Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Task Bar Expands to 3 Lines.
by Guest Jack Gillis- 4 replies
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This has been the week for abnormalities on my machine. WinXP SP3. This morning, I inadvertently dragged the right edge of the Quick Launch section over to the Notification Area. At that point, the complete taskbar expanded vertically to 3 lines and showed the clock as time, day name (Friday) and the date. I couldn't get it back to the normal one line by putting the mouse cursor on the top of the taskbar and moving it down. I would expand up but not reduce down. (Yes, the cursor did change to the double arrow as usual.) The task bar is not locked. Changing the properties to not show the clock or the Quick Launch buttons did not fix the problem nor…
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Monitor remains black after stand-by recovery
by Guest Cape Codderr- 14 replies
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When I am attempting to recover my machine from "stand by" mode, my monitor will not come back on.The power button is lit, but the screen remains black. My system is a Dell Dimension E520 with a 19 inch flat panel monitor - 1907FPC,DIM,M. This problem occurs aproximately 50% of the time when I am attempting to recover from "stand-by". -- Cape Codderr
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System Restore won't open - i need help ?
by Guest Cazzythom- 6 replies
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My PC: Windows XP Home Edition Hello all, My computer has been suffering with lots of errors lately (last few weeks), errors with sys fader/runtime errors/low on virtual memory ect.... Also windows update website wouldn't load last night and I couldn't see what custom updates were available. So I thought, the best thing to do, would be to system restore my PC to an earlier date. When I click to open System Restore though, now it doesn't load up ? What is happening, and how can I get my system restore to open up as it always has done in the past ? I desperatley await some some help or advice (pleeease) Regards, Miss. Caroline Thom -- Don…
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Solved: Long delay before context menu shows up
by Guest Robert Kochem- 0 replies
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Hi newsgroup. The last months I noticed that opening the context menu of shortcuts took sometimes very long (5-10 seconds). I found out fast that this happens only on shortcuts that are broken (the executable the shortcut links to does not exist anymore) - but it only happens on one PC therefore a software (or to be detailed a shell extension) must have been the cause. Investigating a problematic shell extension isn't simple but finally I found today the cause: Using Sysinternals ProcessMonitor i traced the long delay back to a shell extension named "CmdLineExt.dll" (located in the system32 folder). The DLL description named it as "SecuROM context menu for …
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Vitumonde.dll infection
by Guest mayfriday- 5 replies
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Running XP and the scan revealed the above infection and it cannot be clean by the scanner. Is there a way we can get rid of this infection manually.
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I have windows XP and have no problem in accessing Explorer, MS Outlook or any files or games saved on my PC. I can get in to them and work fine. My problem is when I try to run my anti virus or "Webroot window washer" which I have on the PC. Washer works fine until it gets to the point where it is deleting TIF files. It then goes so slow it looks as if it has frozen - the only way I know it is still going is the clock. It freezes everything else though and the only way I can get out is to switch the PC off. The same with an AV scan. It scans fine - until it gets to the TIF files - then it slows down (25% cleared - saying further 6 hrs to clear?). I dont …
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Wallpaper Updates
by Guest Magert- 2 replies
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We currently are looking for suggestions on a problem have been experiencing in our environment. Throughout the company of approximately 2,500 users, we have a standard desktop wallpaper. This wallpaper is usually changed once a week and is controlled by our marketing department. Whenever this department wants to change the wallpaper, they place a new Wallpaper.bmp file into a shared network location that everybody in the company has read access to. Our machines have a startup script that runs at boot to check for a new wallpaper file. The script compares the date and time of the c:\windows\web\wallpaper\wallpaper.bmp file with the date and time of th…
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Runtime errors
by Guest w.hatton- 3 replies
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Any one have any ideas as to how to stop runtime errors when installing programs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- w.hatton
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Windows Update
by Guest John- 3 replies
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I have a Windows SBS 2003 server with WSUS that isn't working. Is there a way to have my XP clients download updates from MS automatically without going through the server? Thanks, John
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Unhandled win32 exception occurred [2372]
by Guest Alice Wei- 1 reply
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I have an application that I have built and compiled into a shockwave file with a form that allows users to trigger the external code written in PHP that executes an .exe file and see the returned results. The PHP code works even with this exe file function call embedded, but once I try to run it from the shockwave file, it gives me this following error: An unhandled win32 exception occurred in my-manager.exe [2372]. I did refer to the document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/81191 and I found that my registry key is explore.exe and not anything else. Could anyone please help me find a solution in which I get get rid of this Visual Studio Just In …
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Enable USB xp pro
by Guest stuart macleod- 6 replies
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We have a machien whereby when you plug a usb external hdd an error apears the administrator has placed security restrictions has anyone an idea how to re enable this please many thanks
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xp install help
by Guest big-ell- 8 replies
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hi i have a machine with vista on a sata hdd but i have a second sata hdd and i want to install xp on it but no matter what i try when booting from disc it inspects components then goes to blue screen says if you need to install a third party scsi or raid driver press f6 and stays there and it wont carry on any advice would be greatly appreiciated regards big-ell
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Unable to install WinXP SP3 because of KB925877
by Guest bch- 5 replies
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Hi, When I tried to install XP SP3, I got an error message: "Service Pack 3 Setup has been canceled because XP SP3 cannot be installed over RDP 6.0 MUI PACK (Update for Windows XP (KB925877)). Before you can continue, you must uninstall KB925877." Then I tried to uninstall KB925877 from Add or Remove Programs, but couldn't find it from the list. Please help me how to uninstall KB925877. Thanks!
