Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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loss of cd-key windows home edition
by Guest Abhinash- 7 replies
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hi. my wife has lost the cd-key sticker for the windows home edition cd version 2002 she bought in malaysia. grateful if you could submit a new key. the cd is marked as follows: 0504 Part No.X10-59483
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How can I get my Window Xp register number?
by Guest Fernando- 10 replies
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Hi everyone, I need to format mympc HD and I lost my register and I was wondering if is any way I can to do to get it . Thank you Fernando
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Internet Explorer Homepage problem
by Guest Justin- 7 replies
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Internet explorer does not load the homepage I have set it to. Instead when I double click the internet explorer icon, it loads a microsoft website.
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Improve XP font rendering?
by Guest Maurizio Colucci- 2 replies
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Hi, Fonts look much better in Vista than xp. Is there any way to change XP font rendering to make it look like Vista? (I'm thinking about some patch for cleartype). Thanks for any info. Keywords: cleartype, antialiasing, font, rendering, vista, xp.
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RE: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down
by Guest studio playliststation- 0 replies
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RE: "DWWin.exe failed" when shutting down "tonpal" wrote: > For no obvious reason, I started getting an error message when I shut down > WinXP. The message is only on-screen for less than a second so I've been > unable to catch it all, but (probably paraphrased) it says that "DWWin.exe > failed to initialise because Windows is shutting down". > > It may be that this started after automated error reporting to MS when FS9, > and later WinXP, said that they 'had to shut down' but I did not notice it as > following immediately, nor did it immediately follow any installation or > update. > > Part of me doesn't care becau…
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GREAT SEARCH ENGINE TO FIND STREAMING MOVIES!!!
by Guest freeekim- 2 replies
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Just go to http://googsmart.com it is a search engine that specializes in streaming movies
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Help !! XP Home administrator priviledge problem
by Guest AlanT- 4 replies
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Hi. I wanted to read a region 1 dvd and had 2 changes left on my dvd region changing option dialog. One to change, one to change back I thought. Unfortunately when I went to change back, possibly because it was the last one, it said I needed administrator priviledges. Checking the user accounts I already had that. Nevertheless I booted into safe mode and selected an administrator account that wasn't there on normal boot up. But it still gave me the same error and wouldn't let me change it. I'm now stuck with a region 1 dvd drive ! Please help !!
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Transfering Files from old CPU to new CPU
by Guest Kris- 3 replies
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HELP!!! Can I transfer files from my old CPU by just turning ON this old unit, not plugged to a screen, to my new desktop PC by using a USB cable (USB conexions on both ends), and the File Transfer Wizard of my new PC?
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Follow Up to Error Scheduling Tasks
by Guest HankL- 2 replies
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My wife and I are the only persons using this computer. I am the Adminsitrator. I never entered a password in the User when I originally setup the computer. It boots up entirely without asking for a User Name or Password. I have put in other Scheduled Tasks in the past with a particular password and it always worked. I understand after a period of time, Windows no longer recognizes a password. Is there any other way you could suggest to find the password I used in Scheduled Task and change the existing password if there is one? HankL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.gen…
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How to beat activation
by Guest Jim- 12 replies
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OK first of I do own a legal version of XP Pro SP2 (Retail). The reason I'm trying to get round activation is in the past I have activated allot online, when I didn't know you could only do it a set number of times before you have to keep going through the hassle of ringing tech support and giving them my code number then they read me one back etc etc. Now I have read that if you back up 2 files called "wpa.bak" and "wpa.dbl" then once xp is reinstalled go into windows as normal and when asked for activation just reboot in safe mode and copy these 2 files back into the windows/system32 folder overwriting what might be there, as described here http://ti…
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Invisable Files On DVD Drive
by Guest RickG- 1 reply
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I use XP Home Edition and have a dvd drive/burner installed. Recently I tried to intall new software but when I insert the disc there appears to be no setup.exe file to run. when I open with My Computer half the file are invisable or not there. When I put the disc in another computer the setup.exe and other files are on the disc. The files I can see have no extension and are just labled system or file. The icons are just plain and the folder hyperlink does not work on them. Any folders will open but no exe files are visable. I can rip and burn CD's and DVD's and picture files work ok. I replaced the DVD Drive with a different model and it still does the sa…
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rebuild search index
by Guest Candace- 1 reply
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How do I rebuild the search index in Windows XP? I downloaded Windows Desktop Search, but searches are incomplete. I read that rebuilding the search index would eliminate this issue. I was unable to use the following instructions: --> Control Panel --> System and Maintenance --> Indexing Options --> Advanced --> Rebuild because I don't have a "System and Maintenance" category when I click on Control Panel -- and yes, I am looking at it in Category view, not Classic view. Where can I go to rebuild the search index?
