Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Dell Reboot Issues
by Guest NotInTheKnow- 5 replies
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A "friend" tried to help me reboot my Dell E310 with my OEM Windows XP Media disks. It seems to do the setup okay but when it comes to reinstalling the programs the screen says it can "take up to 30 minutes" and to not hit any keys. So he waited over an hour and the disk light had quit blinking, so he aborted. Only some of the programs reinstalled and all the old files were still there. Any idea how to fix this? I have all my data backed up and my disks available.
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windows installer
by Guest Tom- 2 replies
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When I open my hotmail account, and I click on an e mail to open it, I get a box pop up widows installer, and "preparing to install" There is an option to cancel, which I do each time, and then my e mail will open. I only have to do this once each time I open hotmail, but it is very annoying, and i want to know how to get rid of it please.
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XP boot disk
by Guest Viking- 4 replies
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Hi ! I have just reintalled my computer with XP Home Edition and SP2 + all updates and reinstalled all the programs and drivers that i need. Is it possible to make a bootable disk with this configuration ? Would save a lot of time........ Brgds Viking
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increasing the speed of the internet
by Guest micha- 1 reply
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Dear Sir I understand, increasing the speed of the internet can be done by allocating a buffer on the internal memory for interupts that come from the modem or from the network card.Pls explain how it can be done ,is it efficiant? ( % improvement) how does it influence other applications? Do I need to backup the registry &system? Can I do it for different users? for example,use 1 will be optimized for the internet. user 2 will be optimized for office and more . Thanks Micha
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What would be the best free Anti-virus program ?, I am using AVG at the moment
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How can I reinstal XP without a XP program disk?
by Guest JGGS- 16 replies
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I bought a few laptops from Dell and the all came with XP preinstalled. Dell don't supply an operating system disk anymore. They seem to believe that "Restore Points" and the like solve all potential problems. But what if my hard drive fails terminally and I need to reinstall the entire system on a new one? Is there any way of creating an operating system disk? Incidentally, I tried to backup the system with the "Automated System Recovery Wizard" so that I would have a system disk in case of failure that didn't require a new hard drive, but I can't get this to work. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it demands a floppy disk and, since none …
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problems using virtual hard disks (VHD) with XP, VHDMount
by Guest mad.scientist.jr@gmail.com- 1 reply
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I installed the latest version of Virtual Server w/VHDMount, and the "take 2" registry Ben Armstrong posted on his blog for quickly mounting VHD files (see http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2007/06/20/double-clicking-on-a-vhd-to-mount-it-take-2.aspx or http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/search.aspx?q=vhd&p=1 for all his VHDMount articles) and am having a lot of issues.... I am hoping someone will be able to point out something obvious I did wrong so I can get this to work... I tried created a VHD image using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 (I have tried both dynamic and fixed-size) and partitioned/formatted them with NTFS. I right-click…
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Win XP SP3 ?
by Guest Teriel9- 13 replies
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Hi All Are there any known problems with installing SP3 into Windows XP Home. Auto update has offered this and I wished to just check. Thanks in advance Teriel9
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Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
by Guest mick- 3 replies
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How do I set windows picture and fax viewer as my default picture viewer so that when I double click on a picture icon it opens in this program
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Copying Huge Amount - crash on .ocx .inf files
by Guest scoconnell@aol.com- 4 replies
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Hi, I have an IS guy copying a directory containing a load of stuff from my old laptop (Windows XP, 2 Gig mem) to my new one (probably windows XP, not sure how much mem but should be 2 Gig). He says he's got them both connected to our network and is just attempting to copy the folder over (I assume drag and drop.) He says it keeps crashing on .ocx and .inf files. So he renames the problem file to .old and redoes the entire copy until he hits another problem (I do have copies of certain CDs on my machine). My question is this: Is this really a product of the old 2 Gig limit issue on Windows? Each of the sub-folders being copied I have copied previously from …
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XP Home backup problem
by Guest Twayne- 3 replies
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X'd to .general & .security_admin Hi, ntbackup, defrag and even Ghost are having trouble locking up at System Volume Information on an XP Home computer, and probably other things are too. Before I do a backup restore that might have the same issue, thought I'd ask: XP Home: Programs halt on c:\system volume information\mountpointmanagerremotedatabase. This problem is all over the 'net in thousands of places and the "usual" fix it to delete the errant file and let it be recreated. I can easily see how I'd do that in XP Pro by exposing System Volume Information and adding myself for access to it. But, XP Home seems to have no such way to "…
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HID device
by Guest Lil' Dave- 4 replies
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Recently, I installed a new firewire hard drive (ide)enclosure. XP found the SDP2 for it, the drive and so forth. However, its found one thing that I cannot locate drivers for, and, I have no clue what it is. The errant unknown entry begins as "WDC_______HID" Yes, the hard drive is a Western Digital. The enclosure is USB2/firewire, am using firewire. I even went as far as doing a clean XP install. Same problem. Additionally, I select to not bother me about this hardware again. Next time I turn on the enclosure, same screen wanting to install the HID device. -- Dave
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printer usb port not working (the specified port is unknown)
by Guest carlos f.- 3 replies
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My laptop doesn't recognize my printer via the usb ports. I was trying to install a printer and i changed something about the ports in the device managger (i dont remember what) and after that I've been unable to use the usb port for printing purpose. but they still work for the other devices (scanner, external HD, etc). I uninstalled all the printers and try to reinstall my hp laserjet 1018 but at the end of the process it state " an error ocurred during the instalation of the device. The specified port is unknown".
