dimegrind

spacesurfer, It would be easier just to take the files off the disk and replace one file then having to go digging up all the dos drivers I need and recreating a new boot disk. I am gonna see if this ultraiso thing works. I dont know if it will, because I did a smilar thing with Alcohol 120 and had no luck.

I have a ghost boot cd that someone made and I want to see the files that are on this disk. The person no longer works for my company and deleted the files after making the boot disk. Is there anyway I can view them? I need to see these files because there was a special way that the disk was made and fies that where used to create it. I can not create another one via ghost wizard, so please do not sugguest that.

I have been giving family and freinds help with there computers and networks for sometime now (past 5 years). I dont ever charge them. Just reacently family friends of ours passed me on to some of their family members...no prob. I worked on ther computer for a few hours (virus adware/spyware and window updates). I didnt charge them even though they wanted to give me $$. I told the no prob, Merry X-mas. Now the person I just help out just passed me along to another family member and I am starting to see a patern develope here. My question is what do I charge for my time? Do I charge by the hour or the type of work I do. I dont know even if I want this patern to continue. Granted most peoples pc probs are usually some virsus or spyware issue that can be fixed in a decent amount of time. I just dont want to be someones techie that calls me anytime they have an issue with their comp. I just wanted to find out if any of you do any consulting with home users and what you charge. Also any tips you may have for me as I walk into the home tech support realm. dimegrind

I need to reformat my hd and I want to back up my Outlook files. What do I need to do for this? Does outlook have a Back up feature?

I am the only account on my pc running XP Home. When I use to turn on my computer it would take me right to my desktop. Now it takes me to the login screen with the icon button that I have to hit for it to boot to my desktop. This just started happening and I dont know why. I liked it the way it use to be. Is there anyway I can just have the computer boot to the desktop again and bypass the login screen? I do not have my account password protected incase you are wondering. Thanks