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I am running XP Pro SP3 and I am having issues with thumbnails in folders that I have to refresh to get them back to the size I want them to be. I have read most of the posts about thumbnails and have insured that I am not having any of those issues. I have recently reformatted the hard drive and reloaded windows on it. I did not have had the problem before I reformatted the drive. Thank you for any info about this problem.

i dont know much about computers, i dont know what i did, but my system configuration utility starts every time i boot up my computer. please help me stop this oh ya im running win xp

I have a removable usb drive that has been working fine on my old machine. When I attach it to my another XP machine, it doesn't recognize the file system and it always prompted whether I want to format it or not. Does anyone know what the problem is? Thanks

When I try to view an html file in briefcase windows tells me the briefcase is in use on another computer. There is no other computer just this one. If I copy the html file I wish to view to the desktop, then I can view it. How can I fix this?

Hello, A software called Free Internet Window Washer disabled my "SendTo Shortcuts". If a copy and paste a shortcut from My Computer to Desktop the shortcut doesn´t work. This software delete all MyDocuments files too. How can I restore the SendTo Shortcut? I am waiting for your feedback. Thanks in advance.

i have windows xp pro sp2 and i can't reinstall yahoo messenger or msn messenger. it kept saying "communications error". i tried older versions, still nothing. i can install/reinstall anti virus software and all. i'm not quite sure if this is even the right place to ask this. any advice or suggestions?

I had a machine running XP Pro SP2 that started complaining about a corrupt HAL.DLL error. I used MS's KB#314477 and used the XP CD to run a recovery. The recovery ran fine. I booted from CD, selected Repair existing install, got to the console, typed bootcfg /rebuild and then did a chkdsk /r. It successfully got past the HAL.DLL error and was able to boot to Windows. The problem is that not all my data is there. There is SOME of my data, but not all. It's like the PC was reset to sometime close to the original install, but with SOME of my data. HELP!!! It seems like to reset the MBR to sometime in the past. How can I at least get my data that is miss…

I can't open c: when double click on it but pop up a message "C:\resycled\boot.com is not a valid Win32 application". Please help. Thanks.

Is there any registry tweak to disable the folders compression at 100th execution? Kind regards.

I have 2 cmd windows open (minimized) at startup. I have used various utilities to check my startup programs and they are not listed. Is there another way to see what might be starting a cmd window on startup? I have been having Virus problems, so I would like to investigate. Terry

Hi I have the following attached to my wireless home router. 2 x Windows XP computers, 1 x Windows Vista computers, 1 x Apple Mac computer, Apple TV, iPhone. Until last week all devices connected to the internet fine. One day both the Windows XP computers (from two different vendors) stop acquiring IP addresses and therefore cannot connect to the internet despite the fact that they have successfully attached to the router wirelessly. So I put in static information and they still could not see anything externally. I've run updates on them (by connecting them via an ethernet cable to the router) and it appears that they are up to date. I have subst…

I have a user having this problem every 30 secs. Another engineer ran a simple fix file for this a few weeks ago. Can't remember what it was. Apparently it's a well known one. Does anybody know it? Thanks Havenlad

(Originally in xp.basics) When carrying out an XP repair installation does it replace the whole registry with a new one? regards, Beemer

Hi to forum members, My Dell 5150 XP+SP2 has been running like a dream for several years but I had to go and upset it and now need your help quite urgently. I have Tweak-XP Pro v4 installed but seldom use it. However I was reading some stuff about speeding up performance by optimising the Prefetch settings and went and clicked the Re-Initialise the Prefetcher button. When I rebooted the start-up items failed to load and the were no icons in the right hand side of the Task Bar just the clock. I used System Restore and everything is fine but the next boot returns to the no icons situation. I have checked the start-up activity using WinPatrol and all …

cannot delete a program that my internet installed on my computer without me knowning it's no where to be found in the add and remove section it just sits here on my taskbar please help me get rid of this.

