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RE: broadband
by Guest Phil- 2 replies
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RE: broadband I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was droppe…
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intermittent disappearing optical drive
by Guest budu- 2 replies
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Hi, I have a 6 months old computer, and my optical drive disappeared at least 5 times since then, it is very annoying. Only rebooting can fix the problem, else the drive cannot be found either in the computer manager or explorer. No warning or error messages are shown in the event viewer. I extensively tried all suggested solution found on the internet to no avail. Most of them does not even apply to my situation anyway. I never installed any burning program or something that could affect the optical drive, there's no lowerFilter or higherFilter registry key to be found anywhere. This machine is super clean, the cleanest Windows installation I ever had. It's runn…
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Can't Copy Text from Browser to Word Documents
by Guest JCO- 4 replies
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Using XP Pro SP3 and Office 2003 Professional Having issues on websites where I can't copy text from the browser to a Word Document. When I do this, the document freezes permanently. Not sure if this happens all websites. I believe, as in the link below, that the website is protected from user's copying the text. Link: http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sale_to_Library_of_Congress If I'm correct, is there a work around....other than straight typing of everything? I'm wondering if a feature in Word can be turned off ... such as turning off an "Embedded Objects". I tried a Word Forum, but I get no responses. Thanks in advance for your an…
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The Final End of Grey vs. Murphy
by Guest Leonard Grey- 11 replies
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This is the real, actual Leonard Grey. To everyone: For the last few days, you have had to endure an endless back-and-forth between myself and Nick/Mick/Mike Murphy, who has been impersonating me. Murphy has been posting to these newsgroups in my name. These phony posts have been, at best, ridiculous and, at worst, revolting. His goal is to make me look bad. I am receiving this treatment for coming to the defense of a regular here whose ethnic background was being cruelly insulted by Murphy. I have been posting to these newsgroups for some time now. (I do not normally post to the windowsxp.general group, and I won't any longer after this post.) Th…
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Too many printer icons in system tray...
by Guest RJK- 0 replies
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....XP Home ed. SP3 I have 2 printers - Epson C82 and R300. Recently, I'm occasionally getting 2 system tray icons for the R300 i.e. 3 icons for two printers ! HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run seems to contain the "normal" two entries, for the two printers. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run contained a key similar to that (below), for the R300, and I deleted it. C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S10IC2.EXE /P23 "EPSON Stylus C82 Series" /O6 "USB002" /M "Stylus C82" C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S4I0F2.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R300 Series" /O6 "USB001" /M "Stylus Photo R300" ....…
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COM+ broken
by Guest Marcel- 1 reply
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I since a couple of weeks, I have the problem that COM+ seems to be broekn on my machine (Windows XP professional SP3). The symptoms are that many features no longer work, for instance MSI based installs, windows update, defragmenting a disk, many features in computer management ... In cases where there is an error log from an application, it always results in error 80040154 Today, I used the tool dcomcnfg.exe and open the "component services" branch and select "Computers", it crashes and leaves the following error in the application event log: <<<<<<<<<< The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal sta…
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TaskManager and WinXP Performance tab
by Guest Tom- 3 replies
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WinXP Pro SP3 Office 2003 SP3 I have an older system that I'm using for a variety of situations. I need to find out if my 1GB memory is too low as well as any other input you'd deem appropriate. Totals: 16550 Threads: 759 Processes: 65 ********** Physical Memory Total 1047532 Available: 287448 System Cache: 371752 ************ Commit Charge Total 605192 Limit 2518580 Peak 728084 ************ Kernal Memory Total 75068 Paged 51080 Non-paged 23984 ************* CPU Usage 7% at this time PF Usage 590MB at this time Ideally, I'd like to know how to read these numbers and also determine if too much paging is being performed. If I could …
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left panel options?
