Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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location of pinned shortcuts
by Guest LuDean Marvin- 1 reply
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Where does windows store the shortcuts of the items pinned to the start menu?
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Software can not find CD/DVD burner
by Guest Phoenixfif- 1 reply
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I have a HP Pavilion note book with a HL-DT-ST-GSA-4084N CD/DVD burner. Just recently my burning software will no longer recognize the drive. I have tried reinstalling the software, uninstalling and reinstalling the drive, and swapping the drive with the same model from another computer. The problem still persists. Anyone else ever have this problem?
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Notification area (system tray)
by Guest George- 1 reply
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(Cross-posted in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support) I used to have 6 icons in the Notification area (system tray) in one single row. After a drive reformat and reinstall of XP, the 6 icons are now in two rows of 3 each, and I can't figure out how to get them back into 1 row as before. I know it's no big deal, but if anyone can point me in the right direction, I'll appreciate it. Thanks, George
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DHCP client broken at WinXP
by Guest William Stokes- 0 replies
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Hello, ...Or atleast it stopped working approximately at the same time SEP was installed. No other config changes were made to that particular client or DHCP server so I suppose this failure is because of SEP installation. Details are below. Please note that Sep=Symantec Endpoint Protection Client v11. I push installed SEP client to about 40 XP desktops and all went well. Also push installed it to 1 XP laptop (Dell optiplex D830) with Kerio personall firewall enabled over night. After this, the following day, the laptop user reported that network is not working. Ok, I checked the laptop to find out that it cannot aquire IP address from DHCP server.…
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Can't change back to 12 hr> clock
by Guest vince- 7 replies
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Hi too all: Had a virus problem & that was resolved. However, during that experience my taskbar clock changed to a 24 hr. clock. I'd like to go back to the 12 hr. model. I went to control panel, regional options, regional & language options, customize, time tab, h:mm:ss tt, put in the correct numbers & letters. Clicked on apply & "Boing" was told I chose one or more wrong characters. DUHHH! Anyone got a clue what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Vince
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EFS & Virus Infection & Unable to login
by Guest Adam- 3 replies
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Hello, I'm fixing a computer at my work. The computer has been infected with lots of viruses and malware. Most of the viruses have been removed by plugging the hard drive into another computer and removing them that way. Unfortunately, one of the users has used EFS to encrypt lots of important documents. I am unable to login at all, as soon as the welcome screens quits after successful username and password have been entered the system hangs and does not complete loading. The installation of windows is not important to me but the documents are. My questions are: Is it somehow possible to export the Recovery Agent without being logged in as …
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The Green Stuff Moved
by Guest Marc- 2 replies
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While surfing, my electricity went off for about a second. The computer worked okay after rebooting. Then I decided to cleanup the disk and run a defrag on my C. The big glob of unmovable files, which used to be at the left end of the defrag screen, now appeared in three pieces at the extreme right side, and there was a big blank space on the left where the unmovable files used to be. Defrag moved files into that clear space. Now I'm concerned that the heads have to sweep the entire disk to read the unmovable files. Won't that cause excessive thrashing and wear of the HDD? Before, the unmovable files invariable occupied the extreme left end and we…
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problem with windows installer package
by Guest bunches- 1 reply
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hello, I am trying to install a web cam. The installation fails and I get Error 1720: problem with windows installer package a script required could not be run I uninstalled my virus protection, did a disk clean up and a restore to a time before my nephew was visiting - none worked. ideas, thanks!
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ebay toolbar - is it becoming crapware ? ...
by Guest RJK- 2 replies
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Has anyone got the "heads-up" on what happens when I click on my ebay toolbar, to go to the ebay.co.uk, When I clicked on it tonight there seemed to be some attempt to redirect me to http://www.rover.ebay.....lotsofgobbledygookhttp://www.ebay.co.uk\Moregobbledygook ..... and I got an IE7 "Page cannot be displayed" ..MVP hosts file :-) ....perhaps ? or, if you like show me ebay "within" another page, sort of thing. I did a quick Google on it and got the impression that http://www.rover.ebay.co.uk is an affiliate of ebay. It seems that one cannot click on the "ebay" in the ebay toolbar to get straight to ebay any more, i.e. you have to type it in yo…
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winword.exe
by Guest Johnny Mowad- 7 replies
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While in Explorer, Word or Excel, when I right click a file I get an error message related to the file winword.exe. I am then asked to report the error to Microsoft, which I did and got no reply. I then get a message that the file is being recovered. How can I fix this problem? Thanks in advance.
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msconfig refuses to work
by Guest LuDean Marvin- 1 reply
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When I run msconfig, all I get is an hourglass cursor for 5 or 6 seconds, then nothing. In Task manager, msconfig is listed as a running process, though using no cpu cycles. Does anyone have an idea how I can get it running properly?
