Legacy Operating Systems

I'm having trouble accessing any User after the Welcome screen. Windows XP SP2 boots okay to the user Welcome screen. When I pick a user it starts 'loading the settings', thee background comes up, no desktop icons and then suddenly it goes to 'saving the settings' and back to Welcome screen. I first tried rebooting and also Safe Mode (using Administrator) but same result. Figuring XP needs a driver or repair, when I try to use the OEM XP cd to boot it gives me "install XP, create or remove partition" When I touch any key it goes to blue screen. 2 messages - either 0X8E or 0X50. From there I've tried removing recent slave HDD and added SIMM but no change. …

60 C:\$Extend\$UsnJrnl:$J:$DATA 1 C:\$LogFile 1 C:\$Bitmap 1 C:\$Boot 1 C:\$MFTMirr 1 C:\$MFT::$BITMAP Should I be concerned that C:\$Extend\$UsnJrnl:$J:$DATA has 60 fragments? And that the others have 1? If so, how can I defrag them. Thanks

I installed AVG anti virus (free) (in order to step someone else thru installation by phone) and then removed it. I have what appears to be an AVG file stuck in a folder that I can not delete... File: Full-Print.css In: c:\documents and settings\myname\local settings\temporary internet files Accessing from Windows I can not delete it. Starting Windows in Safe Mode Command Prompt, it is not visible. Any suggestions as to how to get rid of it? Earl

I'm trying to move things from the system disk to another bigger disk. Can I386 be used on a disk other than the system disk? Can you suggest something that might be moved? Thanks

My digital camera makes short one minute .AVI videos. I often record the full minute, then hit the button to get another minute. I'd like to find software to paste the two pieces together, and maybe edit out some frames. In the least, I'd like to make still photos from individual frames. Does anyone know of any software I can download to do any of this? Must be for Win98. Freeware preferred if possible, excessively bloated software not needed, just something simple. Thanks for all advice

Hi, I run Win XP Pro SP2. After the automatic Win XP SP3 update failed, I tried in all the 3 ways instructed by Microsoft to redo it without success. I get the error message "Access is denied" after all tries . The same thing happened with my laptop. So it seems that this is a very common issue affecting many people. This has also caused my LAN no to function well. By restarting both the modem and router, I coul come out to the Internet, BUT still the other machines on the LAN cannot read the content in my machine and this is very important for me. Please help with both these issues. Regards M Shafaat

XP Media Center, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 Dell Dimension E520 Quite often my USB mouse "sticks" for a moment, then recovers. Several times a day it freezes entirely and I have to unplug it then plug it back in to get it working again. (Some sort of driver conflict?) Surfing around on the web I see a lot of people recommending to uninstall/reinstall the mouse driver. But I'm a little reluctant to do this. If I uninstall the driver, won't the mouse stop working? How would I do anything after uninstalling the driver, and where would I find a new driver to install? Thanks.

When a program or process is terminated, stopped or ended, it does not fully stop and is seen hanging around in the Windows Task Manager _ Precesses screen. It then has to be terminated by clicking on 'End process'. This happens with all applications. Some won't restart and gives the message 'application already running', even though it is not obvious on the screen. At the same time, on shutdown, a popup window appears advising svchost.exe - waiting to shut down. If the 'end now' is clsicked, the program ends but the computer takes >1 min to shut down. Are these problems related and is there a fix?

Awhile back when clean installing Vista 64 I was getting a pciidex.sys BSOD towards the end of the install. I have done a few clean installs and sometimes it does it and sometimes it doesn't, I think it started doing this when I started installing Vista 64 with SP-1. I thought it maybe the IDE DVDRW drive I was using to install but it is also happening using a SATA DVDRW drive, now that I have a new computer it has no IDE connections on the X38 motherboard so I have ruled out the drives as being the cause of the problem, the pciidex.sys is the PCI IDE Bus Driver Extension described my Microsoft, someone at one stage pointed me to a patch but it is pointl…

