Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
26818 topics in this forum
-
Internet Explorer freezing up
by Guest Chris D- 4 replies
- 229 views
With some regularity my Internet Explorer page seems to freeze up. It seems to always happen to the first page that's been opened, with any other Internet Explorer pages that are open not being affected. The page will not respond in any way and appear to be just frozen up. To close it I have to open up 'windows task manager'. I also often get a message from windows reporting a fault and asking if I'm happy to post a fault report, which I do. My system is fully up to date. Any suggestion on what problems I might have or how I could do some fault finding to find the problem. Regards....Chris
-
WinXP SP2 very, very slow?? 1 2
by Guest Robert Macy- 37 replies
- 933 views
When I boot up WinXP it takes a 'normal' time to get the desk top laid out, and all in place, but then can't do anything for almost 5 minutes until the START menu icon activates. Little hour glass until then. Possibly related, when IE6 logs onto the dial up server, there is a normal sequence of dial, handshake, identify, connect, and then...about 5 minutes longer before the welcome screen comes up [no activity or bytes going back and forth, just hour glass and waiting for ??] I think WinXP has some sequence of applications running that dominates here, but I have no idea how to proceed. What step by steps should I do to find out what's hogging, or delayin…
-
IE - HELP! Web pages refuse to fit in the screen
by Guest Desiree 3D- 2 replies
- 160 views
IE - HELP! Web pages refuse to fit in the screen Help anyone? When I have any web page open, it will not fit inside the window and I have to scroll not only up and down,which isn't that unusual, but from left to right and it's driving me bonkers! It seems to have started about 3weeks ago. I have W2Kpro and IE6 both with all the service packs and updates avail. I'm grateful for your help! -- Desiree 3D
-
Cannot delete old local profile from XP domain system
by Guest Sandy Wood- 4 replies
- 209 views
Doing some house cleaning and noticed several old local profiles on my XP system and thought I'd delete them. The Delete button is greyed out in the User Profile GUI for every profile on my system. I ran Process Explorer and noticed that every profile's NTUSER was loaded and wouldn't allow me to close their handles. Can anyone suggest a clean way to rid myself of these old profiles? -- Sandy Wood Orange County District Attorney
-
My Documents Synchronization to old server problem
by Guest owenmpk- 0 replies
- 121 views
Hello, I I have an XP Pro system that is a member of a Domain managed by Server 2003 Standard. Apparently before my time it was also a member of an old domain and was setup to sync to the old server. That server no longer exists but during log of the system will try to sync to the old server and fail but syncs to the new server and succeeds. I have searched far and wide on the Internet and have not found a solution. Either it is staring me in the face or I am the first with this problem (am I lucky or what?) Any ideas -- Owen K
-
display properites
by Guest RamonV.- 5 replies
- 225 views
Well, I had a pc that was infected with that AntiSpyware 2008 virus and after it was removed i noticed that when i checked the display properties the screen saver tab was gone. I could still add desktop background by right-clicking a pic and setting it but is there a way to bring back that tab is the properties settings?
-
RE: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model
by Guest Milt- 0 replies
- 126 views
RE: Identifying Motherboard's Make and Model The last time you posted this question, a week or two ago, I recommended you use the Belarc Advisor at: http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html and look at "main circuit board". Someone suggested that it's dangerous spyware. I don't think so. And neither do most responsible, reasonable people. I still recommend that you use the Belarc Advisor. Milt Someone "unknown" wrote: >
-
IE7 Problems - XP, SP3
by Guest D. Kirkpatrick- 8 replies
- 357 views
I have been asked to look at a friend's system. Windows XP, SP3 installed. All of the latest Windows updates (on auto-install) are in there as of the date of this posting. AVG Ver 8 (Grissoft) as AV program, no additional firewall issues that I can detect. Comcast Broadband connection. When using IE7 to connect to Yahoo Mail it does not display the pages correctly, and some pages will not display at all. Unsure if this is a Java, ActiveX, Flash, or some other issue. I followed the instructions offered from Yahoo for when the pages do not display correctly (I think) and enabled anthing that might have been improperly disabled, such as ActiveX. …
-
File time changes with UK daylight saving hours
by Guest jd- 1 reply
- 148 views
I was checking some copies of a file that I regularly backup by appending the date and time to the filename. In Windows Explorer, when I now check these backup files (when UK time is GMT + 1 hour daylight saving) the ones that were stored during the winter (when UK time was GMT) have a time that is 1 hour ahead of the time appended onto the filename. Is this the way that Windows works? Is there an option to make Windows Explorer display the time as it appeared to be when the file was created/modified, and if there is, would there be any side effects in using it?
-
SP3 problems ~ with IE7 ??? or not
by Guest Tillpott- 21 replies
- 656 views
Hi I use IE7 and am happy with it ~ up until now have had no problems, however, since a few days ago I have been having problems getting web pages to open ~ I keep getting IE cannot display this page . . . I checked my MS update history tonight and found SP3 had downloaded automatically ` would this be the cause of the problem ? How do I get back to normal ? Do I uninstall SP3 ? What effect will it have on my computer ~ ? Do I need SP3 ? I do not want to change back to IE6 ( as I like IE7 ) if I really don't have to. Thank you in advance for your help. Tillpott
-
edit HKEY_CURRENT_USER remotly
by Guest ZIDAC- 3 replies
- 186 views
HI, I am from Spain, excuse my Inglish I have a 2003 domain and XP pro clients. When i connected from my DC to clients registry only view the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_USERS but i don't see HKEY_CURRENT_USER How i can edit the HKEY_CURRENT_USER from my DC? thanks, ZIDAC
-
Auto Restart on Standby
by Guest colblip- 9 replies
- 309 views
Hello, All! Anytime I put my machine on Standby it goes into Standby and then immediately comes out of Standby. Any thoughts as to why this would occur? Is there some setting I'm missing? Thanks, Colonel Blip E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com
-
hibernation mode always used
by Guest john d hamilton- 8 replies
- 278 views
When i switch on my pc from its' hibernate mode it boots up very quickly. Much quicker than when i turn it off in the conventional way. Since in hibernation, i cannot hear the cooling fan running; does that mean also that the hard drive is not spinning? If that's the case, would there be any reason *never* to switch it off in the conventional manner; but to always use the hibernate mode? Thanks for advice.
