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We have a laptop user that when he is working offline, WindowsXP will pop-up a dialogue displaying the available network connection options. Is there anyway to turn this off?

So, we have a salesman who lives in such a remote area that the only high speed service we can get for him is satellite via Direcway. Anyway, he keeps gettng an error 721 when trying to connect to our corporate VPN. Call Direcway. They claim he needs a static IP address to connect to the VPN...

Thank you for all the responses. This looks like it might be a trial and error thing ... I will look into the file & printer sharing as well as the windows firewall the next time that I have to remote to one of these PCs. (Or at the very least, I will keep a list to check back later.) There is...

Here is a problem that I've seen quite a bit, and haven't been able to find a solution for. I've noticed that sometimes when we (corporate Help Desk) try to connect to a Windows XP computer via the Administrative share (\\computername\c$), we get the following error: We can remote desktop to...

Not an option. This company is a Microsoft partner and therefore a purely Microsoft shop (except you know for letting the big wigs use AOL)

Broadband connection.

The problem is that when the user is logged into AOL.com (not the dial up software, but the AOL.com site) they are disconnected/timed out after a certain amount of inactivity. Is there a way to change the amount of time that goes by before the session is timed out/disconnected or is this simply...

Yes, I hate AOL as much as the next person but we do have a corporate account and the big guys upstairs in suits like thier AOL, so please no replies about "getting rid of AOL," okay? The problem: Corporate user accesses AOL from home. They have a Broadband/Cable connection and they go to...

My company needs to order a docking station for an HP laptop. By default, our laptops are ordered without CD/DVD ROM drives or floppy drives. However, the docking stations are quipped with such for installing software and ghosting images (using boot disks). The question: Is there a such thing...