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Was my copy of Windows XP previously registered?
by Guest Chuck9079- 4 replies
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I would like to know if there is a way to 1: find out if a copy of Windows XP was previously registered, and 2: Check for a legal copy of Windows without actually trying to install the software in my machine. Is there any way to check the numbers beforehand and avoid the trauma to my computer if the software is bogus?
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Executing Exe File in PHP on Windows XP Servers
by Guest Alice Wei- 1 reply
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Hi, I am wondering if anyone on this list could help me with the following error. I have a snippet of code that calls an exe file before it starts processing anything else from the php file. The code is called as follows: //execute program shell_exec("C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\incidence\my-manager.exe -d$date -p$event"); The entire program works most of the time without my further edits, but sometimes I cannot get the entire program to finish execution because I see a Visual Studio error pop up window asking if I would like to bug due to the code snippet above. Since I execute PHP files with other applications, such an error from Visual S…
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Registration
by Guest clayman- 3 replies
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I have a legal xp pro system for 2 computers and in the last 2 month have been having hardware problems and have had to reinstall several and move a previously installed system to another computer. Now Microsoft is treating these two installed systems like they are bootleg ones and cutting off several important licenses and aren't letting me download updates . How can I get them to see these two systems are legal. clayman
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Search Does Not Find Boot.ini
by Guest Jack Gillis- 7 replies
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I wanted to take a look at boot.ini under XP SP3 but had forgotten just where it was. I opened C: via Windows explorer and Searched for it but nothing came up. 'Show hidden files and folders' is checked in Folder options and 'Do not show system files' is not checked either. So I took a careful look at the root of C: and there it was. My question is why didn't Search find it? No big deal, just curious. Thank you
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Emergency shutdown!
by Guest mchelaid- 1 reply
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I found a way on Emergency shutdown computer in just a second, the link as below http://support.microsoft.com/kb/279134. However, users are required hold on the Ctrl key and hit on the shutdown. Is there a way to convert this into script? Please advice.
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How do you reinstall windows xp video drivers?
by Guest Peter- 4 replies
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For some reasons I cannot reinstall my video card drivers. The graphic is slow. So I decided to reinstall my video card drivers. After reinstall, everything looked fine. But after reboot, the drivers are gone. It looked like the the video drivers were not reinstalled. The graphics became slow again, even something like moving the explorer windows around. It would refresh the explorer window section by section as I move it around.
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formulas
by Guest jill- 9 replies
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How do I get the exact answer from a formula so it doesn't always round up or down eg .19 not 20
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Network usage
by Guest Jason- 5 replies
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Is there any way to find out what the internet traffic is? I have closed all the internat applications I have yet there is still internet traffic. How do I find what it is? The connection is too expensive to ignore. Thanks, J.
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OSBD ...help me ?
by Guest andrea- 0 replies
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pavilion HP dv-6141 amd turion hi at all.... after buy my portable pc HP, sometimes when i RECORD a tv movie with the windows XP media center, in random mode and random time it crash and BLUE SCREEN appars with this error: DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_OR_NOT stop: *** USBEHCI.SYS This error is frequently read in some FORUM on the web for more and more peolpe that have the Media Center of XP ! i contact microsoft but it say to contact HP, hp say to me this act: - Update BIOS with the new F3.D - Update Media center with the rollup2 - Update the Yuan Ec-300 tv tuner card HP with the new update - the KB918005 microsoft patch with the new driver E…
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Error Copying File or Folder
by Guest Stanbridge- 1 reply
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Recently, when my colleague on her PC tries to copy/open SOME files that reside on my PC, she gets the message: -------------------------------------------------------------- == Error Copying File or Folder == Cannot copy [filename]: Access is denied. Make sure the disk is not full or write protected and that the file is not currently in use. -------------------------------------------------------------- This has only started happening recently. Here's the info I can give. Hopefully there's some clues in here. * SOME files will copy/open/read and others will not. * This problem is not discriminatory to file type or folder location. Eg: …
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User ID & Password
by Guest Don- 1 reply
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I'm using a workgroup with a couple of XP Pro machines and a Vista machine. If I want to access the Vista box I have to give a user ID and password. But when I'm on the Vista side I can go directly to the shared folders on the XP machines. How can I set up XP so anyone wanting network access is prompted for a User ID and password?
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Game installation
by Guest Lis- 5 replies
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Hello! I bought the guitar hero guitar and game for my pc, and I cannot install it, the error message "cab3" is coming up right when is about to finish the installation. I have windows xp. Can someone help me please?