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Sometimes there are issues involved in the install and uninstall of beta and new software. I bypass all such issues simply by creating an image of my system with Acronis before installing, say, IE 8 Beta 2. If I decide to go back to IE6 on this particular PC, I'd then restore the machine itself to that stored image. Thereby avoiding all uninstall hassles altogether. I run SmartSyncPro everyday to back up Outlook, OutlookExpress, My Documents, Firefox profile and certain other folders. An Acronis image is created every other day besides. I generally keep in store the last three images. Plus the fall-back ones like that mentioned here. I cannot count the …

Hello! I have some minor appearance issues to which I cannot yet find an answer. I am posting here in the hope that some bored guru will stumble upon this post while I am off on Google looking for the answer. 1) I cannot turn off the "Stop USB Mass Storage Device" item in the system tray when restricted users are logged into a locked down 2000 TS. I have "Hide the notification area" checked under User Config > Admin Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. I need to kill that so no end user can disable the USB backup drive on the TS. 2) Another thing I have Googled to death is trying to find a GPO setting to enable desktop icon auto arrange for all…

When I try to connect my XP laptop wirelessly to the internet using a belkin router. I get a message saying "windows was unable to find a certificate to allow you to connect to the network". What do I need to do here. I can connect ok using a wired connection.

Hi there, Does anyone know that why there is a sudden Windows Messenger link in my Internet Explorer 6 Tools menu. I have not installed Windows Messenger in that machine. Does it related to Windows XP SP3 or hotfix? And how to hide this? Please advise? Thanks Ivan

Recently, I selected the update, "SIS-Display-SIS 741", from the subject site and restarted my computer, running WindowsXP Home. At the end of the reboot, a pop-up titled "keyhook.exe - Entry Point Not Found". The enclosed text read: RealKeySting@CSISReg@SAHPAD0H0PAUHKEY__@@K@Z could not be located in the dynamic link library SISBase.dll. Microsoft's Download History indicated the update completed, I found "SIS-Display-SIS 741 in the Device Manager and diabled it. The pop-up error message repeated for several reboots. Finally, I enabled, SIS-Display-SIS 741. A search indicated Keyhook.exe" was located at C:\WINDOWS\system32. It was not readily av…

I have a friend who "heard" you can use the new Windows Vista email program "Mail" with a WinXP OS. Is that true?

SP 3's Warning: "The server you are connected to is uding a security certificate that cannot be verified" XP Pro SP3 With SP3 came this new warning: "The server you are connected to is using a security certificate that cannot be verified" How can I stop this warning! The server is an ATT IP server over which I have no control. Now every time I get email this appears. It is annoying. TIA for any or all thoughts and fixes. EagleOne

Sorry if this has been asked before. I have a Portuguese version of windows xp home that came installed on my laptop for the past 2 years. I really hate the translation of it, a lot of times things are really poorly translated or just apear in brazilian which is even worse. I don't know if I can use a Windows Home English CD from a friend and install it on this pc and use this pc serial, dunno if it's language locked, I hope not. I really just want to have it in english.

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Can anyone tell me if there is a way of avoiding the digital signature warning popping up every time I open a non Microsoft registered program in Vista 64 ultimate, please. TIA -- John

I had to reinsall everything as my computer had a virus. After I installed Windows XP Professional Version 2002, there is no sound and no internet on my computer. My USB port is not working too. When I insert my usb drive, it does not recognize and does not show the removable drive icon on my comptuer --- Device manager shows exclamation mark on the following items: Ethernet Controller PCI Device Video Controller (VGA Compatible) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller --- I downloaded and ran the Intel Chipset Identification Utility, Version 3.20 to find out my chipset number. On the left, I got four links: Intel Chipset Identification Utility Ho…

RE: I am getting the "Blue screen of Death" -- All the best to you. "dbctl" wrote: > I need to first add that I am getting the "Blue screen of Death" with > IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL > STOP: 0x0000000A (0x0000FFDF, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x806E4A8E) > > I am getting this error below and need help on what to do to fix this error. > > Thanks > > Event Type: Error > Event Source: DCOM > Event Category: None > Event ID: 10020 > Date: 3/31/2007 > Time: 5:05:23 PM > User: N/A > Computer: DGL > Description: > The machine wide Default Launch and Activation security descriptor is > inv…

I've searched Google Groups and this newsgroup and can't find the answer to what should be a very simple problem. In my home network, when I view My Network Places, I see every available share on all computers on the network. I don't want to see all the shares available, I only want to see the computers on the network as I do in Windows 2000 and Vista. How can I change this behaviour? -- Posted via NewsDemon.com - Premium Uncensored Newsgroup Service ------->>>>>>http://www.NewsDemon.com<<<<<<------ Unlimited Access, Anonymous Accounts, Uncensored Broadband Access

hi, When trying to log on, a message box appears with 'this copy of windows must be activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate Windows now?' when I click on 'Yes' , another box appears with 'Windows is already activated. Click OK to exit' When I click 'OK'......it logs me off!! Can anyone help? Thanks. -- tinidad

"DaffyD®" <daffyd@woohoo.com> wrote in news:Ofq1gRBBJHA.1740@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl: > After I type in a command such as ping or ipconfig in the > run box, the MS-DOS window quickly opens and then closes. > How do I get that window to remain open? It used to stay > displayed in the past. Add " /k" in the command line (space and /k, no quote marks). See how nice I am to you, Mr. "do I need a firewall?" -- [from a recent conversation] thanatoid: So why did you decide you needed broadband? Neighbor: I wanted to read my e-mail faster.

