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Some laptops have switches on the side to turn on the wireless card. Make sure that the switch is on and look for a light to show that the card is active.

I'm not sure about the email, but for the shared documents, you might try googledocs. There are other services online, as well, that provide for shared documents.

I like Avira. I've found it less resource-hungry than other AV software. AV comparisons (and yes, there are a lot of them, often contradictory) usually rank Avira somewhere above average.

I would suggest: 1 firewall 1 antivirus 2 antispyware/malware For the rest--antikeylogging, spam fighter, etc.--I'm not sure. So far as security apps are concerned, I really just use the above cocktail of appliances. If you're interested in good security, though, you might try a...

So you have Windows and Ubuntu running dual boot. Is that right? How are you trying to add these programs? Are you using the main Add/Remove Programs manager (Aptitude, I think) or Synaptic?

DHCP reservations are used to set aside IP addresses, in order that they not be handed out upon DHCP request to computers that they're not meant for. For example, you have a server on your network and you want it always to use 192.168.1.2 because you have scripts configured to use that IP...

XP shouldn't be using bootmgr, it should use ntldr. Was Vista or 7 on the hard drive previously?

At a computer where you have an internet connection, go to the web site for the laptop's manufacturer and look up drivers. When you've found the drivers for that model, download the one for the NIC, transfer it to the laptop and install it. I know that you said that it seemed to be working...

I don't mean to be trivial, and I'm not sure how pretty you want this to look, but have you considered cinderblock? I have a desk made of just that material. There aren't any drawers, but there are plenty of pigeonholes.

I've been using Win7 at work for about a year and it runs well. I don't know much about Macs, though I know people who swear by them. If you're considering buying a laptop secondhand, you might also consider running Linux. It'll certainly be a different environment for you, coming from XP...

I think we need to get a little basic information. Do you have a fixed public IP address? If you do, you should know it, since you would probably have had to have paid extra for it. If you have a dynamic ip address port-forwarded from your modem/router, which would be normal for a home...