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The new/crazy MSN Home page
by Guest Ron Hirsch- 2 replies
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All of a sudden, the MSN home page, which I usually leave as my home page is filled with hundreds of thumbnails for a wide range of pictures. The thumbnails actually chop off the left and right sides of the original MSN home page, and this new setup is a PITA, and worthless as far as I'm concerned. If I can't get the old MSN home page back, MSN will be history with me as far as my home page is concerned. Does anyone know what's going on here? Ron Hirsch
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sp3 via Win Update vs downloaded file?
by Guest njem- 1 reply
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I'm having trouble with a system I recently set up and just trying to eliminate things. Did a clean install of XP Pro w/SP2, then I have a downloaded file of SP3 (316M) burned on a CD and I ran that. Lots of quirky problems, Explorer problems, Office problems. I'm just going to start from scratch. But am I right that getting SP3 from Windows Update, or running that file (WindowsXP-KB936929-SP3-x86-ENU.exe) doesn't make any difference? The other possible issue is AHCI. Very briefly, the system came with Vista, AHCI enabled. It would blue screen when I tried to boot XP install CD. I could switch to ATA mode but there was a driver available. A dell system, drive…
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com1 not working
by Guest shahomy- 1 reply
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My serial port, com1,(DB9) doesn`t seem to work anymore. Computer is a Dell laptop. I use the serial port to communicate with a MicroChip programmer and also hyperterminal. I am an electronics hobbyist and use hyperterminal to setup a few things in an embedded web server in my home. My programmer just gives message "can`t connect to com1" Hyperterminal gives message "Another program is using the selected telphony device. Try again after the other program completes."....How to find what this "other"device is? Here`s what happened to make it stop working. I installed a device(home automation wireless device) called an "X10 FIRECRACKER" It`s just a 1 inch s…
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Logoff & Shutdown "Ending Program...."
by Guest GP Leo- 3 replies
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EVERY SINGLE TIME my wife and I log off or shutdown our XP Home SP3, we get "Ending Program. Please wait..." and, possibly later, "This program is not responding..." when, to our knowledge, there is NO program running. How can we eliminate this inconvenience? Regards to those of you who pointed me to the solution of earlier problems. -- GP Leo
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How to format thumb drive as NTFS?
by Guest Paul Randall- 4 replies
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Hi, I'm running WXP SP2 on a two-year old Compaq laptop. A month ago, I formatted three 2-GB thumb drives, one in Fat16, one in Fat32, and one in NTFS format, but I think I may have done this on another computer, perhaps with a Vista OS. I can write to and read from all three of these thumb drives on this laptop. If I right click on any of these three thumb drives in My Computer and choose Format, I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32 for 2GB thumb drives and only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives. Seems like I should at least be able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb drive that is currently NTFS. I've seen other threads that talk about n…
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RE: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgro
by Guest cavalier- 0 replies
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RE: email notification when someone responds to your post in a newsgro Why do you never put your question in the question box?You always have as the title or heading . "unknown" wrote: >
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When the second monitor is gone ...
by Guest JMF- 11 replies
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Here's a tricky one I can't figure out: I attach a second monitor, and extend my desktop onto it. Then I start a program (in this case it's PSPad, but there have been others). The program brings up a window on the first monitor. I drag the window over to the second monitor. I work a little, then close the program. At some point, I detach the second monitor. For example, the first monitor was my laptop and I take it on the road, leaving behind the second monitor at home. Now, having only the one monitor, I open that same program again. It puts its window on the non-existent second monitor (!) That is, it "remembers" where the window was when it last…
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Windows XP Users login error
by Guest Derek Mak- 23 replies
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I had a Home PC with XP prof on it, I had installed an additional harddisk with XP OS on it to this PC. After the installation, I tried to boot up my original harddisk withe the XP OS, when I start it up, it gets to the login screen correctly and I can log in with no issues. The problem comes in where after I log in, the desktop background image loads up, but none of the desktop icons, start bar or system tray. If I Ctrl + Alt + Del and go to Task Manager, I can run any program without any issues. I tried to login to all others users account, all having the same problems. How to solve this problems. Thanks Derek
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XP checks intranet for local files first
by Guest Barry Goluboff- 0 replies
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Hi, I have a laptop with Windows XP which is registered as a computer in a group on the intranet at work. When I try to open a local file, XP checks the intranet first. This is OK at work. But at home with a wireless connection to the internet, when I try to open a local file, XP tries to check the now nonexistent intranet and the delay in opening a local file is nearly a minute before it times out and the file is opened. Is there a way to alter this behavior? Thanks, Barry Goluboff
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Delete win2k support tools
by Guest Virgilijus- 2 replies
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Before I upgraded the pc from win2k to win-xp, I forgot to uninstall the windows 2000 support tools. Now when I do try to get rid of them, it keeps looking for 2000rkst.msi. Is there a way to manually uninstall the tools??
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Adobe PDF and Windows shutdown
by Guest kandinsky63- 3 replies
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Why does an open pdf doc prevent automatic shutdown of windows? I have to manually close the pdf doc before full shutdown can complete. Any reason for this behaviour?/ Thanks
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Bad Image
by Guest Lonesome Day- 1 reply
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Hi The following popup is on my screen and will not disappear. What does the message tell me and what is the solution please. Header is "Mobile Devices Properties:wcescomm.exe" Message is "The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system\4DHOOK32.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation disckette" Any ideas how to solve this please? Tony
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Autoplay does not work
by Guest Ed Wood- 4 replies
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I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Desktop with a 2.1gb dual core processor. I have two DVD burner drives. a Plextor PX712UP and a HP DVD Dual Layer Writer DVD 840d. I am also have installed Powertoy's Tweak UI. Both drives are set to Autoplay in XP's My Computer under the selected drive, and in Tweak UI. However, neither drive will auto start any disk placed in the drive(s). Not Audio Cd, DVD, or Program disk for installation of product. Does anyone have any suggestion what could be blocking the Autoplay feature? Thanks,
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Windows XP login and logout
by Guest Amanda- 1 reply
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Booting up from a XP pro with sp3, after login with my account. The login begins in a normal fashion: preferences are loaded, there is disk activity for a while, the background image is displayed, but before any icons or toolbar entries appear a logout suddenly occurs. If I try again the logout is immediate. I try other users account, it login and immediate logout as well. How to resolve this.
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yellow question marks in device manager
by Guest oldmanlat- 4 replies
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Hi. I recently re-installed XP SP2 after a crash. In device manager under "Other devices" there are (4)items that have a yellow question mark. "Multimedia Controller" "PCI Simple Communications Controller" "PCI Simple Communications Controller" "SM Bus Controller" (driver unknown, no date, no version, not digitally signed under properties on all (4) drivers) When I try to update the drivers, (all 4) items get the same results. XP Hardware Update Wizard says: "Cannot Install this Hardware" "The hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software" I tried getting drivers from Intel with no luck, the chipset installed is Intel…