Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Stability of an Upgrade to Windows XP?
by Guest Bill- 17 replies
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I've bought a used 2GHz Windows XP computer that I think is an upgrade from Windows ME (under user accounts there is a description for 'newuser' that states "Account upgraded from Windows Millennium Edition"). I have not yet hooked the computer up to the internet. I've run Norton DiskDoctor and Norton Windoctor. I've already scanned for viruses and spyware. Is there anything I can do to check/test the stability of this used Windows XP system? Thanks!!!
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Log On Screen and screensaver
by Guest Robert- 5 replies
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Hi all, I just started experiencing a problem I've never had before in XP. I bought a new hard drive, installed XP, and now when my aquarium screensaver kicks in after so many minutes, when I come back to close the screensaver, and want to use the computer again, the screensaver closes, but now for some reason my computer has gone back to the XP logon screen, where I have to select either my administrator account or limited account, and enter the appropriate password, to get back to the screen I was working on before the screensaver started up. I never had this issue in the past with XP. Anyone know what's kicking XP back to the logon screen wheneve…
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How to PREVENT Paint from expanding when pasting?
by Guest Robert Macy- 20 replies
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Sorry, probably wrong group, but hope someone knows... My problem is that when pasting an image to Paint, the image enlarges to accept the new image. For example, Print Screen, then ctrl-v into Paint ALWAYS changes the size of image. Also, pasting from another image (when larger) automatically enlarges image. How to stop this 'feature' and make it operate like the Win98 Paint? Sometimes spend great effort to get the size of the image I need then WinXP Pain, without asking, changes it. Any ideas? Robert
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Help me understand Flash problem
by Guest nomail1983@hotmail.com- 2 replies
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Please help me understand a Flash problem. It is now mysteriously fixed, but I would like to understand how. I had uninstalled and re-installed the latest Adobe Flash (version 9). But when I went to a particular web (AARP driving safety "test drive"), I did not get any audio. I tried all the obvious things. I toggled the speaker off and on; sliding the volume to the max. The audio and speaker hardware worked; I was able to hear the audio on an e-card that I received recently. In IE6, I enabled every add-on, cleared history and deleted cookies and temp files (including offline content). I restarted the system. "What made it work finally?" I think it w…
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Bad disk or virus?
by Guest Paul H- 12 replies
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Do I have a bad hard disk or a virus? I did a virus scan maybe 30 minutes before I got this problem. The normal Windows XP Pro displays on the screen, like it normally does when starting up, then the system gets the blue problem below (saying "A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer"). When I start in safe mode it stops, displaying the black screen below (ending with "DontGo.sys"). I installed the disk in a different computer and the problem occurred, telling me the disk has the problem, not the computer. TIA, Paul
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Hard Drive replacement question? (Ata or Sata, or Pata)
by Guest Tony- 1 reply
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So I am trying to replace the internal hard drive in my emachines computer. I bought the computer in December of 2005. I just need clarification on a few things. So far I removed the old drive. Here are the specs... Name: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 It was connected with a cable that said Serial Ata. And a power cable with 5 wires. With P8, P9 and P10 written on them. I am pretty sure it is an Ide drive as well. When I go to the store what specs are the most important to look for?
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Re: Can someone tell me how to delete a computer User account?
