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Re: Desktop Background Frozen
by Guest Robert Aldwinckle- 2 replies
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Re: Desktop Background Frozen (cross-post added to XP General) "TaurArian" <TaurArian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:52C56048-030D-4C4B-845B-4A58CA7AE07B@microsoft.com... > Sorry it didn't work. You should post to the "General Newsgroup" for XP. > I would cross post it for you but as I'm using the "web client" it's a > little more difficult. > K TaurArian, Be honest. It's 'way beyond more difficult. It's a PITA! <EG> E.g. compare how much typing (or finding and copying and pasting) you would have to do versus what OE can do (Alt-T,N c.w sxp.ge Alt-s,Alt-A,Enter) Robert --- > > "ranc…
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DrWatson
by Guest poatt- 6 replies
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I want to know why DR Watson is making text reports of 4 gig size? When I open Dr Watson it always comes up with "No Problems". What possibly could the program be saying (on a system with no problems) to make a txt document of 4 gigs? That is a lot of words. Plus when I tried to open it(the document ,with word pad) it would not open. And the file is not protected in anyway.
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Since using XP Pro...
by Guest Laughingstar~*- 8 replies
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MS is determined that I download, and keep (!) WMP v. 11. I do not need a retail store on my system, and remove it weekly. I've written to his Nibs about this, w/o a response, and I've heard others have, too. Is this a useless plea? I'm also receiving updates not applicable to my computer's programs, and have checked with OE NG about this, and I won't cause any harm by refusing to download the constant updates for Outlook, which is not on my computer. Please if this is applicable for this NG, tell me how to keep MWP v. 11 off of my computer--its like a trojan. Thank you, everyone. -- ct~·´¯`·.¸. , . ..·´¯`·..><)))º>`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸.·´¯`·...¸><)))º>…
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Unwanted choice on booting. TIA
by Guest sandy58- 6 replies
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I had WindowsXP Home on the wrong partition (after a repair attempt) & after returning it to C: I now have the choice of two (WindowsXP Home) on bootup. I have since deleted "windows" on my partition E: but still have the unwanted choice. Any help gratefully accepted. TIA
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FAX Error Message
by Guest hepme- 2 replies
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When I open FAX Console and try to start a new FAX, the following error messge appears: "fxssend.exe - Bad Image: The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\FXSRES.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette." Can some kind person walk me through how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
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Forcing jpg as wallpaper on all users...
by Guest Tim_S- 10 replies
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In our company, the director has requested that all desktops have the same look. They have created a jpg file they want distributed. I have several ways at doing this but the easiest way is to use the registry. I have created the following .reg file and execute it during log-in. regedit.exe /s desktop.reg Example Start ~~~~~~ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\LastTheme] "Wallpaper"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,\ 74,00,25,00,5c,00,52,00,65,00,73,00,6f,00,75,00,72,00,63,00,65,00,73,00,5c,\ 00,6e,00,6f,00,6d,00,63,00,64,00,65,00,73,00,6b,0…
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security questions & comodo firewall
by Guest Samantha- 9 replies
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Hi, I just upgraded my cpu and mb and I can't setup a win98\xp dual boot because of no drivers for 98. I never allowed xp on the net because I didn't trust it. I think I read somewhere, that it gathers info about the hardware and software, then sends it to MS. I can understand this with 'only' their software but the hardware is my own business. Is there a way to safely surf with this OS? Someone put all the security patches together for win98 - did anyone do this for xp? There's like 100 patches to manually download. I installed Comodo Firewall and noticed that there are a lot of components listed to access the net.What ones can you safely block (like windo…
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Can't work in Normal Mode... NEED HELP PLEASE!!!
by Guest ELC- 3 replies
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I have a DELL Inspiron 6000 running Windows XP Home Edition SP2. I was browsing the web searching for a medicine properties and I guess it was when the virus entered my computer. It has been almost 2 weeks now. The virus was (or is) a Trojan, it appeared as a yellow triangle with "!" sign in the middle resembling windows alerts; alerting me of potential spyware action. Minutes later a pop-up appeared and if I click on it (which I did by mistake, was chatting and hit the enter key when it poped-up) it will re-direct me to a home page which I never used. I also got my homepage changed (hijacked) to google. I had installed AVG anti-virus and it didn't detect…
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converting to NTFS
by Guest marco Starglider- 2 replies
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hi, i 've got a new xternal hd with a capacity of 500 gig. it's formatted in fat32, and i already have about 40 gig's on it. 1. is it safe to convert it to NTFS using 'convert' from the command prompt, and will the data remain untouched? 2. is it necessary to run 'fsutil file createnew ' from the com prompt first? and what does it do? regards, m
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creating new files from a list?
by Guest jim.e.dimoni@bank.of.nigeria.com- 3 replies
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I have a TEMPLATE.PUB file. I have a .TXT file with a list of names I would like to create copies of the template file with the names in the TXT file as the filename. Is there a simple way to automate this? thx
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Drive letters do not show up in disk manager but do in windows exp
by Guest epsoanalyst- 0 replies
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We failed to plug in the external hard drive for a scheduled incremental backup using Norton Ghost. This created a phantom partition with a drive letter G:. Following Symantec's instructions, I went to disk manager and deleted the partition. Since doing so, the drive letters for my operating system (C:) and data disks (D:) do not show up in disk manager but do show up correctly in windows explorer when I open "My Computer". Since this happened, I have not been able to schedule automatic backups because Symantec shows the drives are hidden. This is my wife's computer she uses in her CPA practice and there is a lot of specialty software installed. Rein…
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Stop error 0x00000044, help
by Guest Pool- 3 replies
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Hi Everyone While i was using yahoo messenger i got a BSOD with error code 0x00000044.This is the first time i get this error.After i rebooted it gave me an error that occured in yahoo messenger.Faulting application yahoom`1.exe version 8.1.0.413.Faulting module wininet.dll version 6.0.2600.0.Fault address 0x0001b149.I don't know if this error is related to the error code i got right before it happened.I checked some websites about the error code 0x00000044 but i couldn't find any help.I have norton antivirus and i scanned my computer it's clean.I use windows XP professional version 2002.Pentium 4 3.0 GHZ, Gigabyte motherboard,ATI RADEON VE DDR display…
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XP Media
by Guest admcse- 0 replies
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Hello, I have a very basic question on XP media. How can I identify whether a copied CD is either MVLS or OEM/retail? I have a few copied CDs for our different locations and for backup that I thought were MVLS but when I went to install them they would not take my MVLS PID but did take the OEM PID. So I messed up and incorectly labled these CDs (what else is new?). So the question is this - Is there an easy way to tell whether a copied CD is MVLS, OEM/Retail? I know the easiest thing would be to re-download the ISO from the Microsoft MVLS site, but I do not have access because this account was setup for us by our client and I don't have access…
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icon on desktop that i cannot remove
by Guest Xero- 5 replies
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hello, i have an icon on my desktop that i cannot remove. when i try to delete the icon by clicking delete, or modify its properties, a message that says 'cannot read file from disk' pops out. it doesn't have an extension and i have no idea where it come from. is there anyway i can remove this icon from my desktop? thanks. Xero
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General BSoD question
by Guest Thufir- 4 replies
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Here's the scenario: can only boot into safemode, safemode with networking gives a BSoD regarding spooldr.sys, which may be the result of malware. From services.msc, should the print spooler be enabled or disabled? Use task manager to kill a process? That is, how to get into safe mode with networking at least, if not normal mode? thanks, Thufir