Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Double Click Classic Programs
by Guest Greg- 0 replies
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Is there anyway of restricting users from double clicking the programs icon (in classic XP style) and allowing access to a Window Explorer window which allows access to unauthorized areas. We are using redirected desktop and global policies.
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After Windows Update, PC will no longer connect to wireless networ
by Guest knight_tour- 2 replies
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My XP Home Edition PC has worked fine for over a year, but two days ago it was running fine when it got the typical notification of automatic Windows Updates needing to be installed. I let them install and the PC rebooted, but once it came back up it would no longer connect to my wireless network. The wireless card looks fine, and it can SEE the wireless network; it just won't connect to it. I attempted System Restore to a couple of different dates, but it failed each time. I also tried to use Add/Remove programs to remove the updates, but each of the updates says it cannot be removed! Since the updates were acting similar to a virus, I scanned for vi…
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Where to get Microsoft Bob for XP?
by Guest Flat Earth Society- 8 replies
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Why doesn't Microsoft sell Microsoft Bob anymore? I used to love the way it made Windows look and want it for XP. Apparently Bill's wife was the product manager for Microsoft Bob when she was still just his girlfriend. Look, it's great and I miss all the friendly animals to click on.
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Assigned Drive letter for plug and play USB Thumb Drive
by Guest Bobson- 6 replies
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Hi, thank you for everyone's help in advance. I would like to ask if there is anyway to "hardcode" or "specify" a drive letter for a plug and play USB thumb drive so that it will appear to a known "drive letter"? Thank you very much aagian! Ultra
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SP3 froze during install
by Guest RobertA- 6 replies
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My Machine is froze about 3/4 of the way thru the sp3 install. Been sitting there for almost an hour with no movement of the progress bar. How long should I wait? What should I do with the machine? I have no data on the boot drive, it's all on D: .
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Can't open anythng after loading anti-virus program
by Guest tx61- 3 replies
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Help! I updated my antivirus software on my son's PC and now you can't access any program, file, internet, nothing. Could anybody tell me what I can do? I cannot access anything but the beginning blue screen.... -- tx61
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Pc wont boot
by Guest Bill Gov- 1 reply
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Our PC when we try to start it, hangs up with a message "installing PBR 2....done" running various diagnostics didnt show any hardware faults. I've re-installed windows from the Cd and all seems to run OK. The message still flashes up when booting but the PC starts up OK. Just curious if anyone knows what this means and is it likely to prevent the PC from starting upagain in the future.
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Redirect "raw" print to different LPR/LPD system
by Guest smlunatick- 0 replies
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I have an application (faxing) that captures the printing thru the standard LPR/LPD protocol. It works find when send from Linux based servers but not well with the Windows print queues. I need to redirect the "raw" data stream from a shared Windows printer (\ \PC1\prtfax) out to an IP address (\\192.168.1.1\fax) without having a Windows printer driver "formatting" the data. How can I do this?
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Different IP for different users
by Guest Simone Navari- 4 replies
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Someone knows if on XP Professional it's possible to force that ip traffic, originated from different users contemporanely acive (fast user switch is active), has different ip addresses, maybe forcing the physical output interface even if it isn't a must. Probably it's a little strange request and I'm not pretty sure that it is really possible (pheraphs in theory...) but I thinked to ask to someone with better knowledge than me before to surrender to evidence. Thanks. Best Regards, Simone Navari
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offilne files synchronized twice
by Guest agostino- 1 reply
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On a client (xp sp2), I set a server(w2003 sbs) folder (something like \\sbs2003\custdocs) as available offline. I've left default options (synch at login and shutdown) and actually the files are synchronized correctly. The issue is that the synchronization form appears two times: - immediatly after login - again after login scripts are executed and desktop icons appear Is it correct? tnx ago
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CTMELODY wave file volume level
by Guest Ed Wood- 7 replies
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For years, going all the way back to Windows 3.1 (I am now running Windows XP Pro SP3), we have lived with the loud volume of the CTMELODY wave file that plays when Windows Starts. After Windows is up and running, the volume controls take over, and you can adjust the volume of everything, except the volume of CTMELODY, which runs in the boot process before the volume control settings are loaded. If you decrease the volume control on your speakers so that the CTMELODY wave file is at an acceptable level, you then have to readjust the speaker volume controls (provided you have speakers with a volume control knob), so that the rest of the audio is loud en…
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I got this machine off ebay with XP already installed. When I look under "documents and settings", there seem to be a lot of user folders with basically the same set of subfolders i.e. Application Data, Cookies, Desktop, Favorites, Local Settings, My Documents, NetHood, etc. How many sets of these are there supposed to be? Right now under documents and settings there are 7 of these folders - Administrator, All Users, All users.windows, Default User, Default User.Windows, mike, Mike.Mike-(followed by some nums and letters), Mike~1~MIK Except for the last one Mike~1~MIK, they all have many of the above mentioned subfolders - Favorites, Local Settings, etc. …
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XP-3
by Guest Jim- 7 replies
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I just reloaded my son's Presario 700 to it's original XP load. Can I use the SP-3 CD to update it or do I have to load the SP-2 CD first? -- Jim in STL
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MSTSC using Router
by Guest Jay010- 1 reply
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I have two laptops that are connected to internet via a wireless router The router ip is 192.168.1.1 The modem IP to which the router is connected in 192.168.1.81 The Ip exposed by the router are from range 10 o 100 (192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.100) The default gateway for both the laptops is 192.168.1.81 The IP of Laptop1 is 192.168.1.12 The IP of Laptop2 is 192.168.1.15 The primary and secondry DNS are correctly set With the above settings I am able to connect to internet and browse sites. I want to do a remote desktop from Laptop1 to Laptop 2 on wireless. What changes are necessary in the above configuration to do so? I tried to change …
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transfering file using FTP commands
by Guest pandurang- 1 reply
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hi, i am writing script to transfer files from FTP server using inbuilt FTP utility commands.On FTP server files that i want to copy resides in a folder with the name as 100308 it is 3rd October 2008(mmddyy) so can you tell me how to get the Date of FTP server and extract the month,date and year from the system date so that i will create a string by concatenating month,date and year and will copy the whole folder that will match with the string. I was not able to find the date command in FTP. i also need to extract the minutes and hours from the date using FTP command. Do we need to change to the shell of the FTP server and get the date. Also can i cop…
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UPDATES NOT INSTALLING?
