Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Wireless connectivity
by Guest Chrisp- 1 reply
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Hi I have the following attached to my wireless home router. 2 x Windows XP computers, 1 x Windows Vista computers, 1 x Apple Mac computer, Apple TV, iPhone. Until last week all devices connected to the internet fine. One day both the Windows XP computers (from two different vendors) stop acquiring IP addresses and therefore cannot connect to the internet despite the fact that they have successfully attached to the router wirelessly. So I put in static information and they still could not see anything externally. I've run updates on them (by connecting them via an ethernet cable to the router) and it appears that they are up to date. I have subst…
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Server constantly asking for authentication
by Guest havenlad- 2 replies
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I have a user having this problem every 30 secs. Another engineer ran a simple fix file for this a few weeks ago. Can't remember what it was. Apparently it's a well known one. Does anybody know it? Thanks Havenlad
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Does an XP repair replace the whole registry?
by Guest beemer- 2 replies
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(Originally in xp.basics) When carrying out an XP repair installation does it replace the whole registry with a new one? regards, Beemer
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Hi to forum members, My Dell 5150 XP+SP2 has been running like a dream for several years but I had to go and upset it and now need your help quite urgently. I have Tweak-XP Pro v4 installed but seldom use it. However I was reading some stuff about speeding up performance by optimising the Prefetch settings and went and clicked the Re-Initialise the Prefetcher button. When I rebooted the start-up items failed to load and the were no icons in the right hand side of the Task Bar just the clock. I used System Restore and everything is fine but the next boot returns to the no icons situation. I have checked the start-up activity using WinPatrol and all …
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program delete
by Guest Kyle- 6 replies
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cannot delete a program that my internet installed on my computer without me knowning it's no where to be found in the add and remove section it just sits here on my taskbar please help me get rid of this.
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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 …