Windows XP
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TASKBAR & DESKTOP ICONS
by Guest Paul Koukos- 4 replies
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Hey all, all of a sudden every few hours, my Taskbar and the Desktop Icons disappear. The only thing I can see is my Background Color from HP. Is there some kind of setting or fix for this. The only way out is to control delete and restart. There are all the programs still running in the background but I do not see them. Thanks.
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Firefox 3 and XP crashes this site
by Guest Jack Gillis- 11 replies
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Here is a problem that was posted over in Mozilla.Support.Firefox on June 24 entitled "FF3 Crashes on this Webpage." It has been thoroughly thrashed out there but with no solution. I bring it here seeking a solution because there seems to be a conflict between FF3 and Win XP. I am not the OP and I hope by bringing it here I have not offended this NG or Mozilla.Support.Firefox in any way. Briefly, the problem is that this site http://www.ramonadisposal.com causes a crash in Firefox and produces an error message saying,"Firefox has encountered a problem an needs to close...." The error signature is: AppName: firefox.exe Appversion 1.9.0.3071 …
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Recovery Console problem
by Guest SteveH- 3 replies
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Hello I am trying to use Windows XP Repair as I can't see any System Information when I type in msconfig32.exe in Run. When I install the CD it asks me to boot from the CD and I say yes. Then it asks if I want to repair Windows using Recovery Console so I say yes (though I am not sure I have ever been able to retrieve System Information). Anyway, then it asks me for an administrator password. As I am the computer administrator (this is a stand-alone PC using Win XP Home), I type in my normal password - which it does not like. Can I ask what is the problem here? Thanks. Steve
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View->explorer Bar-> very sluggish
by Guest Schemer- 0 replies
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Hello, WinXP sp2. In Explorer, the View->Explorer Bar... sub-menu takes over a minute to appear. What is causing the delay? How can I correct it? TIA for any suggestions... CB
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Windows performance monitor with multiple processors
by Guest Alan- 0 replies
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I configured Windows Performance Monitor (a.k.a. perfmon) to record data on the CPU utilization by software processes. The system has four processors. The "Process(_Total)\% Processor Time" performance counter includes all 4 processors. However, this appears to include the "time taken" by the "Idle" process. However, the "Processor(_Total)\% Idle Time" appears only to include one processor. Does this make any sense? Or is there some other data I should be collecting? Does the "Idle" process only show one processor (less than 100%) because only one processor is actually being utilized? …
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How can you create an account for internet browsing only
by Guest Johnnybig- 3 replies
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I would like to create create an account for internet browsing only and eventually word usage. No other programs should be started and no personal or system folders should be accessed (read/write). Any suggestions?
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USB not working
by Guest ralphs- 23 replies
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My neighbor's machine was destroyed by virus, trojans and who knows what else. Thanks to the help of people on here, I've gotten an XP Home CD, used the Recovery Console and Dell driver disks to get it up and running (including Wireless which never had worked for him). However there are two glitches. - There are two USB ports and neither works. - Windows Update reports SP3 is available but when I tell it to get it, the message is that it did not install. No errors, warnings or other useful messages are shown. I am hoping someone will be kind enough to suggest things I could try for these problems. Dell Inspiron 1300 Notebook Celeron M 1.5G…
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full name of shortcut icon
by Guest Mike- 5 replies
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Hi I usually have a shortcut icon on the desktop. It would be a very important icon for my daily work. Its name would be also quite long. Then I find I cannot see the full name of this shortcut icon, unless I click it. How to have the full name of this shortcut icon, even I didn't click it? Mike
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Address Book Contents Disappeared in MSN Mail
by Guest Gretchen- 2 replies
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All my contacts in my address book in MSN Mail have disappeared and I don't know why. No error message, no nothing. They've just gone. I know I updated Mozilla Firefox but I can't remember if I did that before or after I noticed the address book contents had disappeared. Can anyone help?
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Partial Downloads
by Guest Alex- 0 replies
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Quite often, when I try to download a program from a commercial website, the dowload "runs" to anywhere between 0% and, say, 58%, or anything in between, and then just stalls. When I try again, the same thing happens, just stalling at some different %. I always allow full firewall access to the site to the site from which I'm trying to download. Sometimes the download goes quickly and smoothly, sometimes after many attempts, and sometimes never. Any thoughts? -- Thanks, Alex
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Internet disconnect. Analogue line.
by Guest Switzerland calling- 9 replies
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For the past several weeks I have been experiencing an internet disconnection problem. At the time, the only change I had made was to buy and download my new version of Norton anti-virus. I assumed the disconnection problem was associated with Norton. After weeks of trying to solve the problem with Norton to no success, they advised me it is most likely a problem with Microsoft. I have Windows XP and an analogue line at 50.6 kbps. Whilst online the line will disconnect and my phone will ring and the line will attempt to reconnect. I can find no pattern to the disconnection – it is NOT associated with: - what I’m doing online (it can be handling em…
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Storing enviornment variables
by Guest laredotornado- 2 replies
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Hi, I am running Windows XP. I was curious where I can store environment variables so that they can be stored the next time I boot my computer. Currentlyi, if I go to the Start Menu, click "Run" I can type set MYVAR=abcde echo %MYVAR% at the command line. However, when I close the command window and re- open it, the value of MYVAR is not stored. Where can I put this such that it is stored permanently? Thanks, - Dave
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Re: Problem downloading
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 7 replies
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Re: Problem downloading [We meet again!] Is Automatic Updates enabled? Are you attempting to install KB950759 via Windows Update website or manually? Go to Windows Update website and open your Update History: What were the last five (5) updates that were successfully installed, when were they installed, and how were they installed? Example: "Security Update for Windows XP (KBnnnnnn); 01 Jan-08; Windows Update" Actually, your 2 problems may be related (so I'm crossposting this reply to WinXP General): ======================== QUOTE (from my reply to your other thread) > Firewalls: I have always had Windows disabled and used Zonealarm with no…
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Decryption of files and folders
by Guest Krishna- 4 replies
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Hi, My HDD partition is C: and D:. I have my data files in D:\. in order to protect my data i had applied encrytion to all the folders and files in this drive. recently my C: was formatted and Win XP was reinstalled...my D:\ was not formatted... Now i'm not able to open, view or worse even copy these files in D:\ i tried removing the encryption by it displays a error message that "error in applying attributes" Can any one please let me know on how to decrypt the files and folders in D:\ please help as i have valuable data in my D:| Also is there any way i can add new users certificate who can share and access the files and folders
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troubles installing silverlight
by Guest anniewarbucks- 1 reply
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I have tried to install silverlight time and time again with no avail. here is the specifics of my computer. processor: AMD Atholon 1.2 GHZ processor with 384 KB in chip memory memory: 512 MG ram. windows XP professional Version 2002 Service pack 3 the problem is that silverlight comes up with "this processor is not supported". Is there something that can be done to get silverlight to install?