Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Losing the Printer??
by Guest sam- 2 replies
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Got an older Brother laser printer attached to the USB port running XP Pro SP2. When we first boot up, printer works great. But during the course of a day, with the PC going into and out of Hibernate mode due to disuse, soon we can no longer print. Documents sit in the print queue showing Error status. Can't even print a test page. So ... ShutDown-Restart and all is well again. What must we change to make this printer findable when coming out of Hibernate mode??
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Defragging XP
by Guest skippy999- 1 reply
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When attempting to run Defrag, error message " Disk Check is scheduled to run, please run disk check". I have run Disk Check, but still receive message. Disk check not listed in scheduled tasks. Any assistance appreciated. thank you
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Possible to add custom file attributes?
by Guest Calab- 1 reply
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I was wondering... Is it possible to add custom attributes to the file system? I would really love a "flag" attribute so I could mark files that I've processed or that I feel are important (Similar to how you can flag messages in Outlook). Of course Explorer would have to display the flag in the detailed file listing. Is this possible? Are there any utilities out there that can do this now? Thx!
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application error message on startup
by Guest wolfsigh- 4 replies
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Hey there, I am running XP Home SP 2. When I boot up Windows, I get the following error message when the desktop appears: The instruction at "0x7c918fea" referenced memory at "0x00000010". The memory could not be "written". The error message started after I recently set up a home network and had problems connecting. I finally got connected when I "undid" settings from TCP Optimization software. I also enabled certain services under services.msc. I'm not sure which one made the difference, but something worked. Not sure which services I enabled either. The error message doesn't seem to make any difference other than being annoying. How can…
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virtual memory
by Guest blb- 5 replies
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what does it mean when I get a "virtual memory minimum low - windows is increasing"....? Is there something that I should or need to do to my computer ?
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I have installed a new large disk in my system and reinstalled OS. Now i want to add my old disk to system in one of the slots available( this disk has os on its primary partition with drive letter as C:\) and its active bits are not wiped. My qustion is if i add this disk ,although my system will boot from new disk but after booting and rescaning in disk MMC it will recognise other disk( old one) with active partion as well , then how it well assign the drive letter or resolve the conflict. Any Idea suggestion, experince are most welcomed
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%1 Issues.
by Guest Kardon Coupé- 2 replies
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Dear All, I was wondering is there only %1 available when changing Folder Options/File Types? I'm noticing the %1 passed the whole filename including folder, I think this is causing a program with the DOS program I'm using and I was wondering if there is anyway of just passing the filename? Hope someone can help.. Regards Paul.
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Anti Virus 2009
by Guest lennox- 10 replies
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Is there a free software to get Anti Virus 2009 off my computer,it's driving me crazy with pop ups..... -- lennox
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Old School
by Guest Old School- 3 replies
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I have reinstalled windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 on my Inspiron 6000. I did not save anything, so I am starting fresh. I am unable to access the internet. What is wrong? I can't play videos or cd's because it is telling me that I have no sound device. I go and check, and it tells me it is working. I just need to get the internet up and going so I can download any drivers required. I have a second computer which is my main desktop, and I am running a wireless device - Wireless-G 2.5 Broadband Router. Your most sencere help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- PEACE!
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Fatal Error when installing Net Zero
by Guest dobielover- 4 replies
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The Problem: "A fatal error has been detected and the application must be terminated." I have been having trouble with Net Zero dial up (not connecting) so I uninstalled and reinstalled the program several times which didn't resolve the problem. Then I started getting the above message so I got a new disk thinking the old one might be corrupted. Same problem when I attempted reinstall. The error messages also includes "Can't load properties from file ...prop.enc." The last line is: "Caused by Win32Exception: Call to Create File()failed with (2) The system cannot find the file specified." I also did a clean boot and attempted another install with the…
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lsass.exe process
by Guest ~~Alan~~- 3 replies
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What is the lsass.exe process in the Task Manager? I see I/O reads and writes against this process and this is after an O/S rebuild. The CPU Utilizzation is very minimal, almost nothing at all if that much. WinXP SP3 thanks, ~alan
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Installation errors
by Guest Johndun- 9 replies
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My mother-in-law has a Compaq Presario desktop running WinXP Home edition. 40GB HD with 26GB free. Last week, while trying to install an upgrade to Norton antivirus. she encountered problems with the installation and was unable to compete the process. Somehow, it also affected MS Works 2002 (unable to run the word processor). After a couple of days of trying, i believe I have uninstalled Norton & MS Works (with the intent of re-installing both). Initially, I thought I was having problems with MS Installer> It kept ending prematurely. I believe I now have that running properly (somewhere along the line, the OS booted in Safe mode & Ive cor…
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Prevent programs from starting on other user's desktop
by Guest Krjarman- 5 replies
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I recently purchased a Blackberry Cell phone and loaded the DeskTop Manager program that enables me to sync it to my Outlook data. When other users on my computer log on, the Desk Top Manager loads at start up. It takes several munutes to load and is an annoyance to them. I have administrator priveledges. How can I prevent the program from starting when the other users log on?
