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Media Player includes unwanted pictures
by Guest Anders F- 3 replies
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I use Windows Media Player to listen to music. However, it has included a lot of pictures (.jpg-files) that I have other programs to view and that I do NOT want to show in WMP. I keep the pictures in a directory that I have never mentioned to WMP. In fact, when I copied the pictures to a directory I had just created, WMP immediately started to include the pictures into the All Pictures Library so now WMP has a double set of pictures. I keep the pictures in the directory C:\Documents and Settings\PersonalAccount\PersonalPictures (nothing to do with My Documents or My Pictures). How do I tell WMP not to include any pictures? Or just to include pictures fro…
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email getting automatically deleted
by Guest bubbababy- 5 replies
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using imap with email server so that email can be dumped to desktop and laptop. using laptop with outlook express. on laptop when email comes in, it gets a slash through it (deleted) and when exiting outlook the emails are purged. email can be read but can't be kept on laptop unless each is selected and undeleted
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Sound....
by Guest josh- 2 replies
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I know this isn't a Windows issue, I bought some Speakers surround sound, and a subwoofer.... i've had some hooked up to my PC before... this has three cables to go into the sound card and i hooked them up but only the ones hooked into output work, not ones hooked into c/ subwoofer, or sside or rear... i ahve an HP a1220n pavillion with the onboard card... the last ones i had, had an adapter that the 3 cables plugged into this adapter that would put them all into the output, i was wondering do i need to get one of these or what?
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Missing Driver
by Guest DeboraD- 24 replies
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Excuse me if I'm at the wrong forum. I'm a beginner to these forums and hopefully someone can help me out. I installed a Sony DVD-RW external burner about a month ago and it worked fine up until this weekend. When I went to use it, it said "driver not installed." So I did the standard, unplug etc. and nothing worked. I would put a CD in and hear it humming but nothing ever happened. I wrote to Sony who had me check the Device Manager. It shows a yellow question mark with a "Code 1." Then I started to get a prompt saying "new hardware found" but when I go to click on that, it just keeps searching and searching and again ... nothing happens. …
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OT: Nero / unable to make bootable cd-r
by Guest RJK- 2 replies
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XP Hom ed. SP3 etc. ....never had a prob. making one before now, ...I wonder what's changed ? .... AVG 8.0 intenret security suite is in there now - this is recent... Shoved in a cd-r, attempted to make bootable cd-r, (freshly made boot floopy in floppy drive), ....and Nero bombs out with "cyclic redundancy check) etc. ....sorry about the size - Nero Log :- RJK PC's 1A23-0003-5030-1972-2641-0839 Windows XP 5.1 IA32 WinAspi: File 'Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=4.60 (1021), size=45056 bytes, created 10/09/1999 12:06:00 ahead WinASPI: File 'C:\Program Files\Ahead\nero\Wnaspi32.dll': Ver=2.0.1.59, size=160016 bytes, created 16/12/2003 19:18:06 Nero version: 6.3…
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DELETING REGISTRY ENTRIES
by Guest its_my_dime- 7 replies
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I am trying to delete some left over SYMANTEC entries from my registry using REGEDIT. I get an "error while deleting key" message, even in SAFE MODE. The programs themselves are gone. How do I get rid of these entries? I believe they are slowing up the boot process. Thank you.
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Creating Partitions on Wind XP
by Guest David- 4 replies
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Hi, My Wind XP is installed on my hard drive. The overview of the drive is as follows: there is an unallocated space roughly 4173MBytes and a NTFS partition © size 70GBytes containing Win XP. I want to create another NTFS partition of 35 GBytes. However, Partition Magic 6.0 does not allow this: it allows me to create another partition of maximum size 4173MBytes, but it does not allow me to resize the C partition, even though the C partition has 60GBytes of free space. How do I solve this problem? Many thanks, David
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Windows Completely Locks Up!! FREEZE
by Guest ottagothen (Joe)- 2 replies
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Everyday my computer will completely lock up. Freeze. Nothing will respond. Ctrl Alt Delete dose not even work. I have to turn off the computer and re start it. I can't pin point the program if that is what is causing the freezing of the computer. I am using Windows XP Professional with SP2. I have downloaded SP3. The freezing is happening on both SP2 and SP3. It seem to happen when I have a window open in a program and I try to close it. It will happen in Outlook 2007, or even in my Peathtree accounting program 2007. The Event Viewer Application shows these Errors: Source = COM+ The run-time environment was unable to initialize for transactions require…
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Stop and Disable Service Using a Script?
by Guest K- 3 replies
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As the title says, is it possible to stop and disable a service in XP using a script? And if so can someone point me in the right direction for syntax. Thanks
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My Recent Documents
by Guest Fred- 1 reply
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This folder is has a great number of shortcuts saved for recent ducuments. Some are very old. What is the best way to reduce the size ? Go to folder and delete ? Fred
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Backup not happening on scheduled dates...
by Guest blayer2121- 13 replies
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I have set Backup to run on a weekly basis thru the appropriate screens in the utility. However, the backups never take place. Why is this?? I am backing up my Outlook files to an external hard drive. Any help is appreciated... Bryan in Dayton, OH
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How to save Outlook Express e-mails?
by Guest johnnie2130- 8 replies
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I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm think they're bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow. How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them there. That's works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title (example: Re:). Then it asks if I want to overright which I don't. How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to? Any help is appreciated.
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Net framework 1.1 and 2
by Guest Paul- 2 replies
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Hi folks, I've just finished reading that when you install NF 2 after 1.1, it can break 1.1. If you use Media Centre and x64. And you're meant to uninstall NF 2 or something then reinstall it to fix it. I've also just noticed, this has happened on the PC I'm on now (using x32). Both 1.1 and 2 are installed. (under 1.1 in add/remove programs, its says readme, instead of a site. It points to repairRedist.htm Even tho the link under 1.1 says the 1.1 install maybe corrupt, would programs that require 1.1 still run or not?? I dont really fancy uninstalling .Net framework 2 after I've just installed it, (and reinstalling it), just because of some …
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Start Menu subfolders closing inappropriately
by Guest Code-Curious Mom- 4 replies
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I open start menu>My Documents>subfolder1>subfolder2>etc. Pausing on subfolder auto-opens them to right. When I reach right side of screen, they open to left instead. Fine. But now if I hover the folder that opened to the left, then move the mouse horizonally back to the right, the menu on the right most side of the screen closes. Actually if I hover open topmost folder on right most side of screen, all is well, but any other folder, menu closes as stated. IOW, in example My Documents>SubFoldersA>SubFoldersB>SubFoldersC(rightmost side of screen)>SubFoldersD(opens to left) hover open any folder in SubFolderC's list (except first o…
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how to install bonjour as silent in Windows?
by Guest karthee- 2 replies
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how to install bonjour as silent in Windows?