Windows XP Media Center edition. In the task bar where active tasks (i.e. firefox) sit when they are running, there is a process/task called "unlock". The only options available are minimize and close. I took a tasklist /v from the command line and saved it to a text file and started looking at the active processes. I didn't see anything odd, the usual svchost etc. So I closed the "unlock" and took another tasklist -v To my surprise, there was no difference in size between the before an after images. I did some googling but couldn't find anything about "unlock" that looked specific enough to tell me what' going on. I'm not at that computer now, but…

My problem started with a quick DOS message saying an application failed. This occurred as I was loading a game disk ( warlords ) that I've played for years on this PC. The PC will no longer autorun the disk. I had no Idea what happened so I put in on my wifes PC and it ran fine. In the error log , over and over it says " the specified module could not be found" How do I find out what is missing? I tried to go back and restore the system. There six restore points available, and not one of them would work. I have dissabled the restore option for now. I've run spybot search and destroy, AFG and addware and no errors found. I was going to try DrWatson, but my…

I have two desktop complete different hardware I want to transfer all my setting, configuration, and apps from one to the other is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance Frank

Since installing SP3, everytime I start my computer I get a "Stop Device" box that says "This application will not run on this Operating System." It doesn't tell me what application it is and there are no hardware problems listed in the Device Manager. How can I find out what this application is?

Hello All, Does anyone know if there are any good replacements/3rd-party tools for the local users and groups snap-in? Many thanks. Ken

I was directed to xp tweaks for a fix, but still no luck. Any more suggestions on how to restore the log off button on my start menu?

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP SP2, with DSL connection. I have AVG antivirus free version 7.5, Comodo firewall, Spyware Blaster and Hive Cleanup and all work well with no conflicts and I haven't added anything to my computer. Previously my Live Messenger use to sign in automatically whenever I booted up my computer but I've noticed that recently that after trying a number of times it fails and requires me to click the icon which then proceeds to login with no problem. It never did this before and I shouldn't have to click the icon. I would appreciate it if anyone could help me correct this minor problem. Thanks, Robert

My computer switches itself off automatically when i am in the middle of using it. It has also begun freezing for no apparent reason. I have no idea why this porblem occurs, I am not very tech savvy but I would appreciate any possible causes / solutions for the problem. The Computer is running Norton Antivirus. Thankyou.

everytime i try to delete a particular file from my flash drive it gives me an error "directory not empty" how do i remedy this, thanks -- bottomley

Hi all, For some burocratic reasons i'll have to put a few winXP machines printing at two printers simultaneously, so that every print made will also create a pdf file in a remote server... so i allready have a virtual printer sending pdf files to the server and the real printer configured on those machines, but now i need a hack to put windows printing in bouth printers all printing jobs taken by the users, and i don't know how to do this... i imagined another virtual printer installed that forwards the job to other printers, so that this new virtual printer would be the default one, and in it's preferences i could set the two printers that will receive th…

While attempting to install SP3, I received the following message: "SP3, Access is denied" The installation stopped and restored any changes. How do I install SP 3.

hi. please help me. Im on winXP Sp2 and I can't seem to log on windows again. Everytime I boot my PC, it goes to a black screen with some options of safe mode, boot to las known configuration and so on. I tried all the options and nothing worked. I tried pressing f8 and still no luck. When I long press the del button while it's restarting, it gave me standard CMOS features, advanced bios features, ect. what will I do? thanks so much in advance!

How do you delete items from the open command under run? I have number of web site that I no longer use.

I don't care whether the adapter is bus-mounted or USB. Who makes a decent wireless adapter with a 64-bit driver? Thanks Ken

I've been using ZoneAlarm since before Windows had a fire wall. Just continued after Windows option appeared. Now I'm wondering if there is any reason to use ZoneAlarm or if the Windows product is just as good. What do you think? Thanks

I wish to install SQL SERVER 2008 and VS 2008 Team System. I presently have installed VS 2008 Pro and SQL 2005 There is also a folder called SQL Server Compact edition which I think is from a different installation than the SQL Server (by the folder dates). Is this from something other than SQL2005? Looking at the Add/Remove Programs listing there also appears an entry for VS 2005 professional edition-enu which I don't understand - thought I removed that before installing vs2008 pro I thought I'd uninstall everything names SQL.. and VS... And after that delete any folders so named (if any are left) Then install the new software. See anything …