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Have Managed to Successfuly Restore(at last),to a restore point,ie :- Using Safe Mode.What does this indicate please. jim PS At least one can do a Restore,ie if necessary.I'd like to be able to do same in Normal mode tho.

My system (XP Home upgraded from Me 4 years ago) has become slow booting, extremely slow shutting down, and sluggish otherwise. I've unwisely used registry cleaners for several years and maybe I've caused the registry to be part of my problem. I investigated the possibilty of a repair install using the XP upgrade CD (have looked at the MikeStevens Web site), but I can't boot from the CD, nor can Windows Explorer find anything on it. Maybe I have to run setup and change my boot device order? Don't understand. Can someone help me get a handle on what I'm missing here? -- Gary

Using Windows XP/PRO. I have Adaware+Zone Alm & Avg Anti virus[free V].I've disabled Zone Alm & AVG,with no luck.Have used System Restore for Years ,Prior to this Hiccup. Jim

server : HP ML370 G3 with Dual processors I have issue with Windows Server 2003 Ent with SP2, when try connect usb hdd. It is not detected. After applying w2k3 service pack 2 I noticed that the USB drive was not always being detected. I was advised to apply the hotfix KB931317 (Windows Server 2003 - KB931317 -x86-ENU.exe) but this has not solved the problem. I first noticed problems with the usb disk being detected while still on SP1. And thought SP2 would cure the problem. The hard drive is a toshiba MK4025GAS sold as a branded mobile hard disk called "flight case". - The usb HHD works fine on my w2k3 SP1 machine and on my XP SP2 machine - I…

Hi I have just started seeing 2 users with $recycle.bin folder in their music/video/photos reporting to be corrupt. Is there a way to stop this happening? Is there a way to get rid of all but a single recycle bin folder ? Also is there an easy way to move the users folders ? I have seen the reg change to move new users, but not exisitng ones. Thanks, Aart

i have a toshiba satellite a40 with windows xp sp3 and everytime i go to intermet explorer it freezes up. can anyone help me. it is very much need. i got the blue screen a few time and don't want to mess it up. Please help. thanks in advance.

I have on my desktop a VBS file, written in notepad.exe which puts my user name on any page when I touch the shortcut keys. Unfortunately, I cannot access the shortcut key area under properties when I right click the desktop program, then scroll to properties...bringing up a "shortcut key" box. HOWEVER, I DO NOT SEEM TO POSSESS THE KNOW-HOW ON CHANGING THE SHORTCUT KEY. I cannot seem to access the shortcut key...as when I go to properties from mt desktop, and right-clicking the program...then...properties...I get " + + " in the shortcut key box,,,I cannot seem to be able to change it?? Can SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME? Thanks, FLKulchar

I, of course, sign in to a huge variety of websites on an everyday basis. I have been fortunate enough to have utilized the SAME screenname for each and every one of them. IS IT POSSIBLE TO, SOMEHOW, CREATE A "LOCK", i.e. a copied screenname, and then, sign in USING, for example, "CTRL V" -- thereby pasting the screenname onto the webpage?????????? This SCREENNAME would of course exist throughout the day...and NOT vary from day to day!!!!! Thank you, FLKulchar

We have here office2007SP1 installed on citrixservers(CPS4.0 on W2K3SP1) and when a user starts a published version of word or starts word on a published desktop the cursor is not blinking. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\CursorBlinkEnable From: http://forums.citrix.com/message.jspa?messageID=623603 Is not helping me. Anyone an Idea? the hotfix from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873418 is not availeble anymore

I just installed Windows xp sp3. But after the installation I found out that Windows system restore function in Accessories-> System Tools ->System Restore does not work any more. I clicked on the icon but it ideos not load. What is hapenning here because of sp3?

there is no pop up window but i get audio of the Power Puff Girls. ("The city of townsville...") i have to open task manager and and manually close down the iexplorer.exe to shut it down. IE is usually NOT running when this happens. I have rum about 4 different ADware/ malware/spyware/virus scans but cant seem to shake it. Anyone?

Hi, I have 2x 2008 Enterprise TS member servers running. All domain users have problems browsing the web. ActiveX controls cannot be installed (flash, java etc) because they need admin priviliges. Ok I can live with that, but even browsing the web is hard. When they go to a flash based site, they get a yellow message bar at the top "Your security setting do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer. This page may not display correctly. Click here for options". When they click it, they only have a "more information" button, no "enable this content for this site" or something like that. I can't explain to all them that they ha…

Is is possible in Windows XP Pro to allow users defined in LDAP (not active directory) to login?

