Radioactive Frog

yeah i tried that during the day and found it to work !! thanks for replying RF

well what i plan to do is set up a mini home intranet that i can access! i hope that is still ok..... i have just tried radmin but cant get it to wrok on xp pro, it says cant find server... ? any ideas? thanks for responses

great thanks i will look into that, so does that mean i would be able to access my network from afar if i have a static ip? thanks RF

i am downloading a variaty of themes and stuff from the web but i can only have two download windows running at once? any idea y? when i try to download a third it waits until one of the others is complete? im using xp pro and ie thanks

anyone know how to change the start up screen on win2k, i boot up and get a screen before i get the main desktop screen. It is an old desktop i had?????? thanks RF

great thanks i will give it a go !!

great thanks i have tried that, i am assuming that i was to add a new DWORD thing as thats wat i did !! i will give it ago thanks again RF

ok i am trying to learn more and more about networks, i have a very simple home net but i am interested in login scripts, can anyone tell me what they are and wot they are used for!!??? thanks very much RF

i have just built a new computer with a MSI KT4AV motherboard and when i turn it on it just beeps at me derrr derrr derrr derrr derrr etc! nothing powers up not even the psu ! hmmmmmmmm i know normally the beeps mean somthing but i thought that was when the puter started !! any ideas? thanks

well.......i just want a psu to run sum of my fans etc!! Strange idea probably but i am strange !!!! and a psu is generally cheaper than one of the drive bay controllers, so unti i have the cash i can use a psu !! !! thanks for your reply !! RF

it is down to personally preference at the end of the day but if it is for personal use then get the free version of zone alarm and give it ago, i used it before upgrading to the pro version for my network !! It is great !! IMO... HTH RF

great i was hoping it would do something like that ! so how do i go about creating and implementing one !! sorry for all the questions but i am eager to learn about this ! thanks for the fast response !! RF P.S. I am happy to doa bit of reading if someone could point me to a relaible site !! thanks

MR.Guvernment your suggestion about shorting the green and any black to start the mobo, is this just a testing way or could it be use permantly? ie putting a switch across it so i could use the psu to power stuff ? thanks RF

thanks for everyones suggestions ! i managed to get a spare CPU and that solved it ! the BRAND NEW cpu was faulty so i have sent it back !! arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh !! thanks again all for your help RF

ok i will try those things, but usually things like that don't take affect until the puter starts up and as the psu don't even come on then i didn't try those ! but i will ! i have tried a different psu but no luck ! thanks RF

using a bt dial up sometimes when i connect i get a page saying you have not connected correctly click here. When i re create a dial up connection it connects fine, but this happens regularly, can anyone tell me y!! I am using win 2k and ie6 thanks RF

My friends laptop has got outlook 2002 on it and he wants to sort the inbox by when the email was recieved but unlike on mine there is not "recieved tab" there is a DUE BY which i have never seen! has anyone come acrosss this before? and how do i sort it? thanks

thanks very much ! got it sorted !! RF

in outlook express i could change my store folder to a different folder so i changed it to a different partition so i didn't loose my emials. I can't seem to find the option in Outlook 2002, i have seen auto archive but that is something different. Any ideas? Thanks RF

ok thanks i will give it a go on my laptop and see what settings are imported !! thanks for all your help !! RF

Great thanks very much. I got the backup thing working !! Is there something i can use to back up my email account settings as oe5 did that too !! should i put this in a new topic? thanks

i want to work on both my laptop and desktop. when i get home id like to sync the files from my laptop with the files on the desktop but not having to copy them individually!! I'd be using m home network! any ideas? preferably free ones !! RF

thanks all i will look into the options and see what happens !! RF

yeah im not great at writing batch files ! the enable offline files idea sounds cool, but i could do with a little more explaination if that is poss thanks in advanced RF

i have an ntfs machine on the workgroup home network. I was told that i had to create the user profile on that machine for others to access it which works fine, but now i have got lots of log on options when i start up but non of them can log on locally so is there a way of removing them from the list at start up ? running winxp pro thanks RF