Windows XP
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XP: hibernate very slow all of a sudden, tried to fix it, no success
by Guest Alex Schugman- 9 replies
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Hello, for a few days my Win XP SP2 is hibernating very very slowly. I've been googling around looking for a solution but cant seem to find the cause. the write cache is enabled, I have scanned for spyware with adaware 2007, I even disabled hibernating, defraged the HDD and re- enabled it, nothing seems to work. anyone have a clue resp. any ideas? Alex
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Hi all, At the moment I'm working on my new system. And there are a quite a few things I need to set before I'm happy with it. One of the things I hate is how XP handles ' and ". At the moment I need to follow it by pressing the space bar before the quote or double quote appears. But that´s not the question of this post. I´m wondering how I can disable the text balloons that pop up from the system tray? I dislike messages instructing me to press here to view/hide icons, and the like. At the same time, in the future I would like to develop a program that uses pop ups from the system tray. I gather that the program will not work when I've disabled …
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Help...Pressing C on the keyboard opens My Computer and pressing Dopens the Calculator...
by Guest eggedd2k- 1 reply
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Help...Pressing C on the keyboard opens My Computer and pressing Dopens the Calculator... We have Windows XP on one of our office laptops. For some reason out of the blue any time we press C on the keyboard My Computer opens and pressing D opens the Calculator program. No other keys open anything else. We've run a number of different virus scans, spyware programs, HiJackThis etc and have found nothing. System Restore gives us a "System Restore Incomplete" message each time. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?
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Windows XP Hangs at Beginning of Install
by Guest James Egan- 9 replies
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When I attempt to install Windows XP on a 3 GHz clone, it gets to the point where it says that it's "Checking hardware", then the screen goes black, the hard drive light stays on, and it hangs like that. Is there anything I can do to get past this or troubleshoot the problem?
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character map not working
by Guest prs98520- 3 replies
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The Windows Character Map is not working on my system. I can open the character map, access various fonts, etc., but when I try to select a character, nothing happens. I have the same result when I access the "insert symbol" function in Word or Publisher. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the character map with the same result. I am running Windows XP Professional on a Dell Latitude D630, and as far as I can remember, the character map has not worked since I started using this PC (about 9 months).
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Vista Search
by Guest Steve- 2 replies
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I know this a Windows XP section, but I cannot find Vista in htis newsgroup. XP had a great search capability from Start that allowed me to search for specific words in a document, and to do this from from To and From dates. However, Vista has changed the Start search feature, and i do not know how to do a broad search for a document I know has a unique word between specific dates. Can you give me instruction, or know a good article reference with the above example for doing a search on the whole computer? Thanks
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XP mess
by Guest naguaramipana- 13 replies
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Hi gurus I have the following problems and I really hope that you gurus can help. I was installing a new video card when suddenly the blue screen of D came up, I put the original video card back and tried to restart the computer but always the blue screen came up, I asked for help and this was done. XP cd->repair->chkdsk /r->fixboot c:, this allowed me to boot the computer all the way up and as you can imaging I was really happy, I could see all my files and everything else( I know I promise backup will be done daily). well while everything looked fine I start to have the following problems 1) I can not copy within my computer or outside.-&…
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Hello, Our company uses HP and Dell workstations w/XP pro. If system crash then we can restore back with disk image. But their disk image come with a lot of trial software,I have to remove them one by one. Can I have a clean install then create my own disk image? If the system crash again then I can restore back without trial software. Thanks
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Service Pack 3
by Guest Jay- 4 replies
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I have downloaded and installed SP3 three times already. Just now I got a notice, next to the clock, that SP3 was downloading and then got another one that it was ready to install. I'm trying to turn off these notices So I go to System Properties>Automatic Updates. But once I get there I already have a check mark in "Notify me but DON'T AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOAD or install them." Still the OS always downloads SP3 and there's nothing I can do to stop it from downloading. What's happening and how can I stop it from doing this every day. J
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Emailed pictures
by Guest Chip- 10 replies
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When I open some emails with pictures, there is a little 'x' in the top left corner. The one I just got was a .jpg and I can usually open them. What happened here?
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yahoo new spam tricks
by Guest SpamWatcherw- 2 replies
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Surfers be aware of new scammers calming that they ae from yahoo and sending messages calming you are the chosend one lol for a sum of £250,000 with address name tarekmasteren@yahoo.com and other addresses reported as fake scammers. Body message: Yahoo & Windows Live Awards Center 124 Stockport Road, Longsight, Manchester M60 2DB, United Kingdom. This is to inform you that you have won a prize money of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Great Britain Pounds (GBP 250,000), FOR THE YAHOO & WINDOWS LIVE AWARDS FOR 2008 Prize promotion which is organized by YAHOO AWARDS & WINDOWS LIVE. YAHOO/WINDOWS LIVE collects all the email addresses…
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Administrator password
by Guest Man T- 1 reply
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I once run the XP in safe mode but no idea the administrator password. I can only log in using one user password. Any idea how to get the administrator password?
