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Two commands, ASSOC and FTYPE, allow you to manage file associations from a command prompt (or in a batch file). Typing ASSOC, without parameters, displays the currently defined extensions. Type Assoc .wav to display the .wav file association. Typing assoc .wav= will delete the .wav association. Typing FTYPE without options displays the file types that have defined open command strings. Ftype SoundRec will display the open command string for the file type SoundRec. Typing ftype SoundRec= will delete the open command string. To define a new association for .log files which you want to open with notepad: assoc .log=LogFile ftype LogFile=%Systemroot%\System32\notepad.exe %1 For a complete explanation, type ftype /? at a command prompt. Just create a batch file to change the associations from one browser to the other for each of you and place the batch file in the startup folder in each of your profiles. That way it runs everytime one of you log in.

Why are you bridging anything? Just plug in your 2003 box and your xp box into the switch on the back of the wireless device. Or, if you are connecting into a larger 100Mb network, connect the wireless switch up to that using the uplink (or equivelant) port on the wireless device.

There is nothing different between pre-formatted discs accept the formating, so all should be good for the first nine. For the tenth disc though, I would not trust anything important on it. It sounds like it might be on its deathbed.

If your backup file for Outlook Express is a *.pst file, you can simply choose the import/export item fromt he File list and point it at that file. That will allow you to import all the mail, address, and other settings, including you email configuration.

Many times formatting will be different from one computer to another because fonts used in the document on pc 1 are not installed on pc 2, usually because additional apps have been installed on pc 1 and there fonts are made available to the word app. When the document is viewed with pc 2, it must choose alternate fonts that it believes are a close match to the original. Sometimes its close, others, not so close.

I'll be watchin'

I'm not greedy. Its not a brand new unit, but it is in very good condition and I'll warrenty it against DOA plus 2 weeks. Checking ebay and the like they are getting upwards of $1000.00, but like I said I'm not greedy, and it is just sitting here doing nothing, how about $500.00 and I'll ship at no charge?

How about a cisco 2600 series with 2 T1 interface modules?

You got it. The access points are usually switches with 4 ports for additional lan access as well as the wireless connections. Go for 802.11g as that will maximize his throughput internally. It won't, however, effect his dialup, and the prices have dropped dramaticly recently.

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I'll explain using an analogy: a hub is like your local city block, it allows you to travel from one address (computer) to the address (computer) down the street with very little effort. As more people try to get to other addresses on the street, you start to get congestion, and eventually, collisions. A switch creates a special "road" between you and the address you want to get to, a road only you get to use to go back and forth. A router, is like the interstate, meant to get you from one town address (network A) to an address in another town (network . Now what this means to computers. A hub is meant to transfer data between a small group of computers. There is no means to direct the data, the computer wishing to send waits for a gap and starts sending data to the receiving computer. All the computers receive the data, but only the computer meant to receive it responds. As you can see, this creates a lot of traffic, and lots of collisions of data. When data collides, it must be resent from the transmitting computer. If you get to many computers on the hub, you get a traffic nightmare. A switch, brings traffic control to the hub. When a switch receives data, it reads where the data is going and creates a "switch" that connects the two computers together. Now only their data is being transfered back and forth, the ohter computers don't see the traffic. A router is for connecting a computer to the internet or connecting two or more networks together. It is a much smarter switch. Most "routers" for the home or small office have 1 to 4 switch ports so that a small network can share an internet address using it instead of a computer for internet connection sharing (ICS). A bit wordy, but I hope it explains it enough.

Sorry But ONLY the server editions of windows os's support Domains. You can join existing domains with workstations, but you can not create a domain with them.

When you reformated the "boot" drive with linux, you killed the ntldr file on the partition. Even though you installed the win2k3 on a second drive or partition, the ntldr file always goes on the "boot" partition or "boot" drive.

Have you corrolated the systems that go down with either the 2 stick (128M x 2) or the single stick 256M? Is it only occuring with systems with new memory, or is it occuring with systems that have the original memory?

Project 95 was just a repackaged win3.1 app for the then "new" windows 95 platform. I'm guessing that winxp simply has no "compatability mode" for that 16 bit app, its just to old. You should be able to find a more modern version (say 2000ish) for a very reasonable price on ebay or something, as even project 98 is no longer supported.