Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Adobe PDF and Windows shutdown
by Guest kandinsky63- 3 replies
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Why does an open pdf doc prevent automatic shutdown of windows? I have to manually close the pdf doc before full shutdown can complete. Any reason for this behaviour?/ Thanks
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Bad Image
by Guest Lonesome Day- 1 reply
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Hi The following popup is on my screen and will not disappear. What does the message tell me and what is the solution please. Header is "Mobile Devices Properties:wcescomm.exe" Message is "The application or DLL C:\WINDOWS\system\4DHOOK32.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation disckette" Any ideas how to solve this please? Tony
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Autoplay does not work
by Guest Ed Wood- 4 replies
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I am running Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Desktop with a 2.1gb dual core processor. I have two DVD burner drives. a Plextor PX712UP and a HP DVD Dual Layer Writer DVD 840d. I am also have installed Powertoy's Tweak UI. Both drives are set to Autoplay in XP's My Computer under the selected drive, and in Tweak UI. However, neither drive will auto start any disk placed in the drive(s). Not Audio Cd, DVD, or Program disk for installation of product. Does anyone have any suggestion what could be blocking the Autoplay feature? Thanks,
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Windows XP login and logout
by Guest Amanda- 1 reply
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Booting up from a XP pro with sp3, after login with my account. The login begins in a normal fashion: preferences are loaded, there is disk activity for a while, the background image is displayed, but before any icons or toolbar entries appear a logout suddenly occurs. If I try again the logout is immediate. I try other users account, it login and immediate logout as well. How to resolve this.
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yellow question marks in device manager
by Guest oldmanlat- 4 replies
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Hi. I recently re-installed XP SP2 after a crash. In device manager under "Other devices" there are (4)items that have a yellow question mark. "Multimedia Controller" "PCI Simple Communications Controller" "PCI Simple Communications Controller" "SM Bus Controller" (driver unknown, no date, no version, not digitally signed under properties on all (4) drivers) When I try to update the drivers, (all 4) items get the same results. XP Hardware Update Wizard says: "Cannot Install this Hardware" "The hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software" I tried getting drivers from Intel with no luck, the chipset installed is Intel…
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Blue Screen Stop 0x0000008E
by Guest Mitchb12- 4 replies
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I'm running Windows XP SP2 Sometimes the computer runs for awile other times almost immediately I get a blue screen with: Tech Information *** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xc0000005, ox82117731, 0xF8ADAC3C, 0x00000000) Begining dump of physical memory Physical Memory dump complete Contact your system administrator or tech support group for furthur assisatnce. I've done a windows restore back as far as possible. I've gone into msconfig and unselected all the startup items. I've gone into devmgmt.msc and disabled the display and network adaptors. The computer will work in Safe Mode, but if I go into any other mode such as Safe Mode with Networking I get the bl…
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Security Issues - Home User Now Networked?
by Guest MrGib- 0 replies
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I'm running XP Home / SP3. All up to date. Avira and ZA free versions in use. Long story short, my 'explore tree' now includes folders My Docs, Shared, Guest and my personal user Doc folders. Below these, I have 'My Network Places' expanded to MS Terminal Svcs - MS Windows Network - Web Client Network and 'My Web Sites on MSN' ...Also unable to block IP range and port selections. At Dos prompt, "netstat -ab" shows misc. TCP listening/active IP's that are all over the board. Wait 30 sec's and poof, their gone. The baytest MS are a given, I understand......right? On top of all this, I have netbios txt files that contain 'not normal' characters/…
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Re: Contacts & Signatures Won't Stick
by Guest D. Spencer Hines- 3 replies
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Re: Contacts & Signatures Won't Stick I import a *.WAB file and everything goes smoothly. Than I exit WLM and when I open it up again all the contacts have disappeared and I'm told I have zero contacts in that account. -- DSH Lux et Veritas et Libertas Vires et Honor > "Kelly" <kelly@kelly.com> wrote in message > news:BF769E3F-3BBB-4511-B188-DCCAF52A5393@microsoft.com... > >> The Dutch version has some problems with this issue according to >> Jonathan Kay. >> >> -- >> >> All the Best, >> Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP) >> >> Taskbar Repair Tool Plus! >> http://www.kelly…
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90% of downloads fail
by Guest kaffalp- 0 replies
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Hi, 90% of what i download works great the first time around. then when i restart my pc and click on the icon to use the program i get these errors EX: Example: winrar.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Mahjong.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. Family Feud.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. this happens to most of all my downloads. when i go to the folder that contains the downloaded file..its original file size was 40 mb and once the error pops up the 40 mb file is reduced to 55kb. and in …
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Miss Desktop Shortcuts
by Guest Beth C- 2 replies
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For some reason all of the shortcuts on my desktop have disappered. When I create new one it appears that they are created but nothing is appearing. I tried changing my display but that didn't work. HELP Beth
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Relakks, VPN, and svchost.exe
by Guest Bruno- 1 reply
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Hi, Whenever I use Windows XP SP2 with the VPN provider Relakks (https://www.relakks.com/), one instance of svchost.exe crashes (1) after a few minutes. The VPN connection was created using the Windows New Connection Wizard. I didn't install any VPN programs. If I double click on the VPN connection icon in the system tray after svchost.exe has crashed, the status window pops up then immediately disappears. Even if I restart the services manually (except for "Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS)"--I get an "access denied" error message when I try to restart it), I have only a very limited access to the Internet (web downloads started …
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Gurus, Do any of you have this file on your machine? C:\Program Files\Intel\NCS\Sync\NetSvc.exe. I'm trying to figure out if it's malware or not. -- Spin
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Can I save my system files on a DVD?
