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How do I find handle of the taskbar
by Guest Sanjeev Sharma- 3 replies
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I have rather two questions. First, where do I query technical stuff like this(Q on Subject) about WIndows? And second the question itself. I need to get handle for the taskbar but I don't know its window name so as to use 'FindWindow'. Anyother way? The code may be specific to WinXP and may be coded in VB or C++.
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Re: My Music
by Guest N Barksdale- 1 reply
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Re: My Music I am having the same problem. It occurs when link my computer to my XBOX 360 as a media extender and the music folder is synced. Typing in this command did not help. "Ramesh, MS-MVP" wrote: > Ryan, > > Type in Start, Run: > > rundll32 mydocs.dll,PerUserInit > > -- > Regards, > > Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] > Windows® XP Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com > > > "Ryan" <Ryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:E3CF1E7B-D747-4F62-B423-7890F4CC48F0@microsoft.com... > My "My Music" folder icon is not showing up right, it…
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point32.exe, a magnifier, intermittently pops up
by Guest Richard- 6 replies
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>From time to time, I suddenly have a magnifier pop up. I've found it intrusive, at best. Finally, I discovered that point32.exe is the culprit and I was able to kill it in Task Manager. Does anyone know an easy way to prevent it from being launched in the first place? (it must be some keystrokes or mouse clicks that inadvertently brings it up.) I'm running WinXP/SP2.
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Spyware Creating tmp files, ie Win1.tmp Win2.tmp
by Guest JCO- 4 replies
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Running WindowsXP-Pro SP2 and all updates. My son's computer has something running that I can't figure it out. In the tmp directory, the files Winx.tmp gets created where "x" can be any digit. It starts as "1" and increments forever. I've had over 2000 files that I deleted. Win1.tmp Win2.tmp Win3.tmp ...... Win2066.tmp .... Each file shows up as 0 kbs and when I open them... they are empty. What I've done: Ran Norton SystemWorks / Antivirus and deleted all known issues. Ran SpyBot and have cleaned out all known issues. Ensured that HKLM-Run & HKCU-Run is cleaned (stripped) to a minimum that I know is required. Deleted all tmp folders and web t…
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Indexing Service for Power Users in WinXP ?
by Guest prubin@equilter.com- 0 replies
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Is it possible to allow Power Users to use the Indexing Service in Windows XP? Power Users can enable the service, but when you launch the Indexing Service via ciadv.msc as a Power User, you can't do much of anything (add catalog, add directories, etc) by default. Any ideas?
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When You Install-Over Does it Know the Installation Key?
by Guest jim evans- 5 replies
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About a year ago I made a SP2 installation disk from my original XP disk. I must have thrown the original XP disk away so I would not get confused and try to use it, but I had written the installation key on it and no longer can find the key. Will the SP2 disk recognize the key from the current installation when I try to refresh the installation by doing what I call install-over? jim
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Auto backup during shutdown
by Guest Backups during Shutdown- 1 reply
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We have multiple staff machines some in an NT Network and moving towards a 2003 Server network. We know how to use log on scripts to map drives. We could use them to do a back up of their My Docs but are concerned about the time it would take. We would like to script the back up to take place during the Shut down process. Much the same way the MS installs Windows updates. The user shuts down, the back up begins and the user walks away with the PC shutting down on completion. I cannot find where to do this. I suspect there is a shut down script somewhere. Thanks Kevin Wods Granite State College, New Hampshire
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Backup software
by Guest Gordon- 1 reply
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Has anyone had any experience with the backup utility that comes with Nero 7? Good, bad, indifferent?
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Xp Home: access is denied
by Guest awag1- 7 replies
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I accidently dragged a folder into one of those Microsoft updater folders where the contents can't be accessed. The message is Access is denied. I used a restore point to get the folder back to the correct location, but I can't access anything in either folder. I tried booting into safe mode and changing user access to the files to "full" for all users, and now I can delete files, but still can't open any of them. The message is Access is denied. No file attributes are set. The folder isn't shared. I can rename the folders, but not copy the files or folders. I'm running XP (stupid) Home sp2 with Norton Protection. Help?
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Help, 'stand bye' is disabled?
by Guest Tony- 4 replies
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So I just got through restoring Windows Xp on my computer. After my old hd died. But there is only one problem. The stand bye option is grayed out. I can only restart or shutdown the computer. Anyone know what the problem is?
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URL not found
by Guest Maryann- 2 replies
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When I go on to certain programs eg. i-Tunes, Quick Time, I cannot gain access to certain parts of the program as I get an error message stating "The URL not found". Can anyone help me out? Thanks so much.
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Can not apple windows updates since I did a repair installation
by Guest chriswelber@yahoo.com- 0 replies
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I am having a problem where Windows updates will not apple at all since I did a repair install on my Windows XP Professional installation. Has anyone seen this issue and what is the solution. Kind Regards, CW.