by Guest Buckeye Steve- 6 replies
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Re: Can someone tell me how to delete a computer User account? Kelly, I had the same issue with Dell, and also with Verizon "Tech Support". Now I have the Administrator on my Welcome Screen, that I DO NOT wish to see anymore. I am the Admin, and don't need to see an additional Admin. How do I delete it from the Welcome Screen. Thanks In Advance! "Kelly" wrote: > Hi, > > Didn't mean to come across pointing in your direction, personally. If I > did, am sorry about that. It was not my intention. > > Is just that when it comes to support in many cases, the user ends up either > being told to reformat and/or use the recovery disk…
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fdisk partitions
by Guest Paola- 19 replies
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I'm trying to reformat my HD and I can't not get rid of the Extended dos partition. I have a Primary dos and an extended dos. I can delete the primary but not the extended and when I try to do a setup in the primary I get an error "setup can not create files on your startup drive" then it says "If you have HPFS ormNTFS, you most create a MS-DOS boot partition" which I can't since is already two I assueme cause I try to do it but I can't. When I try to delete the extended dos partition I get and error saying "Cannot delete Extended dod partition while logical drives exist" the if I try num3 delete logical drive I get an error saying "no logical drive defin…
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Clock / XP OS
by Guest Apan- 5 replies
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The computer clock suddenly decided to go slow. I took my computer to lacal Best Buy to check for sound card. I unplugged the machine and took it to the store and I was told at the store that my hard drive was not working. The machine had no problem prior to unplugging the machine. This machine is locally built. I took the machine back to the person who built it and he found out the C-drive was disabled. After correcting that I came back home and then I found the date and time is at May 2005. I had reset the closck using time.windows.com. Still the clock is going slow. Now I can not connect to time.windows or nist for update. The motherboard is about yea…
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LG Optical Drive & Windows XP Home SP2
by Guest Tevibear- 7 replies
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I have an LG Super Milti RW optical drive that is supposed to read and write both CDs and DVD data. However when I installed the drive into my XP box, I could only get it to read and write CDs and not DVDs. I located the automatic firmware update software (no easy task) and installed it. After the updates were complete, it still would not recognize or burn DVDs. :( Has anyone else had this kind of trouble? If so, what was your solution? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are some facts about the hardware and my systyem that might be of help. LG Drive Specifications from Device Manager: HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H54N (assuming GSA-H54N is the model)…
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lose connection with usb hard drive
by Guest musicfreak91967- 7 replies
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i have an external hard drive (usb) it works fine sometimes then all of a sudden i lose conection with it. i have to uninstall usb universal host controllers a number of times before it works. what is going on? and what can i do to fix?
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Restore Points-3rd attempt
by Guest Stan- 5 replies
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This is the 3rd time I am posting this. The first 2 posts never showed up. Am I doing something wrong? When I open System Restore "checkpoints" are listed and "Software Distribution Service 3.0" is often listed. Does anyone know what this means? TIA Stan
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ISP Wanted
by Guest Lou- 6 replies
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I know this is not the right newsgroup to ask this question, but my ISP will no longer provide me access to newsnet newsgroups. I need a low cost ISP that provides access to newsnet newsgroups. Any help will be greatly appreciated. ----- Lou Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most
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After Dark Screensaver
by Guest Benzmum- 8 replies
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This may not mean anything to those who are younger than middle-aged, but I'd like some advice about one of the screensavers that Berkeley's After Dark produced. I had a Mac in those days (don't now) and I could sit for ages mesmerized by Nirvana, which generated a vast range of psychedelic patterns on my computer screen. It's no longer available, even for the Mac, but I'd love to get hold of the equivalent for XP. Is anyone familiar with this Nirvana screensaver? If not, can someone suggest perhaps another (reputable) forum where I might have more luck? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Pc slow on shutdown and boot
by Guest bastband@octas.net- 4 replies
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Hi All, Looking for a bit of advice please. PC is getting a bit old now and seems to 'hang',(no drive activity for 3 min)) when closing down and then when starting up. I have run both updated Spybot and McAfee scans to no avail. Is there anything else I can try. Any help appreciated, Thanks
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Silent Restore Points?
by Guest LMO- 16 replies
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Aloha all. Is there a way to automatically have my system create Restore point without them showing up on the screen? I use a small Create Restore Point program, which I have placed in my Startup file. Whenever I reboot a point is created, but it also shows up on the screen and delays access. Is there a way to schedule Restore Point creation (say first bootup of the day) that would be silent? Thank you.
