Windows XP
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Under My Network Places I have not only the expandable Entire Network choice, but 17 other listings, including references to the drives on the same computer, as well as other drives and random folders on other computers in the network. (e.g., Thunderbird on Computer x, F drive on computer y, E drive on computer x, etc.) Is there some way to clean off these entries? Thanks Ken K
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Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage
by Guest Big Poppa- 5 replies
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Somehow I lost the abilty to use my excel program. When I try to open a spreadsheat I get a pop up window w/ Microsoft Office XP Professional with FrontPage trying to install. Then it tells me to use the cd rom and use the windows cd to install the program. I don't know why all of a sudden this is happening nor do I have the cd to re-install the program. Is there a way to do this w/out the cd?
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Boot Up Problems
by Guest JohnK- 8 replies
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I have an older IBM NetVista 682311U (desktop) running XP SP3. When I turn the unit on I can only get F1 and F12 on the screen. When I click on either key the key disappears from the screen and nothing happens. I tried using the Boot Discs I created when I got the machine but nothing happens. Someone suggested the hard drive was bad. Next I removed the hard drive and put in a new hard drive and tried the Boot Discs again. Now, messages recycle on the screen but the net of it is it can't find an operating system. Suggestions please? I've already replaced the PC but I'd like to get this machine working again so I can donate it to a nonprofit I work …
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zip file help
by Guest Ed Mc- 2 replies
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I compressed some music files using right click> send to> compressed folder. Now when I migrate to the files and click extract all, I get 'error reading file' message. Or, one time I got a msg saying the file was password protected. (Which it never was). Is there a trick I'm unaware of to extract the songs? TIA. -- Semper Fi
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Explorer freezes or hangs on startup
by Guest _Muadib_- 3 replies
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Hi everybody! Here's my problem: My taskbar stops responding every time widows XP Home Edition SP3 startup, it freezes or hangs. only ctrl+alt+del works. I formatted my system twic. Checking for processes in Task Manager but nothing that spikes during the activity. I tried to end the explorer process and nothing, but if i start a new process of explorer the windows work ok. I have a Intel core 2duo 3.00Ghz / 2Gb ram Help please. Thanks
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RE: broadband
by Guest Phil- 2 replies
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RE: broadband I am writing this letter to ALL Wireless Router manufacturers. I have a Linksys Wireless Router Model:BEFW11S4. It is 7 years (yes, count them, all of seven little years) old. I have visited the Linksys website numerous times trying to set up the WEP/WPA security on that wireless router (as all responsible wireless router owners should!). I found that there are no links to any wireless router setting websites that are congruent with the screen shots from Linksys' own self help technical support site. I have had to call Linksys several times to resolve this issue only to be placed on hold for lengthy times (sometimes my call was droppe…
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intermittent disappearing optical drive
by Guest budu- 2 replies
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Hi, I have a 6 months old computer, and my optical drive disappeared at least 5 times since then, it is very annoying. Only rebooting can fix the problem, else the drive cannot be found either in the computer manager or explorer. No warning or error messages are shown in the event viewer. I extensively tried all suggested solution found on the internet to no avail. Most of them does not even apply to my situation anyway. I never installed any burning program or something that could affect the optical drive, there's no lowerFilter or higherFilter registry key to be found anywhere. This machine is super clean, the cleanest Windows installation I ever had. It's runn…
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Can't Copy Text from Browser to Word Documents
by Guest JCO- 4 replies
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Using XP Pro SP3 and Office 2003 Professional Having issues on websites where I can't copy text from the browser to a Word Document. When I do this, the document freezes permanently. Not sure if this happens all websites. I believe, as in the link below, that the website is protected from user's copying the text. Link: http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sale_to_Library_of_Congress If I'm correct, is there a work around....other than straight typing of everything? I'm wondering if a feature in Word can be turned off ... such as turning off an "Embedded Objects". I tried a Word Forum, but I get no responses. Thanks in advance for your an…
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The Final End of Grey vs. Murphy
by Guest Leonard Grey- 11 replies
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This is the real, actual Leonard Grey. To everyone: For the last few days, you have had to endure an endless back-and-forth between myself and Nick/Mick/Mike Murphy, who has been impersonating me. Murphy has been posting to these newsgroups in my name. These phony posts have been, at best, ridiculous and, at worst, revolting. His goal is to make me look bad. I am receiving this treatment for coming to the defense of a regular here whose ethnic background was being cruelly insulted by Murphy. I have been posting to these newsgroups for some time now. (I do not normally post to the windowsxp.general group, and I won't any longer after this post.) Th…
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Too many printer icons in system tray...
by Guest RJK- 0 replies
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....XP Home ed. SP3 I have 2 printers - Epson C82 and R300. Recently, I'm occasionally getting 2 system tray icons for the R300 i.e. 3 icons for two printers ! HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run seems to contain the "normal" two entries, for the two printers. HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run contained a key similar to that (below), for the R300, and I deleted it. C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S10IC2.EXE /P23 "EPSON Stylus C82 Series" /O6 "USB002" /M "Stylus C82" C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\DRIVERS\W32X86\3\E_S4I0F2.EXE /P30 "EPSON Stylus Photo R300 Series" /O6 "USB001" /M "Stylus Photo R300" ....…
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COM+ broken
by Guest Marcel- 1 reply
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I since a couple of weeks, I have the problem that COM+ seems to be broekn on my machine (Windows XP professional SP3). The symptoms are that many features no longer work, for instance MSI based installs, windows update, defragmenting a disk, many features in computer management ... In cases where there is an error log from an application, it always results in error 80040154 Today, I used the tool dcomcnfg.exe and open the "component services" branch and select "Computers", it crashes and leaves the following error in the application event log: <<<<<<<<<< The run-time environment has detected an inconsistency in its internal sta…
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TaskManager and WinXP Performance tab
by Guest Tom- 3 replies
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WinXP Pro SP3 Office 2003 SP3 I have an older system that I'm using for a variety of situations. I need to find out if my 1GB memory is too low as well as any other input you'd deem appropriate. Totals: 16550 Threads: 759 Processes: 65 ********** Physical Memory Total 1047532 Available: 287448 System Cache: 371752 ************ Commit Charge Total 605192 Limit 2518580 Peak 728084 ************ Kernal Memory Total 75068 Paged 51080 Non-paged 23984 ************* CPU Usage 7% at this time PF Usage 590MB at this time Ideally, I'd like to know how to read these numbers and also determine if too much paging is being performed. If I could …
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left panel options?
by Guest Jeff@unknown.com- 2 replies
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Not sure what it is called which is why I am asking it this way. In XP, when you open Notebook (as an example) and click on File/Open the window that open has a panel on the left that shows "My Computer", "My Documents", etc. as shortcuts that you can click on. How can I add a folder to this list or change what is in it. Thanks, Jeff
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Blurred and incorrect color screen
by Guest Scott- 2 replies
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My 2-yr old HP laptop has a blurred and incorrect color (greenish) screen from time to time. It seems when I boot up the Windows, it works fine but after an hour or so the problem appears. If I switch off and use it next day, it works fine but repeat the problem after 1 hour. Can someone give me a guidance if the issue comes from hardware or software before I send to repair centre. Thanks, Scott
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How to open folder without Navigation pane
by Guest donwb- 8 replies
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When I double click a desktop folder, it opens in a view that shows the Folders Navigation pane on the left and the folders on the right - ie the classic Windows Explorer style. Is there any way to make the double click open it without showing the nav pane om the left? It can be done by right clicking the folder and selecting "Open" rather than "Explore" from the context menu, but how to make the double click do this? donwb