Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Windows XP SP3 Problem
by Guest Ron- 5 replies
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I keeping getting an 'access denied' message. No other info. Any help?
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background noise
by Guest Melissa- 3 replies
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every time I boot up my computer this background radio noise plays and I cannot get rid of it. I have tried looking for it running but cannot find it. I seems like a radio station but I cannot get it to stop. I cannot listen to anything else because this will not go away. HELP!!
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cd burning
by Guest Cowboy- 2 replies
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when trying to burn audio cd my computer will get to a point and the shut off could this be due to a Digital Rights Media setting and if so how can I remedy this, I am us Windows Media Player 11
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Windows XP product Key
by Guest claude- 7 replies
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My 6 yr old computer with Win Xp home edition crahed recently, I have restored it by running Repair from the disk that I have, and believe that came from the store I bought the computer from ?, now the computer boots up and the screen come up and is asking for a key numbers, where do I get the keys numbers from, I am not even sure that I have the receipt for this machine to go back to the store with. Is there a key that microsoft can send me in order to continue my work on this machine, I really do not want to loose all I have. Please help
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Network File Sharing
by Guest JoeyB- 1 reply
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We have an open file sharing over our network in the office. There are lot of workgroups created that you can see when you go to the network places. We have our own workgroup created specifically for our department. (ex. xyz workgroup composing of 5 users) How can we set the file sharing that only us (xyz workgroup) can access? because we don't want other users see or access our data. Hope you could help us on our query. thanks
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sharing files/folders between XP and Vista on a network ?
by Guest ProteanThread- 2 replies
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How can I share files on a network that includes a 95 machine, a 2000 machine, 2 xp machines, and a Vista machine? All the other computers (except Vista) see each other and see the Vista machine but can't read the shared files/folders on the Vista machine nor can the Vista machine see the other machines' shared files and folders? The Vista machine has Vista Home Premium. -- Woodzy http://www.rtdos.com
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Application Error---Explorer.exe--- after upgrade Service Pack3
by Guest Michael- 4 replies
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Normally I use WindowsXP with SP2, which was working properly. But last night when I upgrade to Service Pack3 and reboot the computer, the error message shows " Application Error---Explorer.exe This application failed to initialize properly (oxc0150002). Click on ok to terminate the application" Does someone here help me to fixt this issue? Many thanks in advance.
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Default User
by Guest mcp6453- 6 replies
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How do I configure XP SP3 such that when a new user account is created, a particular desktop configuration shows up instead of the default Windows desktop? Google is not yet my friend because I don't know the correct terminology for asking this question.
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Nintendo Wii Games
by Guest walterbaldo@gmail.com- 0 replies
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Hey guys , you know the latest reviews Nintendo Wii Games... Nintendo Wii Games Games, Entertainment For the more info:http://www.nintendowiireviewsblog.com/9108/nintendo- wii-games-3/
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Fax on XP node - unable to open
by Guest Rajiv K Khandelwal- 4 replies
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Using the fax facility on SBS Server but am not able to open the fax on one of the XP nodes. Getting the message: Your OS does not have a default viewer for fax documents (.tif file) When I copy a fax to the node and open it, it opens. Can I be suggested a solution to this issue? Thanking you in advance, R. K. Khandelwal
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PC freezes, rectangles shown on display
by Guest CrazySaguaro- 4 replies
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Has anyone ever seen an error like this? The PC freezes once or twice a day with these crazy rectangles on the display. The PC has Windows XP and is a Lenovo T60. Windows doesn't even have time to respond and no errors are logged in the System Log that I can see. Upon a hard restart, Windows does not show the F8 boot message or come up with any errors/popups when I reach the desktop. Pictures of errors: http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash1.jpg http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash2.jpg http://ginab.net/crashes/pccrash3.jpg Thanks for any help. -Gina
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Lost my Fonts
by Guest CLR- 4 replies
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Hi All......... I have a computer running on WindowsMe and XL97. I did some designs in Excel using the Vineta BT and other Fonts. I then upgraded my system to WinXPhome, Version 2002, Service Pack 2, and the new installs of Excel, (97, 2k, and XP) do not recognize that Font as well as many others that I had in the WinMe installation of those same Excel verisons........anybody know what I may have done wrong........or is this just normal business? TIA Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3
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Screen Saver won't work
by Guest NoWay- 2 replies
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My wifes computer (HP A1210n w/Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2) no longer switches to screen saver when inactive. Selecting a screen saver in Properties and then clicking Preview shows the screen saver, but the screen saver will not activate automatically. Any questions/suggestions? TIA, Fred
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Errors during XP Pro setup on laptop
by Guest Walter Cohen- 5 replies
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I bought an Acer laptop that came with Vista and I am upgrading (downgrading) the OS to XP Pro. After wiping the hard drive and installing XP, the XP setup went through just about everything and failed with an error of "Setup can't load internet connection wizard" to which I replied OK. It then finished the setup and, upon first reboot, came back with another message : "File download - Do you want to open or save this file?" for the file msobshel.htm from C:\Windows\system32\oobe. I choose open (for some reason) and it brought up the dialog box on what program to open the file with. I just cancelled it out. Anyway, after rebooting the laptop again X…
