Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Synaptics Touchpad, mouse keyboad on HP
by Guest Voldemar- 3 replies
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I have a problem with my HP nx9000, mouse and keyboard are not working correct. Mouse pointer stops (get stuck) for 0,5-1 sec on the screen during normal movements, then go on. It comes every 5-6 seconds continuously. Also keyboard - some "blank" typing, it miss some symbols, with no reaction. It seems like some operation is always on, hard drive i/o operation indications every 5-6 secs. "Filemon" software shows permanent "query information" to "netshellicon" non-existing folder/file every 10-15 seconds. Help me!!!! XP SP2 installed, HP all upated drivers installed, "Synaptics" drivers also I have final. Only thing is no ok - battery is dead, I'm working fr…
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USB Not Working
by Guest Neil- 11 replies
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Does anyone have any advice on how to get USB ports working in XP Home SP2? The machineis a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop, the owner (not me) has re-installed windows, but now the USB ports won't work. They show up a functioning etc in the Device Manager, and there are no newer drivers according to MS. I think the ports are physically working, as a USB pendrive lights up when inserted, but Windows doesn't recognise it's there. I have re-installed the chipset drivers for the motherboard just in case, but no joy, so I'm sure it must be a Windows thing, I just dont know how to fix it! TIA Neil
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Double-click brings up Search, not Open
by Guest Doug- 2 replies
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Clicking Start/My Computer then double-click C: brings up Search, not Open. Right-click shows Search as default. How can I change it back to Open? -- Doug
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Font overflowing dialog boxes
by Guest Dan- 1 reply
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My system is running Win XP Pro, Service Pack 2. In some programs with certain dialog boxes or windows in those programs, the text is larger than it should be and either overflows the right edge of the window or wraps abnormally or runs into another control. Sometimes it pushes the OK or Cancel buttons off the bottom of the window. The font is Arial or some equivalent, not something exotic. It doesn't happen in programs like Word or Excel, but one of the programs that this happens to is called Search and Replace by Funduc Software. A year or two ago everything worked fine. I have no idea what changed to make this happen. Does anyone have any ideas? Than…
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Video card not active
by Guest Martin Murray- 1 reply
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I have 2 video cards in my system. One is an AGP card (ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 8500) and the other is a PCI card (ATI Radeon 9100). Some time back I disabled the PCI card somehow, I forget how exactly. It is not disabled in Device Manager, but the system does not seem to see the card in the Control Panel Display applet. Now the situation is this: I want to use only the PCI card and not the AGP card at all. I disabled the AGP card in Device Manager. I changed the BIOS to startup the PCI card before the AGP card, but the system still does not really see it. In Device Manager, it is not even showing that I have a monitor installed. If I try to Add …
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"eventquery.vbs problem"
by Guest tom.doniphon- 1 reply
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Hi, I've Windows XP SP2. When i use the vbs script "eventquery.vbs", for example in the form: cscript eventquery.vbs /R 10 /L Application i obtain as result only the header -------------------------------------------------------------------- Event list in the registry "Application" from host "MYHOST" -------------------------------------------------------------------- But the list is empty! Some hint? Thanks in advance.
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Windows Update after Reinstall of XP
by Guest marina- 13 replies
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I plan on doing a reformat and reinstall of Windows XP upgrade. (The machine is badly infected.) In other forums and sites I've read to do download the Windows Updates & Fixes before anything else, but that you can also be attacked before you can get them downloaded and to do them through a networked machine. I don't have that option open to me. Another option mentioned was to download them to a CD and reload before connecting to the internet. Looking at the Microsoft update site there are so many updates I wouldn't know where to begin. I don't want to be infected again but I just don't know what steps to take to protect myself while doing the upd…
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sending message whith word 2003
by Guest ajax2008- 5 replies
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hi!when i write a letter with word 2003 save it and send it by mail the recipient just get a blank page.moreover when i command for print preview i get a blank page. -- thanks for bailing me out of it!
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delete Windows folders and docs
by Guest tshad- 0 replies
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I have various folders in my Windows XP windows folder that I would like to delete as they seem to be just taking up space. But I am not sure what they are for and if they are necessary. Files such as: KB933360.log, KB935840.log etc Folders such as: NS9-KB932557_ENU, RS9-KB932557.ENU, SQL9_KB932557_ENU These folders all have folders such as: 1028,1030,1033,1040 etc. Can I just delete these? Thanks, Tom
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Desktop Icons
by Guest Steve- 1 reply
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My desktop icons move by themselves. This happens regularly and only involves about 4 to 6 icons. Can this be stopped?
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Wireless nic and citrix connection
by Guest Billy- 0 replies
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I have new pc's that automatically logon/start a Citrix session. The problem is these pc's have wireless nic's, and it seems that when they boot, the Citrix tries to connect before the wireless nic's have a chance to pick up an IP address. So the Citrix start up fails. Anyway for the wireless nic's to get an ip address before the citrix connection or to delay the citrix connection until after getting an ip address?