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can only boot into xp
by Guest AMDX2- 12 replies
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I have 2 hard drives. Vista home premium sp1 64bit was installed on the first and I just installed windows xp pro on the second drive. now i can't get into vista anymore even when selecting that hard drive for the boot drive in my bios. i only can boot into xp. how do i fix that so i can boot in vista and then boot in xp when i want? my hope is i want to get in bios and select boot menu then what drive i want or have that option when i start the pc like from os choice menu that comes up for some people on their systems when they dual boot. thanks.
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Explorer and boot process freezes
by Guest JP- 5 replies
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These both happen on one laptop sometimes: 1. Windows Explorer freezes when changing navigation from one folder to another. Sometimes it will recover itself after a minute or so. Or we can click close to stop non-responding program. The desktop shell then restarts by itself. Other applcations can be run normally while Explorer itself is frozen. And the frozen window can be minimised. 2. The boot hangs after the Start Up display appears. Including the /SOS switch in the boot.ini showed that it froze after all drivers are loaded and when a primary GUI appears to show the Windows version and CPU information. Hard-shut-down>start in Safe Mode>shut-down,>…
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Help! Can't fix "IE is running with add-ons disabled"
by Guest Al Dykes- 4 replies
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My IE7 (on XPSP2) has a pop-up that says "IE is running with add-ons disabled" and lots of stuff doesn't work. All the hits I get for that message tells me to go to Tools -> Manage add-ons. When I do that, it's greyed out. How do I fix this? TIA. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
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mass renaming of files
by Guest Paul Crosby- 4 replies
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Could someone tell me if it is possible and how, to rename an entire folder of files in a simple manor rather than one at a time as there are 2000+, the files have all been named with a 4 digit prefix as such "0123 - afile.typ" including the " - " some hoe i'd like to remove this so i am lft with an alphabetical list of files instead. many thanks to anyone who can point me in right direction Paul
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wake up computer
by Guest Newbie- 2 replies
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Hello, We try to save energy for our remote desktop system. We have two PCs for outside sales using remote desktop connection to login. If we setup standby or hibernates mode, then the outside sales cannot login after one night. How can we save the energy without turn off and turn on these 2 PCs? Thanks
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Installing Quicken 2008 after Quicken 2005
by Guest Rascal- 15 replies
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I have already invested in 5 rounds of email question/response w/ Intuit on this - they have given up and have sent me to their phone support line. So, I know that I am doomed to suffer an intermitable amount of time on the phone with them. But before I submit to that, I was hoping to get some insight/ideas on how to diagnose my problem from folks on this site. My issue is that, after several years of using a number of versions of Quicken - up to Quicken 2005 - they are now forcing me to upgrade to 2008 or lose the ability to download data from financial institutions. I'm ok with that - but the problem is that Q2008 won't install and I am quite anxious …
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Network security access.
by Guest Lidia Del Regno- 2 replies
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Hi all, I have a network between 5 pc on which there is installed Windows XP Pro SP3. PCs are physically connected through a router. On one of the PC, what I acts as a server, are shared some directories while the other is not shared anything. Now, of shared directories on the server you find one that I make accessible to 2 machines "client" and not at the other two. I tried to make this thing in the properties of sharing, eliminating the rights of "Everyone" and setting those of individual machines but I have a problem: when I try, in the textbox "Path", I not find the other machines on the network and I see only the server machine that is the same which…
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-->> Black Screen during game boot-up
by Guest Ch33zst34k- 0 replies
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I recently re-installed XP SR3 on my home-built box and now whenever I attempt to run any of my games, I get a black screen on my monitor. I know the games are running since the audio comes in fine and the keyboard/mouse responses can be heard through the audio. Additionally, if I use my old CRT monitor, there is no issue but my Viewsonic flat-panel displays the black. My first guess was that it was video crad driver related so I updated nvidia drivers, then I went to the Viewsonic site and used their specific driver. No luck - I even tried rolling back to pre-SR-3 update and that doesn't resolve it. Anything I am missing ? Any help would be welcome ? …
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How Do I Find Windows Explorer?
by Guest CP- 7 replies
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I just bought a laptop with XP on it, and I can't find Windows Explorer. Did Microsoft do the usual thing and delete a feature because it was too simple and easy to use, or am I just not looking hard enough?
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Unwanted application install in windows\system32\10xx\
by Guest Jim3- 1 reply
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I got Unwanted application install in windows\system32\10xx\ when surfing the net. and I can not remove or uninstall it as the "windows\system32\10xx\" folder/files are protected [read only] and I can not change the attribute. Please assist. -- Jim3
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Hard Drive is reading as a cd drive
by Guest firstmateirongut- 3 replies
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A few hours ago, my computer froze in the proccess of downloading something to my 36gig slave drive. i thusly shut it down. when i restarted it, my drive was gone and i had a new **cd drive** i need some help to turn it back into a cd drive, even if it does mean i lose all of the information on it. (although if there is a solution that means i can keep my data, then that would be really nice.) Thanks
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Explorer crashes at least once all the time
by Guest Dreamchaser- 8 replies
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Dear all, Explorer.exe crashes and the log shows the following Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.5512, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x046f1da4. Can't find the solution onine (fault address not found). Hope you'd help. Thanks.