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Refresh
by Guest Jim McGivney- 3 replies
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I have a computer with XP pro. When I do a file operation such as copy, paste, cut or move the change is not reflected in Windows Explorer view of the folder. When I got to VIEW>>Refresh then everything is as it should be. How do I turn on automatic refreshing ? I must have turned it off somehow. Thanks in advance for your help, Jim
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stray Desktop.ini
by Guest Timothy Daniels- 0 replies
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Thanks, Alex. What I had was a shortcut called My Recent Documents, which was a shortcut to the Recent folder which is a hidden folder. But I was able to find the Recent folder and then set the Desktop.ini folder inside it back to "hidden". Your telling me that Desktop.ini was where it belonged was a big help. *TimDaniels* Alex Levi wrote: >When you change folder settings (icon, make it read only ...) this file >Desktop.ini will appear. It can be located in any folder. >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144102(VS.85).aspx > > >"Timothy Daniels" wrote: >> A Desktop.ini file has appeared in My Recent Documents folder, &g…
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Can't open Windows Media Player, Search window is blank, IE proble
by Guest Chia1995- 1 reply
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I have been unable to get Windows Media Player to open now for several weeks. I did a reinstall to no effect. When I select the search page in the START menu, it opens, but all I see is the puppy, but no text or search fields. IE won't play any flashplayer, java, etc. I am using Mozilla Firefox now to get by the IE problems, but I still can't get into WMP or my Search Window. I found out today that the Help and Support option in START menu won't open as well. All these problems cropped up at the same time. I've done a complete virus scan, but nothing has been found. Any suggestions? Also, I can't find my XP cd so no luck trying a reinstall.
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Help debug BSOD on XP SP2
by Guest Gary Fritz- 4 replies
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My old XP desktop started getting a BSOD just about the time I got a new laptop. Which was good timing, but I've decided I need to figure out how to resurrect the thing. I'm not having any luck tracking down the cause. Symptoms: system powers up, goes through the Windows splash screen, then BSOD's just before it would display the login page. BSOD says it is an INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR, ***STOP: 000000A0 (0x00000101, 0x00000007, 0xBA517764, 0x00000000). (And naturally some of the later numbers change each time.) I can run the system in "safe mode with networking" but it's not usable in that state. Googling on INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR didn't get me any…
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Monitor settings
by Guest Stu- 3 replies
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I recently had to replace my hard drive and reload WindowsXPpro. I have a Westinghouse L1975LW wide screen monitor (1440x900), but now I can't find that setting in the screen resolution section. I don't recall having any software for the monitor, and I cant find any drivers on the Westinghouse website. Any ideas? Stu
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What are the best folders to choose for compressing?
by Guest ju.c- 13 replies
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Which folders are best suited for compression? You know, when you right-click a folder, select Properties, Advanced, and check the box "Compress contents to save disk space" For example, I would guess that C:\WINDOWS\Installer is a good choice. A good read, but lacking: Should I Use Windows File Compression? http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2006/07/04/should-i-use-windows-file-compression/ ju.c
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I am developing a specialised system which uses a satellite phone for internet access. The phone itself is buggy and does strange things, and the satellite connection is even less reliable, dropping the connection after a few minutes on average. I am finding that the built-in Windows dialler is not really suitable. It doesn't properly detect that the connection has been dropped, and gets itself confused if the connection has not been dropped but the application is asking for data, and I sometimes get what looks like multiple instances of the dialler, and then nothing works at all. Also the satellite provider occassionally fails to complete the DHCP proces…
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SP3 install files
by Guest scahalan- 4 replies
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I just installed SP3 last night and now my hard drive is nearly full. My PC is older and I have limited space. Are there any files left over from the update I can safely delete to recoop some space. There are a lot of log, pf, query, bmp, gif, etc files. Altogether they add up to a lot of space. Thanks
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usb not working.
by Guest mark- 8 replies
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About 3 weeks ago (may 2008) I found that one of our pc's had lost its usb functionality. Xp pro, installed and running for 3 years. It has a ps/2 keyboard, ms usb optical mouse and occasionally has 2 different types of samsung flash based mp3 players connected. After much fiddling I declared the usb controller dead (pc was 8 years old) and swapped monitor, keyboards, mouse etc to another box running xp pro fresh install. 3 weeks later I have the very same problem on this box. That particular box had run xp pro for 3 years without a hitch with a gaming usb keyboard and gaming usb mouse and a usb external drive with no problems. The symptoms (identical o…
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restart
by Guest Foenix- 5 replies
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Every time the machine is restarted, a "you must restart to continue update" message comes up. No matter how many times it is restarted, the message reappears. Machine & all applications work okay anyway. How do I get rid of the reacurring message?
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Re: Corrupted interface in windows xp Security Center
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 2 replies
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Re: Corrupted interface in windows xp Security Center [X-post to WinXP General] Was this behavior seen before you installed SP3? Is the machine currently fully patched at Windows Update? *Can* you successfully install any updates offered at 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/ Roberto wrote: > I have just finished building a new PC and installed windows xp > professional, then installed SP3. > > When I open security centre to adjust the settings everything is there, > but > the colours are w…