Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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trouble viewing files
by Guest rhocelle- 2 replies
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everytime i try to view a file, a window pops up "windows installer" and says preparing to install but it does not install. do i have to download something in order for this program to install properly, if so i need all the help i can get. thanks
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Font sizes in Desktop Properties
by Guest dpasek- 2 replies
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How can I get more font size selections in the drop down menu for: Display Properties: Appearance: Font size. The drop down menu lists only "Normal" I am using "Windows Classic style" with Brick color scheme. I need some larger font size selections. The article: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/appearance.aspx mentions that this selection exists but I cannot find any info to suggest how to add additional selections to the list. The article generally reiterates the obvious and is not helpful about my question. I need larger fonts for accessibility reasons. Thanks
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Problems after SP3 Installation
by Guest bronxbabe- 6 replies
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after updating to sp3, i've been unable to play videos online. i'm told flash player is needed, but it IS installed. this has only started happening after the sp3 update. any way to roll back from sp3?
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MS Paint Fonts
by Guest tfo4321- 3 replies
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I want to download new fonts that I can use in MS Paint. How do I import these fonts into MS Paint?
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Antivirus XP2008 Removal?
by Guest bajazza@yahoo.com- 7 replies
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Can anyone advise on how to remove this entry? It comes up as Antivirus XP2008 and it looks very legitimate, but I'm sure its not, being as obtrusive as it is. I've tried removing it from my add/delete programs file but no go. Does anyone even know what this does or is? It's incredibly annoying-pops up every 25 seconds or so with a message like...your computer was found to have 1564 virus, its is recommended that you use protection now!. I'm not too computer savvy so if you reply, could you 'dumb it down'? Thanks in advance! Jay
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Roaming Profile still tries to load off network
by Guest JN- 10 replies
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Even when I am not on the network my roaming profile tries to load on my laptop when I logon. I get the error: "Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile and is attempting to log you on with your local profile. Changes to the profile will not be copied to the server when you logoff. Possible causes of this error include network problems or insufficient security rights. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator. " XP can't seem to detect that the computer is at some other location and tries to load the roaming profile. Is there a way to stop it from trying to load the profile when not on the domain?
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Hard drive About To Crash
by Guest bajazza@yahoo.com- 7 replies
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OK, my computer is giving me warning signs that its about to croak....its running XP, about 3 years old. Compaq. What happens is when its turned on, you'll get the Compaq screen, and nothing else. You have to wait until it goes into standby mode (2 mins) then move the mouse and it'll bring you to the Windows startup screen and everythings OK from there. My question is how can I take EVERYTHING thats on the HD and dupe it onto a new HD? Including the OS? Any help would surely be appriciated! Jay
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Accessing Website
by Guest Chris- 11 replies
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over the last week or so I have not been able to access http://www.TJDJS.com website I have wiped my pc and loaded everything back on but still can't access this website but can can access this website from work and friends PC's. Im currently on Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP service pack 1. Please can someone advise what the issue is?
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by Guest Hughes- 0 replies
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Can SP3 be removed ?
by Guest NatureMuzic- 21 replies
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Seems I am having some issues I never did pre SP3 - can I safely remove it ? Thanks
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RE: Restoring registry problem
by Guest kim- 1 reply
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registry cleaning undo ?
by Guest Daave- 10 replies
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"Roger Daniels" <rhdaniels@bluemarble.net> wrote in message news:ujrlAQn%23IHA.1452@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >I installed Free Registry Fix approx. two years ago. After reading >several posts that it is not a good thing to do I stopped using it >several months ago. Should I undo the supposed fix's before >uninstalling the program ? Without knowing what it "fixed," it's hard to know. For all you know, you have lucked out and haven't done any real damage yet. Just because registry "fixing" programs aren't beneficial doesn't mean they always hose up systems. And I don't believe Free Registry Fix is a rogue program (although it is certainl…
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too many user accounts
by Guest Millie- 4 replies
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Hi I've just spotted that another user account has appeared in my name in C:Documents and Settings. I didn't create this new account (I don't think). The one I created is labelled with just my first name. The second mysterious one has my first and last name listed. It doesn't appear in User Accounts in Control Panel. Does anyone know why this might have appeared and is it safe to delete it? -- Millie
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Wscript SP3 problem
by Guest WmWWallick- 2 replies
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Have a script that has been in service for a year or so. XP Pro. Was SP2. The script saves a file name and later uses it. To save the name I select the file, go to file-rename and hit control c, which copies to the clipboard. After installing SP3, this no longer works. Nothing is copied to the clip.
