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I am trying to get an older system up and running so my daughter can use it
to connect to the internet. It is running XP pro and had been used in an
office. When they updated, my daughter got this one. It seems that I can
connect OK. Don't hear modem noise as usual, but get the messages about
verifying password, etc. This is where the problem begins. When I start
explorer the only thing I get is the cannot find server thing. I have no
ideas what the browser setting should be or since it was an offfice system if
the security is too high. Any help will be greatly apprecited. Debbie
 
momma said:
I am trying to get an older system up and running so my daughter can use it
to connect to the internet. It is running XP pro and had been used in an
office. When they updated, my daughter got this one. It seems that I can
connect OK. Don't hear modem noise as usual, but get the messages about
verifying password, etc. This is where the problem begins. When I start
explorer the only thing I get is the cannot find server thing. I have no
ideas what the browser setting should be or since it was an offfice system if
the security is too high. Any help will be greatly apprecited. Debbie
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Since the machine was used, you should do a clean install of Windows.

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows -
What you will need on-hand

There is no way for us to know what settings are incorrect from your
description of the problem but if this machine was part of a domain you
will consistently be running into problems and restrictions.


Malke
 
I am trying to get an older system up and running so my daughter can use it
to connect to the internet. It is running XP pro and had been used in an
office. When they updated, my daughter got this one. It seems that I can
connect OK. Don't hear modem noise as usual, but get the messages about
verifying password, etc. This is where the problem begins. When I start
explorer the only thing I get is the cannot find server thing. I have no
ideas what the browser setting should be or since it was an offfice system if
the security is too high. Any help will be greatly apprecited. Debbie
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If I acquired a used computer, the first thing I would do with it
would be to reinstall the operating system cleanly. You have no idea
how the computer has been maintained, what has been installed
incorrectly, what is missing, what viruses and spyware there may be,
etc. I wouldn't want to live with somebody else's mistakes and
problems, possibility of kiddie porn, etc., and I wouldn't recommend
that anyone else do either.
 
Ok, as you can probably guess, I don't have any discs that go with that
computer. Any other possibilities, such as completely erasing her hard drive
and sharing my windows 98 with her? Thanks for the help, hope you can give
more! Debbie
 
Ok, as you can probably guess, I don't have any discs that go with that
computer.
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In that case you do not have a legal version of Windows XP. Moreover
even if you fix this problem, you are always susceptible to future
problems that you won't be able to fix without having a CD.

I wouldn't want to be in a position of running an operating system
that I didn't have CD for, and wouldn't recommend to anyone else that
they do so either. If I were in your shoes, I would bite the bullet
and buy a copy.

Any other possibilities, such as completely erasing her hard drive
and sharing my windows 98 with her?
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That would also be a license violation. Like Windows XP, one copy of
Windows 98 is licensed for a single machine only.
 
Ok, as you can probably guess, I don't have any discs that go with that
computer. Any other possibilities, such as completely erasing her hard
drive
and sharing my windows 98 with her? Thanks for the help, hope you can
give
more! Debbie
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You need to have a CD. There will be trouble sooner or later and without it
you might not be able to to fix it. On the licensing side, it's not a
legitimate transfer of the license if it doesn't come with the CD and COA.

By the license you can't share one copy of win98 on two systems.

Your best option is to buy a copy of XP, and reinstall clean. You don't
know what other problems there are, and things like malware and other
nasties.
 
That PC should have come with an OEM version of Windows licensed to it.
Try contacting the "office it came from" for the original CD.
 
While it is ethically and legally desirable to buy a new copy of Win
98 for a second machine, an unethical and illegally minded person
might not bother, as you can install it twice on two different systems
without any problems.

That said, it is a good idea to get a new legal XP disk, as Win 98 is
a piece of crap compared to it, and inflicting it on your daughter is
tantamount to child cruelty ;-}
 
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