Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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ie 7 recognition
by Guest pcgreg- 3 replies
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it appears that after installing service pack 3 site such as http://www.yahoo.com and http://www.msn.com do not recognize that my computer is running ie7 and want me to download the latest version of explorer --- 7.0. any one else seen this and is there a fix???
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DELETION OF FIXED DESKTOP ICONS CREATED BY LEGIT APPS...?
by Guest oc9ine- 8 replies
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Hi, I have win xp sp3. Some legitimate apps like MS Outlook or NERO Buring ROM are creating unwanted fixed icons in My Computer and Desktop areas which I am unable to delete the simple way. How to delete any unwanted apps fixed icons from My Computer area and its fixed Desktop Shoutcut? I have no spyware in my system. Try installing Microsoft Office Outlook on ur pc, it creates a fixed shortcut on Desktop which could not be deleted? I am asking 4 dat kind of shortcuts; how can those fixed shortcuts created by legitimate software be deleted? Plz help me. Oc9ine.
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Half dead Windows XP how to reinstall
by Guest kaiao- 2 replies
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Well my cd rom and xp disk is fine just when it loads the setup it stopped after started kernal giving error message " line 55 not found bla bla" I couldn't continue the setup process and i can't startup windows so could anyone tell me how to format or reinstall the windows
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Folder Path limited to 99 chars?
by Guest Terry Pinnell- 8 replies
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I have a folder open called C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects\Collage (and that is shown in the Address box) But all that shows in the title is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\MAGIX\Movie_Edit_Pro_14_PLUS\VideoEffects which is 99 characters. Is this some limit I wasn't aware of until now? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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Problem with startup order
by Guest Dan Freehill- 5 replies
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Hi all, I have a small problem the startup order of my drivers, My Antivirus Software wants to download updates upon startup, however my wireless Driver hasn't loaded yet so the download hangs and stops the wireless driver untill I interseed. Is there any way I can change the startup order of drivers. TIA! Dan
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Dvd drive not recording
by Guest Niall- 0 replies
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Hi i am trying to burn music cd's from the windows media player. It does every thing okay ans says the disc is finalized but when i try to play it on the pc, it says "Blank Cd" and in a cd player it comes up with "Not finalized". Also when i try to copy documents to a cd it does the same, it copys them ok but when i put the cd back in to check i get the message " Blank CD" again. One more thing that may help i tryed a different make of disc and that comes up with "windows does not support this cd-rw format " yet i have copyed in it before in 2006! All the updates are up to date Please can some one help thank you Niall
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programs not showing under all logins
by Guest Dana- 1 reply
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we have a very small network. We purchased a new computer for one employee and took his computer and gave it to another. we have microsoft office installed on the 'old' computer but now when the clerk logins in on the 'old' computer she can not see the office programs. Help!
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windows live messenger pop up
by Guest luishugo- 5 replies
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Hello and thanks in advance about my question because I know in this place i will have a solution of my questions like usually , well everytime I open my hotmail appeared or pop up download window of " WINDOWS LIVE MESSENGER" .....like when someone start to download or install a new program or software in the pc ... but I alreday download windows live messenger and I alreday have it ....why this is happen , please help .
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Flash Player 9
by Guest Jessica@aol.com- 1 reply
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Hello, I have a few computers networked and every other day or so, I have to reinstall flash player and shockwave as though it was never installed on the computer some of the computers, something keeps corrupting the software. Please advise Thanks. Paul
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Right I have a work laptop that connects to a domain. When I am at home and connect to the domain over the VPN I can access the fileshare on my laptop. When I bring the laptop home and connect to my home network I cannot access the fileshare - I get the error message above. I can see the machine in the Network Neighbourhood - I just cannot see any of the fileshares or connect to them in anyway. (This happens regardless of whether I shutdown the laptop at work or I leave it running when I bring it home). The strangest thing is this used to work (ie. I could do the above and see the fileshare and access it no problems at all). Now it does not. Wh…
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shutdown and restart failure
by Guest wundrtek- 2 replies
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Everything works perfect except when I go to start, turn off computer, standby, turn off, or restart none of the standby, turn off, or restart buttons work. I am running XP Pro with service pack 3. I have some security programs running that sometimes don't recognize that a particular program or file is safe to keep. I hope I didn't inadvertantly delete an important registry key? Has anyone seen this before or can anyone help with this problem?
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why is it taking over 2 minutes for any of my documents to open?
by Guest mammamaia- 1 reply
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are there any techno-wizards in the house? this tech-know-nuthin' desperately needs help from one... all was fine till i opened a document emailed from someone whose docs worked ok before... the latest one i saved to my desktop took forever to open and close... after that, all my own docs also took minutes to either open or close, as well... i've deleted that doc and emptied the trash, emptied my sent email file and trash stored on the puter, done a norton windoc repair twice and an ad-aware scan/repair, restarted afterwards, but still have the prob... my file folders and my final draft program open as quickly as ever, but the windows docs take …
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Norton Antivirus
by Guest Robb Pierce- 4 replies
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So, norton is gone, completely removed, however, guess what it left, the Firewall, still on. I dont have norton disks, dont want to re-purchase. I figure the only way to get rid of the stupid firewall is to re-install norton & then disable firewall, and uninstall it. I'd rather not have anything to do with norton touching my computer again. how can i disable all firewalls on the pc to re-setup a different firewall. thanx.
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Need FDISK help...........
by Guest Dave- 14 replies
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Hi, I am getting ready to install Windows 98 on a 1ghz P3 with 512mb Ram system. I have two hard drives a 10GB and a 40GB. How should I partion them? In FDISK I noticed options for DOS, Non-Dos, and logical, I am not sure which to use for the second hard drive. Also which should be my primary drive the 10GB or the 40GB? Thanks for any advice and opinions!!!