by Guest Carrie- 22 replies
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Just spent the last few days getting an error message on dialup (I wrote about in another post, resolved by putting in a new modem) but got me to thinking... When I got my DELL XPS 400 (has Win XP "media edition" I think is "professional"?) I didn't get a restore or backup WIN cd with it. Apparently they stopped giving them with it, and said you don't need it, the restore files are built in. After having the problem with error message, involving a system file (though replacing the modem fixed it, the file involved was in drivers IN the system files) I'm wondering if and how I can save the system files? I had tried this before, the folder i386. It's too big for a cd …
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Quick Launch icons randomly changed and odd program doubles
by Guest Canid- 6 replies
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I've been getting a couple annoying glitches for the past few months on my copy of Wndows XP Pro. I doubt they are related, but I'll address them both at once... One thing that has happened several times, is I will log in to find the Quick Launch icons randomly reassigned. If I right click and select properties, the correct icon is shown in the "[show Desktop, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Live Messenger, etc] Properties" box. They will be back to normal when the computer is restarted, but while I'm using it, the only way to get the correct icon back is to create a new Quick Launch entry for each item. The other glitch may or may not be Windows' fault. I'm getti…
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Explorer not functioning
by Guest Sam- 5 replies
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Hi, I got some kind of nasty virus on my machine so I ran Ad-Aware with its anti-virus engine to remove it. It found it and needed a restart and to run before Windows loaded in order to completely remove it. Somehow, the virus corrupted Ad-Aware and made it delete explorer.exe instead of the virus. The computer and settings load normally but when I try to log on it immediately logs back off. I tried doing a repair install of Windows, and it did absolutely nothing. I even tried reinstalling Windows in another folder (I don't want to lose my documents and pictures), but from the new installation I don't have access to any of the files from the other …
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Which version of PerfectDisk update do I need?
by Guest Doc- 10 replies
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I've got PD 2008, and want to do the manual update. However, under the downloads there's an x86 download and an x64. Which one do I want? Running XPHome, SP2. Thanks for all input.
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Keyboard & mouse froze
by Guest jp4winns- 7 replies
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I'm having a problem starting windows upon start up the message "Delete restoration data and proceed to system boot menu" appears. The help page from Microsoft tells me to select this option. My problem is how to select if the keyboard and mouse are froze. The only adivse I keep getting is to select but no one tells me how to do this without a mouse or keyboard. Please help help help
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Delete restoration files and proceed to boot menu
by Guest jp4winns- 9 replies
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Has anyone out there ever got this message "Delete restoration files and proceed to boot menu". My mouse and keyboard are frozen, except I was able to get in and change the bios, but that didn't help. I've been told that you actually need to select that option "Delete res...... but I don't know how to select it if the keyboard or mouse won't work.....any suggestions are welcome. I'm getting desperate.
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change file names in folder
by Guest TomC- 7 replies
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I have scanned many documents and saved them in a folder. Little did I realize at the time that the file name that was generated places semicolons in the time field. Now I need to copy these folders to a disk, and the software tells me that semicolons cannot be a part of the file name. Is there some way I can globally eliminate the semicolons in each file name in the folder or will I have to manually change every file name individually? Thanks for any help you can give me. Tomc
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Autocomplete IE Drop Down Pick-Box
by Guest Marcus- 3 replies
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I know I can delete the data currently saved in the autcomplete feature but I would like to edit it. If I mispell on an attempt to "login" it will save this as a future option which I do not want obviously. At other times the selection I would like to have is not available? I would like to be able to edit the data in the drop pick box, is this an option?
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Re: the event viewer application log.
by Guest talgam- 1 reply
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Re: the event viewer application log. Regarding my previous post, the red X is on the left hand pane. The application log won't open because there is a problem with the application log. Is there any way to fix it.
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computer not working properly
by Guest steve- 2 replies
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My Computer is taking a longtime to power up
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I have instructions from a supplier to start an .exe file using "Run As" and "The following user ... Administrator" I did this and entered the proper administrator password. This results in the error message "Unable to log on: Unknown user name or bad password." On this computer my regular account is an adminstrator account, and the password works there. So I need help resolving the error message.
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Updates
by Guest Joy- 4 replies
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I had mentioned this in another group, but I realized it's better suited to this group. The shield icon on my Taskbar says it has been downloading updates most of the afternoon/evening and it's only at 24%. I have no idea what these updates are - it seems that it USED to ask me. Isn't there a way to set this so that is does ask and I can choose which ones I want to install? I have Win XP (Pro, I think) with SP3.
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Update on error message Intel c52.sys
by Guest Carrie- 2 replies
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Don't know if I should start a new post, or look for the one from a few days ago (I know google groups bounces the old post to the top when answered, but the newsgroup format doesn't) Anyway, I had a funny "stuck" noise and got the blue screen error (fault in Intel c52.sys) and after I asked this and read an answer, I could no longer get online again (I want a backup computer, so I can go online and look things up, yell HELP, download drivers, etc!) I didn't get a WIN XP restore cd with my Dell XPS 400 computer ( 2 1/2 years old) It says the files are built in. But, when I'd try system restore (going back a month or more) it said it couldn't restore it. I guess that…