by Guest Jeff@unknown.com- 2 replies
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Not sure what it is called which is why I am asking it this way. In XP, when you open Notebook (as an example) and click on File/Open the window that open has a panel on the left that shows "My Computer", "My Documents", etc. as shortcuts that you can click on. How can I add a folder to this list or change what is in it. Thanks, Jeff
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Blurred and incorrect color screen
by Guest Scott- 2 replies
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My 2-yr old HP laptop has a blurred and incorrect color (greenish) screen from time to time. It seems when I boot up the Windows, it works fine but after an hour or so the problem appears. If I switch off and use it next day, it works fine but repeat the problem after 1 hour. Can someone give me a guidance if the issue comes from hardware or software before I send to repair centre. Thanks, Scott
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How to open folder without Navigation pane
by Guest donwb- 8 replies
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When I double click a desktop folder, it opens in a view that shows the Folders Navigation pane on the left and the folders on the right - ie the classic Windows Explorer style. Is there any way to make the double click open it without showing the nav pane om the left? It can be done by right clicking the folder and selecting "Open" rather than "Explore" from the context menu, but how to make the double click do this? donwb
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Enabling Cookies
by Guest Dumb David!- 2 replies
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I want to log onto Yahoo.com but Yahoo replies my browser does not accept cookies. How do I enable them? I have found a program on my CPU (Analogue) which has a list of cookies from sites I have been to, but does not contain Yahoo.com. Analogue has three sections, the centre one has all the cookie sites I have been to B4, but need to be accepted or blocked by transferring them into either the left or right column. But what I need to know is how to get the first cookie if they (Yahoo) says my CPU is not enabled to accept cookies? TIA
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External HDD shows up in Device Manager but not Explorer
by Guest DennisQWilson@gmail.com- 2 replies
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I have an old Quantum Go120A laptop hard drive that I want to install in a 2.5" external case and hook up to my desktop to copy off all the old data and then wipe clean. Device Manager recognizes and correctly identifies the hard drive, but unfortunately it doesn't show up in My Computer, Explorer or Disk Management. Further, the "Device Status" box on its property sheet in Device Manager says "This device is working properly." How can I get my system to recognize this drive so I can access the data one last time?
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To Remove Adaware 2008 free version from XP/PRO
by Guest @optusnet.com.au .- 4 replies
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It Does'ent appear in AD/REMOVE IN Control panel, + When one tries to Delete folder , no go . Help.jim
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What Causes My Display Theme to Change?
by Guest Judy- 0 replies
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I have my display set to "Windows Classic" with a 'teal' background. . . . . dull, I suppose, but I like it. But about once a week or so, when I turn the computer on, the display has changed to "Windows XP". This never occurred until about 6 months ago. Can anyone tell me what's it causing this, and/or how to fix it. I know how to RESET it--but I'd like to know the way to keep it from happening at all. Thank you for your help. Judy
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How to retrieve mydocuments folder on another drive
by Guest Wilhelm- 7 replies
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I sold my computer and removed the hard drive from it. However, I baught a new computer with seperate version of XP. I also added the 'old' hardrive as I have a lot of documents on it. However I am unable to retrieve the documents under the 'mydocuments' folder. Is this possible without booting from this drive?
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Whats this mean?
