Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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selective start up,
by Guest ANTHONY DIODATI- 4 replies
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we changed to selective start up last week on a lap top,running XP, by taking some things out of the start up menu, under msconfig. Now she seems to be having some problems when she restarts, like a message , system configuration utility" pop up that says she is in Diagnostic or Selective start up mode, causing this message to be displayed and the utility to run every time Windows starts. I did not think that should come up, And I am pretty sure the computer was restarted after we took the items out of start up,But she seems to feel it may be due to making the start up changes. She also stated"my whole desktop is highlighted and I can't change it, until I fi…
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checkdisk Problem?
by Guest Dave Candi- 5 replies
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Hi I wonder if anyone can help? Everytime I start my computer it runs checkdisk, when it gets to 35% it hangs and stays there? I've run checkdisk from the command line and the same story. The only way round this is to skip disk checking on start up. I'm seriously worried about my hard disk as it seems its on its way out. This is the second western digital hard drive thats given me problems, the other was on my laptop. Can anyone recommend a solution to this problem? Maybe some freeware disk checking and fixing software? Should I buy a new drive incase this one goes completely? Thanks in advance Dave
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Fdisk vs WinXP
by Guest JethroUK©- 11 replies
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I have a new machine that i need to partition/format and has no floppy drive - Windows XP setup halts with a disc error asking me to run FDisk On my previous machine using floppy i could partition & format without windows at all (using MSDos commands) I've read Microsoft article on creating partitions but they discuss using floppy disc (which doesn't rely on windows) and using Windows which relies on windows already being installed They don't discuss how to create a partition (and format it) using windows xp cd e.g. if you don't already have Windows XP installed and don't have a floppy disk Any clues?
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Lost data?
by Guest Mike- 2 replies
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I know this is the wrong group for Word but I can't seem to find it. I have a customer who is wrighting a book who somehow managed to lose it while she was saving a new page. She can't remember what Word challenged her when she saved the new page but the Save As box came up. Now she has only one page out of hundreds saved. Doesn't Word automatically make backups? Where are they located?
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System hangs while creating new folder or shortcut in XP
by Guest bilkiraco- 2 replies
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When I select to create a new folder or shotcut the PC hangs for about 1.5 minutes. Not sure what is causing this. -- bilkiraco
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My Documents Redirection
by Guest Homer Jay- 1 reply
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I have XP Pro SP2 running fine, but the My Documents folder keeps trying to synch with a server that no longer exists. There are 3 profiles on the PC, and I have gone into each one and unchecked the box to synch with the now non existant server, but everytime someone logs in it tries to synch with the old server again. How can I get rid of this annoying pop up telling me I am working offline? If any more info is needed please let me know. Thanks.
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Apearance of a Window?
by Guest Jethro- 5 replies
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I have two machines. On one machine, if I double-click on, say, My Computer, I get two sub windows in the resulting window - ICONS on the right and what I will call a menu on the left (showing for example 'system tasks'). On the other machine there is only one sub window - namely the sub window containing the ICONS. No menu sub window on the left. Now for my dumb question - How do I control which I get? I can't find the setting to do the job. Obviously I set something on one machine different from what I set on the other machine. The question is what? I told you it was dumb! Anyone? Jethro
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Problem with shortcuts
by Guest cmar- 1 reply
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Twice today I had to reboot because of a problem with desktop shortcuts. When clicked, the app didn't open but rather the shortcut properties dialog. Any ideas? Thanks, CMA
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Alert..Alert?????>>>........
by Guest Spammer*Killer- 1 reply
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If you are searching the net be aware of this hacking site, it will infect your Computer with Trojans and malware. <gudzon.sutk.org/nasdtec.html>
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Using an older Scanner/Twain Driver with Windows XP
by Guest Carl Bergstrom- 0 replies
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I have a SCSI scanner (Relisys) and connected an Adaptec AVA-2906 Fast SCSI PCI card in the appropriate expansion slot. I loaded the scanner driver from a CD I purchased (and downloaded the Adaptec Driver for Windows, version 4.71) from the web. My PC uses Windows XP Media Center edition. I am using Presto Image Folio which I installed from a CD. I have 2 problems. First, when I turn on the scanner and then the computer, the computer tells me I have new hardware installed (the SCSI card and scanner) and that I must load the driver. This program does not recognize the scanner driver from the CD, or from the hard drive when I copy it from the CD or from the …
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File access permissions
by Guest deostroll- 1 reply
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I am the administrator of a pc with win xp installed. Is there any way I can create a text file such that any other person (regardless of being the administrator) have access to a file. I am talking of deleting, writing, saving stuff in that text file. I want other users to have these privileges for this file only... --deostroll
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Highly compressed zipping
by Guest Maurice IRL- 9 replies
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I want to send a Microsoft Access database (.mde) file in highly zipped format to the developer of a system based on Access. The email server has a limit of 5MB, but the 22MB file is almost 6MB when compressed with WinZip, XP Zip and several other zipping programs. The developer regularly zips and sends even bigger files (over 30MB) with XP Zip, which compress to less than 4MB. The developer also receives similar large files from customers using XP Zip. The question is: why won't XP Zip give me a better compression rate? -- Maurice
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Svchost.exe crashes - rpcss.dll
by Guest Wallace44- 1 reply
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Hey, I just replaced a whole bunch of equipment in my mother's PC and to get it back up and running - i just did a repair of windows XP. Now - when the Pc starts up, there is an error message stating the the svchost.exe has crashed unexpectedly. Then you click send / dont send error report and it bring up the message saying that the RPC service is dead and the system will restart in 1 minute. I have been able to stop these messages from appearing (under services.msc) but obviously... the problem isnt fixed. I have had many people tell me it is the Blaster worm or the sasser worm - but i have run the cleaning tools for those and i also ran sting…
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Problem with windows update!!!!!!!
by Guest F- 3 replies
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I've got the problem when I goto windows update... http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=566687&hl=windows+update http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=564497&hl=windows+update how can i fix the problem?? thx
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Re earlier posting of wallpaper not filling monitor
by Guest Trevor- 8 replies
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Have discovered it's something to do with having two monitors - one is 1280x1024 and the other is 1440x900. I can fill the screen on one or the other but not both at the same time - is there a way?