Windows XP
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Shutdown disc activity
by Guest Carl- 0 replies
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XP Home Lately, since I upgraded my browser, I get a 15 or 20 sec delay with a lot of disc activity after I click "Turn off Computer" on the Start menu. This is before the Turn off Computer dialog box comes up. The "Shutting down" delay with blue screen that comes after clicking "Turn off" in the dialog box is about the same as before. So what activity is taking place between clicking "Turn off" in the Start menu and getting the "Turn off" dialog box? My browser is already closed before I begin shutdown, and it is not set to empty its cache when closed.
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Windows XP Home, 6 different user accounts, password is the same for all 6 accounts, randomly, during user account log on/off, the password will not be accepted, reboot the system and the password works again. Its random, password will work for 2 hours then stop working, reboot password will work again. Funny thing is, the password hint is still correct but the password no longer works. Is my password file being corrupted? Any help is appreciated. Jon
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Although I continuely use the same USB Key, Windows XP doesn't remember the device, and triggers and driver search and load dialogue. This also occurs with a hot pluggable SATA harddrive I have. I want Windows XP to remember the device or just ignore it. How can I setup Windows XP to do ignore or remember? Why doesn't it remember my USB Key? For the SATA hard drive, it doesn't find the driver. The dialogue only give me a "Finish" button with no check box to ignore device in the future.
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microsift backup ok if I'm going to restore computer????
by Guest teejdancer- 8 replies
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I need to restore all settings on my computer....is this microsoft backup facility appropriate for that?....Or do i need to enter into 3rd party backup? I have put documents onto a memory stick but have tons of photos and music and don't want to have to put these on disks......?
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Problem with display adapter and monitor
by Guest Stan Hilliard- 0 replies
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XP Pro SP2 My LCD monitor has both analog and digital modes. At startup, the monitor sometimes sets to one mode, sometimes the other. Digital looks best except it causes some media players like Miro and VLC media players have a blacked out video screen. I am suspicious about the drivers. I have updated the drivers for my GeForce FX 5500 Graphics card and the my ViewSonic VA912b monitor. But I installed them without uninstalling the old. Graphics card driver: In device manager the driver for the display adapter is NVIDIA, v8.4.2.1, 3/9/2005 Driver install file: 84.21_forceware_winxp2k_english_whql.exe Monitor Drivers: Device manager shows two identica…
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xp home switching user error
by Guest mswrites- 0 replies
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I have two users. When switching from one user to the other I get the error " Windows cannot load user's profile........ Detail: insufficient resources exist to complete the requested service. I have 1gig memory 550m available. 137m paged. 80 gig hd using 20%. This just started and is getting worse. I have to shutdown/restart to log on to a different user. Please help ms
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Win XP SP3 Network Printer Problems
by Guest WayneO- 0 replies
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Our organisation has recently begun rolling out Windows XP SP3. After installation some PC's , but not all, experience a printing issue where it just doesnt print. Some reported saying that no default printer was installed but it was according to Printers and faxs. Our tempory solution is to delete the printer and re-connect. As we have a relatively large computer and User base this is very time consuming for users and IT staff. Some of the connected Printers also fail to delete making the process a bit more frustrating. Does anyone have a better fix for this?
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Upgrading to Vista
by Guest jpas1954- 6 replies
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I'm running WinXP on three different networked computers at home. Everything's fine so I have no reason to upgrade to Vista. But i got to wondering how long Microsoft is going to continue to support XP. So that I'd have to upgrade, like it or not. Anybody know the answer to this?
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Out of memory
by Guest tshad- 2 replies
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On XP SP2, I typically have quite a few windows open and every now and then run out of memory. I was opening an email from outlook and got the error message. I closed my Sql Server Management Studio program that had just opened a table with 3000 records. I was able then to open the email fine. But when I looked at my Windows Task Manager: It showed: Comment Charge(k) Total 1461856 Threads 4553192 Peak 1674268 I thought that Peak showed what the most memory I had used at any one time and it was fine if less than the Limit (4553192). My peak is way below that. Am I mistaken here? Thanks, Tom
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retrieving files from F.A.S.T.
by Guest bairborne- 0 replies
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A friend of mine backed up my old computer onto an external hard drive using the F.A.S.T. program. I really didn't need it because I'm not to worried about all of the settings and stuff. I really just want all of my files (music, pictures, programs, etc...). The new computer that I'm using doesn't even have enought drive space for all of it. I really just want to be able to unpack the files so that I can put them into seperate folders and be able to load the ones that I want onto my new computer, and just access the rest on the external hard drive. Can anyone help me in doing this? Thanks! v/r, brian
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Windows XP Corrupt Profiles
by Guest Cary K- 2 replies
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We have a remote facility that is experiencing an issue with profiles on Windows XP clients becoming corrupt. The pc's are a member of our domain, and are shared amoung about 15 people, none of which are using roaming profiles. We are aware of how to fix the profile issues once they occur, but we are looking more into what could be causing the profiles to become corrupt in the first place. Thus far, all of our web searches for information have only come up with how to fix the profiles or the typical "Microsoft sucks" type of comments. Any help, advice, comments, or a direction to go would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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My Documents missing from My Computer - SP3 Issue?
by Guest MarvinLittlewood- 1 reply
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Hi! This is a new twist on an old problem - there are related posts from 2004 & 2005 but having tried all the suggestions with no luck, I am posting this. I have WinXP Pro SP3 installed, with an admin user © and a limited user (M) in addition to the usual Administrator account. C can see all the other users' documents under the heading: "Files Stored on this Computer". M can only see "Shared Documents". M's side bar shows "My Documents" and links correctly to the desired target folder. For M, using RegEdit to look at the registry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\DocFolderPaths has the correct entry. Also: HKLM\Software\Micr…
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If You
by Guest Fred- 4 replies
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remove a security update in Add/Remove will it show up to install in Windows Update again ? Fred
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Installing MS Office Software on new computer question....
by Guest Pinger- 10 replies
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I've got a Dell with XP that's going on 6 years old and has issues. I've found that the new systems do not bundle software the way they used to and that Microsoft Office is an added expense. I'm staying with Windows XP; the guy I spoke with told me that the software that was bundled with my old machine---for which I have the CD's--will only load on the machine for which it was originally intened---and it would not load on the machine that I'm about to purchase. This may well me true, but is news to me. Can anyone in the know verify that for me? pinger
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HELP! Can't replace corrupt urlmon.dll
by Guest Nardar- 1 reply
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I hope someone can help me!!! For the last few days, I've been trying to figure out how to replace what I believe is a corrupt urlmon.dll file. A number of programs (including Windows Explorer, System Restore, Palm Desktop, RegCure, Norton Anti-Virus Scan and others ...) begin to load, but then send me to an error message. (Firefox and Thunderbird work just fine.) When I go to eventvwr, I find the following message: Windows cannot access the file c:\windows\system32\urlmon.dll for one of the following reasons: there is a problem with the network connection, the disk that the file is stored on, or the storage drivers installed on this computer; or …