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If a trojan/virus has removed my Desktop and Screen saver tabs from Desktop properties, how can I get them back? I am using XP64

I want to delete permanently Times New Roman font from my c:\windows\fonts folder. while I delete the font its deleted. But reboot its creating by default. I want to stop this auto generation. How I can do this? Kindly give me some suggestions Thanks in advance Regards a r u l

had to re-install W982ND ED and the follwing probs reported PCI Communications Device,USB, Multimedia Device, Ethernet Controller all have Code 28 (0xic) indicated. Old desktop PC, old program, need help! Thanks

We all know that Vista is crap. Well not all of us realise this, only those of us who have a brain... MS, AT LAST realizes the many blunders it made with vista and is trying to correct them in Windows 7. Why are they doing this? Well because of fear. People hate vista and are turning towards other solutions. People hate vista and are making fun of it. People hate vista and are calling it the Me of NT. People know vista is slow and performs well enough only on 4 core machines with 2 gigs of ram or more. Totally ridiculous! Note: I posted this on the XP newsgroup for the XP users to warn them to WAIT until windows 7 is out. Don't throw away money on v…

i installed service pack 3 for xp pro and now my com doesnt recognize my > audio, mixer or play back..when i searched microsoft this is the problem link > that says this is a problem (kbprb KB329011) it says something about the > registry being change and now it points to another device..(but there is no > other device)....this is what I found out on microsoft...***This issue occurs > if a line associated with the mixer device is not read correctly during the > initialization process. This scenario causes one of the following: • The line > is not added to the current list of lines, which causes a disparity between > the current coun…

I keep receiving the update message "Security Update for Microsoft Office Power Point Viewer 2003 ready to be installed". When I try to install the update, the installation failed. How do I stop this message. -- John N

Hi, After I format my computer and install my software, if I create and copy the System Restore Point and paste it on an ext hdd, when my computer starts to have little problems, move the restore point back to System Volume Information and restore my computer back to that restore point. Would it work? -- Denise

Hi again Guys! Since my last post I've upgraded my mobo to an MSI and have 2x1 GB RAM modules installed. I quickly learned that Win98 grunts at anything over 1GB and ideally likes 512MB. However making an adjustment to the System.ini file as per MS KB article there's no problem with booting normally. However, if I wanted/had to boot into Safe Mode, then of course the startup files, presumably including the system.ini, are by-passed resulting in "not enough memory to initialize windows". Is there a work-around to this or have I lost this important bit of functionality? The only other alternative as I see it if something goes wrong is to then rely on S…

How do I add a program (HP Director, HPQDIREC.EXE) to the pop up AutoPlay window that comes up when I attach a digital camera via USB to my computer that is running WinXP home edition?

Do you need a Windows registry repair tool for your PC, because you know that there are most probably errors in your computer? I remember looking for cleaner software when my PC started giving me all sorts of problems too. Having top notch software to optimize your computer's performance at all times is essential. 1. What Is The Windows Registry? It is one of the most important components in the entire system, yet many PC users have no idea about what it is! It is not hard to believe though, since we have never been taught about how to properly maintain our registries. All the computer's software, hardware and user profile settings are stored in the registry, m…

my computer keeps crashing. i have gotten these error codes so far : 0X00000019 , 0X00000024 , OX00000050 , 0X000000C2 , 0X0000008E . I PUT MY COPY OF WINDOWS XP IN THE CD ROM DRIVE AND I WANT TO BRING UP THE SCREEN THAT GIVES THE OPTION OF REPAIRING .PLEASE REPLY TO RICHARDWLANDIS@YAHOO.COM

Since installing SP3, I've noticed that my computer will freeze for 7 seconds every few minutes or so. Rebooted in safe mode but no change. Checking for processes in Task Manager but nothing that spikes during the activity. The hard drive light goes practically solid during that time. Any thoughts? AMD Duron Processor 1.3 GHZ w/1.5G of RAM Thanks.

