The Windows XP Home Networking Wizard is a tool that can be used to configure your computer for networking. Using this wizard is not necessary and is not recommended for networks. To configure your computer and the network, follow the instructions included with your system or provided to you by your service provider.

Students living in the residence halls (Towers, Dadisman, Boreman, Arnold, Stalnaker, Pierpont, and Summit) should have Windows XP Professional for security reasons for connection to ResNet, WVU's Residental Network (internet connection). Windows XP Professional is much more reliable. Windows XP Media Center Edition is not recommended. Windows XP Professional was built to operate in a business-like environment utilitizing network technology such as ethernet and wireless connectivity.

The new smooth blue or green wrapping on the Start menu, Task Bar, and on all of the windows are part of the new visual design for Windows XP. This feature can be turned off to speed up your computer, however this will revert all windows and menus back to the gray rectangular design of Windows 98 or 2000. If the My Computer icon is on your desktop, right-click on it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Adjust for best performance. Click Apply.

Yes, after consideration of the differences between XP Home and XP Professional, we think that either will be suitable for use. Windows XP Pro does offer more features, something that students can evaluate on their own.

Yes, both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional have the built-in Internet Connection Firewall. The steps to turn on the firewall are identical. You might not be logged on as an administrator. You must be logged on as an administrator to turn on Internet Connection Firewall. When you first set up your Windows XP computer, the procedure guides you through the process of establishing an administrator account and password.

No. Support for Windows XP Home Edition in Ford dealerships has been dropped. IDS was developed exclusively for Windows XP Professional. There are no plans to support Windows XP Home Edition. To use a Windows XP Home Edition PC with IDS you will need to upgrade to Windows XP Professional and purchase a VCM to laptop cable.

a) Run Idem and configure your source-destination folders, set menu Log active if you whish a daily report of list of files processed. d) to run the Idem Service, ensure that you follow above considerations about Windows and account rights. run it using a true account with the appropriate rights (something like 'Administrator'). Do not use the default 'LocalSystem' account. This is necessary to be able to replicate files out of the NT box (and this is not our conditions but Microsoft's..

NCDC we have installed the Atlas successfully onto a Windows 2000 pc. (We haven't tried it in Windows ME or Windows XP.) Here's how we made it work in Windows 2000: Please note that neither NCDC nor ESRI supports ArcExplorer in Windows 2000, or Windows ME, or Windows XP. Please read the Atlas' Minimum Requirements page. Download Sun's jre 1.3.1 for Microsoft Windows from the sun website. We got it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.

Yes. You must be set up as an Administrator in order to install and setup MDC for the first time. MDC was designed using XP as a base operating system. We have tested the software on all platforms including Windows 98, ME, XP, and 2000. If you need to transfer your database to another computer, you'll need to Backup your database on the existing computer, and then Restore the database on the new computer. This is done through the File Menu.

This problem can be solved when you install DOSBox. You can download this program from site: dosbox.sourceforge.net You can run DOSBox under other operating systems for example Linux. Exchange dosbox.conf file for dosbox.conf from PG download page.

Answer the step by step questions. When the software runs successfully, you will have the option to SAVE the settings. If you save the settings you will not have to complete this step again.

Use of the Windows XP Home Networking Wizard in and of itself will not cause the connection to the system to be lost. The most likely problem is that the Home Networking Wizard has enabled Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on your Windows XP computer. ICS is incompatible with the system network and must be disabled for your home network to work properly. Consult the Windows XP help system for instructions on how to disable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) on your computer.

Yes. Windows XP includes a technology called WPA (discussed above), which enforces a license Microsoft has been using for years (that is, you're supposed to buy one copy of Windows for each computer). However, there are ways in which you can minimize your costs. If you only need Home Edition, and you qualify for the upgrade version, buy two copies of that. Or use Microsoft's new Additional Family License (AFL) option to get 8 to 12 percent off the cost of the second installation.

Not legally, and I won't tell you how it can be done. The official policy is that each computer needs its own individual copy of the software.

You must use the "Network Connections" program that comes with Windows XP, located in the folder "Control Panel" on your system. You can get on-line instructions on how to configure and use Dialup Networking by pointing your browser at: There are three areas in the above documentation that you will to need to supply information specific to the Newark campus.

Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP have IPsec feature. Use of IPsec is supported in IPv6 environment. But this IPv6 IPsec implementation does not support encryption of payload data. Windows family IPv6 IPsec feature at present can be used to authenticate the sender and to prevent data repudiation. It is also true that IPv6 IPsec in Windows family at present does not support Internet Key Exchange (IKE), an automatic key exchange mechanism.

Window XP supports Windows Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). This does not eliminate the need for a home gateway. Using ICS requires that you dedicate one computer to act as the “connection sharing” computer for your home network. This computer must be left on and connected to the Internet at all times for other computers in the home to have access.

Microsoft recommends Windows XP Professional for the education environment. Windows XP Home Edition is a limited subset of Windows XP Professional and does not take advantage of the extended capabilities around desktop management, mobility and multi-processor support. Windows XP Professional includes ALL of the benefits of Home Edition plus: Greater security, including the ability to encrypt your files and folders, to protect your sensitive data.

There are several differences between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro. The main differences are that Windows XP Pro is better for networking as it has more features. For a full comparison of the differences, please click here.

The SimCity 3000 packaging indicates that the program runs on Windows 95 or Windows 98, but it will run in Windows 2000 without difficulty. Windows XP users will have to set SimCity 3000 to run in Windows 2000 mode as follows: After installing the program, go to Start, All Programs, Maxis, SimCity 3000. Instead of launching SimCity, right click on the SimCity 3000 icon, select Properties, then select the Compatibility tab and change it to whichever mode works best in your system.

Windows XP is a far superior manger of your PC's resources and therefore requires more RAM (memory) to operate efficiently. We recommend as a minimum 256MB of RAM - 128 MB of RAM for WXP alone, and another 128 MB of RAM for the user and any applications you may use.

Note that doing any of the below will erase all data in your hard disk! You can boot from a Windows 9x boot disk, reformat the XP partition and install a previous version of Windows. If XP is installed using NTFS file system, you'll first have to use FDISK to delete the partition, type FDISK at the prompt. Once you are at the menu, select "Delete Non-dos Partition.

Use the Unlocker utility. This file will unlock all file handles on the file/folder and even offer to delete it for you before the program locks it again!

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.

Windows XP comes in Professional and Home versions. Servers will also come out, but they are still in beta testing.

Windows XP Home is $99 for an upgrade copy and $199 for the full version. Windows XP Pro is $199 for the upgrade version and $299 for a full copy.

Yes. CaterPro for Windows runs on computers running Windows 98 or higher, including Windows 2000, Windows XP Windows Me and Windows Vista.