Views: 294
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Problems sharing on network

Malke wrote:
Cyril N. Alberga wrote:

I have two machines running XP Pro, hard-wired to a Linksys router. I'm
trying to network them, but I'm clearly doing something dumb.

If on the...
Forum: The Basics June 27th 08, 04:08 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 3
Views: 294
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Problems sharing on network

I have two machines running XP Pro, hard-wired to a Linksys router. I'm trying
to network them, but I'm clearly doing something dumb.

If on the first machine I go to:
My Network Places\Entire...
Forum: The Basics March 19th 08, 09:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 16
Views: 423
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
What is "Reserved System Space" and what can I do with it?

Perhaps I see what is happening then. All the disks were set to 12%, which is
the highest that "My Computer" seems to allow, while 1% is the lowest. I had
tried the 1% values based on someone...
Forum: The Basics March 19th 08, 05:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 16
Views: 423
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
What is "Reserved System Space" and what can I do with it?

Thank you -- I think... I followed the instructions, there were 12% of the disk
reserved, and I pushed it down to 1% (a bit over 1 gig). But diskeeper still
thinks there is a hugh chunk. Do I...
Forum: The Basics March 19th 08, 04:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 16
Views: 423
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
What is "Reserved System Space" and what can I do with it?

Sadly, that is what I have. If I were to repeat my backup/format/restore is
there a way to persuade XP to make a more reasonable allocation?

Cyril

DL wrote:
No its not an error, its referering...
Forum: The Basics March 19th 08, 03:16 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 16
Views: 423
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
What is "Reserved System Space" and what can I do with it?

I'm running XP Pro, SP2.

I recently did two things.

First, I took a 250 GByte FAT external harddrive, backed it contents up to
another drive and reformatted it as NTFS, then restored the...
Forum: The Basics September 2nd 07, 12:39 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 5
Views: 142
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Allow second click in directory tree frame of Windows Explorerto select direcory name for renaming

Thank you very much. I knew that I had asked before, it was just too long ago.
I guess that will teach me to use more explicit subject lines so that I can
find previous answers!

Nepatsfan...
Forum: The Basics September 1st 07, 10:58 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 5
Views: 142
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
Allow second click in directory tree frame of Windows Explorerto select direcory name for renaming

Yes, but -- What I want (and what I had before having to reinstall) is for the
rename procedure in the right pane also work in the left, as it always did in
Win98. That is, if a file name is...
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 9th 07, 06:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 78
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
How can file time/date stamps be corrected?

Terry R. wrote:
On 7/9/2007 9:29 AM On a whim, Cyril N. Alberga pounded out on the keyboard

Running XP Pro.

I have two sets of digital photographs, taken with two different
cameras....
Forum: General XP issues or comments July 9th 07, 05:29 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 78
Posted By Cyril N. Alberga
How can file time/date stamps be corrected?

Running XP Pro.

I have two sets of digital photographs, taken with two different cameras. The
clocks on the two cameras were not in sync. I would like to adjust the time
stamps on one set so...
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