jimras

All good thoughts but I'm with Liz............where's my COFFEE!!!!

Hey, bobby----I followed a link from the page you linked me to and found an adapter cord that will do the job just fine. Thanks for all the help. This board has the greatest helpers I have found anywhere!! jim

No---they are paranoid about letting people access their network with personal laptops. I can't get on with my laptop so if I want to be able to print, I have to have a stand-alone printer and I really don't want to go and buy one when I have this one just sitting there.

Hi people. I have an older HP laser printer that still works great. It is a LaserJet 5L. The thing is, it ONLY has a Parallel port printer cord input. I would like to use this at work with my Laptop but that computer ONLY has USB ports. I am NOT able to hook my laptop into the company network so if I want to print, I have to have my own stand-alone printer. I would love to be able to print to this HP because it works great and it's relatively cheap to operate but I have no clue of how I could access it from my laptop. Does anybody make some kind of USB to Parallel cable adapter? I ha

Perfect Thanks!!

I know there must be a simple way to do this but I really don't know how. I absolutely HATE the Windows Explorer default of showing icons when you open a folder. Can't I somehow set the default to show "details" view instead? I really would prefer to always have it open in the detail view every time. I just can't find where to do this. I am running Windows XP Pro SP3. Thanks in advance for any help you experts can offer. jim

Wow! That's a lot of sheep! I wonder how many there are............let's see............. 1...............2.............3............4.............5..............zzzzzzzz zzzz (snores lightly)

I will give all that a try. I will have to wait for a bit, however, because my CPU cooler decided to quit last night and I have to wait for a replacement Good thing I have a laptop, too. Thanks Shanenin, for all your help jr

I go to control panel and then to printers. I click on the "add a printer" and choose networked printer. I then choose the "my printer is not shown here" and refresh the network. Then I double click on my desktop computer and choose the printer and click on OK and I get a box saying that it can't install the printer and to make sure that I have the name right and that it is connected to the network. It IS connected---it IS turned on. I just don't know what's up.

I have a home network. Two desktops running XP SP3 on both that are wired thru a router. I also have a Laptop that iw running Vista home premium SP1 that connects wireless thru the same router. I have printers connected to both laptops and I have file and printer sharing enabled on ALL 3 computers. I can not connect to either printer with my laptop. If I try to print, I get the message that there is no printer to print to. If I go to the control panel, I can try to add a printer, and I can "see" the two printers on the network, but I can't get either to install to my laptop. Does a

Ya---as we say in "vos-con-sin" WTFC!! (Way too Frickin' Cold!) Snuggle up---It's supposed to be colder tonight!

Funny!!

Man, I gotta tell ya................ I hate the idea that this forum has gone political.....even if it is just this thread............... I, for one, am NOT going to read, nor contribute, to this thread!! FWIW.................MHO

Well, you are barely at miminum specs for XP home. Microsoft says that it will run on a 233 MHz chip with a minimum of 64 Megs of RAM Most of the things I read about it was that you needed a 300 MHz chip and a bare minimum of 128 MG of RAM and most people that were running XP had at least 512 MG of RAM. I know that you are trying to get by without having to stick a lot of money into your system, but you might want to thing about upgrading your motherboard, chip, and RAM to something that will run it a whole lot better. The other way to look at it is that if you are going to stick a lot of

Well, I'm going to venture a guess here but check in the BIOS setup that you have USB mouse ENABLED There may well be other things to check, but I'm not sure of those....there are a lot of experts here on the board that maybe can offer other options, too.

I put in my vote for Corsair, too. That is what I used in my rebuild last summer and I am very happy with it. I also bought it with a nice rebate on 2 GB and a month later they ran the special again (at Tiger Direct) so I bought another 2 GB

Thanks fellas.............that's good to know. jim

I have recently acquired a new laptop computer that I use for work. I travel a lot, I'm a salesman, and I would be using this computer 8 to 10 per day while on the road. The battery is more than enough to do this without running it down so charging is not a problem, but I do have one question. Will it hurt anything if I just put it into "sleep" mode (just close the cover) rather than shutting it down and then completely rebooting when I want to use it again? I'm concerned with the HD, I guess. It only takes like 5 seconds to come back from sleep mode but it takes a couple of minutes to c

I recently got a Toshiba at UBID.com and was very satisfied with it.

I use "startup.exe" to disable all the AVG programs and then just re-boot.

That's a great idea....thanks!

I have a router that I currently have hooked up to two computers.....one is upstairs and one is downstairs. The router is downstairs. Now......I have a laptop, too and I would like to hook that up every so often and I really don't want to run another cable upstairs if I don't have to. I have another 4 port router that I'm not using.....can I take the cable that was running from the router to my upstairs computer and put that as the input to the 2nd router and then run a cable from the 2nd router to my upstairs desktop computer and another to my laptop?

a couple of things you can do............ IF it's a real person, say "just a sec--hold on I'll be right back" and don't come back....just put the phone down IF it's a few seconds of silence. it's a computer generated call......hit the # key a bunch of times.....it confuses their conputer.

Yes, these are newer USB ports--not the 1.1 Yes, different devices get the message.....my Zune MP3 player and a controler for a flight simulator are just two examples

I have 6 USB ports on my computer and when I connect something to it I get a pop up that says that I could use USB 2 for faster connections. I have the most current drivers installed and they should all be ver 2 Any idea why I get this message or what I can do to fix it? thanks............jim XP Pro SP3 AMD 64 x2 3 ghz 4 gig memory