-
sp3 won't start with external drives
by Guest jga154- 7 replies
- 280 views
I use a 1tb external hard drive. Since loading sp3 Windows will not start. It freezes up on the first Windows screen with the blue bars. I uninstalled sp3 and computer works fine now. Microsoft, please let me know when it's fixed.
-
Computer Shut off Timer
by Guest joe10- 3 replies
- 202 views
Is there a way that I can set a timer to have my computer shut down at certain time during the week? My system is Windows XP Professional. thanks. mondongo10@hotmail.com
-
rename user folder
by Guest jskamm- 4 replies
- 208 views
Hi running win xp pro on new dell d830 laptop. set up the computer name and the user name for laptop. computer name is LAPTOPRE, same as user name. but when i view the document and settings folder, the user folder is named "Jason" and is the only folder listed. this is how i initially set it up. wondering if i can rename the subfolder "Jason" to Laptop? when i login as administrator and try to rename i get error message access is denied. when i navigate to the control panel/user account, the user Jason is not listed, only user listed is Laptop. is there any way i can rename the subfolder "Jason" under documents and settings?
-
What really happens when Ctrl Alt Del is pressed?
by Guest Jimmy- 1 reply
- 165 views
We have an application (specifically Oracle Forms through JInitiator on I.E.7) which when opened for the first time everything runs really slow. The response is really bad, e.g. when typing a character it displays on screen after 2 secs. Strangely after we press ctrl alt del and then cancel, everything starts running normally. We are running on Sunray thin clients with Windows terminal services. The question is what does really happen when you press ctrl alt del? Why is ctrl alt del fixing this problem? Thanks, Demetris
-
THEFT
by Guest amadaemon- 5 replies
- 255 views
WHO STOLE THE SIGN-IN BUTTON ITS MISSING ON EVERY HEADING????? -- g.b.
-
Booting problems after deleting XP from the E partition of a 98SE machine
by Guest thanatoid- 1 reply
- 152 views
Hello As an experiment, I installed XP Pro on my 98SE machine, and after playing with it for a while, deleted it. Anyone interested can read about this in 24hrsupport.helpdesk. Anyway, I deleted XP, and the machine still gave me the "XP or Windows" boot menu. Needless to say, unnecessary and annoying. So I renamed boot.ini as well as bootsect.dos (fortunately I was not reckless enough to just delete them). Well, you know what happened. So I booted from a floppy and brought those two files back. The question: How the hell do I get rid of that boot menu, the two files in root of C:\ and (/if/ in fact XP messed around with the MBR) restore th…
-
Services / Event Viewer Windows
by Guest Victor- 3 replies
- 180 views
I have desktop shortcuts for each of these and have set the properties to open maximized, but every time I open them they are in a very small window which is good for nothing. How can I set them to open maximized, or have them retain their size? Thanks.
-
Windows Explorer view with folders
by Guest TC2004- 3 replies
- 193 views
I am trying to change the default view of folders in Explorer (with details and folders showing in the left hand pane). For some reason, setting it in Tools/Folder Options/View/Apply to all folders does not seem to work. Thanks for your help in advance. Astrid
-
'Switching Off' Keyboard
by Guest Blake Kaos- 0 replies
- 137 views
Is there any way to 'switch off' a keyboard on Win XP Pro and conversely, is there some way to switch it back on? It seems my main administrator profile has either been corrupted or somehow changed so that it does not recognise the keyboard. Other user profiles seem to work normally on the same hardware. I have tried to remove / reinstall the keyboard using Device Manager & tried to use an USB keyboard - all to no avail. I tried to copy the profile (sans the nti* files), but it is a pain to do so since I have to use the on-screen virtual keyboard to do so. Anyway, I have not been successful in transferring the old profile into a new profile. Bef…
-
Missing Control Panels Icons
by Guest Gene- 1 reply
- 149 views
running Windows XP SP3 Got a virus :-(, most of it removed, just 2 items to go: * missing some Control Panel icons (mouse, display...), some there * did a search for *.cpl, nothing found :-( nothing. * Tried policy in TweakUI, did not turn missing ones on :-( * is there a place in the register I can turn on? * 1 other item: when I click on My Computer, my C drive is not listed (but it it there), just not displayed/hidden - how do I display? MUCH THANKS!!!!!!!!!! GEne:)
-
Boot problems with serial device
by Guest MECSPB- 0 replies
- 124 views
So, I have a device connected at serial port and always on and sending data to the port. When XP restarts sometimes it understands it as mouse put driver on it and problems begin... Already tried fastdetect at boot.ini never helps - before at NT was NoSerialMice parameter, now it is substituted by fastdetect - but it never works. Could you recomend me how to solve this one? Can I turn off serial checking for mouse driver at all? Thx, Oleg
-
Disk Cleanup - Unable To Delete Restore Points
by Guest Nightsampler- 3 replies
- 186 views
In Disk Cleanup under "Other Options" I am unable to delete all but the most recent restore point. I can delete all points by disabling SR, and then re-enabling it, but I prefer using the recommended procedure. Any suggestions? or am I missing something obvious. -- Is All That We See Or Seem But A Dream Within A Dream.