My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and now want to recover the data from it. I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports on my new machine. There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into and have recovered everything. The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my documents is not accessible Access is denied. I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new machine - still denied Booted from the hard drive, still access denied. Can anyone tell me how to get past this…

Hi, Since a few days, the server reboot itself without apparent reason. In the event log I have find these 2 error codes (first more often): Fehlercode war: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0xf785f7e9, 0xb8771c48, 0xb8771944). Fehlercode war: 0x0000007e (0xc0000005, 0xf785fe23, 0xb851bc80, 0xb851b97c) An old Foxpro (16 bit) program is running on it (XP client call it). This is know as bad memory management and I am wondering whether it is not related, although it was quite good working during about 2 years. Does anyone know the meaning of the above codes? Regards, Hubert Retif

I'm running XP Home on a Dell Inspiron 9400 Laptop. I'm trying to allow myself to install a secondary monitor. All the documentation says that by going into Display Properties there should be a Secondary Monitor Icon where I can "extend my Win Desktop onto the monitor". My dialogue box gives me seperate Appearance and Themes Tabs, and no Secondary Monitor icon. This means I can't activate my new monitor or load the drivers. Have I missed something obvious or has XP moved on and left me behind? I would really appreciate some help with this. -- Try to learn something new everyday

Ok bear with me as I try to explain this. -There was a power outage in my area and my computer restarted. After restarting it would hang at the Windows loading screen with the blue bar, and it would stay like that forever. -I went into safe mode which works fine and tried a system restore to an earlier date, and still wouldn't load. -Went back into safe mode and it said Restoration Complete. Ran msconfig to do a diagnostic boot...still no luck. -Ran chkdsk /r using Recovery Console, said it fixed the errors but still hangs at the same screen. Ran Samsung HD utility and detected ECC errors. -Tried to do a Repair Windows installation using an origin…

Hi all, I recently bought a new laptop, loaded with Vista. It highjacked my home wireless network It is doing my head in !! Want to swap back to XP Is it easy to do ?

2nd PC - Asrock AliveNF6G|dual core x6000|2x512PC2-5300 XP Home boot hd SATA 80gb ...C:\ ....and a IDE 80gb on IDE0 for storage, and Ghost backups. ...D:\ 1536mb pagefile was on the default size and located boot drive C:\ An hour ago I set 128mb fixed swapfile on C:\ and a 1404mb fixed swapfile on D:\ ....and set Perfectdisk to offline defrag meta and paging file/s, on those two drives on reboot - and rebooted. It whistled through C:\ in no time at all, and has gone into slow motion for the offline defrag of drive D:\ cuurently at 34% and looks like it's going to take the all the rest of the afternoon. D:\ was not heavily fragmented and has over 50gb em…

2nd PC - Asrock AliveNF6G|dual core x6000|2x512PC2-5300 XP Home boot hd SATA 80gb ...C:\ ....and a IDE 80gb on IDE0 for storage, and Ghost backups. ...D:\ 1536mb pagefile was on the default size and located boot drive C:\ An hour ago I set 128mb fixed swapfile on C:\ and a 1404mb fixed swapfile on D:\ ....and set Perfectdisk to offline defrag meta and paging file/s, on those two drives on reboot - and rebooted. It whistled through C:\ in no time at all, and has gone into slow motion for the offline defrag of drive D:\ cuurently at 34% and looks like it's going to take the all the rest of the afternoon. D:\ was not heavily fragmented and has over 50gb em…

....also seperateley posted in hardware i.e. cross posted to wrong NG A few weeks ago I switched on "Intel Speedstep" in my "old" main PC's bios, and selected XP's "Mininal Power Management" scheme, and tweaked other settings for ages to find out what the best settings were, to get the most of this "power saving" feature, closely watching various motherboard frequencies with CPU-Z, and Hot CPU Tester Pro etc. to keep an eye on what was going on with motherboard frequencies. (Asrock Conroe865pe|D935|4xCorsair512mbPC3200/ddr400|3 hard disks|Seasonic 430wSII psu|2xDVD drives|card reader etc.) And also around that time, for my 2nd PC, I downloaded AMD's dualcor…

I have a laptop and a desk top computer. I work out of town and have my lap top with me. Is there a way I can access my home computer from my laptop if both are logged on to the internet