Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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BSOD making me angry- need help
by Guest t-bird1976- 4 replies
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I started getting a BSOD about a week ago. I finally had enough and called Dell tech support. He did three system restores and got off the phone as soon as he could. He and his manager assured me everything was perfect and it would never happen again. WHATEVER!!!! The next day it happened again. The STOP message is as follows: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005, 0x80620B4A, 0xF7A55BC0, 0x00000000) The third sequence in the parentheses varies. Today, it added something new under the STOP message. FOPN.sys address F7322F4F base at F731000, Datestamp 4630c321 I can't find any info on this. It also won't let me run a scan disk and when I treied to defrag, it says…
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Links Toolbar
by Guest STORM CHASER- 1 reply
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I want the LINKS toolbar to stay on always in IE7. Heres what I do: VIEW > TOOLBARS > UNLOCK TOOLBAR then... VIEW > TOOLBARS > LINKS The bar will popup, but will not be there if I close IE, then open it back up... any ideas? Thank You!!
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explorer
by Guest Sonny- 2 replies
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How do I set explorer to always open in a particular folder view Thks Sonny
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Remote Desktop over VPN Connection
by Guest - Anne- 8 replies
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Could someone tell me how to setup a remote desktop connection over a VPN connection. Both a source and target computer run Windows XP Pro and I am using the built in xp firewall.
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Changing serial number
by Guest - Anne- 4 replies
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A few months ago, I saw a thread on how to change the serial number on an XP Pro machine without reloading the OS....I can't seem to find that thread again and was wondering if someone could post the information again.
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"Security Center" Service
by Guest Neil Morrison- 2 replies
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When I open the Security Center from the Control Panel I get a message that the Security Center service has not started or was stopped. It then asks me to restart the computer or, if that does not work, to start the Security Center service. How does one do that? -- Neil Morrison
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XP SP2 boots from cold following hibernation
by Guest mark.bitrot@gmail.com- 1 reply
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I've recently been having a strange problem with my laptop (running Windows XP SP2). When I put it into hibernation, it all seems to work OK (the Hibernating progress bar appears, runs right to 100% and then the machine powers down). However, when I switch back on the PC boots from cold rather than resuming from hibernation. This has only started happening in the last few weeks, before which hibernation used to work fine. Things I've installed recently include Office 2007 Small Business Edition, Windows Desktop Search 3.01 (for instant search in Outlook) and ActiveSync 4.5. I've now uninstalled WDS but the problem still persists. I've trawled Google and the …
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Hi I've got an old PC (HP Pavilion 8756C) with Windows XP Pro, installed on top of Windows ME 7 years ago. It's been kept in great shape. I never had a serious problem with it until last week when I noticed that one of the CD Drives is not loading up right as follows: * When I start/restart Windows, all basic programs load up exept for one: CD Drive N:\ [the secondary CD Drive] -most of the time- doesn not. Its not being recognized as a system disk (Meaning, when I go to My Computer, Its not there), I only see: LOCAL DISK (C:), CD Drive M:\ , and the 3½ Floppy (A:) . And, when it does load up, it could be seen on: 'My Computer' but, it either causes my…
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Volume changing problem
by Guest Cloudchaser the Red Wolf furry- 1 reply
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Hi! :-) Every time my mp3 player (Winamp 5.35) goes from one mp3 to the next, my comp's volume setting drops drastically. Specifically, the Wave setting in the Volume Control that's opened from the system tray drops from 100% down to what I figure to be about %17 percent. The problem is making it very inconvienient to listen to my mp3's. How do I get it to stop doing that, to lock it in place, so to speak?
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Questionable Item in Restore Feature
by Guest Romeo- 12 replies
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I am having a problem with live chat with OneCare so I started exploring. I have an item in system restore that I have no idea what it is. I have searched the web and MS and cannot find anything. The message is as follows: Installed Windows XP Wdf01005 I posted this by mistake in Performance and Maintenance. Sorry. I hope this is right and I hope someone has some guidance as to what this is. My OS is XP-PRO--Sp2.
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How to make a Windows boot CD
by Guest Never- 10 replies
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Hello: I need to make a boot CD for Windows XP Media Center Edition. I do not have the Windows operating system CD. I looked for instructions on Microsoft.com and the instructions were so long and convoluted I gave up. Does anyone know of a simple way to make a boot CD? Thanks in advance.
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Copy millions of files in Win XP
by Guest Rickster21a- 3 replies
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I have used File Scavanger to recover a hard drive partition that had a corrupted MTF, to a fresh hard drive. Now that I have reformated the original hard drive partition, I need to put them back. I am trying to copy more then 5 million small (11-15 KB) files (in 90 folders) from one hard drive partition to another. I am looking for the best way to do this . The drag and drop method does not work (it works some times if I copy only a few folders at a time), as the system gets hung up. Xcopy tends to work, unless if finds an error on the NTFS MFT, or it runs out of resources and crashes out. Is there any trick, hint, command, or 3rd party software tha…
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Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 7.0 - why should I want this thing?
by Guest xylophone- 15 replies
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I have just set up a new Dell Dimension E520 (recently discontinued) XP SP2 (by choice). It comes with this Storage Manager, presumably for a reason. Darn if I can figure out that reason. Why should I wish to use this thing? What benefits or advantages would it bring? (the Manual is strictly for techies). Many thanks
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Delete ntuser.dat for non-existent user
by Guest Peter Ritchie [C# MVP]- 3 replies
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I deleted a user in Local Users and Groups but forgot to delete the users' profile via the System control panel applet. Deleting the user did not remove the users NTUSER.dat file and when I try to delete it (while logged in as a different user with Admin rights) it always complains the file is in use. What's the best way to delete these files? (NTUSER.dat.log as well)? Thanks -- Peter -- Browse http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ and vote. http://www.peterRitchie.com/blog/ Microsoft MVP, Visual Developer - Visual C#
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PC won't boot O/S
by Guest Phisherman- 5 replies
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I have an old Sony PC with a Promise hard drive controller, Maxtor hard drive and another (old) hard drive. The promise drivers show on-screen, but halfway through the Win 2000 Pro boot up process the machine stops (blue screen of death) with Inaccessible boot device. Use Chkdsk /f ... I attempted to boot from a floppy or (Win 2000) CD, but that results in a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. I looked in the BIOS to make the boot order: removable devices, then CD, then hard drive. The floppy I have contains the following hidden files: boot.ini ntdetect.com ntltr I can access the BIOS. It shows the correct time and har…