by Guest its_my_dime- 3 replies
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I just did a full reinstall of XP Professional and Office 2007. I downloaded and installed SP3 for XP and SP1 for Office. Now Windows/Office keeps asking me to install 35 programs that seem to have 0 content and take 0 minutes to install. It downloads those programs and then tells me the installations failed. Is it safe to assume that these updates were part of the SP's that I downloaded/installed. If so, is it safe to tell Microsoft not to ask me again about these programs? Alternatively, what is going on? Thank you.
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Am considering this on xp
by Guest Mark G.- 4 replies
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So I am thinking of installing and using a program that will hide and/or make my IP anonymous. With theft and whatnot these days, I am thinking I may be better of with this. Plus, I don't necessarily like all websites tracking my moves and whatnot. No, I am not paranoid by default, but just cautious. Anyhow, I am a very heavy PC user and do quite the variety of things on my PC. Will using this type of software mess with anything that I may be used to? What I mean is, some sites that I do sign into and use frequently, I want them to store my login. Also, what about XP ftp settings and the like? Anybody use these types of programs? Your thoughts? Will they i…
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how to monitor the Low level Disk activity?
by Guest mttc- 3 replies
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After I realize that Performance Tools with Disk Counter not show the Disk activity, so if the NT Cache or Disk cache is involve with read/ write from disk the Counter show like HD Activity. So how I can trace the Disk itself?
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Know of a USB Trouble Shooting Utility
by Guest RobertA- 3 replies
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I am having trouble on my notebook with usb devices except for a mouse. Does anyone know of a utility to lookat/troubleshoot usb devices? Windows says everything is fine.
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"Uninstaller Failed to Initialize"????
by Guest Mayor Mac- 14 replies
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Windows was reloaded successfully over the weekend on our daughter's computer (Dell Dimension 4500 running Windows XP Pro), and she is now in the process of reconnecting all of her peripherals back to the computer. Everything was reconnecting just fine (HP Printer, Samsung laser, Broadband, external drives, etc). The drivers and all were loading just fine, and the hardware was all functioning properly. She had her Canon scanner plugged into the tower when she loaded the Canoscan Toolbox software (includes the drivers), but once the install was complete.... the scanner didn't work. She wasn't aware that the scanner should have remained disconnected …
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the Most Frequently Used Programs List panel in Start Menu disappear, I cannot see even the divider. I try to follow below instruction, but is not help. any other idea? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://windowsxp.mvps.org/startmfu.htm Resolution Right-click an empty area in the Start menu and select Properties. In the Start Menu tab, click Customize. Configuration options for the Programs list are on the General tab. Make sure that the "Number of programs on Start" is not set to 0. Try clearing the MFU list in the registry once, by pressing Clear List button. Disable the two policies namely NoInstrumentation and NoStartMenuMFUprogramsList…
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Dumping of physical memory
by Guest Prathish- 2 replies
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My computer is having windows xp SP2, with 1 GB Ram DDR2. My hard disk capacity is 40 GB. My PC is getting hanged and then showing a blue screen which shows dumping of physical memory. Can u please suggest any remedy.
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How delete 'Read Only' files from CD-RW's
by Guest Imageman- 1 reply
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Vista 64bit / XP Professional SP3 I don't remember this being a problem in the past, but at the moment I can't change the attributes of, or get rid of 'Read Only' files on my CD-RW's. I haven't succeeded deleting, erasing or formatting with Vista or XP OS, or with Nero. Is there a way, or a utility to do this? Thanks for your help, IM
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PC restarting to give blue screen
by Guest S N- 3 replies
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Sometimes at random, my laptop restarts automatically and gives blue screen (windows xp). I have used event viewer to get the following error logs. I am getting two major error events in the log at about the time at which the laptop pc had given blue screen. 1. Error event log one is as below: Event Type: Error Event Source: System Error Event Category: (102) Event ID: 1003 Date: 2008-10-10 Time: 00:06 User: N/A Computer: DYCPLE-I Description: Error code 1000000a, parameter1 e1bd6eb0, parameter2 0000001c, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 804faf41. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0…
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Ad Ware Removal
by Guest Vinni- 2 replies
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Internet explorer is opening the web page with the address http://rdrmngr.com/MTgzNjk=/2/6433/ax=0/ed=0/ex=1/sep08RONagr3/ on its own. Tried scaning the computer with different scanners couple of times but the problem is still there. Help required urgently.