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Difference between "Open *.pst file" and "Add data file *.pst" ?
by Guest Joe deAngelo- 4 replies
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As far as I can see there are two methods of opening/adding an additional *.pst file for an existing Outlook 2003 installation: At first I can simply open a *.pst file by using the menu file->open On the other side I can do it through the menu file->Data file management->Add What is the difference ? Joe
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Where are all Quick Launch Bar shortcuts saved and how to change the folder location?
by Guest Sabine Elsner- 1 reply
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Where are all Quick Launch Bar shortcuts saved? I guess its a folder rather than in Registry. How can I change the Quick Launch Bar folder location? Sabine
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Double Click Start Menu
by Guest Phil-m- 1 reply
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Hi, I work for a number of schools, they are running server 2008 and xp clients, we have locked the desktops down using group policy but have realised that if the pupils double click the all programs on the start menu they can get to explorer and browse the network and gain access to the c: drive even though we have denied it. Any help would be helpful Thanks Phil
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USB HD enclosure stops working
by Guest bratboy- 1 reply
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Could someone please advise me on an issue. I use a USB HD enclosure and occasionally XPHome w/SP3 seems to stop seeing the HD. A simple switching of the unit off then back on seems to correct the problem but its an annoyance. Is there a simple fix so the drive stays connected permanently? Someone in another group suggested that it might be pwr saving issue and so I did go in and turn off the "Allow windows to turn off to save pwr" option for all my hubs but didn't seem to help much. I did notice my driver info says the USB driver is from 7/2001 could that be the problem and I need to somehow update it?
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html files deleted when sub-folder deleted
by Guest navoff- 1 reply
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I have a web page that was saved from IE (save as: web page complete). I need to post it somewhere that doesn't allow subfolders for images. So, I edited the HTML file and changed the file location of all the images, then moved the images up to the same level as the html file. However, when I deleted the old sub-folder, it deleted the html file. How do I stop this behavior?
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Quick System Standby Question
by Guest Danger_Duck- 4 replies
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Is there any way to set my computer to return from standby/hibernate/sleep etc. only by keystrokes rather than mouse movement? Or better yet, only when the power button is pressed? I feel that it randomly boots up again (like when I'm sleeping) and I'm trying to see if this is a mouse issue or something else. Thanks!
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can't Customize folder type to Music
by Guest DaveZ- 3 replies
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Sorry for a question that has probably been answered. I've searched, but suspect I'm using the wrong key words. Anyway, I am attempting to set folder types in Windows Explorer to Music so my Zune software will find the folders. When I go to the customize tab of the folder properties window I can select the proper type and apply it, but once I leave properties, the types reverts to general documents. My files are either .wma or .wmv plus album art. All of it initially went through WMP. Thanks
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XP Will Not Start Up
by Guest Freddie- 8 replies
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::Hello.:: ::I use Windows XP home edition (Version 5.1 Service pack 3).:: ::When I switch my PC on I see the XP logo and the bar at the bottom showing the program is loading.:: ::But the welcome screen does not appear, I get a blank screen.:: ::I held the restart button down and the programme reloaded and gave me a choice of safe mode options.:: ::In safe mode I did a system restore to a date about a week ago when I had no problems.:: ::I then restarted the PC hoping the problem would be solved but again XP started to load but the welcome page did not appear just a blank screen. I held down restart and the safe mode options screen appeared.:: ::In safe mode …
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error message at startup
by Guest dessie- 1 reply
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When i open up my computer I get the following message can anyone help me get rid of it Error/Windows?System32/Spool/Drivers/ W 32x86/3/lxcr R Time: cll Missing Entry Rundell Entry
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Swapping out Athlon AM2 3800 for 6000 dual core...
by Guest RJK- 3 replies
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XP Home ed. SP3 ...up to date. ....when cpu arrives, ....will XP do it all for me, or will I have to fiddle with HAL layer ? regards, Richard
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windows restarting itself?
by Guest nick_da_fish- 3 replies
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my windows restarts the computer after a couple of minuetes of being on there occurs more often when undating my Ipod Just blacks out nt he computer starts again any one no why and how to stop this please help need ipod fully updated???
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Blue screen blues
by Guest Goomba- 3 replies
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XP4 -- Again and again I get a blue screen, and this is what gets sent to MS when notifying them of the error. BCCode : 10000050 BCP1 : FEFEFF0A BCP2 : 00000000 BCP3 : 80520B93 BCP4 : 00000000 OSVer : 5_1_2600 SP : 3_0 Product : 256_1 I'm using a hotel's wireless server for IE, but there were no probs the first week. Other than that there are no soft or hardware changes. Any advice?
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possible virus please help
by Guest will h- 2 replies
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Hi I wonder if anyone can help me. I recently scanned my computer using norton antivirus and found a hacktool and downloader virus which I quarantined. I have NOrton anti virus. Problem is that whenever I use my computer again it slows down and crashes as if it is still infected even though the scans show there is nothing on. Also, whenever i try and shut down the computer I get an error message saying "SVChost.exe DLL application failed to initialize as the windows station is shutting down." Also when I am online in safe and normal mode the internet connection intermittently terminates. I suspect that a virus is still on there... Any help would be most …