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Q: My old laptop's screen backlight has blown out. How do I connect another laptop to recover the photos and e-mails from this "dark" computer? A: You don't need another laptop, you need another ...

Remote access — the ability to control a computer from a different location over the network — might not be something you need to use every day. However, it does come in handy in certain situations.

If you are using Windows Home, Remote Desktop is not available. If you are trying to connect to that computer from your PC, then it won’t work. While it is officially not supported, you can use the ...

Windows automatically creates a profile for each WiFi you connect to access the internet in order to make it easy to connect to them some other time on your computer. However, what happens if you ...

From my computer running windows XP, I want to connect to another computer on the network running windows 2ooo. I maintain a backup copy of an important document directory of the WinXP box on the ...