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File Association
by Guest Pioneer 1- 3 replies
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Have just gotten an E-Mail with attachments. When I click on the attachments, I get a message that tells me "there is no file associated with this action. Create an association in Folder Options in Control pannel." My question is, how do I know what type of file the sender used....and how do I know what file association I should use if I don't know what the sender used. If the sender used some form of picture sender, how would I get the message if I used "Word" association? David of IC
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Windows XP Home Edition problem with MS Word
by Guest Sunshine- 5 replies
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Hi, I am new to this discussion group and am hoping someone will be able to help me with a problem that has cropped up today when I try to use MS Word. I have been using Windows XP Home Edition successfully since its inception years ago. It was pre-installed on my computer when I bought my computer (new). I run the free edition of AVG anti-virus and anti-spyware, Windows Defender and Spybot Search and Destroy. In all the years I have used my computer I have never had a virus, worm or anything funny. Today, when wanting to use MS Word to type a document, the following message popped up in a typical MS box:- You must accept the End User Licence Agreement …
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Re: KB909095
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 0 replies
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Re: KB909095 [X-post to WinXP General] Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; Vista SP1) when posting to this newsgroup, please. Was KB909095 offered by Windows Update? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Oreally wrote: > I have installed this update but the computer still cannot hibernate at > times! > > Help Sought
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Can't download Adobe Flash Player...
by Guest ME- 10 replies
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I get to the Adobe Flash Player download page, and then, nothing. The page just stares back at me like, "What? Expect me to do something?" No bar appears at the top of the site due to a possible blocked pop-up needing to be authorized or anything. No, "If your download doesn't start click here." No further options. Nuthin'! Clues? -- ME
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Windows Live Photo Gallery - Broken Info Button
by Guest Ken- 0 replies
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Been using this application for a month now on an XP system BUT the Info Button does not appear to be functional. I assume if you click it that some other options or seetings would appear. Any ideas?
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Help!
by Guest Pringless- 1 reply
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Ok here's the deal, I used choose program on a .sav file (originally didnt have a program selected) and I messed it up, all I want is to make it go back to its original state, well, all of them since they are all messed up. Please if you can help i've been browsing the web for over a week looking for answers and can't find any, I guess Im not looking in the right spot, EMAIL ME! a .sav is a save file most games make, like byond and vba. I have Windows XP running on a Sony Vaio. Any answers or questions PLEASE send them to my email because I find this forum confusing and I need the help, thank you!!
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Shutdown on Logoff
by Guest spence- 1 reply
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Hi all, I'm trying to accomplish what I thought should be a simple task but has turned out to be quite the challenge. My team is building a virtual lab environment using Windows XP machines that revert to a clean state with each reboot. With that in mind, we've been trying to create a logoff script (and many other concepts) to force the computer to shutdown when a user clicks "logoff". I've found all sorts of documented cases where people are having this trouble. A couple things I read indicated that logoff scripts run under User context rather than Administrator. That in mind I went in to secpol.msc and added Users, SYSTEM, Everyone to the "Shut d…
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Gurus, Running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Sony Vaio laptop. Don't know what I've recently changed on my system but it's running fine except for one little problem - when I press the undock button on the docking station or try to undock it via the Start Menu nothing happens. It used to present a nice little dialog box saying undock is complete but now it doesn't do this anymore. Thoughts? -- Spin
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The Drive That Is Not There
by Guest WMB- 3 replies
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Windows XP(Home) SP3, IE 7; Clean & Updated, About 5yrs old. Hello, I purchased a 2nd Ext HHD for backups. When I decided to hook up the 2nd external drive I got lazy and did not completely detach the 1st ext HHD. I disconnected the connections to the 1st ext HHD(at the hard drive) and left its USB wire connected to the computer. The 2nd HHD connected fine and works fine. The 2nd ext drive took the drive letter of the 1st drive(E:), changed the drive letter for the 1st(original) HHD to (G:) although I was under the impression that the original HHD was not connected. Anyway, after disconnecting all USB devices (G:) still shows in "My Computer & W…
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Replacing Norton antivirus
by Guest Engineer- 5 replies
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Hi, All. I still fixing my wifes PC after a crash and a WinXP reload... Rogers-Yahoo is our Internet provider so it seemed only natural to use its "free", i.e. paid for, protection software (a Symantec program suite) - so I downloaded it and installed it (as I did on my 3 GHz Pentium4 PC where it seems to work fine.) However, my wife's PC is only about 500 MHz. Symantec won't scan and I can't seem to fix it. Also, the PC ran fast enough before I downloaded the Roger-Yahoo stuff but now it's slowed to a crawl - every file transfer, even in the machine, seems to be virus checked and it takes far too long. Anyway, I propose to take the Roger-Yahoo stuff out a…
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blue screen scanning registry
by Guest santashelper- 22 replies
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Whenever my registry is scanned either by regedit or AVG i get a blue screen of death. The error code is:0x00000050 (address error). The parameters are: 1 0xfdfffff8, 2 0x00000000 3 0x8054aa32B5B2, 4 0x00000000. Have tried taking out all hardware and drivers except AGP display card with same results. Removed AGP card and driver and used a known good pci graphics card with same results. Put in new memory and it checked good with mem86 3.4A. Still get blue scren of death when registry is scanned. Tried runnig PC PITSTOP full tests and still get blue screen. If I run in safe mode it runs everything fine. Does anyone know what to do to solve this proble…
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How come my PC can't get to Gmail and google-groups??
by Guest Penang- 8 replies
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To all ! Over this weekend (since last Friday), my computer can't access gmail.com and also groups.google.com ! No matter how I tried to access these two places, the browser will churn and churn, and then come back with an error. I can access google.com without any problem tho. I can also get into google.com.au and google.co.uk with ease. At first I thought that it was gmail at fault. But today, when I return to my office, I can get into gmail without any problem. That means, it's my PC that is preventing me from accessing gmail. Went back home, did a "ping job" - ping http://www.google.com -f -l 1500 - (also on http://www.google.com.au and http://www…
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Crossed links for new user: XPHome
by Guest spamlet- 4 replies
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Can't suss a presumed 'wrong link' issue after setting up a limited account on our XP Home laptop. When user clicks on Word icon or doc, system says it is preparing to install and set up Office, and eventually says target must be on another network resource. If these dialogues are just cancelled Word opens ok, but if it was one of the docs was used to open Word rather than just the Word icon itself, then no document actually appears when the programme opens. The same doc will open from within the File dialogue of Word itself: just not directly from MyDocs or Windows Explorer, unless Word is opened and the installer dialogues cancelled first. How …
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NetMeeting for Win XP
by Guest Peter Marshall- 4 replies
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What is the NetMeeting equivalent software for Windows XP Professional? I tried loading NetMeeting v3.0 and the error message said it was not compatible with this OS. -- Peter Marshall Manager Information Services Ohio Coatings Company
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Re: Shudown - davidz
by Guest Andrew- 0 replies
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Re: Shudown - davidz Use XP and Created a Shutdown Quicklaunch/Desktop Icon.. Create a "Shutdown.bat" file containing... C:\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -s -f -t 0 -c "User ShutDown" -d up:2:2 then Create a shortcut on your desktop to it, Changing the Icon to what you will recognise as shutdown. See the info on Shutdown.exe in XP Help Hope its helpful. A.