Windows XP
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Help! Can't fix "IE is running with add-ons disabled"
by Guest Al Dykes- 4 replies
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My IE7 (on XPSP2) has a pop-up that says "IE is running with add-ons disabled" and lots of stuff doesn't work. All the hits I get for that message tells me to go to Tools -> Manage add-ons. When I do that, it's greyed out. How do I fix this? TIA. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
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mass renaming of files
by Guest Paul Crosby- 4 replies
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Could someone tell me if it is possible and how, to rename an entire folder of files in a simple manor rather than one at a time as there are 2000+, the files have all been named with a 4 digit prefix as such "0123 - afile.typ" including the " - " some hoe i'd like to remove this so i am lft with an alphabetical list of files instead. many thanks to anyone who can point me in right direction Paul
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wake up computer
by Guest Newbie- 2 replies
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Hello, We try to save energy for our remote desktop system. We have two PCs for outside sales using remote desktop connection to login. If we setup standby or hibernates mode, then the outside sales cannot login after one night. How can we save the energy without turn off and turn on these 2 PCs? Thanks
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Installing Quicken 2008 after Quicken 2005
by Guest Rascal- 15 replies
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I have already invested in 5 rounds of email question/response w/ Intuit on this - they have given up and have sent me to their phone support line. So, I know that I am doomed to suffer an intermitable amount of time on the phone with them. But before I submit to that, I was hoping to get some insight/ideas on how to diagnose my problem from folks on this site. My issue is that, after several years of using a number of versions of Quicken - up to Quicken 2005 - they are now forcing me to upgrade to 2008 or lose the ability to download data from financial institutions. I'm ok with that - but the problem is that Q2008 won't install and I am quite anxious …
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Network security access.
by Guest Lidia Del Regno- 2 replies
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Hi all, I have a network between 5 pc on which there is installed Windows XP Pro SP3. PCs are physically connected through a router. On one of the PC, what I acts as a server, are shared some directories while the other is not shared anything. Now, of shared directories on the server you find one that I make accessible to 2 machines "client" and not at the other two. I tried to make this thing in the properties of sharing, eliminating the rights of "Everyone" and setting those of individual machines but I have a problem: when I try, in the textbox "Path", I not find the other machines on the network and I see only the server machine that is the same which…
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-->> Black Screen during game boot-up
by Guest Ch33zst34k- 0 replies
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I recently re-installed XP SR3 on my home-built box and now whenever I attempt to run any of my games, I get a black screen on my monitor. I know the games are running since the audio comes in fine and the keyboard/mouse responses can be heard through the audio. Additionally, if I use my old CRT monitor, there is no issue but my Viewsonic flat-panel displays the black. My first guess was that it was video crad driver related so I updated nvidia drivers, then I went to the Viewsonic site and used their specific driver. No luck - I even tried rolling back to pre-SR-3 update and that doesn't resolve it. Anything I am missing ? Any help would be welcome ? …
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How Do I Find Windows Explorer?
by Guest CP- 7 replies
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I just bought a laptop with XP on it, and I can't find Windows Explorer. Did Microsoft do the usual thing and delete a feature because it was too simple and easy to use, or am I just not looking hard enough?
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Unwanted application install in windows\system32\10xx\
by Guest Jim3- 1 reply
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I got Unwanted application install in windows\system32\10xx\ when surfing the net. and I can not remove or uninstall it as the "windows\system32\10xx\" folder/files are protected [read only] and I can not change the attribute. Please assist. -- Jim3
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Hard Drive is reading as a cd drive
by Guest firstmateirongut- 3 replies
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A few hours ago, my computer froze in the proccess of downloading something to my 36gig slave drive. i thusly shut it down. when i restarted it, my drive was gone and i had a new **cd drive** i need some help to turn it back into a cd drive, even if it does mean i lose all of the information on it. (although if there is a solution that means i can keep my data, then that would be really nice.) Thanks
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Explorer crashes at least once all the time
by Guest Dreamchaser- 8 replies
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Dear all, Explorer.exe crashes and the log shows the following Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.5512, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x046f1da4. Can't find the solution onine (fault address not found). Hope you'd help. Thanks.
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Ghost and now a boot issue
by Guest mitchell- 2 replies
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I have just ghosted my smaller (120g) hard drive C: to a larger 750g hdd. The problem is now everytime I log on it immeadiatley logs me off? any suggestions?please
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Duplicate icons in control panel query
by Guest franktee- 2 replies
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Hi all Have noticed, all of a sudden, duplicate icons of add\remove in control panel. Appreciate any advice on how to delete one. Thanks in advance. franktee
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XP Home: Diskett drive 0 seek failure
by Guest Mr. Low- 6 replies
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Hello, Recently my PC have run into some problems. When I switch on my PC from Hibernation or Restart mode, I could not get the normal booting. The following error message appears first before I strike the F1 key to initiate the booting: Phoenix ROM BIOS Plus Version 1.10 A12 http://www.dell.com Diskette drive 0 seek failure Performing Automatic IDE configuration Primary Master: disk drive Secondary Master: CD ROM drive Time of day not set, please run set up program Strike F1 to continue or F2 to run set up utility. I have reinstalled my BIOS update and IDE controller. The problem was resolved temporarily. However it recurred the next day. Ear…
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Since SP3 - Windows Installer, taking ages!
by Guest Andrew- 2 replies
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I’m having problems with something called Windows Installer appearing and taking longer and longer to install MSN Explorer on desktop as I have to access my Hotmail accounts. Before SP3 download, MSN Explorer just opened, but if I have to put up with this latest fiasco for much longer, I’ll b forced to open accounts with Yahoo! Any ideas please? - Andrew. AMD Athlon XP 3200+ @ 2191MHz Windows XP Home, Hot Fix KB951978
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mmc crashes
by Guest Dan- 1 reply
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Hi, I have installed the Windows 2003 R2 adminpak on my XP SP2 machine. I use Remote Desktops (part of Adminpak) to manage my servers. I lock my machine when I'm not around. However everytime I come back to my desk and unlock the screen I see an error saying mmc crashed ( and I have to reopen Remote Desktops again ). I don't see any high CPU activity or very limited memory available or such. This seems more like an issue with mmc rather than Remote Desktops but I haven't been able to find any solution on the internet. If anybody can throw some light would greatly appreciate. My sytem is latest Lenovo T61, plenty of resources. Thanks in advance …