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External Hard Drive Connection Problem
by Guest parkchung@gmail.com- 1 reply
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We just installed a 100 Gig HD into a Dell Latitude 100L that previously had a 40 Gig drive. We stuck the old drive into an enclosure, planning to get iTunes and other assorted files off of the drive after reinstalling the OS etc. The process went smoothly except when we tried to get the files we needed off of the old hard drive. When we plug it in via USB it immediately goes to a blue screen with a message saying that a "problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down." It also says that "Plug and Play detected an error most likely caused by a faulty driver." We've installed SP2 as well as the driver the enclosure came with to no avail. Any help you…
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svchost 100% cpu and network connections service
by Guest charts- 1 reply
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I had what appears to be a common problem with svchost taking 100%cpu. I was convinced it was the problem listed in KB 927891. I applied those updates but no luck. It still showed 100% CPU like the article said it might. However, turning off automatic updates didn't stop the CPU problem. Which led me to think that it might not be update related after all. So I used "sc config wuauserv type= own" to start the updates in their own svchost and it that confirmed it. Procexp showed that the updates svchost was happy but the other was still taking 100% cpu. So by a process of elimination I got it down to the "Network connections" service which is set t…
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Troubleshooting in Safe Mode
by Guest Jiimy Jay- 3 replies
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I'm running XP Pro and each time I launch Rossetta Stone I get the message Macromedia Projector has encountered a problem and needs to close. After following all the suggestions from their tech support I still have the problem. I even encounter this error when I boot in safe mode. The interesting thing is that I have 2 copies of XP loaded on my computer. The other version I boot up to when I want to play video games. This version of XP does not have stuff such as Virus protection, startup progams, etc. Its just barebones to give me the most amount of memory free to play games. I installed Rosetta Stone on this version of XP and it boots up fine, even in …
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Win XP SR2 requires System Disk to boot
by Guest Ch33zst34k- 18 replies
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Guys - I need some help on this one... I just purchased a new custom-built gaming rig that was shipped with Vista. After experiencing all the headaches and non-working apps, I decided to wipe Vista and install XP. To do it properly I had to eradicate all traces of Vista using Killdisk. I installed XP SR2 and all drivers on the virgin system, however it will not boot without my XP System disk in the dvd drive. If I attempt to boot without the disk, it initiates the bios screen which is followed an all black screen with a single flashing cursor... and sits there until I reboot with the CD in. With the CD in, it asks to boot from cd, which I do not and then…
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How to screen print in XP
by Guest HeyBub- 1 reply
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Batch Job
by Guest dr_ahmed- 8 replies
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i need to include a line to empty recycle bin within batch file i already include a line to display it: explorer ::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} but i now want to empty it without even opening it, i will tell you what i have: i beleive that it could be done through RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,entry point but i don't know the right one, in registry i found this key (search for it) @shell32.dll,-31331 with value= Empty the Recycle Bin, i thought it was what i want, but it is not and this value is the text will appear in the tasks panel in RecycleBin window. another thing: i already found the entry point it is SHEmptyRecycleBin and when…
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Blank results list with fully indexed drive
by Guest Davin- 2 replies
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When I type in the search box in the explorer task bar, I currently get a completely blank Windows Desktop Result popup pane. If I use the full blown Desktop Search window, it works as expected. It was working great until a couple of days ago. I tried upgrading from 2.0.6[?] to 3.0.1 thinking that might fix the problem, but its still happening. I miss my live as a I type search results. Any ideas on how I can get them back! The only thing I can think is that I uninstalled on older version of Symantec antivirus, but can't see how that could be related. Any help gratefully received - has anyone else seen this issue?? Davin.
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Cursor Does Not Show Up in Dialog Boxes
by Guest McRolin- 1 reply
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For some reason, my cursor no longer shows up in dialog input text boxes but when I type, the input is there. Just can't see cursor, blinking or otherwise. Anybody know a fix? Roger
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Regedit: error while deleting key
by Guest Sal- 3 replies
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I'm trying to delete the registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\LPTENUM] as per the recommendation in the KB article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298370/en-us. However, when I try to delete it regedit returns: "error while deleting key". How can a delete this key and try to solve the New Hardware Found wizard from reappearing every time I boot? I've tried deleting the printer and unplugging it and still can't delete the key. If I go into Device Manager to try to delete the driver, it isn't even there. That's right, no driver in Device Manager. This problem is driving me crazy. If I could only delete that key at least I think I…