Windows XP
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office file browser broken
by Guest Fredrated- 1 reply
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When I take the file>open option for MS Office applications and try to navigate to an existing office file, the file browser takes 3 to 4 minutes to display a folder and file list. Then if I click on a drive letter or folder, it takes another 3 to 4 minutes to display the new list. Nothing seems to be cached, every click takes this long. Also, it is using a lot of cycles because other applications hang while the new list is being generated. Any ideas what is going on, or better, how to stop this behavior? I think this started after a recent windows update, but I am not sure. I am using XP service pack 2 and Office XP. Some Office apps are SP2, some…
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Unable to get HID service to run.
by Guest John Corliss- 19 replies
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First off, I'm using XP Home SP3, fully patched and up to date. This is strange. I keep getting a system event that tells me the following: _______________________________________________________________ Event ID: 7023 Description: The Human Interface Device Access service terminated with the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. _______________________________________________________________ If I try to manually start the service by going into the Services administrative tool, I get the following error message: _______________________________________________________________ Services --------------------------- Could not start th…
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How to disable drwatson?
by Guest LuDean Marvin- 5 replies
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For trouble shooting purposes, I would like to disable DrWatson. Each time Windows Explorer crashes, it runs and it too crashes. I am then forced to Alt-Ctrl-Del, and close down the crashed programs before I can resume work. Is there anyway I can do this? If I should choose to keep it disabled, what would the consequences be?
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Cant Transfer Pictures- ie Camera to pc
by Guest jim- 5 replies
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I'm Using XP/PRO &(Finepix s5600 camera.)Its Always been a Piece of cake' Ie from camers to USB port PC.Looking in Device Manager,I see the D readed Yellow Question marks (see attached) Cant get get any ware ! jim
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Defrag and Cpacity mystery
by Guest Entelechy- 4 replies
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A few months ago when I ran defrag I got an error message about something in MCC not operating properly with Diskeeper lite. Since then large amounts of file space are appearing as fragmented (red), even though the report says that the disk is fine. At the same time, the available sapce on my hard drive has decreased to about 10% (from about 40%). I have tried to open MCC but could not decipher what to do with it. I also downloaded the newer trial version for Diskeeper and got the same outcome- including a warning about volume space. Since diskeeper will not let me look at the drive map I cannot see what the files are that are appearing. I am runni…
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MPEG4 codec for WMP 11?
by Guest Somebody- 2 replies
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How do I get WMP 11 to play MP4 video? I tried installing the codec packages from Microsoft and can play the audio, but no video. Looking for a free plugin :).
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Unable to create new folder in any CD
by Guest John Eppley- 1 reply
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I have had XP pro for several years and have been quite happy with its performance. I also have every MS update installed. This may be good or bad for the following reason. Immediately after the latest update, a new icon appeared on the bottom right for "My Documents". No problem with that except I did not create it !!!! Update, maybe ??? My big problem is that ALL cd's either blank or partially populated now show as FULL and I am unable to create a new folder or add files. Very strange. Can this be corrected, and how or am I on my way to VISTA ??
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XP, SP3 - Office 97-Word Print problem
by Guest D. Kirkpatrick- 3 replies
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Windows XP, SP3. All Updates and patches as offered to date installed. Today being August 31, 2008 HP USB port printer CS3100 series. I have licensed copies of Word 2002 on this system as well as an older version of Office 97 that includes Word, Access, Power Point, and the rest. Well... recently Word 97 has ceased printing. When you commit something to print, it is sent to the printer queue but just sits there. When we look at the printer spool queue it says "spooling" and does nothing. At the same time I was having a problem printing from Word 2002 but learned that there may be a problem with the "normal" template. After resetting the normal…
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order of images
by Guest Louise- 3 replies
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Have just downloaded recent holiday photos and have renamed each photo with caption. I wish to burn them to a cd, but when I do, it changes the order of images to alphabetical, rather than keeping it how i arranged them. How can I stop this?
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USB Mass storage device shows up in device man but not in disk man
by Guest majestik- 5 replies
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Ok, I have a USB Mass storage device that I connect via a powered hub to my laptop. It has worked in the past, but for some reason, it recognizes it as a Mass Storage device, then a popup says found new disk drive. I go into Device Manager, and there it is. It is recognized correctly and working fine. When I then go into Disk management I do not see it. I have a c partition on my laptop hard drive, and also an e. I do not see any other drives. Why is my USB drive not assigning a drive letter to it, and why is it no showing in disk management? I have another JUST like it, and it works just fine, plug and "pray" works and assigns it a drive letter. Any i…
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I need help....
by Guest Loggster- 7 replies
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Let me just say that I love Windows XP, but the trouble I am having is... About 6 months ago my youngest son down loaded a virus, and I tried to clean the registry files myself but I guess I deleted some files that I shouldn't have. Anyway my computer is giving me a bunch of error messages when I am trying to perform a new install of Windows XP Professional. The error messages are "NTLDR missing" Please press ctl+alt+del to restart your computer. Well I fixed that problem now when I use the 6 different boot disks that I had downloaded. It works this was after I had fixed the NTLDR missing Problem, now the error message that I am getting after I reformat my …
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Remote Desktop Error with Shell Version 6.0.6001
by Guest jms88- 9 replies
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When I try to connect to an NT4.0 Server, Terminal Server Edition with the latest Remote Desktop Client, I get: "Because of a protocol error, this session will be disconnected. Please try connecting to the remote computer again." However, I can connect to said server from a machine running Shell version 6.0, build 6000, Control version 6.0.6000, and below. This connection problem seems to be related to the latest version of RDC. If there a workaround, or a fix so I can connect to this legacy terminal server? I have tried the "Themes" fix to no avail. I also cannot downgrade the RDC on the XP SP3, or Vista SP1 machines, as Windows prevents me from doing…
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which files to download for service pack 2
by Guest SALLY- 2 replies
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I need to install SP 2 to a PC not connectedd to the internet. I downloaded what I thought was SP2 (KB884020) to a travel drive but it was not the right file & would not install. I then downloaded a 2nd file (KB887616) and the same thing happened. Exactly which file will install for Windows X? -- Sally
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Using windows search kills my taskbar!
by Guest WanderingElf- 8 replies
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Hello. My PC has recently developed a problem (Recent as in the last couple of months or so). When I use the windows searc (for all files and folders), my taskbar freezes. Usually I have my bar on autohide, but when I select to search it freezes in 'up' position. Nothing on it is clickable. The search window also never opens. Alt/Tab no longer works. I can still work in whatever window is on top (if it's full size), or click between smaller windows (like instant message programs), but nothing involving the task bar. The only way I can shut down or make the bar work again is to use ctrl-alt-del and restart through the task manager. There's…
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BAT file to re-start in Safe Mode...? 1 2
by Guest Kenneth- 31 replies
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Howdy, I have a simple batch file that dumps 4000 contacts from my database to a TXT file, and then imports them to my Contacts. Recently, that last phase has been producing some errors indicating a problem with the command line text that does the import. This happens intermittently. The folks who support the importing software (Contact Genie) tell me that the command line text is fine (as I would assume because it usually works properly), and they believe that something is corrupting the command line text preventing their software from correctly interpreting it... I have experimented with the simple work-around of running the BAT file in Safe Mode wi…