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Taskbar Problem
by Guest JungleJim- 5 replies
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Win XP Pro w/SP2. My taskbar always showed the applications that were running until a couple of days ago. Then it will no longer show the application that is running. BUT I can get to them by pressing Alt + Tab. This is much more difficult to use than just clicking on the Icon in the taskbar. I tried 7 times to restore my PC to a previous point but it failed on all 7 tries. Can anyone please tell me how to get the taskbar to show the programs that are running on the PC? Thanks in advance for any help. JungleJim -- Jungle Jim
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font problem IE7
by Guest Gerard Verhoef- 5 replies
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Hi Suddenly some websites are hardly readable, the font seems to be changed and I can only read it if I chose (very) lager characters or set zoom to 150%. Before this sudden change there was no problem. I can't thinks of any changes I made to the system in between, though there might have been a windows crash. The wiki site is one of the sites with this problem (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoofdpagina). Using Firefox3 on the same computer shows the same site in perfect condition. I run winxp sp3 with ie7 (latest updates). Thanks for reading. Gerard Verhoef
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unusual security warning when running from a networked drive
by Guest ProteanThread- 4 replies
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http://www.rtdos.com/warning.JPG Recently I get the above program whenever I run anything (in this case a *.CHM file) from a networked drive, I tried checking my security settings, is there something I could have missed? -- Woodzy http://www.rtdos.com
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foreign languages available in xp?
by Guest dizzyd- 1 reply
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My nephew is half thai and they have a laptop with xp and thai and english dual install. The pc was bought in Thailand. The problem is the pc is acting very slow and corrupted and I believe as an A+ engineer its due a new install of xp. My question is this does xp have native support for the Thai language and keyboard? Sorry i know this is a tricky on but any help most welcome
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Scanner and Camera Wizard runs slow
by Guest Dave Reichert- 3 replies
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I'm using the camera wizard to transfer JPGs from my camera's compact flash card (using a USB card reader) to my PC's hard disk (XP SP2). The speeds I get are slow, around 10 Mbs (looks like USB 1.1). However, if I open a DOS window, and use the "copy" command, I get over 100 Mbs. Also, if I use Adobe Bridge to copy from the card reader, I get over 100 Mbs. My BIOS is all setup for USB 2.0. Any ideas why the wizard is so slow?
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Help Reinstalling XP with no CD
by Guest noe159- 10 replies
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I am trying to Reinstall XP, i cannot find the so called 386 Directory (Folder) on my Hard Disk. This is an HP Pavillion desktop and XP came preinstalled and i did not get a CD. I have the XP cd key. This desktop does not have a floppy drive either so i cant make boot disk. Ive also tried hitting f10 during boot up which shows as the key to enter recovery mode but i just get beeping sound and every time I press it and it does nothing but boot up as normal.How can i reinstall it.
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How do I get rid of a nonexistant "ghost" program?
by Guest Bob Balmer- 4 replies
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Apparently, I have a nonexistant "ghost" program taknig up half of my hard disk. The Add or Remove Programs task cannot find or uninstall it. What can I do to overcome this problem and free up half of my hard drive???? -- Bob Balmer
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Font problem with Sans-Serif
by Guest Cheese- 0 replies
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After reloading XP, I added some fonts to use with Adobe CS3. I don't recall replacing or deleting any fonts, but when I was finished, I immediately noticed a different font on Craigslist. This is not one of the fonts I added. Bottom line, I have no idea how this font changed. I would like to get things back to normal again with as little pain as possible. Here's what Craigslist looks like in IE7. http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/7583/craigslistap2.gif
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internet
by Guest JAWS- 2 replies
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I have lost my ability to view "Buttons" on my e-mail and only see the "Hand" which tells me that a button is there . Is there something I must do to the system file? John
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Viewing Option-CD drive/USB Card Reader
by Guest Webphotoman- 1 reply
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I used to get an option menu when inserting a CD, or a memory card in the card reader, to see a slide show, etc. I no longer get that option menu. I think that I probably may have accidently hit the Do Not Show Again button. How can I restore that menu option. Roland rburgan@up.net
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Device manager said this computer is a ACPI computer. It was available (and worked) before vacation, now after vacation, it's gone. Is there some registry setting to to check? Like in Hkey_Local_Machine | System | CurrentControlset | Session Manager | Power
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XP SP3 OUTLOOK EXPRESS ISSUE
by Guest Ron Kirschner- 3 replies
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Since installing SP3 last week - Outlook Express keeps on asking about compacting my messages over and over while OE is open. Is this a known problem?