Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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.net 2.0 & fonts
by Guest Sue- 5 replies
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Hi, i am using a program which requires .net 2.0 and although it presents my installed native Windows fonts, it isn't presenting any of my other fonts (OpenType or Type 1). Is there a patch that corrects this? Thanks! sue
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SP3 is NOT accumulative !! 1 2
by Guest Teneo- 25 replies
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Had to rebuild pc and the disk is pre sp1. Installed OS and prompted straight for sp3 but would not install as said doesn't have the min sp1 requisite... Website says will install on plain xp !
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XP computer won't boot
by Guest 920jeff- 6 replies
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My desktop running XP wouldn't boot this morning. I got the message "NTLDR: Fatal error 256 reading boot.ini. Anyway to fix this short of a complete re-install? I suspect a virus caused this. Thanks.
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disk management? I need to format a cd.
by Guest troublewithtribbles- 5 replies
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why can't i format a cd? I'm using an hp with windows xp home edition 5.1.2600 service pack 2 build 2600 and I ran mmc and opened a console for disk management. When I click on the d: drive which is my cd, the only tasks available are change drive letter and paths,eject,properties. I'm not sure what my next step with mmc is. Anybody?
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Hi, I want to replace the 40 gig drive which has XP Home OEM on it with a larger capacity drive, the mother board, processor, memory, graphics card excetra are all the same. Will Windowows activate on the new drive ok?
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Search Produces a Runtime Error Message
by Guest Jack Gillis- 2 replies
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Here is the setup: WinXP Home SP3 Up to date. Disk 1 System Drive C (Primary) Data Drive D (Extended) Disk 2 Backup Drive F (Primary) 117,232MB Total 54,569 used It contains, mostly, Acronis .tib files. Some are small but most are 5g's or larger. The problem: When I run XP's Search for all of or part of a file name on F:, I get the following message. Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error The application has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way. I have done the following: Ran AVG and found no problems Ran Chkdsk and found no problems System Restored but that didn't solve it. Then I created new fol…
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outlook calendar sharing
by Guest Steph- 3 replies
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I gave permission to share a calendar in the office, but it's not working. Some of the users have 2003 and the rest have 2007. I've tried several times, but no one can get to it. Can anyone help? Thanks
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Making list of files in folder
by Guest Jim S- 9 replies
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Second time I wanted to do this. I need to make a list of the files in a folder. I did it the hard way last time by taking screen shots and saving them. Is there a better way to create a list? -- Jim, an engineer using Excel not wisely
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runtime error 21 and winlogin 1002 warnings
by Guest yepiknowiam- 2 replies
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One pc this morning is constantly receiving runtime error 21 at " " There are different codes. The event log is showing winlogon 1002 warnings. After you click ok on the error, windows does a mini-reload. It reloads the personal settings and goes through this over and over again. Any ideas what is going on? Virus? Faulty OS?
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Some applications no longer launch
by Guest Ian S- 2 replies
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In my Windows XP Home SP2 installation, some of my applications no longer launch. Clicking the desktop icon fails to launch the program. No error message, nothing. Nor can I start them by using the Start menu. Some of the applications are third party (Adobe Reader, Photoshop CS2), but some are windows applications (Notepad, Wordpad, Media Player). The remaining apps operate as normal. If I use Window Explorer to locate the appropriate exe file in the Program Files sub directory, then double click the file, it still fails to launch. However, if I use Start > Run, then navigate to the appropriate exe file, they do launch properly. What is the difference?…
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"Applaying computer settings" after logon.
by Guest bildos- 1 reply
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Hello, Some times at some PC's in domain "applaying computer settings" is after logon. Any one know why "applaying computer settings" is after logon ? Almost in all case after gpupdate "applaying computer settings" back to normal - execute before logon. Redgards Bildos
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Network Share Unaccessible
by Guest T. Duprex- 13 replies
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I have a network of three computers, two running windowsxp and one running windows98. Networking between all three is okay except for one of the XPs. This XP,\\ACER_PENT, can see every other computer's shares and read them. However when I attempt to access the shares of the \\ACER_PENT from either of the other two computers I get a message that \\ACER-PENT <filename> is not accessible. The shares show up on My Network Places, but when I attempt to access I get the not accessible message. What could the problem be on \\ACER_PENT? TIA
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OLE automation
by Guest gtoph- 0 replies
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Every time I boot I get a pop-up window asking "Do you want to install Microsoft OLE automation?" There are two option: yes and no. If I select yes it starts to install. Then I'm told there are newer files existing, do I want to overwrite existing files? A yes answer and it continues, a no answer it stops. If I select no the pop-up window goes away and booting completes. No matter what I do the next time I boot I get the same damn pop-up window with the same question. How do I get rid of this annoying window? I have XP MCE, Service Pack 3. I'm not positive but I think this started when I installed SP3.
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Headphones and Speakers
by Guest Bob''''s Wife- 0 replies
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I transcribe using headphones with Express Scribe or RC Player, but I really miss working while classical music plays in the background. Is there anyway to configure my Windows XP so ITunes will play through the speakers and my transcription programs play through the headphones and they do not overlap? I have Creative Soundblaster Live 24-bit speakers. I plug my headphones in my front jack of my Dell Dimension 8400.
