Windows XP
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icon preview problem in Windows XP
by Guest Millie- 2 replies
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Hi I have an odd problem with Windows XP / windows explorer. When I transfer images from my digital camera to my pc the thumbnails are fine. Sometimes when I transfer the next batch of photos, the thumbnails for the previous photos are still there and the new thumbnails are not. To explain further, if I had a picture of a pair of boots, deleted it and captured a picture of my car, the thumbnail would show the pair of boots and not my car. When I open the thumbnail of the boots, it is in fact the car photo. It is VERY confusing! Can anyone help please? -- Millie
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TSSTcorp CD/DVDW (will not work)
by Guest Dean- 1 reply
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i was wondering if i can connect another computer to this one and restore my computer from disc using the other computer. i had a virus that ate into my system deeply no amount of scanning Etc would remove it or detect it. so i decided to return the whole system back to factory shipped condition, the same way i did it once before. i first format 'ed the back up system as it was infected too, then i tried to restore from disc but the computers system driver that allows it to read dvd rom is corrupt and now i am stuck. any ideas would be gratefuly rieceved -- I wish fools did not bother me.
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problem with software distribution service 3.0
by Guest Alan- 3 replies
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My computer will not connet to the internet when the computer finish updating the "software ditribution service 3.0". I have tried using system restore to return back to original setting and the internet connection is working fine in the original setting. However, the computer seems to automatically update without my consent and promts me to restart the computer to install the updates, presuambly the "software ditribution service 3.0". Once the computer restarts again, the internet connection is lost. I have tried shutting down the firewall after the update but there is still no internet connection. Is there something wrong with software ditribution serv…
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Dual Monitor - Same Screen Problem
by Guest Richard K- 1 reply
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I have set up a computer using a video card that supports dual monitors. I can see that because when I go into Display settings I can see both 1 and 2 and can select either. What I am getting is not a true dual monitor but the same screen on both monitor 1 and 2. I tried going to monitor 2 in the display settings and hit the check box for "extending" but when I apply or save it ignores the check. When I try and change the resolution it also ignores my changes. Is there anything I can be pointed to that helps me configure these monitors and how to get dual monitors working? (display settings, resolutions, which boxes to check in the settings) I'm ne…
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USB Device associated with wrong program
by Guest Alexey- 4 replies
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Hi When i plus a usb device into my laptop, it automatically open Photoshop. Can someone tell me how to un-associate these Thanks A
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I have two desktops running Windows XP on our home LAN and a laptop running Windows XP connected to our WLAN. I have mapped a network drive on the laptop to my NAS, where most of our media files are stored. When connected, everything works fine. However, after a reboot the network drive does not reconnect automatically. I have to open My Computer and then double-click on the disconnected network drive and then everything works fine again. It seems like it is a boot-up timing-issue. Windows is trying to mount network drive immediately on boot up even before my wireless connection is fully established. Is there something I can do to delay the mountin…
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copying photos to a CD or DVD
by Guest Jan- 1 reply
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I am getting the message "windows has encountered a problem, what would you like windows to do" when I try to copy photos to a cd or dvd. The cd and dvd's are new and empty. I tried opening the cd window and copying and pasting. I tried opening the photo and clicking send to. I tried just one photo at a time. What is happening here? Thank you. I have copied cd's with success multiple times. -- Jan
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wallpaper disappears timed out
by Guest Kelly- 0 replies
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I am working on xp pro sp2 in a domain environment. When I walk away from my desk I usually lock my computer by using windows key+L. When I come back and log back in, my wallpaper is gone and my screen is now a plain color. I have to manually go into display properties and click a different wallpaper then the one I want again to get it back. I am only selecting a wallpaper that comes with windows xp. I have not downloaded any special pics. This sometimes happens when my computer times out on its own and goes to the screen saver, but that is not as consistant as when I lock the pc. Any clues why this is happening??
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Security question on updating from MS Update after clean install
by Guest Eran Karu- 6 replies
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I have a product recovery CD-ROM of Windows XP home edition but is without any service pack. I plan to make clean install but wonder whether any malware would attack my computer while updating from Microsoft update, because clean installed Windows XP has lots of security holes. And I don't know whether built-in MS firewall is good enough. I cannot install Comodo Firewall Pro 3 because it requires service pack 2. So the question is: What is the safest way to update my clean installed Windows? Please give clear simple step by step instruction. -- Thanks, Eran Karu
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How to reset a bad sector on an NTFS volume?
by Guest Bruce.- 9 replies
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XP SP3. I had a hard drive with a few bad sectors. It never got worse so I ignored them. Chksdsk /r /f marked them as bad and that was that. Recently I did a major upgrade of my hardware. New motherboard, new drives, just about everything except the chassis. When I did the upgrade, I used True Image to clone the old PATA IDE hard drive to the new SATA drive. Because I did an exact partition copy from the old drive to new, those same sectors are still marked as bad, but no longer need to be. I've done a lot of googling but can find no way or utility to reset bad sectors on an NTFS volume. I know doing an chkdsk /r /f again does not do it. It…
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Where Do I Find Windows Updates?
by Guest Spiderman- 4 replies
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I need to find an update that was downloaded but not installed so I can delete it. Thanks.
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Service Pack 2 CD
by Guest Crystal- 6 replies
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I have windows xp professional and I am trying to order service pack 2 on CD. I have a dial up connection and the file is too large to download with my my connection so I need it on CD. Every link I have found on the microsoft website says it is to order service pack 2 but when I click on it to order it says service pack 3. Does anyone know how I can order SP2?
