Windows XP
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re-installing windows xp on a rebuilt computer
by Guest Re-install Windows XP on a Rebuilt compu- 10 replies
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I am sorry if this is a long post, but I want all the facts out. Back in 1999 I built my first computer, I loaded Windows 2000 at the time as the OS. A coupled of years later I upgraded to Windows XP with a copy I purchased from BestBuy. The computer ran great until 2005. Then all kinds if weird things began to happen. Eventually I built another computer (my 3rd) and ported all my stuff to it. I put the retired system into the junk heap and robbed it for parts occasionally. Late last year I decided to use it as the basis for a WHS Server. I put newer CPU's in it, but used the same Mobo. It was a Tyan mobo with dual P3's. I replaced the CPU's with dual 933…
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This may help if plug and play devices are not recognised
by Guest AlbertTeacake- 0 replies
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I had problems with this and this info may help as I finally worked out. First go to -control panel and -folder options and -view. Then click to show hidden files -ok When the new hard ware wizard runs specify location. main drive © windows inf (which is a hidden file) ok It turns out that this is where the plug and play drivers are located. Your wizard should then load the appropriate driver from this file and the device will work. well it did for me anyway. hope this helps people as getting this info was blood from a stone. like piecing together a jigsaw
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Chkdsk problem
by Guest Michel S.- 6 replies
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Hello, While trying to make an image of an NTFS partition, the imaging softwares (I tried with both "True Image" and "Ghost") reported that errors on partition prevented the image to be completed. For example, Acronis stated that it "Failed to read from the sector 234,439,534 of the hard disk 1", which seems high to me since there's only 29,304,934 clusters on the disk. Back into XP, I performed a chkdsk (without /F) from a cmd window, and it reported it found "minor" errors. I reentered the same command, this time with the /F switch, and a scan was planned on next boot. In this scan. chkdsk performed steps 1 to 3 and USN log without reporting…
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Question about "cannot initialize application "message
by Guest Grandma Carol- 9 replies
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Can anyone tell me what the following message mean? "cannot initialize application, unable to open file [25000:2:1] {15034:1:8] I am getting this message when I try to open a video software from my desktop. My operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home edition version 2002 service pack 2 Graphic card: NVIDIA GeFORCE FX5200 Sound card: SB Live! Audio [C800] Processor: Intel ® Pentium ®4 CPU 3.00 GHz 300 GHz,512MB of RAM Thank you Grandma Carol
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Rename a machine
by Guest Steve Freides- 6 replies
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A user, who inherited their computer from someone else, would like me to rename the machine so that his name shows up in the usual places instead of that of the machine's former owner. I've done this once or twice in the past - my memory is that it's a royal pain because so many user-specific settings get lost. I would like to keep the user name the same, just change the machine name. Because, among other things, the user use AutoCAD, I'm kind of nervous about attempting this. Thanks in advance for advice, gotchas, checklists, etc. -S-
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SP2 UPGRADATION - SYSTEM RESTART
by Guest Swapan- 4 replies
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Recently I had to reinstall Win XP after a hard disk crush. Every thing went well nut I am not able to upgrade to Service Pack 2. I am trying both from Microsoft original CD and fresh downloaded pack. In both the cases after unpacking and checking disk space it starts some driver loading, but then suddenly the system reboots. After restarting in the right hand botton corner it shows upgrades are ready to install. When I starts that it reached the previous state of checking disk space and install driver and then restart again. I have tried 20 times but with same result. Can any one please help me ? Thanks a lot. -- A printer professional from India
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xp pro and ie7
by Guest Mike- 1 reply
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This machine has XP Pro SP2 on it. IE7 will not install saying that it must have sp2 on it. Any ideas?
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Constant Hourglass Activity?
by Guest Charliec- 10 replies
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Every few seconds, I get hourglass activity as some program is checking or polling for something. I looked through MSConfig and Services but can't determine what program is causing this activity. Nothing in my Start-up group should have this type of activity. Is there a way to determine which program is causing this activity. Any help is really appreciated. Thanks Charliec ****************************************************** Charliec
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Windows dialogs partially in Arabic language on English XP
by Guest Tom Tyson- 2 replies
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Out of nowhere, my XP system decided to start displaying specific system dialogs and messages in Hebrew or some other Arabic language. While most part of XPs built in applications and dialogs are still displaying in English, a number of them are partially or fully displaying in their Arabic version (right to left with arabic font). For example, this affects the control panel applets for Security Center, Bluetooth and the Networking Wizard. When I say it affects these items, I mean both the control panel labels and their respective dialog boxes including all contained text. Another example is the The System is XP Pro SP2 with all updates installed. …
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Windows XP Home SP2, Compaq Presario V2000, Lexmark 640 (actually Z645) printer When I try to install the software from (I also tried using the cd) the Lexmark site http://support.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/support.cgi?lxkprod=Lexmark+Z640 the installation fails near the end and I get the error: An error occurred during the installation of the device The specified print monitor is unknown. I tried running sfc /scannow because someone with a similar problem said that worked. No help. The printer previously worked on this machine. What's a print monitor? How do I get this software to install? What's going on here? -- (||) Nehmo (||)
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Re: winzip
by Guest Barry- 0 replies
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Re: winzip Nevermind, found it in another post, the file is called zipfldr.dll, in Windows System32 directory. -- Barry Guidry "Rock" wrote: > Allen wrote: > > > Where is winzip located ? For some reason my XP is using UZ ( ultraZip ? ) to > > unzip almost any zip I download and I don't know how my system even got UZ. > > How do I make my system use Winzip as the default ? > > Winzip is located wherever you installed it. It's not a native tool in > XP. XP does have a built in ZIP facility, though. > > -- > Rock > MS MVP Windows - Shell/User > >
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Re: winzip
by Guest Barry- 0 replies
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Re: winzip so where is this ultrazip located, and what is the actual name of the program's file? -- Barry Guidry "Rock" wrote: > Allen wrote: > > > Where is winzip located ? For some reason my XP is using UZ ( ultraZip ? ) to > > unzip almost any zip I download and I don't know how my system even got UZ. > > How do I make my system use Winzip as the default ? > > Winzip is located wherever you installed it. It's not a native tool in > XP. XP does have a built in ZIP facility, though. > > -- > Rock > MS MVP Windows - Shell/User > >
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User Account Login
by Guest ColTom2- 7 replies
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Hi: Recent Windows Update .Net Framework 2.0 apparently added another User Account (ASP.NET Machine etc) as a Limited Account. However, now when I boot up I have to click on my main User Account to finish booting up. Is there anyway that I can choose just to boot straight into my main account without having to select an account? I suppose I could delete the newly established user account and it would go back to the way it was in booting straight up. Thanks, Col Tom
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Cursor
by Guest Adelxt- 3 replies
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Hi, I have a machine that when I log on as administrator the blinking system cursor is very wide, like about, 1/4". If I log on as another profile the blinking system cursor is fine. I've looked everywhere to set the cursor to its normail size but couldn't find it. Any ideas? Steve
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Lost Windows Product Key
by Guest Innobate- 2 replies
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INNOBATE Product Key Recovery, is a utility software tool, which decrypts the stored Windows Product Key on your Microsoft Windows 2000, 2003 and Windows XP family of operating systems. This tool allows your to save your Windows computer system's product key code to a text file as a backup. For a Windows XP Computer system this utility software tool gives the user the ability to check if their installation of XP has been pre-activated.