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Here's an example of trying to reach my PC from one of the other PCs on the network: C:\>ping p4-3000 Pinging p4-3000 [10.254.254.253] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 10.254.254.253: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss), The real IP address of my PC is 10.0.0.3, not 10.254.254.253...

Hi all, To start off with; I know installing X-drive (see http://www.xdrive.com) was asking for problems. But since every problem can be a way to learn something more about how things work, I would like to know if someone can enlighten me on this problem. I'm running a LAN (4 PC's, one networked All-in-One, a few other devices) with fixed IP's. All used IP's lie between 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.9. On my own PC I've got a mess of network connections, from 2 NIC's (one disabled), a 1394 connector, a VPN, and since recently a loopback connection for X-drive. The biggest problem now is, that my network name (P4-3000) has been connected to the IP that X-drive is using (10.254.254.253), not the IP for the active NIC. Which bring me to the interesting question; how is it decided which network connection the network name is mapped to, and how do I change it when this goes wrong like in my case? Thanks for any insights, Peter

I know, that is how it should be. However (I may not have been clear enough about this), the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer item is missing from the Open With dialog. So, I can't select it. Also, since WPFV is not a stand-alone program, I cannot browse for it. Does anybody know how this list is populated? Because WPFV does seem to be properly installed, at least it is opens when I choose Preview.

I recently did a re-install of Windows XP (on a cleanly formatted partition), and soon I noticed double-clicking image files (JPG, GIF, TIF, etc) opened an Open With dialog without the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (WPFV) in it. The context menu does offer a Preview option, which opens the files in WPFV, so the application is functioning okay. The Open With submenu on the context menu showed both WPFV and Paint, and selecting WPFV from there also worked great. But just double-clicking the file didn't open WPFV, it only opened the Open With dialog, where WPFV is not available. I've tried re-registering WPFV using "regsvr32 /i shimgvw.dll" and "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll", which said registration was successful, but that didn't change anything. I've re-installed Windows XP in a virtual machine, there everything worked as it should, and I compared the registry entries on .jpg, jpegfile and various other key points, and couldn't find any differences. In the process of getting WPFV to be opened on double-click, I've first made Paint the default application (through the properties dialog) and after the Internet Explorer. Now my images open fine in IE when I double-click them, but I can't get them to open in WPFV by default. The Preview option is still in the context menu (and works properly), but WPFV is now missing from the Open With submenu also. I haven't installed or performed any hacks or other weird things, as far as I know. Okay, I know there are much better options than WPFV. I guess this whole thing turned into a more principal things, I want to find out how to fix this mistery, and learn a bit more about Windows on the way... ;-) Does anybody want to help? Thanks, Peter

Are you SURE there not bootable? Have you maked sure you're BIOS settings are set to boot from cd? Chris. Aaaargh now I am feeling stupid.... Such an advanced computer expert, and I put the CD in the wrong drive !!!! Thanks anyway

Hi all, Hope my question is on the correct place, if not you can give me a beating I've got an HP Pavilion 414.no PC here, with preinstalled Windows XP Home. There is a Recovery CD Creation program included, which creates a set of Recovery CDs. After creating the set of 4 CDs, I discovered however that none of the CDs is bootable! When they are not bootable, how should I recover the computer from a serious (HDD) crash?!?!? The first CD doesn't even contain any executables or documents in the root folder, just a lot of hidden files and the folders "I386" and "PRELOAD". Even worse, the root of the 1st CD contains a hidden "autorun.inf" which loads "Info.exe folder.htt 480 480", but neither "info.exe" nor "folder.htt" are located in that folder, which results in an error about not being able to find "info.exe" when trying to open the CD! Did the Recovery CD Creation process go totally wrong? The application verified each CD after creation, and said everything went allright. The application also only allows for one set of CDs to be created, so I cannot rerun the process... Hope anybody can give me some more insight... Best regards, Peter