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MSTSC in XP SP3
by Guest deeps- 2 replies
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Hi! After installing XP SP3 on my XP SP2, when i tried running mstsc its giving me error as " The prerelease version of Remote Desktop connection has Expired.To download the full verison of Remoter Desktop Connection, goto windows update or contact your system administrator." Please let me know if there is any way out... Thanks in advance... Deeps
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Remove transparency on a window
by Guest T. Duprex- 5 replies
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running WindowsXP Pro, SR3 For a reason not obvious to me I have window on a password application (ANY PASSWORD) that now comes up with about 50% transparency. I do not know how or why this came about, unless I pressed some sequence of keys unknowingly. Could you please tell me how to remove this transparency. TIA
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Script for logging onto network drive
by Guest Peter A- 1 reply
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My home network includes a LaCie 500GB ethernet drive. All the computers successfully map the drive at boot, but the first time after a boot that any user tries to access the drive, they are required to enter the username and password for the drive. I am hoping that I can write a script to run at boot that will automatically perform this task. Is this possible? -- Peter Aitken Author, MS Word for Medical and Technical Writers http://www.tech-word.com
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How to set "The following user" as the default option in Run As di
by Guest yaugenka- 0 replies
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Hi, To start a program with other user credentials you can right click on the program file or its shortcut and choose Run As command. You will be prompted with a dialog box that has two options: Current user and The following user. By default the first option is set. The fact is that in almost all cases you run this dialog to launch a program or tool with other user credentials. So you first have to click "The following user" option, and only after that you will be able enter the creds. Above all when you choose the second option the System administrator name will be chosen by default. Is it possible to set "The following user" as the default option…
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Search files disabled
by Guest Richard K Mahan- 3 replies
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I can no longer do a file search from the start menu. the search window that opens looks different and not operational.
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IIS 5.1 Configuration button doesn't work
by Guest Sag- 0 replies
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Hi, I installed IIS 5.1 on IBM T43 laptop with XP pro SP2 I tried to config the default web --> properties --> home directory then click on the configuration button (that is not disabled) and no window is open. I tried to uninstall and install it again (about 10 times) and always have the same problem. http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7035/iisez5.th.gif Any suggestions? Sagi
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Saving an old Restore Point?
by Guest Phisherman- 8 replies
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My system is currently corrupted (but useable) and I want to save a restore point made 5 days ago and use it to restore in a week or two. How can this be done?
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DEP prevents playing avi file!
by Guest Jack- 16 replies
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Hello, I have downloaded some video (avi) file from the web. When trying to play it using Media Player it involves the Data Execution Prevention. What can be wrong? Jack
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Microsoft Virtual Machine stopped working. please help. 1 2
by Guest Steven Wabik- 27 replies
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I need help with Microsoft virtual Machine. I setup a windows 2000 and a Windows XP virtual machine. I'm using them to run different applications that Windows Vista cannot run. anyways, after backing up the virtual machine files to a external hard drive, the windows 2000 virtual machine stopped working. does anyone have any seggestion for fixing it. the virtual machine witll not boot. when i click the "start" to start the virtual machine I just get a blank window. if i boot the XP virtual machine and have set it up so that its 2nd hard drive is the primary hard drive from the windows 2000 virtual machine. it shows that all of the files from the windows…
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Back up
by Guest Simone Marchi- 5 replies
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I've read that in XP Home Edition the back up utility isn't installed by default but I can install it from the CD. The problem is XP Home Edition was preinstalled on my PC and I have only the recovery CDs which I browsed but I didn't find Ntbackup.msi. I also checked out the System Tools in the Accessories menu with no success so I think the back up utility wasn't preinstalled togheter with the OS. How can I install Ntbackup.msi on my PC? Thank you in advance -- Simone Marchi
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Internet Explorer weirdness
by Guest Daave- 0 replies
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I've been working on a friend's laptop. It had IE7 and SP2. Normally, I would downgrade from IE7 to IE6 before upgrading to SP3 (and *then* upgrade back to IE7 in order to have more flexibility -- once you are at SP3, it's impossible to go from IE7 back to IE6 unless you go back to SP2 first!). Okay, this is what happened: BTW, I used a disc burned from the .iso found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2FCDE6CE-B5FB-4488-8C50-FE22559D164E&displaylang=en After SP3 was successfully applied, a new icon appeared on the desktop. Previously there had been only a "poor-man's IE shortcut icon" on the desktop (the kind with the …