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If the cable is damaged or making a bad contact somewhere, you can get this kind of problems. Also some cable aren't shielded, so if the cable goes by a strong magnetic field, you might encounter problems. What is the length of the cable ? Crossover cable should not be longer than 25 meters if you don't want to have problems. Also for your question about getting 100mb/s: the speed is negociated once. So if the packets for speed negociation pass through, you can even get 1Gb/s and not able to get 10mb/s after.

First did you set a fixed ip adress on both computers ? If you didn't, try setting : - first computer : ip adress: 10.0.0.2, subnet 255.255.255.0, no gateway - second computer : ip adress: 10.0.0.3, subnet 255.255.255.0, no gateway Second, did you disabled XP Firewall if you've got SP2 ? Third, if you can't ping correctly don't try modifying netbios etc... because if ping doesn't work, you won't connect to the other computer. The problem can be the crossover cable, networks card (not very often), networks drivers.

If you're using an antivirus software, try disabling it before the copy.

The solution in the MS knowledge base works even if you're in workgroup.

In XP on some systems you can login before having networking up. If you're in this case and using autologon, the restoration of network connections would obviously take a longer time. Here is the complete explanation: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;305293

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Some content might disable the use of some buttons. Do you have the problem for everything, even for Windows XP default sounds (%systemroot%\media) ?

There should be a "verr num" key. She need to press this key to enable or disable the numeric keypad. Some laptop require to press this key and another one at the same time "fn" key or "shift" key or "ctrl".

What's the latop brand and model ?

If there are many domain controlers, perhaps the AD isn't synched. But that shouldn't be this. Perhaps you're using a strange name for this computer and then it's hidden. Did you tried to rename it with a simple name ?

You can't change irq manually. First go into the bios and try different settings: - Check is you set pnp OS :Yes or No. I onyl use Yes for XP and 2003. - Disable allocate irq to vga ( should be needed ) Most graphics can work very well without an irq. If those settings doesn't solve the problems, try to change cards in the pci slots. Usually, some pci slot share the same irq. You should have a schema in the MB manual.

Mosts likely, she's using a laptop and the verr num key is enabled.

As i already replied in the other post: You scsi controler doesn't seem to have builtin raid if this is your motherboard. Did you checked the manual ? Did you tried to use ezscsi from adaptec ?

You do not need to create autodefragc.cmd it will be created by script.cmd on each computer. Other than that, it should work.

The only intel board with this adaptec chip i found was this one : http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/C440GX/ The Manual doesn't say what kind of raid it is but it's raid upgradable (p16). So if you don't have the raid module or extension, you can't create a raid volume. Also p89 tell how to configure the scsi controller: either the bios or use ezscsi from adaptec (it's free). Hope it'll help.

That's : net use * \\remoteip\remoteshare /u:remotedomain\remoteuser remotepassword

Which intel board ?

Basically create a new gpo, in machine configuration, windows parameters, scripts, startup, and it's there that you'll put the batch script. This batch script must create the scripts needed to run the defrag and then add the task with the at command for example. Example for batchs that will create a batch file and then add the scheduled task: echo defrag c: /f >%systemroot%\autodefragc.cmd at 01:00 /every:01 %systemroot%\autodefragc.cmd This should work. Anyway i've never tried this, but this is the way i'll do things.

The raid card bios should do it. If not the raid card manufacturer should provide a tool to configure it before installing the OS. Ex for HP raid controllers, there is a hp smartstart cd that can help to config your raid array.

Some raid card can do it without even rebooting. But even in this case, as everybody already said, backup your data.

Check in the registry: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{8FC0B734-A0E1-11D1-A7D3-0000F87571E3} You should find a subkey named "inprocserver32" and the default value wih should be a default REG_EXPAND_SZ "%SystemRoot%\System32\GPEdit.dll" If you have anything else, there's a problem. If you don't like looking in the registry, you can directly type regsvr32 gpedit.dll from a dos box. Hope this helps.

I would choose vbscript. VB .NET is mostly to make projects and therefore not likely to automate simples tasks.

You can try the clear type settings in Display properties, Appearence, effects, check use the following method to smothe edges of screen fonts , choose clear type. This helped me when i was using an old graphic card and drivers didn't do a good job by themselves.

You most likely will have to change the graphic card, the graphic processor should have been damaged running without fan 3days. You might be able to make it work by underclocking it if it's possible.

Did you tried changing the cdrom or dvdrom reader ?