I have been having boot up problems, drives not showing up any longer, programs missing or files missing or not running errors. Intermittently I have bootup problems, then have to disconnect one SATA drive to get XP to load at all. I tried to install XP components again and it won't let me run setup. The CD-drive is reading since it opens the files but it won't run setup!? In addition, I had to do a system restore after I installed SP 3, so all of this started after the SP 3 was installed/updated. I also did a BIOS driver update thinking that might help with the bootup and HD not found problems, but it didn't help. I don't know what else to try or …

In "my pictures" when I click on "copy to cd" the cd writing wizard stars and tells me the process takes about 8-9 minutes. Near the end the last 2-3 minutes takes closer to 5 and then it kicks out my cd and tells me there is an "error in the writing process". I've tried numerous cd and cd-rws. I copied some photos once before so I know my drive is enabled. Am I missing something or do I have a bug? Thanks for any help.

Hi, I want to launch a software in a limited account but it requires administrator privileges. If I use the GUI command “Run as”, the software works fine. However, if I use the command line “runas”, the software doesn’t work correctly. When the software is starting, it launches a lot of child process, I think that child process don’t have administrator privileges ? How can I overcome this problem?

Hello I'm wondering how forms and pictures can be included in an e-mail message itself (not as an attachment I mean). Sometimes I receive messages from Microsoft for example that have some pics and forms inside it, not as an attachment. How can I make messages like that using Windows Live Hotmail? How can I make those high quality messages instead of these traditional text-messages? Thanks -- Ragab

I need additional help with CHKNTFS problem. Could you please email me at: aligatrjoe@cox.net -- Bill W

I am getting an error on startup after doing windows update. Never saw this before. The ordinal 49 could not be located in the dynamic link library MAPI32.dll Looking on the Web, it seems that if you run Fixmapi.exe, this should fix it. It doesn't on my machine. Doesn't seem to do anything - just goes right back to a command prompt. I have 3 Mapi files: MAPI32.000 that is 110KB MAPI32.DLL that is 145K MAPI.DLL that is 81K What happened here? How can I fix this? Thanks, Tom

Hi: I just loaded server 2003 on a new server. I want to enable terminal services for remote access. 1. What else is needed to enable terminal server on the machine. As of now I can not remote desktop to the servers ip address , which is 192.168.1.100 . However I can map drives to the server and connect from other pcs on the network. My objective is to use dynamic dns and be able to get to the machine from the outside world. The system is behind a comast cable connection currently. New to this so all help greatly appreciated -- Ray Montelongo

Re: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model This is a limping help. I had a problem with the OS or some sort of mismatch between the bios and something else. MS sent me a 'page' which told you how to find who the manufacturer of your motherboard is. It is simply putting a command (forgot) into the run. Try tracking it down at MS. Luke "Penang" <kalambong@gmail.com> wrote in message news:5fb95712-5f18-4506-ac81-e74c9ca48397@t1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... On Sep 3, 11:22 pm, §ñühwØ£f <snuhw...@netscape.net> wrote: > On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:06:31 -0700, pg aided th' terraists with the > following claims : > > > > > On …

I have a cruzer scandisk that has two partitions. One for u3 and on for my files. That is the way it came. How can I make it all one partition. I have no need for the u3 stuff. Thanks

One particular terminal server user on a Windows 2003 Terminal server uses printer redirection to map a local HP 1018 Laser Printer. This has been working for a year or so. Just recently the printer has been disappearing from the users profile. They are able to print to it and then it just suddenly disappears. Has anyone experienced this before? -- Solent Carpentry Services Ltd 3 Capel Ley Purbrook Hampshire PO7 5PU Tel: 02392 782875 Mobile: 07721 529512 Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the address indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), yo…

Not sure if anybody else has run into this issue, but today I renewed my sub to Kas IS, but the link they provided to downlod the new version didn't work, so I called their tech number, some (obviously guy from india) told me, you have to uninstall the old version before you can download the new version, that to me sounded really stupid, I wasn't trying to install, just download, so I ignored him and sent of an e-mail, they sent me a different link where I got my application downloaded just fine, I also noticed they said uninstall the old one, but no utility to do so. I just ran the new version it installed just fine.

I travel extensively and use the Time Zone feature of Outlook 2007. Unfortunately, Windows XP's list of time zones is very limited when it comes to medium or small towns and some countries like Kazakhstan. I would like to be able to add entries to the Windows time zone list so I don't have to research which alternative offered by Windows is the correct one. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Terminal server 2008. User selects they want 2 copies of a print job. Does not matter from what program or user. They get 4 copies. If they want 3 copies they get 6 and so forth. Anyone have an idea?