by Guest Paul- 7 replies
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Hi all, anyone know what this means? Timed out sending notification of target device change to window of "WndClass_CWinDrivesNotifyerHelperWindow" Event ID: 257. Double clicking on this entry tells me this: Explanation The specified program is taking too long to respond to notifications about the device. This can decrease system performance. User Action Restart the program. If this does not improve the response time, consider upgrading to a newer version of the program. Well it would be nice to KNOW what program, and device its talking about. Altho, its possible Nero maybe the culprit. I've seen a few sites, that s…
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"Device doesn't exist on the network" - Windows 95/98/NT4, NTLMv2
by Guest Mantas Mikulėnas- 0 replies
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So I have two VMs in VirtualPC. (But I don't think the fact that they're VMs matters.) On both of them - Windows 98 SE and Windows 95 - I installed NTLMv2, and tried to connect to my host PC (Windows XP Pro SP3). The problem: It only worked *once*. The first time I clicked on my host PC (inside the virtual PC's "Network Neighbourhood"), it opened - it showed all the shares, I could even browse them. Then I closed the window, and it stopped working. Now every time I try to open my host PC from the virtual one, it says: [X] \\THINK is not accessible. This device does not exist on the network. BUT the host PC says that the login was successful: -----B…
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Acronis 7/XP Questions 1 2 3 4
by Guest Frog- 83 replies
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I have a new computer that has Windows XP software loaded on it. The computer includes a floppy drive (A drive) and a read/write CD/DVD player in it. I also have a copy of Acronis 7 backup software that I previously used on my old Windows 98SE system. Now, for my questions: Is Acronis 7 compatible with a Windows XP machine? I think, based on my research on the Web, that it is compatible. The newer version 11 seems to have many new whistles and bells included in the software, but I don't think I would ever use any of this expanded capability. Secondly, is it better to have my backups on my hard drive (E Drive) or separate CDs? What are the pros and…
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Computer Will Not Start
by Guest icart89- 9 replies
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I was on my computer playing a game, (PC game, not online) and it loaded slow on a particular item(downloaded online) I clicked on. I assumed it froze on me although the hour glass was still spinning so I click 'Ctrl Alt Delete' at once to end the task for the game. It didn't show so I pressed it several more times. After a while the item from the game finally loaded. But the game went very slow so I exited the game. However, I couldn't exit properly because the task window said it was 'Not REsponding' so I had to shut my computer off myself by holding down the power button until it shut down. After a few seconds I turned it back on. I got a black screen t…
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Windows XP not booting
by Guest jps74- 2 replies
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Hello, all. I hope someone can help. I'm running Windows XP (pretty sure SP3 installed by now) on an old Compaq Presario desktop. Yesterday, I was noticing that things were quite slow and the hard drive was whirring like mad. I shut down normally, waited a few minutes, and rebooted. The windows logo on the black screen (with the status bar) came up briefly, the screen went black (as usual), and then the windows logo came up on the light blue background....and froze. The hard drive seemed active, but even after letting it sit and stew overnight, nothing happened. Same logo in the morning. It didn't get to the list of windows users in order to logon…
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CLSID for "Create Hard Link Here"
by Guest ju.c- 6 replies
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Anyone know the CLSID for the right-click command, "Create Hard Link Here" ? Even better is a reg file for it. Thanks.
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Virtual Memory low
by Guest Dawn- 3 replies
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My computer is saying "Virtual memory too low" i recently downloaded AVG and uninstalled Norton and now i am getting this popup almost every hour! What is Virtual memory? AVG is supposed to take up less space than Norton, so why would this pop up now? How do i fix this? Any help would be great! -- Dawn
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SATA Drives Optical and HD
by Guest rwe111nospam@cox.net- 0 replies
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My motherboard has four (4) sata ports/connectors and one (1) ide conector. I can populate 3 of the 4 sata port with 2 HD's and 1 optical drive and the motherboard bios sees all three. I can also use the ide connector for another optical drive and it is recognized if I enable the jmicron driver in the bios. I have all of this installed on my computer. Running XP Pro already installed. When I log on to XP and go to "My Computer" the main HD show up and depending on how I have the sata ports configured the 2nd HD will show but the sata optical will not or the optical will show and the and the 2nd HD will not. If I enable the jmicron driver the ide optical…
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error 721 - when trying to vpn
by Guest melu- 5 replies
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Hi, We are running ISA Server 2004 Pack 3 on windows 2003 sp2. One of the users when they try to VPN in get the following error: Event ID: 20209 [logged on the ISA2004 server] Source: RasMan "A connection between the VPN server and the VPN client w.x.y.z has been established, but the VPN connection cannot be completed. The most common cause for this is that a firewall or router between the VPN server and the VPN client is not configured to allow Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) packets (protocol 47). Verify that the firewalls and routers between your VPN server and the Internet allow GRE packets. Make sure the firewalls and routers on the use…
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Re: broadband
by Guest Phil- 0 replies
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Re: broadband I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was droppe…