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Remove Parallell Port?
by Guest Daddy- 5 replies
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Is there anything to be gained by removing the parallel port in the BIOS? I have nothing attached to the parallel port of my Win XP SP 3 computer, and was just wondering. Thanks for your advice. Daddy
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Displaying DivX File Duration in Windows Explorer
by Guest Jock McGillicuddy- 0 replies
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Hi All, I have a large collection of DivX files which when displayed in Explorer do not show any details in the "Duration" column. Similarly, no thumbnails seem to be available for DIvX files. Is there a fix for this problem? Similarly it seems to be the same for FLV files - all others display perfectly well i.e. mpg, avi, wmv. Thanks for any help. Jock
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do I really need to "wipeout the pc"
by Guest childofthe1980s- 4 replies
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Hello: I eliminted a virus on my laptop today that said the following: “Some dangerous trojan horses detected in your system. Microsoft Windows XP files corrupted. This may lead to the destruction of important files in C:\WINDOWS. Download protection software now!” I eliminated the virus by downloading and installing FixIEDef.exe from the following URL and it worked perfectly: http://untamedmind.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/how-to-fix-the-%E2%80%9Cattention-some-dangerous-trojan-horses-detected%E2%80%9D-virus/ I have no issues on my laptop. I can browse files and the internet now just fine. When I e-mailed others at my firm just to let them know in…
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Allow client to view screen when a remote desktop is connected
by Guest Karl Rhodes- 4 replies
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Hi all, this is something I've assumed is the case but never had it confirmed. Would I be right in thinking that there is no way for a user who is sat at their pc to view the goings on on-screen while an administrator, or another user for that matter, is connected to the pc via remote desktop? If there is some way of doing this without a third party application, then I'd be really grateful is someone could let me know how it's done. Alternatively, if there is a third party plugin that's free or relatively cheap, then I'd appreciate links to these too. Thanks, Karl
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PGM message not directly sent by XP
by Guest Rob- 0 replies
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Hi, I'm using PGM to send multicast messages in my application. However it turns out that the first message is not actually put on the wire immediately, but only if the application sends a 2nd message. Then with the sniffer I see them both. So for now I have patched my application to do just this: send the original message, and then a message with just 1 byte. But I wonder why this should be necessary anyhow. It just adds to the networkload, protocol stack load, and the receivers must ignore the spurious messages. So is this a bug in the MS PGM implementation, or correct PGM behaviour? Rob BTW, and for those XP Embedded aficionados: It is not sufficie…
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Re cookie settings altering on own – it was a Malware Trojan
by Guest Andrew- 2 replies
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I have found and destroyed the culprit responsible for resetting my cookies to the lowest possible level. It was a malware Trojan called Win32.Trojan.Monder – five infections in total. I downloaded and installed free Ad-Aware 2008 which discovered two Trojans in the registry first, the other three about 2 minutes later. Cookie settings stable again now, however, still can’t update my eTrust Antivirus vet engine to the latest issue! This is the first time Spybot S & D has failed to root out an infection! - Andrew
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Playing PAL on NTSC PCs?
by Guest Snapper- 7 replies
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Hopefully this is the right newsgroup. I don't know if computers in America are specifically NTSC based but here in Australia we can play any format of video. However, we've been posting videos of our granddaughter on our website for relations in the US to look at. But they're telling us that they can't view them. The only thing that I can put it down to is that their computers are NTSC or something, while these videos are in PAL format. Thing is, I have the same software that they would be using, including Windows XP, Apple Quicktime (the files are 3GP format), etc.. Could someone advise me how we can get these videos to play for these people? If indeed, …
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Hello. I am having problems with my XP SP2's explorer.exe v6.0.2900.3156 crashing with ntdll.dll v5.1.2600.2180. I am wondering if SP3 have newer versions of explorer.exe and ntdll.dll. Thank you in advance. :) -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer.
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Odd registry key?
by Guest Throttlehog- 3 replies
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To preface: For several months now I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to ferret out a solution to a DVDRW problem using the online support pages of my pc manufacturer (HP), the hardware manufacturer (Lite-On), as well as those of all cd burning software currently installed. The latest steps I've taken involved deleting the upper and lower filters keys for the DVDRW, which failed to "fix" it. Which brings me to my question: While "poking" around in regedit I found an entry related to the DVD that looked a bit odd to me & I could think of no better place to get an accurate explanation than here. This is what I found: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ S…
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Error 1606
by Guest seawind- 6 replies
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While trying to upgrade from Kaspersky 6 to 9 I received the following message- Error 1606 could not access network location @:systemroot%\system32 When I tried to remove the Kaspersky 6 the same error massage displayed. I can't find this particular type of 1606 error in the Microsoft database. I have run four different registry cleaners without success. Is this a Registry problem? I have looked in the Registry (very scary) and there are a mass of Kaspersky keys in there. -- Charles
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Master Volume 'Wave' slider returns to Zero
by Guest Sibanger- 0 replies
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Hi, running XP SP3 and have had this problem for a while. Every time I reboot/restart, my system volume returns to zero. It is the 'Wave' volume slider that does this, not the master volume slider. How do I overcome this small annoying problem? Thank you.
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Huge Service Pack 2 Problem!
by Guest ACMDelete- 1 reply
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Please help! So i was having problems with my wireless internet card, so i installed service pack 2 onto my Windows XP computer Now, when i turn the computer on after it has been off, or i restart the computer, the welcome screen comes up and then my wallpaper shows up, and that's it, it won't go anywhere after that I have to press control+alt+delete which brings up my task manager, from there i stop the "explorer.exe" process and go to file, start new task, type "explorer" and then everything works, my start bar along with all my files and folder and programs come up and everything is fine, till i restart the computer and then i am back at square one... …
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Itunes slowing pc applications
by Guest Wesley- 1 reply
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When playing music on Itunes, the applications on my system would eventually slow to an unusable state. I resolved this by unchecking ituneshelper from the startup tab in the System Configuration Utility (run msconfig). -- Wesley