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IE 6 process size keeps growing
by Guest dougfish- 2 replies
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I have a web app that causes IE 6 use a lot of memory over time. I'm trying to isolate what part of my web app is causing the leaking, so I've been working on creating small HTML pages that represent certain aspects of my app and seeing if they cause the IE process size to grow. The problem is that I have created a trivial page --- a page with a a body, text inside the body (about 25k of plain text for what that's worth) and that's all. When I do refresh on this page repeatedly and observe Windows Task Manager I see the Mem Usage grow from 55793K to 128588K over about a half hour. I have used windows update to make sure IE6 has the current fixes. …
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outlook free download
by Guest jan@suscom-maine.net- 5 replies
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hi, i have windows vista, can i download just the outlook on here, windows mail is horrible, no auto complete
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Installing Driver
by Guest Peter- 12 replies
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I am trying to install an updated videodriver. I downloaded it from the manufacturer's web page; uninstalled the current one through the Device Manager that asks me to restart the computer when it finishes. Problem is that when it restarts it tells me that it encountered new hardware and before it gives me a chance to go into the 'Add new hardware' in the ControlPanel, it finds its own, which is an old one and I am unable to install the newer version. Help! Thank you JB
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Synchronization Error
by Guest skm- 1 reply
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i have win xp pro on laptop. i have all files on server and it will not synchronize the offline files. on the server side it has permissions set for full access. on the laptop i can access the files on the server but when it tries to sync it says access denied on the server. why is this? access id not denied anywhere but through sync? i can access anything and everything and have full rights . i can delete etc.. but when i travel and come back it will not sync my files. it tells me i need to and i get connected to network through my lan cable in office then it says for each individual file that access is denied. can anyone point me in the right directio…
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Can I use UK-version of XP Pro in the USA?
by Guest Anabella- 7 replies
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I recently purchased a fully sealed retail box of Windows XP Pro from a seller online only to find out that it is a UK-version, although made in the US. (E85-02667) I've doublechecked the COA and everything looks legitimate according to the Microsoft "How to Tell" website, including the holographic ribbon under the port hole. I have not opened up the package yet to look at the CD but the box is sealed, so I'm assuming it's fine. What I need to know however is will this UK-version work on my US-made computer? There is very little documentation online to support this although someone did say it would work but that the UK had many programming differences. …
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history
by Guest rcfrgf- 5 replies
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Dell Dimention Windows XP Pro SP2 320 gig hdd. Has 999 day history. Has anyone seen a history that long?
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Problem re New Folder
by Guest Moi- 2 replies
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Hello experts. A little while ago, I accidentally created a 'New Folder' on the desktop only. Now I can't delete it as it says it is a system file that Windows needs. Clearly it doesn't as it doesn't appear via search anywhere else (with hidden files displayed). How do I get rid of it? ###thanks
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Unable to access ftp site
by Guest Markkk- 19 replies
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I’m trying to access an ftp site that I know is good through an Internet connection that is also good. But after I correctly enter the username and password for the site, I get the message “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.” Does anyone know what could be causing this problem?
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RUNDLL error question
by Guest payne3- 3 replies
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I receive the following message everytime I start my computer RUNDLL Error loading C:\WINDOWS\system32\mkscbnan.dll The specified module could not be found.
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Customize Windows Desktop Search
by Guest Gary''s Student- 0 replies
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I just downloaded Windows Desktop Search 4.0 The Details Title bar shows: Title Author Date Size Type Folder The old Search allowed you to right-click the bar and choose different fields like Attributes Comments etc. The old Search allowed you to re-arrange the order of the fields. How do I do this with WDS 4.0?? -- Gary''s Student - gsnu2007xx
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HP Printer problems
by Guest bigjoe261- 1 reply
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The other day I tried to install a new printer, it was an HP Deskjet D4360. After it was installed and it told me to restart my computer I did, but when my computer was booting up again, it just stopped on the windows load screen with that blue bar thing moving by, it just stopped and wouldnt do anything. So than I was able to get on in safe mode and bring my computer back to a restore point and that helpped my computer. But now some webpages wont load on IE and others take a very long time for no reason, like google freezes my computer now and just random sites freeze me up. What could the problem be? I have a dell inspiron 5100 with windows xp with sp2.
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drive letter missing
by Guest Ron54- 2 replies
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I have a PC with 2 hard drives (C & E). I recently lost my C drive and had to replace and rebuild it. I am running XP Pro and I am unable to access my E drive. It shows a volume of 'Gateway II' and I am unable to assign a drive letter to this volume. I have approx 30gb of information on this drive. Does anyone have any ideas for me? -- Need desperate help
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Backups on a new drive
by Guest Sharkman@comcast.net- 22 replies
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So I just installed a 500 gig external hard drive. If I copy my entire C drive onto it, can I actually restore all my apps and data onto a new C drive? thanks sharkman --
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wallpaer
by Guest skibumre- 1 reply
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I have a box in the middle of my desktop that states, warning, your computer is infected with spyware....... There is no box to close it, and I can not click on it to delete it. I have changed the background, and it stays right in the middle of the screen. I have booted up in safe mode and it does not appear, however I can not find it, to remove it. I have run ad-aware and Symantec, and removed anything that was on the computer, but I can not get ride of this box. any suggestions?