Windows XP
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Task Bar and Start Menu Properties
by Guest Too Old- 2 replies
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I have XP Home Edition. When I right click on the Start button and sselect properties a window pops up. Then I select Taskbar and click on Customize. Another window pops up called Customize Notifications. It shows 2 lists.....current items and past items. On the past items list are programs I no longer have on my computer, but they are still listed there. How do I delete them from this list? Thanks.
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Tracking down registry startup..
by Guest carlos- 4 replies
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Dear All, Every time the computer boots something in the registry causes a "My Computer" window to pop up It's not in win.ini system startup etc as I disabled all in msconfig.exe and still the "My Computer" window pops up It's not in the usual places like Run, RunServices as I searched with nothing to find. I want to track down in a log file what activity takes place in the registry as the computer is turned on so that I may find what is causing the "My Computer" window to pop up. Thanking you in advance, Carlos.
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help downgrading a Dell Inspiron w/ Vista to XP Pro
by Guest Niteowl- 11 replies
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hi all, just got a new Inspiron 1525 preinstalled with Vista Home... and I need to install XP Pro however when using the Dell Reinstallation Disk for XP Pro SP2 (from previous purchases), it is not detecting the Hard Drive. I have looked around and found the setting in the BIOS set to AHCI under SATA operation.. there is an option to change to ATA, but I'm getting a warning and I just want to make sure I won't do any permanent damage. Warning says changing this "may prevent your operating system from booting or requrie a resinall." which would seem to be okay since that's what I'm doing... It also had me disable the "Flash Cache Module" before b…
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pythonservice.exe
by Guest BwanaJim- 2 replies
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Does anyone know what this is? I see it in the task manager but don't know what it is related to. Is it a Windows XP product?
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XP Pro "Repair" problem
by Guest Ross- 3 replies
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I am trying to use my XP Pro disk to do an XP Repair. Below I will detail the steps I do and the problem I end up with: 1. Boot up with the XP disk in the cd rom 2. Go to the point where I get the option to “enter R for repair” 3. The PC goes into DOS mode and I get asked “which windows installation would you like to log onto”. I enter the number “1”. 4. Then I am asked to type “Administrator Password”. I have no administrator password so I leave the space blank and just hit enter. 5. I then get the prompt “C:\Windows>”. 6. At this point I am stuck. Because it does not matter what I enter, I keep getting a message that says “command …
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rundll32 - Printer rundll command failed
by Guest Fred- 2 replies
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I'm trying to automate some printer installs and capture the printer settings. I'm trying to use rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry command to capture the printer settings in a file that I can use during the installation process. The command I'm using is rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Ss /n "<printer name>" /a "<location to save .dat file>" I've tried the command with and without a "d" (no quotes) at the end and I keep getting "Printer User Interface, Printer command failed.. < the command > Operation could not be completed"
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IE7 and Firefox Hang When Coming Out of Screen Saver Blank Screen
by Guest MainframeGuy- 0 replies
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I apologize if this is here somewhere but I haven't found it. I recently installed IE7 in XP-Pro with FP3. When my screen saver (SETI) would go to the blank screen and I would awaken it I could do one or two things and then it would hang. No Ctrl>Alt>Delete, nothing. Power off and back on, it would come back. Said to heck with IE7 and installed Firefox -- same thing. I've disabled SETI but once it goes blank and I try to awaken it -- hang. I figure it must be a WIN-DOZE issue as it's doing the same thing with IE and Firefox. Suggestions appreciated!!
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Double installation of XP
by Guest Nolan- 7 replies
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During startup, when I hit the key (I can't remember which one it is at the moment) to do a step-by-step startup, my computer goes to the 'select operating system' screen, which shows TWO installations of XP. This evidently happened when I took it to the shop a few years ago for an upgrade from ME. I don't know what the &*^$# they did, but evidently they managed to install both a valid and a non-valid copy. I just recently discovered this, and that shop (surprise) is no longer in business. I can't get any upgrades, because the MS website is detecting a non-valid copy of XP, which I suspect is the one that is not the default, which the machine norma…
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Basically I need some way for my application to be able to detect if explorer launched it in response to it being in the startup folder and the user logging in. I would like to be able to distinguish between explorer launching my application at startup, and the user clicking the link in the startup folder (this precludes using a simple command- line parameter). I'd like something similar to keyAELaunchedAsLogInItem kAEOpenApplication AppleEvent (http://developer.apple.com/ documentation/Carbon/Reference/Apple_Event_Manager/Reference/ reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/keyAELaunchedAsLogInItem). The only thing I saw close to this was the WM_WTSSESSION_CHANG…
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help
by Guest diver- 2 replies
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hello everyone i have windows xp pro with 2 user accounts both got passwords my question is when i start my computer up it logs straight onto my username without asking for the password and also when i shut down the computer it logs off my username normally then says shutting but goes into sleep mode but everything seems to be turned off
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Video problem
by Guest natgas- 4 replies
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When my computer is rebooted, it loses all video cards/drivers; I have tried both ATI and NVidia cards and it happens with both; I then have to uninstall the vga drivers and reinstall the appropriate ones. Haven't found anything to explain why this is happening. Need help to resolve this. XP Pro ATI 4850 NVidia 8800GT
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What should I do? ( Generic Host Process for Win32 Services hasencountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for theinconvenience. )
by Guest thalassocrazy@gmail.com- 4 replies
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What should I do? ( Generic Host Process for Win32 Services hasencountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for theinconvenience. ) "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." "If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost" The above is the very annoying error message I am getting whenever I go online. If I click on any of the button, the online session stops, and I have to reboot the computer in order to get back online. I have checked the error on search engines, and found the following "possible cures" -- …
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Error Message on start up
by Guest Dawn- 8 replies
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Good Afternoon, I received an error message at startup and I am not sure what it means.... c:windows\system32\jojim\sv.dll If anyone knows what this means can you please help me? Thank you, -- Dawn
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How to configure ftp.exe to use passive mode (PASV)?
by Guest curiousgeorge408@hotmail.com- 6 replies
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How can I configure ftp.exe to use passive mode (PASV)? By ftp.exe, I mean \windows\system32\ftp.exe, which I execute by Start > Run > cmd > ftp. (I call this MS ftp.) On a whim, I have set Passive FTP in Internet Explorer (Tools > Internet Options > Advanced). Concomitantly, "use PASV" is set to "yes" in the Registry under HKEY_USERS\S-1-...\Software\Microsoft \FTP. All to no avail. (Should it also be set somewhere else?)
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BSOD Error Screen DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL
by Guest rusty7010- 1 reply
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I am using Windows XP Home Edition, Dell 4600, IE7. This screen comes up just when I am "surfing" on traffic exchanges. It states that it is a Windows error and must shut down before damage is done. The following is listed on the screen: (The message about the DRIVER IRQL, as listed above in the subject line) In the instructions it says to "Disable BIOS Memory Options". I couldn't copy the wording on the blue screen, so I can't state exactly what it said, but it also had this: (0x0000000, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) This blue screen has come up about five times in the last three weeks. It just seems to happen when I am doing the surfing. I s…