Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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XP Home & back up...
by Guest Mike- 3 replies
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I have an XP home computer that I've commected an external USB drive to for back up. I've selected the C drive & system state for backup, to run every night at 1 AM, but nothing is backing up. Any ideas why? -- Mr. Simpson, there are thousands of people like you with no discernable talent. Yeah, they're called Congress.
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Are registry cleaners a good idea or bad? I have done some reading and some say they are bad and some say they are bad. Has any one here had any experience with them good or bad. Or are they even necessary looks like Microsoft would build it into the operating system if it were needed. Sammy Castagna
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XP SP2 not showing Dual Core processor
by Guest IT Staff- 3 replies
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XP SP2 professional. I've updated every hotfix from microsoft and also change the registry stated from microsoft, yet i still see one cpu per graph at the task bar. The machine was ghosted previously. How do i enable to see dual cpu ?
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Where is SP3 downloaded to?
by Guest spamlet- 14 replies
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Having fought off attempts of WindowsUpdate to automatically install SP3 on our laptop, I find that Update still tells me the update is downloaded and ready to install. Where is it, and what is its file name? Cheers, S
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Registration
by Guest clayman- 1 reply
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I have a legal xp pro system for 2 computers and in the last 2 month have been having hardware problems and have had to reinstall several and move a previously installed system to another computer. Now Microsoft is treating these two installed systems like they are bootleg ones and cutting off several important licenses and aren't letting me download updates . How can I get them to see these two systems are legal. (I hate to admit this I seem to have lost the original answers sto this question. ) Please resend your responces
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IE 8 Beta problem
by Guest cj47- 5 replies
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I stupidly downloaded the new IE 8 beta, now I cannot use "Find" on any web page. Does anyone know how to report problems for this Beta version? Does anyone know how to revert back to IE 7?
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2 'Add or Remove Programs' entries in 'Control Panel' .
by Guest Yvonne York- 8 replies
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OS: WinXP Pro SP3 I just discovered that there are two (2) 'Add or Remove Programs' entries in the 'Control Panel'. Both are opening independently and are functioning/responding normal. What is causing this abnormality and how can I remove the 'extra' listing? I rebooted twice but the 2 entries remain in the 'Control Panel'. (My most recent download/installation was Java jre-6u10-windows-i586-p-s.exe) TIA.
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Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset: expiration
by Guest arad- 0 replies
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Hello this is a question is continuing my question of yesterday :"get message:no program is associated with this file to run this..." on my research for recovery or restoration tool I downloaded "Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset" (eveluaton version for one month) which create a booting cd that may do a system restore. (at the moment I can't use "system restore" from my windows.) my new problem: when I boot with the new cd that I created, I get the message that the image on the cd has expired... any Ideas ?
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No windows audio
by Guest Oldjarhead- 1 reply
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When I go to Sounds and Audio devices in control panel and click on it,it comes up. When I click on sounds and click on a sound to play such as dada the little arrow next to the name doesn't highlight and I can't play the sound.I don't have windows sounds or Adobe Flash sounds. Everything else is fine Windows Media player.Rapsody and Quicktime play sounds fine I've tried the wavemapper procedure ,it was already there, and correct-- and still no sound
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Joanna Lumley
by Guest Alan- 3 replies
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Hi Sue, This is quite good, although Joanna's getting on a bit now! Alan. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GneDzVZh1DA
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Re: Keep getting random crashes/restarts in xp on dual boot vista xp system cj75s wrote: > > Hi > > I'm new here and find all this info great. Kind of new to vista as well > so its a mine of information for me. Thanks to you all. > > My problem is this: > > I was running xp pro with sp2 fine for a couple of years and now have > taken the plunge to go to vista and of course decided to go the dual > boot way. I have XP on 1 sata drive and have loaded Vista premium home > on another sata drive. Vista is working fine, however when I boot into > xp it runs for a while then just crashes to restart the pc. It never &g…
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windows will not boot
by Guest safetyguard- 1 reply
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Have windows XP Pro. SP3, windows will not start, starts at black screen (normal safemode Ect.) this machine also has a 2nd HD that I mirrored of the the orig drive I thought my main drive went bad so I switch the jumper on the mirrored drive (back-up drive) from slave to master disconnected orig. drive and still same thing. Tried to boot off CD to repair windows say's "operating sys not found" Reset CMOS reconfig boot up devices Same thing Did my motherboard go bad?
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Windows XP cannot retreive device driver list
by Guest Nick- 6 replies
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This presented itself when we tried to install a new flash drive. Windows cannot find a driver for it. We have one of the same exact model that we have used previously and works fine. I tried uninstalling the USB bus and redetecting (restarted too) but then Windows cannot locate drivers for the USB bus. We have found that no new device can be loaded unless there is a script that installed the driver completely (for instance, Dell drivers). Also, when we select "I have a disk...", and then "select from list" no devices are found even if "only show compatible" is not checked. In fact, the only devices that are shown when we select "show all devices" are…
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0xc0000142
by Guest Adriatikb- 2 replies
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Hello, I've a strange behavior in my PC sometimes I receive a error 0xc0000142 with pop up which is notifying that application is failed to initialize properly. the strange thing is becouse is happening for different application more often for SQL.exe and less for CDM.exe. could you help me about this issue ? best regards Adriatik.
