Windows XP
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bootable disk of windows xp media centre edition
by Guest pol- 3 replies
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Hi all, Please let me know to create a bootable disk of windows xp media centre edition. Is it possible to repair existing XP installed on another machine by using bootable disk . Becuase other machine xp is not working but in that machine has windows xpmedia centre set up . But unfortunatly that machine cannot be loggin in now. So is it possible to run windowXP setup.exe again in that machine using boot disk.
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Lan property empty but working =8-o
by Guest Rik- 1 reply
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Xp Pro sp2. My network, Right click on the lan icon. It show only the microsoft client but no protocols are installed! =8-o But everything work: browse the workgroup, navigate on Internet, I have a PC name, workgroup and IP address, BUT I CAN'T NEVER CHANGE ANYMORE because I have no more access to the TCP protocol icon. How can I get back the icon under Lan Property? === More info: If I try to fix it reinstalling the tcp/ip I got the nic device to go out of order FOREVER with a red X in hardware properties and in that case Reinstalling XP doesn't fix the problem nor Reinstalling Nic driver. Removing the current nic is impossibile because xp says it is in …
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Full Hard drive 1 2
by Guest ElGordo- 44 replies
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My step daughter said she couldnt load any more photos on her hd (with xp). lo and behold her 20Gb hd has 3.7Mb free space. If I just add another Hard drive as slave, will the system acept it so she can transfer phots to it and then to put some onto DVD? gordon
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Networking not available after removing SP3
by Guest Dean- 1 reply
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I had to remove SP3 from a machine because of an application conflict. Now that machine does not have any share tabs in the properties area for the machine. Any idea on how I can resolve this issue?? \ Dean
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document images are little red crosses
by Guest rod- 0 replies
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I downloaded a e-book from Project Gutenberg, I have the text and the images, however when I open the book, the image positions are little red crosses, Anyone aware how to reset a setting to have the images re appear in their correct position?
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Compaq laptop
by Guest Lil' Dave- 3 replies
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My daughter's significant other owns a 2006 Compaq laptop with an AMD 64 Turion. He has a lot of business files on it. Its running XP with SP2. It has a problem that I suspect is hardware, but may be the OS reacting somehow as well. It may be significant as well to say that it has Norton Internet Security and AV loaded version 2006. No Norton updates were ever done. May be significant as well to say that this laptop has always been slow as molasses running local apps, and accessing the internet. That's the least of their worries now. Presently, the laptop may turn off entirely without warning anywhere from a few minutes use to many hours of use. N…
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Troubles with Explorer->Search
by Guest jimM- 1 reply
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Greetings, I've recently noticed that the Explorer right-click search doesn't work correctly. Maybe this is well known, but it's the first time I've noticed this. For example, use a "temporary" folder somewhere and create 2 text files and change their extension to '.aaa'. Note that the extension cannot be '.txt' or the problem isn't seen. Name the files something like test_1 and test_2 and keep the '.aaa' extension. Open each file in notepad and add some text, I used '111' and '222' in each file respectively. Then go to the temporary folder and initiate a search. Make your first search "*.aaa". And both files will be found. Then search again using the …
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MESSED UP - NEED HELP
by Guest its_my_dime- 4 replies
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I have a Sony Vaio laptop - two years old. It came with XP but a few weeks later, they sent a VISTA upgrade disk. I just tried to instal VISTA. What a disaster! It turns out that the Vaio just doesn't have the memory or processor speed to run VISTA properly. I need to go back to XP. However, Sony never supplied XP disks and I never made a recovery backup. The recovery section on the hard drive now belongs to VISTA. I can download the original drivers from Sony's web site. But where do I get a copy of XP? I have the original Microsoft installation number taped onto the computer that, I assume, will work with any real copy of XP. Thoughts, pl…
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drive root thinks it's a my videos folder
by Guest frederick- 3 replies
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i have win xp sp3. when i display the c: drive from my computer, it puts video tasks on the top left instead of system tasks. this only happens on 1 user. there are 4 other users and they display the drive folder correctly. it also happens on the 2nd drive, but it shows picture tasks rather than video tasks. my documents also shows video tasks when it is accessed from the start menu. it works properly, however, when accessed from my computer or navigated to from the root drive. is there any way to fix this? fred
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Installing dual boot xpPro after crash
by Guest westpase-he_ac@hotmail.com- 2 replies
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I'm at a loss, I had a crash where program froze and I tried to close the program by clicking the "X" in the upper right corner. Got a blue screen box that closed before I could read it. All attempts of restarting go though a screen stating Windows failed to start properly, would I like to try in Safe Mode,etc. None have worked, I tried the installation disc, ran chkdsk from the command prompt, fixed something, but still no clean boot. I put in the install disc again, it found another version of windows and asked if I wanted to creat a dual boot partition. I stopped at that point. I really would like to recover some files off this machine and am concerned that…
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usb host controller
by Guest Ronald E. Foltz- 2 replies
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posted this in the xp hardware group but got no response. . thought i would try here, , , hello, i made the mistake of downloading a registry scanner called "registry booster" by Uniblue turned out you had to "register" to get the full version. . but in the meantime it caused something to happen to my 4 port 2.0 usb hub. . (internal). . did two system restores to no avail. device manager says the ports are working . .when i plug in a device i get the message "device not recognized" but when i plug it into one of the front usb ports, the slower ones, it works fine. . .any suggestions? Thanks for any info -- Life is a treasure; spend it wisely
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Pegasus get in here
by Guest ManyBeers- 2 replies
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I know you are good with command line switches and stuff. Help me out here. Ok, I have gone through this before and it is time to rehash it. I hibernate my laptop every night using Shutter.exe. http://www.den4b.com/screenshots.php?project=Shutter and it works fine. By that I mean, not only does it hibernate my laptop at the scheduled time but it also allows my scheduled wake-up tasks to run, which Rundll.exe,powrprof.dll SetSuspendState did not do. It has in its parameters one that if true will DisableWakeEvent. So ,what I need is one of you experts here to tell me exactly what to type in my Scheduled Tasks Run box when setting up the task. If you would look a…
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Moving Ahead -- Partitions and Laying Down the Old Install
by Guest Watty- 1 reply
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OK, the reformat problem was solved. See my post in the other chain on this--Very Slow. Unfortunately, I did not partition the drive. I had hoped I could do that after the reformat--too far along in the format check to back out. Is it possible to do this now? Here's where I'm headed. I'm going to lay down a 80G installation on this new large 320G drive of the installation as it was before the 80G drive holding it died. I recovered all files on the 80G. I'm going to use unstoppable copier to do that. I would think I would put that in partition 1 if I make 3 partitions here. BTW, I'm now up to 7% while waiting for WD to answer their 30 day free install…
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Remote Desktop
by Guest xytsrm- 4 replies
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I currently have an ACER Aspire One, running XP Home. I was able to install the Remote Desktop terminal tool to access an HP computer on my network thats running XP Pro. I would like to have reciprocal capability to access the ACER from the HP. Unfortunately, appaerntly XP Home does not include the Remote Desktop access software. Is there a download (ie. plugin, etc.) to install into XP Home to allow Remote Desktop access to the ACER?
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Problems extracting files in windows xp
by Guest Cheska99- 2 replies
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Suddenly, every time I try to extrtact files from a zipped folder either with windows xp or with winzip, Windows Explorer shuts down. I have sent the data to MS but not gotten anything back on it. I have clicked the debug option which seems to make something happen, but onlyh the text files get extracted. I have tried this on files from many different sources but still no luck. Any idea why this is happening and how to fix it? Thanks.