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Can't Get Display to Go to Sleep
by Guest pestocat- 1 reply
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I have WinXP Pro SP3 and I can't get the display screen on a laptop to shut down after the prescribed time. In Control Panel I go to Display and Screen Saver and the click Power. I set Turn off monitor after 15 minutes. When I go up to Power Schemes and click SaveAs I get error message "Indicates two revision levels are incompatible." All updates are up to date. What could be happening? The screen never shuts down. Thank you
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preventing Windows Explorer address bar from searching
by Guest Ideas Live- 5 replies
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If I have a Windows Explorer window open and just want to go to a specific directory, I'm used to just typing in the address bar, for example "c:\temp". But when I do this, Windows is trying to guess what I'm searching for. This always messes up what I'm typing. I type "c:\temp", then after a couple of seconds, the address bar shows "c:\" or "My Documents". I don't want Windows to do this for me. I just want to specify a directory myself. Thanks in advance, Brian
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Windows keeps shutting down without asking it to, does anyone know
by Guest Barbara- 5 replies
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I have been constantly having a problem with my computer shutting down without my asking it to shut down. I'll be in the middle of doing something on the computer and the next thing I know it's rebooting. I've tried narrowing it down to see what is causing it and cannot pinpoint the problem because I'm not always in the same program when it happens. We've tried doing a scan disk, we've tried defragging the computer, we've tried repairing it and a few other ideas and nothing is working. Can someone please help me figure out what the problem is and how to fix it?
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upon login, xp intermittently locks up before desktop starts
by Guest Adurr- 4 replies
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Intermittently, individual desktop Windows XP Professional systems in my company will lock up at the baby-blue desktop right after login authenticates. I've let it sit for 15 minutes and it does nothing. The only way to get out of it is to hit control-alt-delete > task manager > file > new task > explorer.exe and everything starts up as normal. Event Viewer doesn't seem to have anything that stands out. This happens perhaps 40% of the time, seemingly randomly. The only thing that I found that makes it go away for a little while is to repair windows, install another verision of windows over the current version, unfortunetly this only…
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Replace OE 6
by Guest Don- 5 replies
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I need to replace Out look Express. Problems. I have OE 7. Can I replace OE7 without deleteing it, or do I have to delete it first? Thanks for any help. Don
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Question about the /NUMPROC switch in MSCONFIG.
by Guest Mike- 3 replies
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Can you set this to the number of processors in your pc say a dual core or a quad core processor? Someone had a video on youtube saying this would increase boot time and I read another article saying it was bogus. /NUMPROC is located in the boot tab under Advanced options in both XP and Vista.
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Forget the EBCD spam, use System Rescue CD instead, don't give out your credit card number to Eastern Europeans
by Guest Thee Chicago Wolf- 6 replies
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Forget the EBCD spam, use System Rescue CD instead, don't give out your credit card number to Eastern Europeans It's free. http://www.sysresccd.org And you *really* insane enough to give your credit card to the Ukrainians after that story about 40 million credit card numbers being hacked and sold by Eastern Europeans (Ukraine)?? Read the story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26041151/ - Thee Chicago Wolf
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Explorer sorts funny
by Guest Three Lefts- 4 replies
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I just noticed some odd sorting behavior by Windows Explorer. When sorted by name, Explorer lists these folders in this order: 00 0A 01 A0 A1 AA Why is [0A] between [00] and [01]? The 0's are all numeric zeroes, not the letter "O". I pasted these into Word and they sort as I would expect: 00 01 0A A0 A1 AA I did a little more experimenting. Explorer sorts the following folders in this order: 1A 02 2A 03 3A 04 4A 05 5A 06 6A 07 7A 08 8A 10 11 12 13 What is going on here?
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Exact sorting order windows explorer
by Guest BartDesc- 1 reply
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Hello, I know that XP handles numerical parts different from previous windows versions but this is not my question. I just want to know if there is a list (explanation) of how xp does sort. Especially concerning special characters. Do they come before numericals or after. What is their order? What comes before '-' and after '_'. ... Is there like a list (like with ASCII sorting) that tells you what comes in front of what? Thank in advance Bart
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Changing default sort order in XP?
by Guest Pheasant Plucker®- 8 replies
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Hi there, Using XP and have noticed that the default sort order is different to that of Windows 2000 and below. I have seen references to changing the sort order but that only seems to apply to numbers and not letters? In XP for example if I add a new file into a folder that already contains files then it can be displayed anywhere, at the bottom or randomly somewhere. This is annoying and when I next go into that same folder I have to hunt around to find the file but in a large folder I sometimes miss it. In W2K & below the new file was automatically inserted in its correct alphabetical sort order. I am guessing this behaviour can be changed bu…
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Some anomalies after reinstallation
by Guest Jim Ludwig- 20 replies
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Hi all, I recently wiped my sisters computer clean (fdisk and slow format) and reinstalled WinXP Home fresh. She has a 3 yr old Dell Dimension. She was not able to find her Win XP or driver discs. I used my copy of win xp, but used her product key from the label on her computer and it activated fine. I am having two problems that are more annoyance than anything: First, when you reboot the computer, when still in the bios a screen comes up that says, "Please select operating system" Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and there is a count down waiting for me to pick one or the other. If I choose the …