Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Wanted: Help translating from bash to cmd.exe
by Guest Siegfried Heintze- 0 replies
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How do I translate this from bash to cmd.exe: ../myprogramreadsstdin <<EOF this is data read by my program bash sends my program and end-of-file signal when it sees the following token: EOF ../myprogramreadsstdin <<XYZ this is data read by my program. bash sends an end-of-file signal when it sees the following string: XYZ Thanks! siegfried
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email message with music
by Guest ~~Alan~~- 8 replies
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I want to send an email message with an embedded .mp3 file that will start playing when the message is opened. How can I do this with either Outlook or Outlook Express? ~alan
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username and password
by Guest Ron- 2 replies
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I installed a program on my pc and the program wants me to give my username and password which I forgot, I'm new to this so how do I find out my username and password?
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Re: Winsock provider catalog
by Guest isee- 1 reply
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Re: Winsock provider catalog I am having the same problem, but only with IE, Firefox works fine. I have a router and have reset it. No change. Any new info? -- isee
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ftp error since sp3 upgrade
by Guest donnyp- 1 reply
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since sp3 was put on my system I cannot access the ftp site for a website I maintain i am using ftp commander free edition the error coming up is 500 conection timed out(winsock error#10060), If I disable windows firewall I can gain access I have the software set as an exception but it still times out. I have norton av 2008 and norton sytem works but I don't think they are the problem because it only appeared after the sp3 upgrade.
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Remote desktop typing wrong keys
by Guest Mltwwlco@noemail.noemail- 5 replies
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I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 system that seems to re-map the keyboard from a standard QWERTY US 101 keyboard to the strange one displayed in the enclosed jpg. This occurs AFTER login, because I am able to type both the username and password without problems. Rebooting the remote system did not solve the problem, and the same wrong keyboard mapping occurs when connecting from a Vista Ultimate SP1 laptop (numlock was not the cause of the problem) as well as an ancient Windows 2000 Pro SP4 desktop. I need to fix this ASAP, since using the onscreen keyboard is killing my productivity!
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How can a file be in MyComputer?
by Guest AAaron123- 1 reply
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Name In Folder abc My Computer abc officroffers(officeoffers.com) I search for a file and get 4 hits. Two make sense to me but what about the two above. What folders (or whatever) are they actually in? I don't think they are real files because their size=0 What are they? I said to search the hard drives so why does search companion find them? thanks
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Windows XP Logon - Auto
by Guest Simon- 2 replies
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Hello, please could I ask for some tips from more expert users of XP. I have a standard PC running XP Pro with an Administrator account. Our need is to add a limited user account, I know how to do this. Ideally what I need to happen is when the PC starts up it automatically logs onto the Limited account. Its for a hospital radio station and runs some overnight music. The program would be in the start up menu but I just need the PC to log into the Limited account as there may be no one around. Many thanks for your help
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Runas issue
by Guest mgent- 1 reply
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Hi, I'm trying to setup a little bat file to load the diskmagement system. When I run it though I get the following message. I've got local admin access. Sadly it doesn't work, dont' know where to turn either. I'm also looking to get to run over the network, but I just want it to work locally right now. PHP code: -------------------- runas /user:or\Installxp "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\diskmgmt.msc" -------------------- PHP code: -------------------- C:>runas /user:or\Installxp "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\diskmgmt.msc" Enter the password for or\Installxp: Attempting to start C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\diskmgmt.msc as user "or\Installxp" ... RUNAS ER…
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Need to open explorer to folder in "My Documents" via command line
by Guest Ralph Malph- 1 reply
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I need to be able to open an explorer window showing a folder found in the users "My Documents" folder. I need to do this via a .bat file. I know I can use variable like %userprofile% to find the users profile folder under "Documents and Settings" but on some of the systems where I need this function "My Documents" will not be found under "Documents and Settings". For example I have several PCs where it is found at the root of drive U. (A thawed part of a frozen computer). Whether "My Documents" is found in a profile folder under "Documents and Settings" or ANY OTHER place on the system I need to be able to have an explorer window open up to it. I am cu…
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How do I set a default page?
by Guest Vivian H- 8 replies
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How do I set a particular page that will come up every time in Word? Right now, I have to click on "C:" then "Documents and Settings" then "vivian" then "My Documents" before I finally get to the page with the list of folders I want to be on. How do I skip all those and get to the page with the list of folders I want to be on right away? Thanks for any help anyone can give me. Vivian
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boot disk question
by Guest rb- 2 replies
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With Win XP.....on hard drive backups.....does the boot disk the backup program makes allow you to get to and recover from the files on a USB hard drive, when the master disk goes sourth?
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Hiding items in Add/Remove Programs?
by Guest Stevie- 9 replies
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I want to hude a couple of entries in Add/Remove programs in XP Pro... Is it possible? And how...? I just want to stop a couple of programs from being uninstalled. Thanks a lot
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Keyboard doesn't work after update?
by Guest John Favaro- 3 replies
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My keyboard has suddenly stopped working. I'm trying to figure out why. One possibility, of course, is that it's broken. But before concluding that, I'd like to explore other possibilities. And one of those other possibilities is that the most recent Windows XP Pro update, just installed this morning (with security updates, malware tool installation, etc.), somehow "broke" it. Here's the info: it is an "old" Logitech wireless iTouch Keyboard. In fact, the original CD came with drivers up to Win2K. But as I said, I've been using it without problems on XP pro all the way up to this morning. One reason I believe that it *might* be a problem with the …
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What has priority: PATH from User variables or system variables?
by Guest Sabine Elsner- 0 replies
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In WinXP I can setup/change under System->Advanced->Environment Variables the PATH variable in two ways: By changing the entry under "user variables" and under "system variables". Until now I thought that the "User variables" settings have priority over the system variables. So the sequence of PATHs I expected was PATH=%PATH%(from user variable;%PATH%(from system variable) But as I had to notice this is NOT the case! When I type "set" at the command prompt then the system variable PATH come BEFORE user variable PATH. Is there a way to change the sequence? Sabine