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Forum: General XP issues or comments June 24th 10, 12:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 284
Posted By John
Xp Pro/Home Networking

They are different.

When I try to access files on either pc, there is no message asking for
user/pass

"Bob I" wrote:

Is the username and password on B the same as the username and password
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 24th 10, 12:12 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 284
Posted By John
Xp Pro/Home Networking

They are different.

When I try to access files on either pc, there is no message asking for
user/pass

"Bob I" wrote:

Is the username and password on B the same as the username and password
...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 23rd 10, 07:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 284
Posted By John
Xp Pro/Home Networking

I have 2pc's on my network. A.XP Pro, B.XP Home

The A pc can see and access the b files just fine. The B can see the Share
Docs fiolder, but can't access the A file. This error message...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 23rd 10, 07:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 0
Views: 76
Posted By John
Xp Pro/Home Networking

I have 2pc's on my network. A.XP Pro, B.XP Home

The A pc can see and access the b files just fine. The B can see the Share
Docs fiolder, but can't access the A file. This error message...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 4th 10, 03:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 272
Posted By John
permissions changing without notice

No I haven't. Interestingly when I change the owner of the file to the admin
account I can then see that the original owner and the sytem are listed as
having access but not before. The only time...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 4th 10, 03:15 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 272
Posted By John
permissions changing without notice

No I haven't. Interestingly when I change the owner of the file to the admin
account I can then see that the original owner and the sytem are listed as
having access but not before. The only time...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 3rd 10, 07:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 0
Views: 130
Posted By John
permissions changing without notice

I have this very strange problem and I hoped all you knowledgable techs might
have an answer.
Some background: late last year one of my customers had data corruption on
one of their computers. I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments June 3rd 10, 07:40 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 272
Posted By John
permissions changing without notice

I have this very strange problem and I hoped all you knowledgable techs might
have an answer.
Some background: late last year one of my customers had data corruption on
one of their computers. I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 31st 10, 09:12 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 214
Posted By John
Can't access files on 2nd Hard Drive

I have 2 hard drives, both with XP Home SP3.

When I am on drive A, I can't access the files in the Documents and Settings
folder of Drive B, I can see them but when I try to open any of them I get...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 28th 10, 08:10 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 156
Posted By John
Batchfile substitution syntax question

I'm pretty green at this discussion groups thing. How do I access
alt.msdos.batch.nt? I've never used a newsreader, just use IE8.

I tried downloading Grabit & signed up for the service, but I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 28th 10, 03:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 156
Posted By John
Batchfile substitution syntax question

I want the my bacthfile code to produce (including the spaces):
copy /y "c:\this dir\this file.txt" d:
copy /y "c:\next dir\next file.txt" d:
copy /y "c:\last dir\last file.txt" d:
Instead, I...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 28th 10, 04:00 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 215
Posted By John
Cmd file looping question

This is close! But I over simpliied the example. I really am dealing w/ full
path & file names that include spaces and the copy from and to names are
different. So I'm really needing to do as...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 27th 10, 09:57 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 215
Posted By John
Cmd file looping question

How do I construct a FOR loop or other batch command loop that will copy a
list of files File1, File2,...,Filen from C: to D:. I know something like
the code below will do it, but this is a lot of...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 14th 10, 12:52 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 199
Posted By John
Changing external drive letter assignments

My backup USB drive had always be assigned to the E:. Yesterday I had it
shut off when I put another USB drive in. Windows assigned E: the new drive.
Then I put in the backup drive and it...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 13th 10, 10:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 0
Views: 154
Posted By John
TweakUI Changes Not Applying?

I used to use TweakUI to hide a drive containing some personal information.
All of a sudden the drive is now showing in Windows Explorer. I've tried
uninstalling it and reinstalling it and that...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support March 28th 10, 01:15 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 5
Views: 529
Posted By John
Computer hanging up after putting in stand-by mode

I have I.E 8 and Windows XP. Often I put my system in stand-by or
hybernation mode. After a few hours when I come back to ascess my system, I
find that when I click on a web link or open up a new...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 24th 10, 06:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 198
Posted By John
Restore

How do I restore files from a backup file to another computer. I only want
to restore the files no system files.
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 17th 10, 03:44 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 127
Posted By John
Cannot access shared folders on USB drive

I can share folders on my internal hard drives and access them from my other
LAN connected computer just fine, but cannot remotely access shared folders
on any USB drive connected to my...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 16th 10, 10:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 32
Views: 533
Posted By John
Looking for a tool

I'm looking for a registry tool that can search the entire registry for a
word like "symantec" then display them for me, so I can selectively delete
"symantec".

The reason for this is because...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP March 4th 10, 02:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 0
Views: 189
Posted By John
Sharing options grayed out

I have two machines on a home network and want to share directories between
them, but when I right click on a directory to share it, I see only grayed
out options. I'm running WinXP Pro on both...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP March 4th 10, 02:28 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 0
Views: 534
Posted By John
Sharing options grayed out

I have two machines on a home network and want to share directories between
them, but when I right click on a directory to share it, I see only grayed
out options. I'm running WinXP Pro on both...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 21st 10, 05:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 232
Posted By John
Temporary Keyboard lockup

Hi Jim,

I use Open Office. However, it seems the problem occurs when I use my
hotmail program & try to type an e-mail or reply to an e-mail. It has also
occurred trying to type a response here...
Forum: General XP issues or comments February 21st 10, 04:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 232
Posted By John
Temporary Keyboard lockup

Hello,

I brought up Task Manager & the only thing that I could see was that I had
two browsers in the task bar (Internet Explorer & Avant). I also ran a
malware application & there is no malware....
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 18th 10, 07:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 9
Views: 258
Posted By John
Windows restore does not work at all

I fix a restore point but when I try to restore from it I always get a
message '... cannot be restored to' ... followed by the restore point name.

John
Forum: Printing and Faxing with Windows XP December 20th 09, 04:10 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax
Replies: 23
Views: 3,795
Posted By John
Communication Not Available - Dell V305 All In One Printer

Thanks, Lem. I'll try your suggestions & let you know of the outcome.
--
john


"Lem" wrote:

john wrote:
I don't have another USB cable. I am going to uninstall the printer from
...
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