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Alright - $219 for an OS that is quickly fading! Gotta love that.

Thank you for the suggestions... I might just recommend a new PC if we're spending that kind of money to replace the OS on the...

It is an old emachines computer... I contacted them, and they don't have anything to support a machine as old as this one - they go back to 2006. I was hoping to just find a generic Win XP Home...

Hi Everyone - Hopefully I have a simple situation. My Aunt needs Windows re-installed. Her computer has the activation key on the side of it, but the XP Home Edition disks have been lost a long...

I hope this is appropriate for this forum. I have to fill out a government form that is provided to me as a PDF file. They require it to be typed - but didn't make the PDF file with editable...

Thanks for the input. That will get me started to figure out what I can get for what price.

I'm looking for a scanner to try to reduce paper clutter in my life. I guess the perfect scanner would have a sheet feeder, be able to scan both sides of a piece of paper at once, and automatically...

I was trying to install a program on my home laptop that has Vista on it. We only have one account on the machine - the Administrator account. When I started the install program, I got a message...

I'm programming a small application using VB inside Excel. Everything works great except for two things...

First, is there a way to size the Excel window so it can be hidden behind the form...

I have broadband through Time Warner Cable. They offer fairly good email server space, but I get some larger audio files emailed to me - and they don't support enough space for that.

I was...

Hopefull this is a simple question. I have a desktop computer (WinXP) and a laptop PC (Vista) that I would like to share email between on a simple home network. I currently use Outlook Express for...

Does anybody here have any experience with Avast Anti-Virus? I've been asked for my opinion, but haven't used it.

Are there other free-ware anti-virus software packages worth anything?

If...

OK - thanks for the replies. Is there an HP "auto-update" feature like Windows update - or do you just have to look for things that may apply to your PC?

I did apply all the Windows update - and...

My mother-in-law asked me to look at her PC. It's an HP Laptop running Windows XP (the slash screen just says XP - so I don't know if it's home, pro, or media center). Her complaint is sometimes...

I had a similar problem before with an e-machine PC. The PS died and took the motherboard and/or CPU with it. I was able to find a used mobo/cpu combo on ebay - and never troubleshot which part was...

Has anybody else run into this... I had a customer buy a copy of Norton AV 2006. When they tried to install it, it told them they have an old version on their machine that must be first...

Thanks everybody for the discussion. Plastics factories are pretty rough environments, especially when you start talking about PC's - even industrial models.

Platypus, I'm not familar with...

Unfortunatly not, the PC will be enclosed in a cabinet that's locked when machine power is on. Plus, the industrial PC we are using doesn't have the ATX power supply - it's a hard switch.

It is an odd situation because the operators of the machine are not going to be the most "technical savvy" people (I think that's a nice way to put it). They can't be relyed on to shut down the PC. ...

I'm going to be a in a situation where I'm going to have a PC on a machine in heavy industrial environment. This machine will have a power disconnect, that will probably kill power to the computer...

They were thinking more like the external modem route. My first suggestion was to dial up from each PC separately.

Yes BOB, they are planning to share a 56k connection. Obviously, they don't...

I have a customer who still uses dial-up for internet access. They recently added a 2nd PC, and would like to wirelessly network them together - and access the net from either machine. I've never...

If I remember right, it did try to install drivers (the window came up saying a new USB device was detected). It just didn't show up in Explorer as a drive.

I had an E-machine with a bad power supply too. After the PS was replaced, the MB was still toasted. Replacing both got it up and running. My MB had to signs of being bad, other than it would not...

My customer is running Win2000 - I tried it on an XP computer too...still no luck.

I know the USB port is working - it works with other devices.

The hard drive is a Maxtor - 160GB drive. ...

I had a customer bring me an internal hard drive in one of those "make and internal HD an external" boxes you can buy. However, when you plug the USB cable in, his PC will not recognize the drive. ...