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Laptops and Vista
by Guest ken- 8 replies
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I need to purchase a new laptop computer for my college-age daughter. It appears that the new ones (HP, Sony, Dell [i know that there is a higher end in Dell that uses Vista Business] all come with various flavors of Vista. My experience is with Win2K and Win XP Pro, which I have come to know well enough to do most of the support (with help from people here). I have heard problems about Vista being a memory hog and having "problems" but I am unclear about what those problems might be. In addition, I am not sure if these newer computers would run XP Pro (which I would prefer). If someone would venture their opinion about potential problems using …
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Tried to reinstall XP, Cant locate HD drives
by Guest Loanshark- 3 replies
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Picking up from my last thread, I have now tried to reinstall XP. Setup could not locate HD drives and aborted. It will rebook with current configuration (with the viris) but cannot see C drive. Thanks again for all of the help.
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Automatic Hibernation
by Guest ManyBeers- 0 replies
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Ok, I have gone through this before and it is time to rehash it. I hibernate my laptop every night using Shutter.exe. http://www.den4b.com/screenshots.php?project=Shutter and it works fine. By that I mean, not only does it hibernate my laptop at the scheduled time but it also allows my scheduled wake-up tasks to run, which Rundll.exe,powrprof.dll SetSuspendState did not do. It has in its parameters one that if true will DisableWakeEvent. So ,what I need is one of you experts here to tell me exactly what to type in my Scheduled Tasks Run box when setting up the task. If you would look at this page :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373201.aspx an…
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Opening a file with two different applications.
by Guest matthewtec- 1 reply
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I know that I can click on a .txt file and have it open with Notepad. And to open it with something such as WordPad or JEdit, I can right click on it and either use 'Open With' or 'Send To' [after putting the respective shortcut in the 'Send To' folder. But, I was wondering if there is a way to accomplish this by doing something along the lines of selecting a key and left clicking the application [such as holding down 'Control' and double clicking the application to have an alternate application open the file], or something along those lines? If there's anything anyone could help me with, it would be appreciated. Thank you. Matt -- remove t…
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SP3 file indexing ARG!!
by Guest Jo- 8 replies
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This is driving me nuts! I don't know if it's just SP3 in general or if it's this useless file indexing thing or what, but my computer runs MUCH slower, it sometimes hangs when a program is trying to read a directory, and often the thumbnails it shows are only a fraction of the regular thumbnail size and I have to click refresh to get the fill size. This is supposed to be an improvement how??? When I looked in Windows Help to see if I could shut it off, it tells me there should be a "Fast Find" or something in the control panel. Not! I did find "Indexing Options" but it only gives me options, not the ability to shut that feature down. I tried to unclick…
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Internet Wont let me into secured sites
by Guest --Ivan--- 3 replies
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Hi.. Im running Xp on 2 of my computers and Vista on laptop Ive got on of the Wireless USB Internets sticks with Three.. The computer has been working fine and internet but in the last week i cant get into secured sites im not sure why, i have not done anything to it.. I cant get into my bank accounts online or hotmail or ebay and stuff like that every other site works fast and good except sites like those.. I allready checked and made sure i have enables SSL and TSl in internet connections not sure why this keeps happening.. doesnt matter which on of the computer i put the stick in i cant access those sites... any suggestion what the problem coul…
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Re: product identification number
by Guest ZACK CLARKE- 1 reply
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Re: product identification number HI I NEED A 25 CHARACTER PRODUCT KEY CAN U GIVE ME ONE "Will Denny" wrote: > Hi > > Do you mean the 25 character Product Key (used to install XP) or the PID > (used to contact MS with for a problem)? If the latter - right click on My > Computer and select Properties. The PID is 20 character number you in the > format of: > > xxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx > > -- > > Will Denny > MS-MVP Windows Shell/User > Please reply to the News Groups > > > "steph" <steph@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:0C043F1B-59DE-46AC-978A-CF00E193DC3A@mic…
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My son gave me his computer
by Guest David Schwartz- 8 replies
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My computer died, and my son gave me his desktop that he doesn't use anymore since he got a laptop. How do I get rid of the Documents and Settings that say Brian (his name) and establish files for me? Same with Brian's Documents. How do I eliminate his name and files from everywhere I see it in one fell swoop and establish me as the owner of the computer? It is running XP -- David Schwartz Commack, NY
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Personal nfo tracking files
by Guest Gian Luca- 0 replies
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Recently I was visiting what I thought was a respectable web site and suddenly I started getting pop up IM-type messages of a sexual nature. They were in the form of contact invitations and all of them said they were from my zip code. If I visit an electronics vendor's site, it already knows my zip for computing the best price available on an item. After a visit to a cooking blog, I immediately received an invitation via E-mail from the name I recognized as that of the blog's author suggesting I visit their MySpace page. I don't use any app whose purpose is to store personal information for easy retrieval in an effort to avoid the very situations I am now expe…
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The handle is invalid
by Guest MacWin- 0 replies
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iMac 4 Gb RAM Windows XP Pro SP3 running under Parallels I have a FAT32 external HD on the virtual side of an iMAC This drive is accessible from both the Mac and Windows side. All was well until two days ago when one single folder failed to open, producing an error message: [path] is not accessible. The handle is invalid. The folder continued to open without hesitation on the Mac side. I copied the folder to an off-drive location, deleted the original and recopied the folder back to its original location. Same problem. Then, from the Windows side, I renamed the folder by putting a space between each letter of the folder's name. The problem was resolved and…
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Remote Desktop connection
by Guest Jason- 4 replies
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I see RDC uses UDP and port 3389. Initially I thought I just needed to forward TCP port 3389 from the router to the computer. So do I need to forward UDP port 3389 as well? Is there other ports that need to be forwarded as well? I've used RDC over a LAN ok but haven't been able to over the internet where the host computer is conencted via an ethernet router. Thanks, J.
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Black Box under desktop icons
by Guest Fishermun- 2 replies
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Windows XP, SP3, Laptop, all updates in place. Had to completely rebuild this laptop this week. All went well, except I now have a black box under all desktop icons. Originally they seemed to to transparent. Where can I change this? Also I would like to set all folders to show "Details", instead of "Thumbnail". Where can I change this. My brain is fried and I can't seem to find these settings. Thanks.
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Changing Desktop Shortcut Icon
by Guest David Schwartz- 1 reply
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I would like to customize the images used on my desktop shortcuts. Right click-properties-change icons only lets me change it to an "icon file type" How can I use a JPG image for a desktop shortcut? Do I have to somehow convert the JPG to an icon file type? Also, in case it matters, the shortcuts I want to change are mainly shortcuts to web sites. Thanks -- David Schwartz Commack, NY
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XP, AMD and SP3
by Guest jaydee2- 2 replies
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I have a friend who installed SP3 on his AMD processor computer and has been plagued with lockups and general discontent—until he removed SP3. I have been recently assailed by MS / windows update with a pending SP3 update. Since I am on a computer with an AMD 751 MB and K7 processor, I've been loathe to allow the SP3 upload. Do I have to worry about this? Was it a problem peculiar to my friend's computer? What's so hot about SP3 that I need to download it? tks, johnd -- jaydee2
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XP Pro Internet Logs - Where Are They?
by Guest Tom- 2 replies
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Hi, where can I find the log files for Internet Explorer? Thanks, tom