Windows XP
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REGIONAL & LANGUAGE SETTINGS NOT ALLOWING
by Guest FARAZ QURESHI- 1 reply
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I don't understand why but the Regional & Language Settings on the Control Panel are unfortunately not being customized to allow me to enter the short date format of d/M/yyyy and/or change currency symbol to Rs. for Pakistan. Everytime I make a change a message box displays that: "One or more characters that you typed in this field are invalid. Try typing different characters." Such a message pops-up even if I don't insert the formats manually but select ones from drop down box. Shall appreciate all your expertise and guidance/help! -- Best Regards, FARAZ A. QURESHI
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Restore offline files off a drive
by Guest RS_WMT- 1 reply
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I would like to retreive offline files from a drive, the drive is from another laptop, which decided to die on me. I have attached the drive to another laptop and would like to retreive the files from the CSC folder on that drive. Is it possible to restore these files to normal file system files without actually using this drive as the boot drive. Please help. -- RS_WMT
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I am so very, very sorry
by Guest nass- 2 replies
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My friendly, fellow posters. I am very, very sorry for all the problems that my stupidity has been causing here. I have been outing, you say?, a dirty, lying REAL TROLL Mick Murphy <RT>, and his brother, Fake PaulShit, Paul (Shite) Montgomery, also TROLL. I help people here, not arguing, with the swill of the garbage bins!!! Please, please forgive me for being so silly. Look at the record here. I am up to nearly 500 correct answers for GOLD, then MVP. We still friends, yes? -- HTH, nass ---- http://www.nasstec.co.uk
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New Hardware Found
by Guest Keith- 4 replies
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Every time I start my PC, I get the New Hardware found message saying that it has found a Printer (no details, just Printer), I only have one printer which is shown in the Hardware list and is working fine, but to try and eliminate things. I have actually removed EVERYTHING from all connectors except LAN, mouse and keyboard but it still pops up with the 'Found New Printer'. I have not added anything new to my PC for a long time. I am running windows XP with SP3, but this started a couple of weeks ago when I still had SP2. I have a full Internet Security package through Virgin Media so don't believe it to be virus related. Any suggestions? Thanks …
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Termional server vs. Regular shell
by Guest Xmozart- 0 replies
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After restarting a PC with windows XP sp3 (or sp2 as well) I login into it from another PC with remote desktop client. I get a Terminal Server shell instead of the regular one. When I click on Start button I see the "Windows Terminal Server" on the left blue bar. This behavior causes several problems for applications (msde setup failed for example). The only workaround I found is to login into the PC locally first and then to connect to it remotely. In such case I get the correct shell. Is there any resolution for the problem? Thanks.
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STOP message with this - what is the problem
by Guest Man T- 1 reply
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XP SP3 I got this STOP message: MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION STOP: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x80546DF0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F) I guess that related this my chip set fan which is dead so make my on-board sound card does not work.
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Passwoods no longer saved
by Guest eht_remmir- 1 reply
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I use Firefox mostly but sometimes IE if needed. I've told both of these to save passwords. A short time ago no IDs and passwords were saved for any site, even those that always recalled them. The settings are still "save passwords." Does anybody have any idea why this is happening. I think this happened when I installed XP SP3. Thanks in advance, Alan
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1 TB Drive Copying Problem
by Guest Tom- 3 replies
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XP Pro SP3 Just installed a Western Digital 1 TB Drive, removed the FAT 32 partition with Disk Mgt and installed a new partition formatted to NTFS. When I try to copy files from my older External USB 2.0 drive to this new External 2.0 drive, the copying function stops after a short while and the computer hangs without finishing the copy operation. I have to reset the computer. Are they are issues with copying large files or multiple files in XP? Are there any large drive issues with XP? Some if my drive image files are 30 GB in size. TIA -- Tom
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XP home SP3 ........... sound problems on web sites
by Guest ITALIANSTALLION- 0 replies
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had XP SP2 and could heard sound from PC and web sites. upgraded to SP3 can still hear sounds from PC but now from certain music store sites i cannot hear sound from the sample tracks available from example albums ( stores like HMV) no doubt a setting has changed but dont know where to look as the problem seems to be restricted to a specific area help would be much appreciated thankyou
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Windows XP Media center booting problem
by Guest mcp111- 8 replies
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I have a laptop with Windows XP Media Center edition. It boots partially, some of the desktop icons appear and then it hangs. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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I get this when I stop a usb device using the Sefely Remove Hardware Icon. "An exception occurred while trying to run Shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll" The device seems to be shut down but running the command Shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll, and then trying to do anything in the pop-up generates the error every time. Any ideas what to check -- what reg key or file might be the prob?
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Restricted account - OE will not open
by Guest Teneo- 14 replies
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Hi I put my kids logon account on restricted, from administrator, and when I click their name and login the desktop is not quite the same ( icons not layed out the way they have it but all nice and in lines, theirs are splattered all over the place ) and cannot start outlook express. Switch them back to administrator and click their name, icons all over the place and can start outlook. Its as if it is a different account when in restricted mode. Any Ideas ? Cheers
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Magik Fortune's Character Can't Speak
by Guest biermanoski- 5 replies
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Download Link: Speech API 4. Text to Speech Engine (English) Download Link: Text To Speech Engine Hi, Above is a quote from MagikFortune's Software required page. However, when I Click on either link - it then directs me to the Microsoft Explorer page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/default.aspx But which Links (?) on that Microsoft Internet Explorer page do I then Click on (?) in order to Download those (2) needed Speech Programs? BTW, I'm using WindownsXP SP2 and my Character is, Peedy. However, I do hear the flapping sound of his wings, when he comes, or goes. But that's all. -- Thank you, Jean
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Re: XP KEY Will not work
by Guest Paul Bradley- 0 replies
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Re: XP KEY Will not work You think you might be able to help me? I have a tablet pc with a product key, but I have a retail version of the software. This is a gateway pc. I have no restore disks and the original hard drive was damaged and had to be replaced. Gateway does not offer restore cd's for this and only have the retail one (like I have) to send to me (that does not even have the sata drivers to where I can even install windows on the computer). I know how to change the PID # inside the setupp.ini file, but not sure what it needs to be. Between trying to get the installation to recognize the hard drive and trying to figure out what the pid value …
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Add or Remove programs Doesn't populate (its blank)
by Guest Joel Pettigrew- 2 replies
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The machine is running Windows XP Pro SP3. Installed a few days ago, drivers are all installed, updates are all installed. Lots of programs are already installed, from Dynamic GP to Gtalk to Microsoft Office. When I go into Add or Remove programs it says please wait while this list populates; It, however, regadrless of time open, never brings anything up. If I close it and attempt to open again, add or remove programs will not open unless I restart. I can doube click, and right click - run and I dont get any change. Things I have checked. I went to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall in the registery and checked to see permissions and i…