Legacy Operating Systems

hi. my brother's computer has no audio at all, and it was working before. he wants to buy a new sound card but when we opened the tower, we found out that it was not plugged in the PCI card. it's a silver little box. my question is, can we buy a sound card that goes into the PCI and replace the silver little box? please help. TIA HP PC on winXP SP2.

I've just installed 98SE on a machine and installed all the available updates. Now I've got the hand icon which is overlaid on to shared folders in Explorer etc. being replaced by a random choice of any icon. I remember from many moons ago that this was a by-product of one of the updates but can't remember which :( Is there a solution to this? Or failing that can anyone tell which update causes it. Google turns up umpteen methods of removing the short-cut arrow all of which come down to installing TweakUI but nothing about this.

We have a few legacy applications which are 16-bit. Anyone know of a way or a utility which will allow 16-bit apps to run on Vista 64?

Hello. I just reinstalled my windows xp professional x64 edition and I have some quite annoying problems. First one is the Activation. Each time I log on I get the message saying "xx days left... Activate now..." So I try to click that message.. and nothing happens.. I've also tried installing Internet explorer, but it wont get installed.. I just get the error message saying "restart PC now" .. Nothing seems to work.. I am totally helpless. Please help :S Thanks in advance.

After upgrading the antivirus product, I find that the network icon doesn't show up. I have toggled the button "Show icon in notification area when connected" but there is no luck. Your advice is sought.

Hi, Suppose if I want to start a program which exists in my start menu, it does not work. It opens up the dialog that allows us to choose which program we want to execute. It is behaving as if this file is not associated with an exe. Even an exe file is not getting file- associated. Moreover, when I try to change the system time/date it throws a error message box saying Cannot find file c:\windows\system32\rundll32.exe This sounds like a virus problem to me. Any idea on tackling this without the use of antivirus software...? -deostroll

I'm running Server 2003 Std. SP2 (fully up to date). I had an 130GB IDE HDD (letter D:) that I replaced with a 1TB (that's terabyte) SATA drive. After hooking it up, it showed up as the G: drive, with space reported correctly. Then I used a tool called SelfImage (highly recommended BTW) to mirror the entire IDE disk on to the SATA one. When that was over, I went into the logical volume manager, deleted the old letter assignment (D:), the new drive's letter assignment (G:) and rebooted. When Windows came up again, I went into the volume manager and assigned the letter D: to the 1GB SATA volume. That went great, except that now Windows Explorer thinks …

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I ran the wizard in Server 2003 to setup a VPN which users are dialing into successfully. However I have now been asked to setup a point to point VPN. Can someone direct me to resources which show how this can be done, or outline the steps necessary to achieve this?

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Hi All, We have just begun a migration of legacy and new PC's. Both the systems are needed to run in parrallel for at least a year due to SLA etc. We use a 4 port KVM switch (which has USB and PS2) connections. When we plug in the new PC's to the USB port there is no problem. When we conntect the old NT4 legacy PC's to the KVM we can't get the mouse to work. We have attempted to reboot while connected but still not joy. Can anyone offer any advise please. Thanks. -- Flinty

I am taking a look at a Dell laptop for a friend. They were 'downloading' iTunes (i'm not sure if they were actually downloading or trying to install iTunes) and their laptop, running Vista, froze. On restart they got the 'computer was not shut down correctly' menu, and starting up in safe mode or normally brings a blank screen with just the mouse pointer visible. The mouse pointer responsds to touchpad movement. The windows splash screen shows, and when the screen saver comes on it is visible. Ctrl-Alt-Delete and Ctrl-Shift-ESC have no effect. I have seen several posts about this online but with no real solution for the ones that the task manager is n…

Play speed slider missing bar. are there file type restrictions to changing speed? thanx