I installed Linux Red Hat in a system but then removed the installation completely. Now I Can't install XP on the same box. When I bootup with XP in CD and press ENTER to start from CD... It flashes Checking hard configuration and then the screen goes blank. Does anyone know what might be problem? Thanks in advance for your help

Hi: I am NOT able to e-mail a scanned text which is newspaper article. Upon e-mailing a scanned text, .... it says, 'harmful to computer or some similar warning' popping up, then not able to e-mail this, useful newspaper article scanned by printer. My question is, How to e-mail scanned newspaper article? Thanks for your help in advance.

RE: ntdll.dll error windows xp home programs close Windows XP Pro SP2: Explorer.exe windows keep crashing even when not actively in them. The Explorer.exe window is open in the background and it will randomly crash. The screen goes blank for a second and the task bar and start button disappear then come back. Event Type: Information Event Source: Winlogon Event Category: None Event ID: 1002 Date: 9/24/2008 Time: 1:35:04 PM User: N/A Computer: AZ25 Description: The shell stopped unexpectedly and Explorer.exe was restarted. Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 9/24/2008 Time: 1:34:51 PM…

XP SP3 I forgot how to create a remote desktop user so that he can access my computer from his PC. Any idea?

I keep getting a repeated error window labeled 'sidebar.exe - no disk' and an error message 'There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Hardisk3\DR7' with the options Cancel, Try Again, and Continue. I have searched my hard drive for sidebar and have found nothing. What is it? How do I get rid of it? It just started and won't stop. Thanks -GECKO

WindowsXP/HE SP3, OfficeXP/Pro SP3 Hallo NG! I download automaticaly all official updates from MS. But now there is a small problem. I became downloaded the security updates for the Viewers KB 934041, KB943992, KB943889 and Office 2003 KB929064. Following the express-installation i got informed that these 4 updates couldn't be installed (no reason given). Checking the box "Don't show this updates again" (or similar, from german) doesn't help. They are continously shown again as ready for download/installation. What can I do? Installed are: Excel Viewer 2003 (11.6412.6505) SP1 Word Viewer 2003 (11.6506.6505) SP1 Vy 73! Helge -- Helge, DJ1WM

I have a Magellan GPS and broke a 128k SD flash card, I purchase a 1gb flash card and the GPS refuses to recognize it. The card works with other card reader devices. I was wondering if the GPS possibly has a limit with the size of card. Because my transflash in my cell phone does work - it is a 128k card. This is why I would like to partition the card so that the 1st partition can maybe be read by GPS. I can not find a flash card that small anymore in stores. Thanks

Anyone know how to get past a folder that has decided to be a file? I have been working off an SD card and found the shortcuts on my desktop leading to a "file" now instead of a folder. The the file says it is only 2kb, however, the old contents were somewhere around..... 84mb of excel, word, and access files. Help.....please...... ktow

Hello, I want to map a network share permanently: this is what i do: 1) I logon with user1 2) I map \\SERVER1\DATA to drive D: 3) I logout again Question: Is the drive-mapping known to a service which is running under user1 ? Regards, Dani

Re: Sound tansfered to Client after SP1 installed Do you have the hotfix number? I noticed SP2 is out that includes this fix but due to other reasons I can not apply SP2. thanks, Don "Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote: > You can disable audio redirection, but I'm not sure if that applies > to system beeps as well. > > Anyway, I run the hotfix on a number of servers, without any > problems. > But of course, that's no guarantee that it will behave identical on > yours. Like anything else, you'll have to test it. > > _________________________________________________________ > Vera Noest > MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Ter…

Hello, We need to run Word & Excel within Terminal Services sessions. I understand I need a volume licensing for this, but does anyone know if we have to purchase the entire Office suite? We only need the two applications. Any help? -- Dave Stanway Corona Network Solutions

I'm attempting to reinstall XP on a Dell desktop computer with the Dell oem reinstallation CD but when I try to boot from the CD i get a blinking "_" followed by a normal start up of the system. I have changed the load priorities in the BIOS menu to no avail. I also created the 6 XP SP1 diskettes but when I try to run from the diskette the same thing occurs. According to Dell I should be able to simply run the CD at start up but something is stopping the pc from accessing the CD files. I know the CD and floppy drive are working because I'm able to use them both when I'm logged in to XP and can read the Dell CD when I'm on the desktop. Does anyone know…