This has been the week for abnormalities on my machine. WinXP SP3. This morning, I inadvertently dragged the right edge of the Quick Launch section over to the Notification Area. At that point, the complete taskbar expanded vertically to 3 lines and showed the clock as time, day name (Friday) and the date. I couldn't get it back to the normal one line by putting the mouse cursor on the top of the taskbar and moving it down. I would expand up but not reduce down. (Yes, the cursor did change to the double arrow as usual.) The task bar is not locked. Changing the properties to not show the clock or the Quick Launch buttons did not fix the problem nor…

Just inherited the task to administering our Win2003 Enterprise file server. The server has 16GB of ram and is connected to our SAN for our organization's file services. This morning I was copying some files in the SAN and I started getting some errors in copying large files. Seemed the server was out of storage. Looked like a memory issue. In checking the System event log, I ran across an Event 2020 for the Srv service. It said "The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool was empty". Also, I couldn't Remote Desktop into the server. I could login at the server console but it was so low on resources it couldn't even load…

When I am attempting to recover my machine from "stand by" mode, my monitor will not come back on.The power button is lit, but the screen remains black. My system is a Dell Dimension E520 with a 19 inch flat panel monitor - 1907FPC,DIM,M. This problem occurs aproximately 50% of the time when I am attempting to recover from "stand-by". -- Cape Codderr

My PC: Windows XP Home Edition Hello all, My computer has been suffering with lots of errors lately (last few weeks), errors with sys fader/runtime errors/low on virtual memory ect.... Also windows update website wouldn't load last night and I couldn't see what custom updates were available. So I thought, the best thing to do, would be to system restore my PC to an earlier date. When I click to open System Restore though, now it doesn't load up ? What is happening, and how can I get my system restore to open up as it always has done in the past ? I desperatley await some some help or advice (pleeease) Regards, Miss. Caroline Thom -- Don…

Hi newsgroup. The last months I noticed that opening the context menu of shortcuts took sometimes very long (5-10 seconds). I found out fast that this happens only on shortcuts that are broken (the executable the shortcut links to does not exist anymore) - but it only happens on one PC therefore a software (or to be detailed a shell extension) must have been the cause. Investigating a problematic shell extension isn't simple but finally I found today the cause: Using Sysinternals ProcessMonitor i traced the long delay back to a shell extension named "CmdLineExt.dll" (located in the system32 folder). The DLL description named it as "SecuROM context menu for …

Running XP and the scan revealed the above infection and it cannot be clean by the scanner. Is there a way we can get rid of this infection manually.

I have the Server (Win2008) setup for Shadow Copies. I can see in the Properties of the volume that there are 2 a day for the past 2 weeks. Though when I go to folder where stuff has changed, there are no previous versions. The Drive that has all of the Shadow Copy Data on it has 207GB on it, so there is something there... How can I see the Shadow Copy files?

Hi, I would like a help, please: - I have configured 2 server with TS and they are in NLB. I have published the 2 TS through my ISA 2004 to external access. In my LAN the NLB works very well but when an external user access the node he/she is direct to onlye one TS. It seems that ISA 2004 is filtering something. Anyone knows if that is a ISA problem? Thanks. Luiz

I have windows XP and have no problem in accessing Explorer, MS Outlook or any files or games saved on my PC. I can get in to them and work fine. My problem is when I try to run my anti virus or "Webroot window washer" which I have on the PC. Washer works fine until it gets to the point where it is deleting TIF files. It then goes so slow it looks as if it has frozen - the only way I know it is still going is the clock. It freezes everything else though and the only way I can get out is to switch the PC off. The same with an AV scan. It scans fine - until it gets to the TIF files - then it slows down (25% cleared - saying further 6 hrs to clear?). I dont …

We currently are looking for suggestions on a problem have been experiencing in our environment. Throughout the company of approximately 2,500 users, we have a standard desktop wallpaper. This wallpaper is usually changed once a week and is controlled by our marketing department. Whenever this department wants to change the wallpaper, they place a new Wallpaper.bmp file into a shared network location that everybody in the company has read access to. Our machines have a startup script that runs at boot to check for a new wallpaper file. The script compares the date and time of the c:\windows\web\wallpaper\wallpaper.bmp file with the date and time of th…