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Automatic Shutdown and error message
by Guest Paul Roche- 3 replies
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I have been receiving a fatal error message when I try to send email (Outlook in Office Pro 2003). The message reads “DCOM server process launcher terminated unexpectedly". I then receive a box to send the notification to MS and then two more boxes with something about NT Authority/System. I researched the issue and thought/think it is a variant of the Win32.Poza worm but mine only happens when sending email. I ran the cleaning program provided by me virus scan vendor but that didn't find anything. Has anyone heard of this? If so, what is it and how do I fix it?
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Don't blame Microsoft all the time
by Guest Gary Masters- 1 reply
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I was trying to post a question and nothig was happening until I noticed a line on the bottom of the screen saying I should hold down "Ctrl" if I wanted to let a popup occur. I did and then it worked. Before that I was saying really bad things about Microsoft. But I was the real reason it did nto work. A comment. -- Gary Librarian
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explorer.exe wont start
by Guest patsy- 2 replies
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I have installed Windows XP SP 2 For no apparent reason the explorer stop working. Any suggestion? Thanks patsy
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localgroup add - language independent
by Guest fiversen- 0 replies
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Hello, in my installation process of my programm, sometimes I need a new user. A user which is member of 'Power User'. In the script, I create the user > net user Tester Password /add and add the user to 'Power User' >net localgroup "Power User" Tester /add This is OK. But I need this on a lot of different Windows Languages, and the groups have different names - in Germany: Hauptbenutzer, ..... With the API function - NetLocalGroupAddMembers(..., ...) I have the same problem. I saw, in a ADs example - they also work the name 'Administrators'. But I need language independent localgroup-names. So long Frank Iversen
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I have enabled Active X Controls
by Guest KCav- 4 replies
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Why am I beig told to enable Actice X Contros when they are enabled? I went to IE > Tools> Internet Options > Security tab > Custom Level > Active X controls and plug-ins. And Enable All previously unused Actice X controls to run without prompt. -- KC
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How to make a drive active
by Guest Smiley- 7 replies
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Hi, I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find anywher which I would activate the partition. It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. Any idea ? MTIA …
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Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter
by Guest Jeff Granger- 0 replies
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Device Manager shows that a Network adapter, Microsoft Tun Miniport Adapter is not working properly. Should I be concerned?? Jeff
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What is this?
by Guest Carol- 2 replies
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Using Windows-XP-SP2 Netscape 7.2 I just noticed on my task bar (near the clock time) there is a box that looks like 2 monitor screens with a RED X on it, when I put my mouse on it, says "Local Area Connection A Network Cable is Unplugged, but when I click on it comes up under Network Connections --dial up--Bellsouth with a check mark in it. the other one says --Lan or High Speed Internet-under that is Local Area Connection, with the RED X I do have Dial-up, so what is the other one how do I get rid of it so it doesn't come up again Thanks for any help
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Applications shut down straight after start
by Guest warhonowicz- 5 replies
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In the last few days my PC has started to display a strange habit. When I start certain programs (notepad or even task manager), they open and on the first move of the mouse close down immediately without me being able to use them. Has anyone seen this before? I use Panda 2007 antivirus with the latest updates and that says my PC is fine.
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'My Computer" display takes 2 minutes to display
by Guest JimBal- 7 replies
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This started a couple weeks ago. It takes 2 minutes for display to work. The devices are then shown, but also some folders from Documents and Settings. What have I done?
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Freeware ramdisk 1 GB for XP
by Guest pe3no@N05PAM.o2.pl- 5 replies
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Hi, I'm looking for a freeware ramdisk driver/program for XP which allowes to create big ramdisks (1 GB or bigger). A long time ago I was using xmsdsk.exe, but as I read it doesn't work in XP. My "biggest success" is a 329 MB ramdisk - "AR Soft RAM Disk 1.20": http://www.majorgeeks.com/AR_Soft_RAM_Disk_d1356.html Do you know a freeware solution for XP to make bigger ramdisks? Thanks in advance and Best regards~~Piotrek~~pe3no.
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Since noone will give me an answer in the windowsupdate post, I'll post this here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936357 ? As it says on the above site, it maybe needed if u use one of these. . Mobile: Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor. . Desktop: Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor, Intel Core 2 Quad desktop processor, and Intel Core 2 Extreme processor. Server: Intel Xeon processors 3000, 3200, 5100, and 5300 series. I havent got any of these CPU's (This is a 2.4 HT CPU). Should I still install it?? It wont screw anything up, if I do will it? This update did come up when I went to the Windowsupdate site. Any info appreci…
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Explorer/runas/remote session problem
by Guest Rich Raffenetti- 0 replies
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I regularly RDP via VPN from my home XP Pro to my office XP Pro. I use VB6 on my office PC and sometimes need to use it with my administrative account so I use RunAs via the right-click method. When I do RunAs of VB6, my explorer locks up with some broken graphics on the start bar. (I place the start bar on the left side of the display.) I get out of this by running task manager on the remote system with ctrl-alt-end, terminating explorer, and starting explorer again with the run option on the task manager. Up to this time, I had found that after a reboot, the problem did not come back right away. That is, the runas functioned as expected. Tonight…