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I have seen lots of damage from surges and the ONLY solution is a good UPS. These will switch to battery mode under adverse line conditions and protect your equipment. If it is really bad and the UPS is destroyed, you will likely still have functioning PCs which you can plug into the mains until you get a new UPS.

The best surge I saw was after a digger ripped up the supply cable to an estate. This put 415 volts on the 240 volt mains and fried everything that was not protected by a UPS, including several important computers protected by expensive “surge” protectors. The servers were behind a UPS and didn’t miss a beat. Even the UPS was fine when we got the power back.

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Not being able to connect to a PC by specifying the IP address (\ipaddr) sounds like a bad default gateway setting.

Do you have the default gateway set to your own router or the ISP router? It should be your own, with routes set in your router to send internet traffic via the ISP router.

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And make sure Windows firewall allows file sharing.

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And why spend the money on W7? Apart from being poorer, what difference has it made?

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I don’t know why you are getting the error but my money is on a NetBIOS problem.
I would remove NetBIOS from all PCs and just run IP. The router will register the names in DNS and you should be OK.

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Don’t forget to select WPA2 encryption and use a good 63 bit key.

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Searching for “mount points on network share” throws up plenty of options.

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I’d try it on another cd reader first. If that’s OK, copy the files to a USB stick and go from there.

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Only system files are considered un-movable – this includes the swap file pagefile.sys.

If you are really stuck you can ghost both partitions, then re-load them and change the sizes for the re-load. You could even move the second partition to a new hard disk.

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This can happen if you have a dodgy network connection – Windows will wait for the network connection to timeout before doing anything else.

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I find the HP software more akin to bloatware and fairly clunky to use, but it does do all the things you need.
I would live with it as long as it’s working, if not I’d un-install and re-install.

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Normally caused by not closing the sheet properly. Do you close Excel manually or let Windows do it when you shut down?

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You should be able to get the desktop to connect via the wireless card – start with WEP and a simple key, then work up to WPA2 and a proper key. You need to connect the laptop via a cable while you test so you can talk to the router.

If you have dial up on the desktop you can turn on ICS and connect the lappy via a cross over cable. There is no speed / throughput problem as long as only one machine connects to the internet at a time, but that is unlikely given the number of things on the average PC that wants to connect to the internet unannounced.

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I have used SendTo from Trogladite software for years

SendTo is just a folder in %USERPROFILE%. You can drop shortcuts in there for pretty much anything – I always put a shortcut to Notepad in there.

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Probably, but it may also be a bad connection to the video card, or the card itself. Best test is to use that monitor on another computer – though different video card and settings may prevent the problem occurring.

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