I am not sure what happened in June 2008 to our computer but it stopped having most of the windows functions. We do not have paint,calculator,volume control,and many other things. To top it off whenever we put a cd rom in the drive it will not run it on the computer because it doesnt recognize the drive. There is only a c drive now and it is driving me nuts here. A friend tried system restore multiple times and we located the date the problem occured but the system will not restore we get a message stating that it cannot be restored to the earlier date. Any ideas? Yes I have the Cd Rom that came with the computer however I cannot restore from Cd Rom if the…

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Are there any downsides to converting to FAT32? Thanks,

In Windows XP Pro SP3 (don't know if it happens in other versions), if I attempt to Empty an empty Recycle Bin, it asks me if I want to delete 'WINDOWS'. I was smart enough to say NO. Shouldn't that option be grayed out when your recycle bin is already empy?

I have XP Home on my main computer and Windows 2000 Pro on a wireless remote computer. Sympatico is my ISP and has provided Bell Canada "Security Manager" (includes firewall) and a wireless "ZWire" router. I have set up "Shared Documents and Printers" on both computers. I am able from the main computer to sign on to the remote computer and can see "Shared Documents" as well as printers installed on the remote computer. However, the reverse does not work, i.e. the remote computer does not have access to the main computer "Shared Documents" and printer. Windows Firewall has been configured on both computers to allow access to "Shared Documents & Printers"…

Even since reinstalling Windows XP and upgrading to SP3, I have an additional directory under "documents and Settings." I did have User Accounts and My Name. Now there is a third one, Administrator. I can't get into certain programs because I get a message telling me that the program has not been installed for this user. I am the only person using this computer and I am the administrator as well. I have made changes to allow me full access but I still don't have it. My favorites don't show up in Internet Explorer either. I need help to get this back to normal. System restore won't work--I already tried that. Pat

When I was using 98se, I had the default icon set to %1, and this would cause windows explorer, to show every file icon that was a picture file, to show the picture as the icon. How do I do this for XP Pro?

In the System Restore tab of System Properities, the only "available drives" are my 'D' & 'E' drives. How do I get System Restore to monitor 'C' again? Don't know what happened but when I went to restore to a previous point, this is the dialog box that popped up: --------------------------- System Restore --------------------------- Changes made to drive(s) C:\ after this point cannot be reversed because the drive was either excluded from System Restore monitoring, or was turned off or removed. ---------------------------

Since I like to use the maximum page display I always use the autohide taskbar feature. Lately it has ceased to function properly. I can uncheck the autohide and apply, then recheck autohide and apply. It then works - once. After that it will not hide. Any suggestions on how to repair? TIA

- If I drag a folder from within the 'Shared Documents' folder on my PC - To the 'My Documents' folder on my PC - It remains visable in the 'Shared Doc's' folder - Till I navigate out and back. - The folder & contents seems to move OK but this doesn't seem like good behavior. Anyone else have this problem? Details: - I'm running XP Pro with the latest updates. - The PC is in a peer-to-peer with 2 other XP-Pro PC"s all on my desk top - All 3-PC's have their 'Shared Documents' folder set to share - No other PC has the folder open or any files in the folder open Thanks for any help.

I`m not sure where this should be posted but if not the right area perhaps someone can direct me where to post. I have a computer running XP Pro SP2. I`ve messed up quite a few of the keyboard keys monkeying around where I didn`t know what I was doing. At any rate I would like to just get back to the standard keyboard setup as it was origionally. Is there a way of doing this with my small amount of computer expertise (and your help)? TIA

Recent program opened disappear from start menu. even divider disappear. I try to follow the below instruction but is not Help me. any other Idea? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://windowsxp.mvps.org/startmfu.htm Resolution Right-click an empty area in the Start menu and select Properties. In the Start Menu tab, click Customize. Configuration options for the Programs list are on the General tab. Make sure that the "Number of programs on Start" is not set to 0. Try clearing the MFU list in the registry once, by pressing Clear List button. Disable the two policies namely NoInstrumentation and NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList. See articl…