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If nothing works, phone the ISP's helpdesk, surely they can reset it.

Thanks Cluberti indeed, I'll read that again after my 3rd coffee. Yzöwl, I was just asking. I still can't understand why that file is placed at two thirds of an empty drive at first. And I still think it shouldn't. But I won't discuss further as this is not making much difference anyway.

I'd reinstall the network card driver to get every setting reset to default. Also reset the router if it's not straight "out of the box".

Because it is faster. It would obviously be the best location for "any" file and with more than 80 free space, they should be there IMHO. And Gosh, I want the speed that's paid for, not just "more" speed. There's no point investing in this 3 year old PC, unless you can send gift$ to every poster.

Err... by what you say, it seems you are trying to "use nLite" to make an install cd, not "install XP" yet. Are you pointing to a new directory you created on purpose and that contains the I386 folder ?

I've installed Windows quite a few times and seen all sorts of page files, now this time after a clean install, the page file is at 2/3 of the C drive when there's plenty of space at the beginning of it. Changing it to D, defragging and back to C doesn't change much. I'm a little bit frustrated. I know the difference in speed wouldn't be enormous but I've seen some XP with a nice clean page file in one block right at the beginning of the partition and I was wondering if someone had a trick to do that ? Oh, and also why does XP think it should put that file at that place when there's no data before (disk is reformatted and the partition 15Gig) ?

aside of the typo, I'm sure you got a bit confused here.

Ola, ¿ Does this help ?

From what I remember, that floppy can't read NTFS, so I can't understand why the CDROM is F: but can you see anything on the C: drive when booting that floppy ???.

What's your point here ? Underneath the cooler, there is a hot CPU, so nothing to do with air circulation or "all heat goes up". The air is hotter on the side of the CPU. If there's a fan, if the fan is under the CPU, air will be hotter above the fan. If the fan is above the CPU, it'll be hotter under the fan. Either way it blows. ... Check it for yourself ...unless you put things vertically.

No, 1394 is the firewire device, nothing to do with it. If you do an IPCONFIG /all on your PC, you'll find the IP adress of your router as "gateway". Putting that adress in a browser will allow you to configure the router. If you can set it with the same parametres as the modem, you can use it connect and to share your Internet connection. From your replies, there is a long way to go.

How does an object's position modify it's surface ? If anything, putting it vertically would increase the heat convecting airflow. In the case of CPU cooler, it's the fan that does most of the job, and as blowing is more efficient than sucking the air, it goes against the natural movement of the air and orientation of the cooler has very few influence as long as the hot air can escape. As manufacturers put their disks both ways since years and do cover warranty, I guess that's an evidence that it does not matter. As for gravity on the platters, no comment.

Maybe you pulled the flat cables without noticing. It happens. Also try loading BIOS defaults.

Does the document come in the queue on comp B (as you say the printer is installed) ? What status does the document/printer appear ?

I think your disk is too big (>137Gig) and not propery seen by your "launch system", that could be why there's a missing partition as well (F: that's now the CD). I can't think of a solution now cause that wine is very good , but I think that's the way to go. What DOS do you boot into to see NTFS partitions ?

Do try the same here ? Is F: the CD or a copy on a partition ? + What partitions are FAT32 and seen when you launch setup ?

Have you tried cleaning the contacts and putting them back in ? That's all I can think of, it sometimes happens that the stick is not regognized because not properly inserted. You can also try testing them in an other comp (I guess Memtest will not run on them if they are not recognized at first).

How about using Windows XP's profiles ?

I guess he has one already? So you are not using the DLink as router (why not ?) but as hub for Internet Connection Sharing, via your computer which is connected to a modem, right ? First thing I see is your PC (".0.1") is not on the same subnet as you GF's (".1.2") , so you can't ping it. I thought ICS needed "other" PCs to use DHCP ? Set your GF's on automatic IP to see if it solves anything.

I'm a bit late on that one but you can rename the file using a wild card: if you have for instance "my file.txt", type "ren my*.* file.txt" and you end up with "file.txt"

You're not very clear about what the problem is. "the B installed the sharing printer and setup one" is not really understandable. Could you even set it up as printer ? Could you print a test page at the end of setup? What's the error message if any ? Is it setup as local or remote/network printer ?

You can send them back "as attachements" instead of plain forward, so when he reopens them on the other side, he can save them in his inbox with the same dates. Hope this makes sense.

Use menu View / Toolbars, untick "Lock the Toolbars", then drag the "handle" to the left. For your network problem, is the router set on DHCP ? Can both computers ping the router ? If not, check network card speeds and if applicable, Subnet Masks.

Hi Gosh .... hum ...does this not mean that this one is ...not nLited ? Also vci, could you describe the problem please ? What do you mean "changing" ?

As you are pretty sure you have 2 physical drives, check in Disk Management. If you have 1 disk ("Disk 0", partitionned or not), you are using RAID. If you have "Disk 0" and "Disk 1" (partitionned or not), you are not using RAID.