Windows XP
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second hard drive
by Guest Dale- 7 replies
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I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size, manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. What procedure do I have to do in order that XP picks up the second hard drive. Tks
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login screen
by Guest Rider- 9 replies
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For some reason my computer now boots to the user login in screen, where as before, it booted right to the desktop. Can anyone tell me how to get back to booting to the desktop and stop booting to the user login screen? thanks
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How to embed a button in an application?
by Guest CuriousUser- 2 replies
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Hi, I am trying to embed a button in an application - when the user clicks on the button, I will take some action. How can I do that? I found how to embed the button in IE. Also found a way to attach with the Windows Context Menu. But I want to attach to all open windowed application. Thanks in advance for any help....
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Dual Boot
by Guest MedRxman- 2 replies
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I currenetly have a PC with 2 hard drives and dual boots with Win98 SE and Win Pro The master drive C: has Windows98 SE Installed The second drive has 3 partitions: D,E and F D drive has windows XP Pro I would like to partition the C drive to 2 partitions, C and D and eirhter clone the current D dirve ( which I know will change drive letter upon partitioning) or restore an image of the current D drive to the new D drive and then reformat the D drive on the second hard drive and use it for storage, thery by syill having 3 partitions on the second hard drive. What changes to the boot.ini do I have to make, or what would be the suggested way to accompli…
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folder synchronization
by Guest Dan DeCoursey- 1 reply
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Hi , I am familiar with folder synchronization .... it is nice since it can be set up to be done automatically when loggin in/out what if you never want the local copies to be uploded to the server .......kind of like a one way copy down to the laptop........ is there a way to do this ?? thanks
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xp idle event
by Guest Sharon whipple- 7 replies
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Hi all How do I catch the idle event on XP (home/pro). I would like a batch file or application to run when the system is idle Thank you Sharon
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Hello, I got a request for remote assistance through messenger last night. I was able to control their PC but I also needed to transfer a lot of files back to my PC - is there a setting I can change that makes that easy? Thanks
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Losing massive amount of GBs
by Guest Daniel Kaplan- 9 replies
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With little saving, it seems a good 20GBs of my HD have disappeared. Are there any tools that will show me the biggest files off of my HD? Haven't been able to track it down. Thanks.
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backup log
by Guest Mou- 3 replies
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I have created a script to run a backup of some of my important users every night. I am using the standard Windows XP backup utility. All the process works perfect, but now I want to rename the log file and place it in a server as part of the script. I haven't found a way to tell the NTBackup command where to store the .log file and what name to use. For now I have found the log with a standard name under the C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\ Is there a way to tell the location and name of the log file to the NTBackup command?. Thanks a lot for your help.
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Trouble setting up Windows Home Edition
by Guest Trevor- 12 replies
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I was having trouble setting up Windows Home Edition as it kept hanging up at 'Setup cannot copy driver.cab' I carried on without it but it would set up. I tried Windows Pro, and that has worked fine. It did stall at Cannot copy Driver.cab, but on retry went through fine. However I don't really want XP Pro, as I have given up with it in the past do to not being able to get my home network working with its overly complicated settings for my use. Now I'm up and running with Pro can I edit the HE files (e.g. copy Driver.cab). I have tried this unsuccessfully so far. Also which of the two sets of the systems files are which? How can I tell the differenc…
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re-installing XP - need passwords
by Guest JulesH- 7 replies
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Hi, I'm about to re-instal XP as it is running very slowly, but I need to extract my passwords, particularly for my home network connection. Obviously, I can get into my admin account, but there seems to be nowhere that my passwords are displayed in there. Anyone help? Jules
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scanner download location grey out in wizard
by Guest johngood .............- 6 replies
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Novice recently clean installed his XP. I have downloaded the software from the official Canon site for the Canon scanner FB636U. But in the 'device manager' it appears in 'other devices' as a big yellow question mark. I have then gone to 'hardware update wizard' > 'include this location in the search' then when I browse to the location where I stored the download (a folder I created in 'My Documents') the O.K. boxed is greyed out so I can not proceed. grateful for any advice please.
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optical drives cd dvd fail to operate - securom?
by Guest BB- 6 replies
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My children (bless 'em) have installed and uninstalled a Command and Conquerer game. Now I can't get my cdrom and dvdwriter to work. Device Manager sees them with a yellow exclamation mark attached. I have tried to uninstall and reinstall drivers but it does not help. The optical drives are not shown in 'my computer'. I can't repair XP with the original disk because the drives don't work properly! Please help. Regards Bob
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Specify environmental variable when starting command prompt?
by Guest Don Culp- 1 reply
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From the Run... option of the Start menu or from a shortcut in my Startup folder, is there any way to set an environmental variable at the same time that I'm opening a command prompt window. From the Run prompt I have tried: cmd "SET ALGMEM=2000" (also without the " ") but this doesn't work. I realize that I can manually set the ALGMEM environmental variable after the cmd window opens but I'd like to avoid this since I need to open many of these cmd windows, all with the same environmental variable. (Setting a global ALGMEM environmental variable via the control panel interferes with a Windows program that also uses the same environmental variable so this is not …
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delayed write failed
by Guest Millie- 3 replies
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I've just bought a new pc and have begun loading printer drivers etc. I put it into standby last night and when windows booted this morning I got this error message: "Windows was unable to save all the data for the file F:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere." I don't know what the file is. Does anyone know? Also, I doubt it's a hardware failure but it's possible. And I don't have a network connection set up yet. Should I be getting in touch with the retailer or is it a common, easily solved problem? Thanks -- Millie :)