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Item	Cateogory	Question	Solutions
1	Email	How do I send an attachment in Outlook Express?	1. http://www.dummies.com/ 2. http://www.newbie.org/
2	Email	How do I convert AOL's address book to Outlook's cvs file?	1. Online mail conversion software at http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm 2. AOL Leave http://www.aoleave.com/ 3. Address book conversion site: http://www.slipstick.com/config/convaddr.htm
3	Email	How do I send an attachment in AOL?	1. http://www.tforceonline.com/ 2. http://apcug.org/
4	Networking	What are the ways to wire computers in a house or a small business?	1.Use Ethernet cable (CAT-5) cable 2. Use Wireless communication 3. Use Telephone line (HomePNA) 4. Use Powerline (HomePlug) http://www.verizon.net/pands/dsl/add_ons/home_networking.asp For router reviews http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2672522,00.html Really good articles http://www.howstuffworks.com/home-network.htm How Home Networking Works
5	Purchase	Notebook purchase: Make sure that the modem card and NIC are built in. It should not be necessary to purchase additional modem and NIC card. Also, make sure that there is an Infa-red support, too.
6	Networking	How to network computers using existing home phone line?	Two Phoneline Adapters: 1. Phone-USB port: The 2Wire PC Port is a high-speed USB to HomePNA adapter 2. Internal Phoneline Adapter: D-Link DHN-520 10Mb Home Phoneline Network Adapter
7	Networking	What is HomePNA?	www.homepna.org The Home Phoneline Networking Alliance (HomePNA) is an association of leading companies working together to help ensure adoption of a single, unified phoneline networking industry standard and rapidly bringing to market a range of interoperable home networking solutions.
8	Networking	How to set the file/directory's permission in Windows XP for network sharing?	Click on the object such as Drive, directory, and right click for the <sharing>
9	Networking	What is Microsoft's Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)?	ICS is a NAT based routing application, designed to share an Internet connection among multiple computers connected via a LAN. (ICS is based on Nevod's NAT1000, which was purchased by Microsoft in 1999.) ICS can handle both dial-up and broadband based Internet connections.
10	Networking	How to transfer files between two computers?	There are tons of solutions, like Lap link, PC Anywhere.. The built-in one in Windows are Direct Cable Connection.
11	Networking	What is DCC?	http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dccmain.htm World of Windows web site: http://www.wown.com/
12	Networking	Is there an update for Dial-Up Networking for Windows 95 and 98?	Yes, there is. It's DUN version 1.4. Go into www.microsoft.com search for "DUN Upgrade" to get it.
13	Trouble shooting	Try to unzip a file and it stops in the middle of it.	Try to clean all temporarily files and try again. C:\Windows\Temp
14	Windows Usage	How to set the default view to list view in Windows?	From any explorer window, set the view to how you want it, i.e. 'List' or 'Details', then from the 'Tools' menu ('View' menu in older OSs), select 'Folder Options'. On the 'View' tab, select 'Like Current Folder'. All folder view options, such as icon display type, Auto-Arrange, will be reflected on all folders the next time they are opened.
15	Trouble shooting	Random Lockup/Freeze problem in Windows 98	Try: 1. Run drwatson 2. BIOS setting / disable shadowing RAM 3. Video Card driver update 4. Other hardware driver update 5. BIOS upgrade 6. Dust off the inside of CPU box; Reseat cards 7. Run "SFC" 8. Disable Power Management profile for desktop PCs.