Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Java Question
by Guest Magsmom- 22 replies
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Don't know where to start looking for answsers so I am starting here. I have recently been having a lot of problems with getting those nasty little red "x"s instead of pictures or graphics in e mails or in online games etc. One game site support page article indicated it might be a problem with my Java Runtime program and suggested I might not have the latest version. In checking my computer, I find that I do have program files for Java listed but they don't seem to be working. When I go to my Control Panel and double click on the Java Icon, it tells me that I am missing a registry key. I know I should probably be looking for answers on the Jav…
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Icons
by Guest Dharma- 6 replies
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Hello, I recently acquired a new IBM ThinkPad series R61. They come standard with the widescreen ( I do not like). I typically arrange my icons around the perimeter by categories. Eith my old laptop this was not an issue. However, everytime I undock, turn off change settings for dual monitor or use of a projector my icons move around. I have tried various settings including lock desktop items in the wep page set up and nothing seems to help. Thanks for your help. -- Dharma Diaz-Azcuy
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Trouble with Windows Movie Maker Audio/Music
by Guest disco_rox- 0 replies
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(The following problem is on Windows XP Professional.) I have a problem with Windows Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0. When I import audio/music, I can't hear it. I've checked all the volume options, and everything seems fine. For some reason, the imported audio/music is silent. What should I do?
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Put "Search" icon on desktop?
by Guest Francis Marsden- 4 replies
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Is there a way to put an icon or shortcut for the Windows Search function (Start-Search) on the desktop or on a toolbar?
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screensaver never able to get login prompt
by Guest noahwallach- 1 reply
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Hi there, My XP screensaver kicks in automatically after 10 minutes. The screensaver never shows but instead just the background screen appears. I am unable to return to a login prompt with tapping control-alt-delete. I have to power the machine off and back on again. What can I do to get the screen saver to work well again? Cheers, Noah
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Program keeps crashing
by Guest Pam- 5 replies
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I'm trying to figure out why this program keeps crashing on me - its called DiscStudio/DiscDirect which is a program for Nexis 100AP. It works great for a while and then when I start moving text aftera while it will crash. I have to usually hit alt/control/delete to get out of it as it will just hang there until I do. I am using xp pro, have a Gateway Media Center SP2 - its a AMD 64x2 Dual core processor 4200+ 2.21 GHZ 1.87GB of Ram (guess that's all I need to let you know what I have?) do I not have enough memory or why would it keep crashing? any clues? thanks Pam
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Lemel labtop - mass storage controller driver
by Guest naush- 1 reply
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Bought this labtop from an aution, brand as Lemel made in Taiwan. At the back it has these info WHQL model MS-1057B and it uses the Intel 945GM Express chipset Family. I did not copy all the drivers before I reformat. After the reformat and installation of Xp Home and activated etc, the device manager shows missing drivers for Mass storage controller and PCI device 98which I think its the dial up modem). Any idea what this mass storage controller is? Thanks for your assistance
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Datamax (M-4208) printer problem
by Guest millin- 1 reply
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Hi All, I am having a problem with one of the Datamax printer.I have installed the driver from the CD and also from the Datamax seb site.I am still not getting all the label sizes(stock) option when I go to the prperties of the label printer.(Datamax M-4208). For all the other computer it is showing up that combo box from which I can select the label size. I am really struggling with this m/c,before thinking about re-building the pc,If I can find any solution that will save a lot of time for me. So please help me! with regards Milllin
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Bootup problem
by Guest Paul Smith- 1 reply
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hi all! i have a query. i cloned a hdd from ide to SATA. now when i replaced the ide with the exact copy on the SATA drive a blue screen is coming up after POST giving 0x0000007B. I tried chkdsk, fixmbr, fixboot to no avail keeps poppin up....any help? tnx! i know its something to do with SATA driver??
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RE: Internet Explorer issues
by Guest David Reamer- 4 replies
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RE: Internet Explorer issues I'm getting an error message each time I activate Internet Explorer 7. (Cannot find ‘file:///C:/Program%20Files/AOL%20Toolbar/welcome.html’. Make sure the path or internet address is correct. Any idea where I can get help with this problem? Thanks for the help, Dave. -- Desert Edge "CurtB" wrote: > Sorry about the cross post. I had no relevent responses in the other > newsgroup. > > Windows XP SP2, IE7 with all recent updates. > > I have desktop shortcuts to favorite web sites. When I click on the icons > now, the screen blinks, but the web site is not accessed. > > A different …
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HELP, I'M LOCKED OUT
by Guest Bill- 13 replies
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New XP Home computer mistakenly came with a UK keyboard. Using that keyboard, I set the administrator's password to "John316" and used that password several times before discovering that I had the wrong keyboard. My hardware supplier UPS'd me an exchange USA keyboard while at the same time I gave up the UK keyboard. Apparently, the two keyboards use a different code-page, as I can no longer log in as the administrator, which of course means I'm "dead in the water" until I can either circumvent or find a translation. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Bill
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Redundant Security Update
by Guest Goomba- 1 reply
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Update KB936181 keeps showing up after it has been installed. Every couple of minutes the icon to install an update appears, and it's for the same one. What's the fix?
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Stack Overflow at Line: 0
by Guest HayleyP- 2 replies
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The main place this problem is occurring is the 'Friends List' in Myspace. The images will not download and error comes up several times. How do I fix this?