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Share tab missing
by Guest Dean- 0 replies
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I have a small network of 3 machines all running XP Pro. I installed SP3 on machines A and B I had it installed on Machine c but uninstalled it because of a conflict with a program that I need to run on a daily basis. I would also like to uninstall it from Machine B but when I do I am unable to get to the internet. Now for the real problem. Since attempting to uninistall and reinstall SP3 on Machine C the "Share" tab is gone from the Properties configuration window. How can I get the share tab back??
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CAPS LOCK and "A" Keys are identicAL!
by Guest Steve- 6 replies
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When I press the "A" key, caps lock comes on AND an "A" IS TYPED. When I press the Caps Lock key, cAPS LOCK COMES ON and AN "A" also is typed. This hAPPENED after I instALLED sp3 (Windows XP Pro), but I ALSO SUSPECT MY Cat. I've tried to reseARCH KEY GROUPING and key mAPPING WITHOUT LUCK. Any help will be most APPRECIated.Thank you! Steve
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can not login local machine interactively.
by Guest QuyNguyen- 3 replies
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Hi, some of our domain user try to login the workstation. It pops message saying 'Local Policy Does Not Permit You to Log On Interactively". Do you have any idea about this? I try to go to local security setting> user Right assignment>select logon locally Even I have the admin access It is not allow me to add group (the add user and group is disable). How can I solve this problem. Thank you very much for your help.
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Viewing Registry on slave HDD
by Guest s.fowler@qub.ac.uk- 7 replies
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Hi, I have a hard drive taken from another PC attached as a slave to my own computer. I need to be able to view the other PCs Registry. Both computers have Windows XP installed. Anyone happen to know how to do this without corrupting the registry of my own PC? Many thanks.
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Upgrading question. Resetting activation?
by Guest SuperScot- 18 replies
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Hi, I'm going to be upgrading my PC soon (This is my first time, but according to many people I've asked it's not too hard.) and I was wondering how I'd go about reinstalling Windows XP Pro? I'm told I should reformat since I'm upgrading the Motherboard/CPU. Anyway, while reading through the XP booklet I came across the part for activation and registration. I was told by people I've asked that I need to phone up Microsoft and "reset" the activation code and that it only takes 5 minutes. Does this mean I can register fine as well? Also, I was wondering if I can phone at any time to do this as I plan on upgrading early morning (3-4am) and want to phone u…
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Someone wants to get a new drive that is external and only has a lan connection (1 gig). The computer does have a 1 gig ethernet on the motherboard... however the ROUTER that will be connecting the 2 is only 100MB ... So what would happen is that the connection speed would drop to 100mb of course since that's the router speed. So I thought of getting a new 1 GIG SWITCH and connect everything as you can see in this diagram: http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2135/graphic1gm3.jpg I suspect that the speed connection between the router and switch would be 100mb and the connection between the PC and HARD DRIVE would be 1 Gig... I would want to have th…
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Drive Write Error
by Guest Kent- 1 reply
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For about the last week or so my Drive C: will not retain changes made to files on that drive. I noticed this when Windows kept asking me to install the same updates over and over. While exploring this problem, I found that any changes made to Drive C: remain in effect until the next reboot or startup, but are wiped out after the reboot/startup., such as changes to an Excel desktop short cut or a Word file saved to Drive C:. Fortunately, all of my data files are stored on other physical drives (Drive D: and E:), but this is why I didn’t notice the problem right away. If I boot up in Safe Mode all changes can be made and they remain in effect even after a …
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HELP!? IE7 in uncontrollable continous loop
by Guest LVLITIG8R- 2 replies
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I have XP sp 3, IE 7, Nortan AntiVirus 2006 v. 12.8.0.4 and use AOL 9.0 SE. When I am on AOL, IE7 will frequently open on its own and open new blank pages continuously, in rapid succession, display "ads.web.aol.com" and lock the keyboard. The only thing that works is: ctrl-alt-del, end the AOL and IE7 tasks, then reboot. However, it then routinely starts all over again. Any suggestions of what I can do to stop this ???
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Winlogon.exe always reverts back the Userinit registry key
by Guest yankohurta@gmail.com- 0 replies
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We're trying to implement a custom userinit procedure in our network. The user MUST register his/her time-entry within a custom application (that we developed) just after the network authentication and before the logon procedure continue. Here's the sequence we're trying to achieve: 1. User authenticates in our domain providing his/her username and password; 2. Gina calls Winlogon which in turn calls MYUSERINIT.EXE; 3. MYUSERINIT prompts for a time-entry; 4. User agrees clicking in a button; 5. MYUSERINIT calls the DEFAULT USERINIT.EXE and ends; 6. Logon continues. The issue is that, everytime we manually change the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE\Micros…
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SET /P in batch file - Default value after timeout for user prompt
by Guest ergo_largo- 2 replies
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Hello! This used to be easy with the CHOICE command in Win9x batch files, but I think I must be missing something, as I can't find out how to do this using SET /P, the replacement in WIN XP. Does anybody know if and how to get a batch file to wait a limited time for user input, and to use a default value instead if the time expires without user input? I thought it might be possible to do something equivalent to SET /P:30,Y choice=Enter your choice I know this is just made up, its just an example of what I was trying to do, but does anybody know how I would go about doing this sort of thing? I can't find any relevant documentation anywhere .... th…
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Disable extension change warning?
by Guest Robert Morley- 12 replies
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Is it possible to disable the warning when you manually change the file extension in Explorer on XP SP3? I do this on a regular basis (changing MPG to AVI due to certain limitations in PowerDVD with closed captions), and it's rather annoying to have to confirm it every time. I've googled the issue, and a few places said it couldn't be done, but I couldn't find anything on any sites that I consider reputable. Thanks, Rob