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"~XB1ACD" corrupt files-how to rename/fix
by Guest rh1951mo- 7 replies
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I have a mumber of files, all types, .txt, .doc, .jpg They have the correct file name, but have an added "~XB1ACD" (w/o the quotes, various letters after the ~) added at the end of the file that interferes with the correct file association. Note: The files are OK...I can manually rename a file deleting the part including and following the ~ (the tilde)...and the file is conpletely intact. What command and syntax can I use to to find these files and delete the unwanted ~* file extension. I think this is something I knew 15 years ago with Dos...but I can't remember. I don't want to have to do each manually - much too time consuming... MRH
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sp3/usb problems
by Guest Ed Mc- 2 replies
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Since upgrading to sp3 I've had numerous problems with usb ports. I used one to plug in a Firelite external drive. It would show up as removable drive I:. I uninstalled sp3. I'm back to sp2, but now my external drive does not show up in My Computer. A check of Tweakui shows many of the available drive letters having a red dot with a question mark inside. Drive I: is one of them. Any ideas what the dots mean? Since I use this external drive to backup my system I'm in a bit of a panic! I used Device Mgr. to remove the usb ports and then they reinstalled on the next boot. Any help please!! TIA
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XP SP3 doesn't remove all those $NtUninstallKB folders??
by Guest John Corliss- 9 replies
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I recently upgraded a friend's XP Pro to SP3, fully expecting that all the c:\windows\$NtUninstallKB* folders would disappear. Man, was I ever let down. I want to upgrade my XP Home to SP3, but not if it won't be removing all that clutter. Is there some trick I'm missing? -- John Corliss
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When I use Outlook (2000), I'm not able to use an automated signature option when I have word as my outgoing mail to edit messages. Signature picker will not allow me to access it once I check the “use MS Word to edit e-mail messages” box. I'm aware my default has a spell checker but that doesn’t allow me to use my autocorrect and short keys. Any ideas? Thanks, Eric
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Decryption of files and folders
by Guest Krishna- 3 replies
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my HDD partition is C: and D:. I have my data files in D:\. in order to protect my data i had applied encrytion to all the folders and files in this drive. recently my C: was formatted and Win XP was reinstalled...my D:\ was not formatted... Now i'm not able to open, view or worse even copy these files in D:\ i tried removing the encryption by it displays a error message that "error in applying attributes" Can any one please let me know on how to decrypt the files and folders in D:\ please help as i have valuable data in my D:|
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windows corrupted need to reinstall
by Guest wayne- 4 replies
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Ok here we go. This on a small insignia pc (my girlfriends) 6 years old running xp home SP2. This is what happened I was not there so not sure of exact vergage. Got notice from virus software that a virus had been stopped. Also got notice that windows system files had been corrupted. Since then pc not running good. Can not defrag except in safe mode, help and support center will not start. In both cases says files not found but they are there. There is a whole laundry list of issues. She lost all the discs that came with this machine so I have nothing to work with. It has excel and word and I would like to keep them if possible as I do not have the offi…
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New Program in Sounds Control Panel?
by Guest Toni- 1 reply
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In WinXP, in Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices | Sounds, I want to customize the program sounds for a particular program. But the program is not listed, and I see no option to add a new program. How can I customize the sounds for a particular Windows XP program? Thanks!!!
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Restore accidentially deleted data. Help!!!
by Guest Johnnybig- 9 replies
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How can you restore accidentially deleted data? I deleted all My documents data and since it was large amount most of them did not reach the Recycle bin but were deleted permanently. Can I restore them?
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dual hard drives running win xp 1 2
by Guest tonya- 28 replies
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I have two computers I want to "combine". One is the kids computer, one is mine, I want to move my hard drive to the kids computer so that we can share the CPU, but when i want to use my hard drive I can boot from it, and when the kids are doing their thing, my hard drive won't be in use (or jeopardy!) I thought I would run it externally, but it does not appear to be able to boot that way. Is there a fairly simple way to do this? -- tonya
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WinXP more expensive than Vista?
by Guest zalek- 5 replies
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I wanted to buy new OS - I found that WinXP is more expensive then Vista. I wish the same rules apply to my car... Zalek
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shutdown must be requested twice
by Guest Bill Bartlett- 2 replies
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I have to select shutdown twice for the machine. The first time I request it I get a hiccup the second time it shuts down normally. This problem started when I installed shutdown.exe. I cant find out how to uninstall it. Thanks bill --
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Fade effect (transition effect for menus and tooltips) turns itself on?!?
by Guest Joergen Bech- 1 reply
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I am running XP Professional SP3. Have a weird problem which has been bugging me for a while: After my machine has been turned on for a while, the "Fade effect" suddenly turns itself on and I have to go into Display Properties -> Appearance -> Effects and turn it off again. Note that the "Use the following transition effect ..." box has a greyed checkmark in it rather than a black/white one, which suggests to me that something is temporarily overriding my off setting rather than setting it permanently. My Performance Options -> Visual Effects is set to "Adjust for best performance" and I have checked (I think) all the related Registry entries for…
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Help with setting up a cd
by Guest Barry- 1 reply
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Dear All I appreciate this may not be the right newsgroup, but if anyone can either help or point me in the right direction, thank you. I have produced a CD with two items on it. The CD is set to autorun an html file. On the page that loads, there is a link to a website on the disk and another link to a program on the disk. but it wont work. I need to sort out the coding. The Website link works fine, but I cannot work out the code, to get the other link to work, it is an .exe file which will run a programme. I want this to work directly from the link. If anyone can assist in anayway or point me in the right direction, , I would be most grateful …