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I have installed later today the Apache HTTP Server (versions 2.0.46 / 2.2.8) and found that it crashes on XP SP3 in libhttpd.dll. The fault addresses resulted in 2.0.46 and 2.2.8 found they pointed to the same function [ap_recent_ctime()]. but sure at different offset / entry point address. I had got also exceptions during the server shutdown in libapr-1.dll (Apache Portability Runtime library) function apr_time_exp_gmt() which converts a time to its human readable components in GMT time zone. My first suspicion the local windows time zone because I have it set to GMT+2. After resetting the time zone to GMT+0 the HTTP server to launched successfully…
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Re: shutdown and restart problem
by Guest Brian Cryer- 0 replies
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Re: shutdown and restart problem "Steve Louie" <SteveLouie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:55CB3FA2-BA98-4CCF-B980-E2BF6B92BF0A@microsoft.com... > Hi, got a laptop with windows XP Pro SP2 logon to SBS 2003 SP2 domain. I > am > using roaming profile. I am also using dual monitor with a docking > station > with the laptop monitor as the secondary monitor. > The problem i am having is that when I do a shutdown (or log off) Start > > Shutdown/Log Off > choose shutdown it doesn't do anything. When i do it > the > second time, then the shutdown prompt automatically moves to my secondary > montior …
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Re: Windows Defender Defenition 1.35.716.0 failed to install.
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 4 replies
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Re: Windows Defender Defenition 1.35.716.0 failed to install. Update on the situation: MS apparently "recalled" the Defender update released on 24 Jun-08. If the Defender "Alert!" icon is still displaying in Notification Area, open Defender and click on Check for Updates. You should get a "No updates available" response and Defender should be happy again (at least if you didn't uninstall/reinstall Defender). -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: > [Crossposted to Windows Update, WinXP General, and Security…
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windows live toolbar installed but doesn't appear
by Guest coffee16- 4 replies
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I received a fix from microsoft after I installed sp3 & updates quit working, and also I could not install windows live. The fix seems to have corrected the problems, but I am having a problem with windows live toolbar. It shows that it installed, but the toolbar is not actually there. It is in add/remove programs. I tried clicking view in ie to find & check live toolbar, but it is not there. I also checked to see if it was disabled in internet addons, but it is showing as enabled. Anyone know how I can get it to show up? I have also tried uninstalling & reinstalling it, & that didn't help either. Thank you
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Re: Mapped Disk Full Error Message
by Guest Nabil- 0 replies
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Re: Mapped Disk Full Error Message On 24 juin, 14:08, Dave Peterson <peter...@verizonXSPAM.net> wrote: > Maybe it's a network problem. You may want to get your IT folks involved. > > Until it's fixed, I'd save locally and use windows explorer to copy it to its > real home. > > Nabil wrote: > > > Hello > > I ap running XP Pro SP2. I have some mapped disks and I'm using this > > system for several years. > > This morning I get an Error Message when I tried to save an excel file > > which have 41 Mega bytes. > > Tha mappeddiskhave 20 Gegadiskfree. > > I can copy on it the file size via w…
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Scan disk issue
by Guest Sean- 1 reply
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I set the scan disk to run at start up on a XP Professional system. At start up, the scan disk ran, but once it finishes, the system freezes and will not boot into Windows. If I manually stop the scan disk from running at start up, it freeze. When trying to boot into Safe Mode, it freezes as well. Is there another way to get in Windows?
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XP Home acts weird in multiple ways
by Guest Information- 1 reply
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XP Home SP3 is doing the following: 1) Upon boot, there is a strange set of beeps just as the bluish "Welcome" screen appears. This does not seem to directly affect anything, but I have not seen another machine beep at this point. 2) Once the system stabilizes opening any non-program icon "explores" the desktop. 3) Opening IE7, it will go to my homepage. Clicking on ANY link, will take me to my homepage. The actions of 2) and 3) do not change, until I press CTRL-ALT-DEL once. Now, things work normally. I do not kill any processes, and am stumped why pressing C-A-D once makes things behave normally. Any insight is appreciated, thanks in adva…
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c:\ recognized as music folder
by Guest Ashutosh- 6 replies
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Hi, Windows always assume c:\ as a music folder and it enables Artist/Album Title etc columns for view. how do I reset it? The option to customize this folder doesn't show up in the properties dialog box as its a system root. Regards, Ashutosh
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Clearing PRN
by Guest Jim Hawkins- 3 replies
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I'm trying to stop a very long print to a dotmatrix printer on the parallel port. The program doesn't make use of the Windows Printers facility, it simply does a 'copy <myfile> to prn' I've tried turning both the PC and the printer off, but it has clearly not emptied the buffer, because when I turn on again the print resumes! How can I clear the print buffer ? Jim Hawkins
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have to manually install SP3 and office updates
by Guest noahwallach- 1 reply
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Hi there, I have another XP machine that I have to manually install the SP3 and office updates ever since I updated IE 6.0. Why does that happen? I am no longer able to use the IE "windows update" routine. I need to go to the Micro$oft KB and download the SP3 and office update files and run each one of them manually. Why isnt the "windows update" routine working any longer and how can I make it so it does work again? Cheers, Noah
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"Copy", "save" and "send" commands don't work
by Guest Reba- 1 reply
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Graphic suggests the command is working but it is not. Screenshot appears which reads "Windows encountered a problem when trying to copy this folder. What do you want Windows to do?" Options are retry, skip and cancel. How do I correct this problem? PS Windows XP Professional Media Center Edition Thanks.
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lost xp desktop icons
by Guest bearshop- 3 replies
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i have windows xp, sp 2 with all the latest security updates. for about a month now when i log in, the screeen only shows the background and no icons. this problem occurs on 1 our 3 startups. any ideas. my desktop is set to 'show icons' i also see that there is a hot fix for this problem id 948277. does it work. i am leery to try as this is not yet a hard problem. i can get task manager up with the blank screen but it shows only 46 or my 62 processes running. explorer.exe is not running with the blank screen up. is this problem related to a recent XP security update. i am thinking the problem may be related to a security update problem.