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The Zalman fan controller
by Guest attilathehun1- 6 replies
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Ok, first off lets not get into " why are you asking here". I'm asking here because I'm using a HP Pavilion 503n PC running Windows XP Home edition and I was getting pop-up blocks anytime I tried to put a message with this PC. I usually just read the messages and post messages with my laptop. That even came to an end 2 days ago and I got fed up and had my hard drive wiped clean on a factory installation, factory ready lets say, by doing a complete new installation of the OS on my Dell 9400/E1705 laptop. By luck now, I just held down the Ctrl key and hit New question and this box came up. So might as well ask the question here. I finished installing the …
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Hello! Windows Update site, http://www.lavasoft.com and some other security sites do not open. Windows Update downloads do not start even manually. Google shows adds in the beginning of search results. Ad-Aware 2008 (definition file 0081.0000) does not remove the problem. OS is Windows XP SP3. IE 7. Automatically downloaded updates do not install too. Office scan 8.710.1002 is not finding any viruses. SFC /scannow does not find any discrepancies. Other peer computers in our network do not have the problem. How to eliminate the problem? Sincerely, Dima
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MMC cannot open the file C:\WINDOWS\system32\dfrg.msc
by Guest Stroller- 9 replies
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[i've previously tried to post this a couple of time, but it doesn't seem to have come through - I'm fairly sure the newsreader on my other machine is playing up, but apologies if I'm mistaken & you see this twice] Hi there, I manage a small domain with an SBS 2003 server and a handful of PCs running XP Professional SP2, all reasonably up-to-date using Windows Update. I have a shortcut to Disk Defragmenter on my desktop, which is the same on all machines thanks to roaming profiles. It points to "%SystemRoot%\system32\dfrg.msc" When I'm at the server and click on the shortcut it works perfectly, but when I do so at any of the XP machines it fails, …
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Automatic Updates won't turn on
by Guest MARILYN- 3 replies
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I am having trouble getting the automatic updates to turn on so it keeps telling me that my computer might be at risk. I have gone into the Microsoft website to get help but when I did what it said I received an error #Ox79969422. I emailed support and they advised me to post this help message on the Microsoft Newsgroups. Any help you can gve me will be appreciated. Thanks, -- MJW
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Hide Web Client Network and Microsoft Terminal Services
by Guest Baron- 0 replies
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Is there any way to hide Web Client Network and Microsoft Terminal Services from under the Entire Network foler in Windows Explorer?
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Selling my Laptop
by Guest Justin- 4 replies
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Is there a way to go about de-registering my OEM copy of Windows XP that came with my Gateway M320? Or shouldn't I even bother?
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Windows Explorer fails to open
by Guest Clamorous- 2 replies
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I'm using a Dell OptiPlex 745, Windows XP Professional, SP2 with all updates (probably except the last since this is a corporate machine and IT takes care of the updates). I usually have two Windows Explorer windows ope all the time. I run into a problem that seems to be getting more frequent where, when trying to open another window (right click start and select Explore) I get a message that it encountered a problem and needs to close, ya-da, ya-da, ya-da. From this point on I can't open another Explorere window. Sometimes I can start "My Computer". If it does start, when I go to close it I'll get the same error. Or, sometimes I get the error message when try…
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Cannot connect using FireWire
by Guest Sunshine- 4 replies
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I downloaded XP SP3. Now my computer will not start;it is stuck at the XP splash screen. If I remove the firewire cable from the external drive and connect using USB instead, my computer starts and the external drives works properly. Iconnect using a USB 2.0/FireWire PCI Card. Help
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Post-SP3 Blues - External Drives Stopped Working 1 2
by Guest Michael Faklis- 28 replies
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I installed SP3 on my 32-bit Windows Professional laptop, but its had some undesirable side effects I need some help correcting: 1) The Address toolbar is gone. It's even missing from the list of available toolbars. I find this a very useful tool. How can I recover this tool? 2) My external disks are having trouble starting up, which results in Windows not starting up. The two firewire disks were daisy-chained. I now need to remove them to start windows, and even then when reconnected one at a time, only the first one of them will start-up. When connecting the second one (daisy chained or in a second firewire port) both firewire drives stopped…
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XP SP3: Windows Installer not working
by Guest Stephen R- 9 replies
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After completing the installation of XP SP3 and the necessary restarts I am unable to install any new software that uses the Windows Installer. Also tried re-registering per the KB and restarting to have it work properly but no luck. Everytime I restart the windows installer installation always runs, the event viewer shows no issues. Any advice please
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Stop C000021a {fatal system error } ....
by Guest DD- 6 replies
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I have successfully installed SP3 on two computers running XP Home and with such confidence I offered to install it for my granddaughter on her XP computer. Unfortunately I got the error message "Stop: C000021a {fatal system error} status of oxc 000012f (0x00000000 0x00000000)The system has been closed down" on a blue screen, just after the Windows splash screen. After this, the computer reboots and continues to do so time and time again. I have found several references to this problem on the Internet but mostly without the blue screen or, some with the blue screen have been able to boot into safe mode but it does not work for me! From my reading, it …
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Offline Files
by Guest nevets2001uk- 0 replies
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We have just started using offline files on our network for laptop users. They have a profile directory via Active Directory which they can make available offline. This then synchronises at Logoff and seems to be working. An annoyance we have found however is that if we login as local admin to the laptop to make some changes, when we log out the offline synchronisation tries to occur. This seems an odd behaviour as the local admin has no offline files or network access. Is there a way to prevent the sync happening for this user? Ideally only the primary user of the laptop should be able to initiate the sync. -- Cheers, Steve Gordon MCSE, MCSA:…
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Problems with screensaver
by Guest George_222- 4 replies
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A silly but annoying problem has started with 3dpipes (sspipes.scr) screensaver. It doesn't run properly. If I try to run it, all that happens is the pipes appear for about 1 or 2 seconds and then the screen goes black and the pipes reappear etc, i.e. it doesn't draw all the pipes for a decent period of time like it used too. All other screen savers run OK. DXDIAG says all is OK Running WXP-SP2 I know its silly but I hate things like this and am worried it may be a 'starter for ten' for something worse. Any ideas please? Thanks
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Microsoft Gives Vista 2 XP Downgrades For Free
by Guest Paulo- 5 replies
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I see from the link here... http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/04/ballmer_you_can_buy_vista_and_downgrade_to_xp_for_free.html ....that MS will downgrade your copy of Vista to XP at no charge. What a Deal!