basic ??? about Windows XP

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I've been running Windows 98, and now have a machine
with Windows XP on it. When I do a search of the hard
drive, it gives me the message: SNIP
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By default there is no 'My computer' icon on an XP desktop. Add it by
right-clicking on the desktop, select properties, the Desktop tab, then
customise desktop, and put a check next to My Computer. Double clicking on
My Computer takes you straight to the drives.
Alternatively, when you do find a drive, right click on it and select Send
to...desktop as shortcut.
Graham
 
I've been running Windows 98, and now have a machine
with Windows XP on it. When I do a search of the hard
drive, it gives me the message:
_______________________________________
Unable to connect

The Web site is currently unavailable or the
connection to the Internet has been lost.
Make sure you are connected to the Internet
and try again.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Other than selecting Local Hard Drives (C:) from the
Look In: menu which I do, is there something else I
have to do to get it to search the hard drive?

Also. I use Dial-Up Networking to connect my Windows 98
PC to the internet. Can I use the same thing on the XP
machine, and if so, where do I find it?

Thanks for any help!
David
 
GTS said:
By default there is no 'My computer' icon on an XP desktop. Add it by
right-clicking on the desktop, select properties, the Desktop tab, then
customise desktop, and put a check next to My Computer. Double clicking on
My Computer takes you straight to the drives.
Alternatively, when you do find a drive, right click on it and select Send
to...desktop as shortcut.
Graham
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Windows key + E will open Explorer.

Mike.
 
I've been running Windows 98, and now have a machine
with Windows XP on it. When I do a search of the hard
drive, it gives me the message:
_______________________________________
Unable to connect

The Web site is currently unavailable or the
connection to the Internet has been lost.
Make sure you are connected to the Internet
and try again.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
Other than selecting Local Hard Drives (C:) from the
Look In: menu which I do, is there something else I
have to do to get it to search the hard drive?
Click to expand...

Just click "Search" and then in the window that opens click Files and
Folders and it should show the Local Hard Drives ( C) as the place to
search. Fill in the boxes and away you go.
Also. I use Dial-Up Networking to connect my Windows 98
PC to the internet. Can I use the same thing on the XP
machine, and if so, where do I find it?
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From memory... Control Panel...then...Network Connections, then click Create
a New Connection (under Tasks), and work through the wizard carefully. Have
all your ISP details to hand.
 
By default there is no 'My computer' icon on an XP desktop.
Click to expand...

It's there.
Add it by
right-clicking on the desktop, select properties, the Desktop tab, then
customise desktop, and put a check next to My Computer. Double clicking on
My Computer takes you straight to the drives.
Click to expand...

Doing the search that way produces the same result.
Alternatively, when you do find a drive, right click on it and select Send
to...desktop as shortcut.
Graham
Click to expand...

I'm okay with shortcuts. I'm trying to search the hard drive
(not "for" the hard drive), and get online.
 
Just click "Search" and then in the window that opens click Files and
Folders and it should show the Local Hard Drives ( C) as the place to
search. Fill in the boxes and away you go.
Click to expand...

That's what I've been doing, and it keeps giving me the
same message:
_______________________________________
Unable to connect

The Web site is currently unavailable or the
connection to the Internet has been lost.
Make sure you are connected to the Internet
and try again.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
From memory... Control Panel...then...Network Connections, then click Create
a New Connection (under Tasks), and work through the wizard carefully. Have
all your ISP details to hand.
Click to expand...

Thanks, that worked great. But apparently there's
no modem so I'll have to get one. I wonder if
absence of the modem could somehow be causing
the problem with attempts to search the hard drive.
 
<struggles wrote after...
"Bob Hobden" replied:


That's what I've been doing, and it keeps giving me the
same message:
_______________________________________
Unable to connect

The Web site is currently unavailable or the
connection to the Internet has been lost.
Make sure you are connected to the Internet
and try again.
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

Thanks, that worked great. But apparently there's
no modem so I'll have to get one. I wonder if
absence of the modem could somehow be causing
the problem with attempts to search the hard drive.
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Wouldn't think so.

There might be a modem installed, there usually is, but it may be disabled
or something. Perhaps the previous owner used Broadband and disabled it. .

Have you checked the Hardware tab on the Device Manager for a modem?
(Control Panel, then System, then Hardware then Device Manager and then
click on Modem and see what's there. If there is one double click the modem
and see what it says on the various tabs.
 
Bob Hobden said:
<struggles wrote after...

Wouldn't think so.

There might be a modem installed, there usually is, but it may be
disabled or something. Perhaps the previous owner used Broadband and
disabled it. .

Have you checked the Hardware tab on the Device Manager for a modem?
(Control Panel, then System, then Hardware then Device Manager and then
click on Modem and see what's there. If there is one double click the
modem and see what it says on the various tabs.
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What are you searching for?

Mike.
 
What are you searching for?

Mike.
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Regardless of what I search for, it always gives the same
result. Even if I search for a file I know is there and where it's
located the same message is still the only result.
 
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