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re ending MS's Action Pack subscription
by Guest Geoff Cox- 8 replies
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Hello, After several years of subscribing to Microsoft's Action Pack I have decided to stop as most of the software is no longer relevant to what I do. It does seem a little hard that it appears that I will have to buy a full priced copy of Office Pro. Is this true? No reduced price for ex-Action Pack users?! Cheers,
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ODBC drivers missing
by Guest ACC- 0 replies
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When I open ODBC Data Source Administrator, 3 User DSN's are listed: dBASE Files, Excel Files, MS Access Database. If I try to configure any I get an error message 'The setup routines for ...ODBC driver could not be found. Please reinstall the driver.' When I go to the Drivers tab, it is empty. The PC is winXPpro SP3, with MSOffice 2003 standard SP1. I have tried reinstalling Office, but this hasn't added any ODBC drivers. Can anyone give me a clue as how to reinstall the ODBC drivers on their own? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been checked for all known viruses. The information…
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Help with setting password
by Guest Ryan- 5 replies
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Hi, Ive been trying to protect my computer so that other people can't use it. I tried setting up a password, and then using the welcome screen, so that people need to enter a password to get it. This did not work. The computer did not show the start up screen, and just logged straight in. So I tried using the startup option of having to type in your username and password. This also did not work. I can use the Windows button + L to lock the computer, but all it takes to get in is for someone to press the restart button, and then the computer will restart, bypassing the password protection. Please help, I've looked everywhere and don't know what to do!
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RE: windows installer trying to find a program
by Guest JAB- 2 replies
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RE: windows installer trying to find a program I have spent the whole day trying to fix the same problem. I am unable to access my HP Image Zone and I cannot get the durn thing to go away! I too tried to find a file named Photo Gallery to delete it without having any success finding the file. I had purchased and installed a new program called Reg Cure this morning. It scanned my computer files and found more than 1000 errors on my computer After I hit fix errors this monster (Photo Gallery) showed up on my screen. I have written to be reimbursed for that program as I removed it from my computer. It is really working on my last nerve. Have you found a …
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Move "pagefile.sys" to a different drive
by Guest Bill- 22 replies
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I have a partitioned drive that was allocated by an idiot, so it's a major pain to keep the smaller (c:) partition small enough to be in a condition where it's possible to run a defrag. It would help quite a bit if I could move my pagefile to the second of the two partitions. Is that a simple change in the Registry and a re-boot? Thanks, Bill
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Remove boot logo
by Guest John- 2 replies
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How can I boot my PC (Win XP SP3) so that I can see a listing of activities as they occur during the booting process, instead of seeing the Windows logo? -- John
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Folder View Options
by Guest Duncs- 4 replies
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Hi all. In "My Documents" and all folders under it, I want to display the 'Detail' view showing Name, Size, Date Modified etc. However, I don't want to use this view on any other folder, e.g. C:\Windows. Is this possible? TIA Duncs
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Upgrading
by Guest B Farkas- 5 replies
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I currently have a laptop with Windows XP Home SP3 installed. I need to install a software package that does not support Windows XP Home or Vista. I need to upgrade to Windows XP Pro but not sure what to buy. I tried a copy of XP Pro version 2002 but got an error message that stated the version on the computer was newer than on the CD and that I should restart the computer and install as a new installation. I would prefer not to format the hard drive as I have a large number of software packages (programming type & AutoCad) and files on the system that I cannot afford to lose. In my computer under the Help Tab/About Windows, I have version 5.1 (Build …
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Windows explorer crash when I cluse 'my computer'
by Guest rsegoly- 1 reply
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Since few hours ago when I open my computer folder and then close it (either click on X or file close option) I will get Windows explorer error and I can still work but some features are slow or non available I have Tablet XP on Samsung Q1 Many thanks
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Re: XP Pro Will not recognize "D" drive
by Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]- 2 replies
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Re: XP Pro Will not recognize "D" drive Forwarded to WinXP General via crosspost. Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3) when posting to MS newsgroups, please. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002 AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Briandp wrote: > Two days ago, the 25th I had just finished doing an update to my computer > and after that had to restart the computer. It went into the restart and > then stoppped with a notification that windows was installing an upgrade > and would auto shut down when it was completed. This was the auto u…
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typed words are appearing backwards
by Guest KateKelly- 5 replies
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I have a laptop and recently loaded a bunch of music into the media center. It copied everything from My Documents. I started deleting everything that wasn't a music file until I read the entire question which asked if I wanted to delete this from my "PC". I thought it was deleting from the media folder with the music. I've had trouble since then. Maybe this is related. When I type on the keyboard it appears backwards if I type "Kate" it shows up "etak". The letters are not backwards, just the words. I've managed to get good at typing backwards but it's time to fix it. Any thoughts? Thanks - Kate