Windows XP
Windows XP help and discussions.
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Univerisal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Driver
by Guest Neil- 4 replies
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Hello, I have just reinstalled Windows XP on my computer, however I cannot get any of my USB peripheral to work. I checked the device manager and it says that I don't have the Univerisal Serial Bus (USB) Controller Driver, I have been looking around and I have been unable to find a driver. I am using USB 1 still. Can anyone point me in the right direction of the relevant driver? As this is really annoying because I have a lot of my files on external USB Harddisks and at the moment I can't access any of them. Thank you Neil.
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Update text file batch file
by Guest Richhall- 3 replies
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Hi I have an application on a number of users workstations on the network, and want to amend an entry in a text file e.g config.ini on all workstations. Can i connect using a batch to delete a line and add a line or find text and change it within a file if I know all the IP addresses? i.e [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] DNS=test.systems.co.uk i want to change to: [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] Item=Y [parameter 1] Item=N [parameter 1] DNS=test2.systems.co.uk Cheers Rich
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Loads up muy docs at startup
by Guest pengi- 3 replies
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on startup my docs automaticaly loads for all 3 users on the laptop. Was fine until a few weeks ago but now loads up all the time. How do i stop it? NB I am not very good with these things so please explain to a novice.
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Notebook Win X Pro cannot detect HDD
by Guest Jimmy Hsu- 4 replies
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I have an old 3.5" Internal Hard Disk Drive (IDE) with a lot of data that I wanted to access from my notebook (Fujitsu Lifebook). So I bought an USB external enclosure for the Hard drive. Howevr when I plugged the USB into the notebook USB port, the notebook did not detect the hard drive. I reboooted the notebook and tried again. Still didnt work. I'm running Win XP Pro on the notebook. Any advice?
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window position and size is saved
by Guest b11_- 2 replies
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When the computer is shut-down, the size and position of any opened window is saved. Where in the registry can one turn-off that feature?
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XP 'hangs' at shut down
by Guest computerchallengedcc- 7 replies
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When shutting down, pc starts to shut down normally, goes to black screen, and then starts over with ssaving settings, shutting down,etc. and is taking much longer than normal to shut down even at this point. I only see two errors in the Events Log, and the time frame is not corresponding to the time that I shut down my pc. Red warning in Event Log says: "Service Control Manager".... The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: SASKUTIL For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. The above link does not work! The yellow warning has to do with Windows Defender: Windows De…
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Internet connection lost!!
by Guest bill- 3 replies
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I have XP home and my dial up connection just disappeared! The following is what now happens. When trying to re-establish a connection I go through the following errors. Network Connection Folder unable to retrieve Network Adaptors. Make sure Network Connections Service running. ( this refuses to start ) Could not start Network Connections :- error 1058 disabled or has no enabled devices. Clicking on 'Setup an Internet connection' has no effect. What on earth have I done?? Any help appreciated. Bill
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Another SP3 install error
by Guest operaflute- 6 replies
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Auto-update downloaded SP3. Before I agreed to install, I (wisely) backed up. After the install, I get the error msg: "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt <windowsroot>\system32\ntoskrnl.exe" After restoring said file from my backup, I still can't boot. I just get a black screen. Admittedly, I forgot to try safe mode before just restoring my entire drive from the backup. (Why not? That's why I did the back up in the first place.) MS says the file is not corrupt (which would explain why restoring it didn't solve the problem) They also say that the file is unchanged in SP3 (which tells me that redownloa…
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Windows freezing in an odd manner
by Guest Nick B- 6 replies
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We have an XP SP3 computer that freezes after a while of sitting there. For instance, in the morning, often we will sit at the computer and we are able to move the mouse around and single click on different icons in the Dekstop. But if we double-click on something (like and Internet Explorer shortcut, or even a folder), the Desktop seems to freeze -- we can still move the mouse around, but nothing else can be higlighted and we can no longer create "boxes" by clicking and dragging. Interestingly we can often then hover the mouse over the arrow that expands the system tray and it will say "Show hidden icons", but if we click on that, that task bar will fe…
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Error Message on Closing
by Guest HankL- 1 reply
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Does anyone know what this message means and if so is there anything that can be done to correct it. Almost each time I close Outlook 2003 in Windows XP SP3 I get an error message Unexpected Memory Leak. " An unexpected memory leak has occured. The unexpected small block leaks are: 13-20 bytes: TObjectList x 2, Unknown x2" Any suggestions would certainly be appreciated. Thank you in advance for your support. HankL
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Print Screen
by Guest Sirius- 12 replies
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Now that I found the Clipboard viewer, I was trying to capture the desktop with the "Print Screen"button, but it does not work. When I open the viewer, all I see is blackness. When I paste it to Paint, same thing, blackness. Is this a problem with the keyboard, or the applet? How do I find out? Do I need to update something? Any suggestions would be great. Thank you. Sirius.
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read files from another user with password log on
by Guest ----nikos 4000----- 11 replies
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hello in my computer there are 3 users we forgot the one password how can we read the files??
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WinXP Memory of text
by Guest PT- 2 replies
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On a number of websites, I note that WinXP has apparently memorized items like my name, email address, phone number, and logins. But it's also memorized some earlier misspellings. Is there, and if so where is a file which contains these items? Is it editable? -- PT
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Product keys & CD's
by Guest Sirius- 5 replies
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Hello, I have a weird question, hope you don't mind. I have some windows xp cd's without product keys, genuine of course, and then I have some product keys without the win xp software cd's from computers that have dead harddrives and did not have a cd come with them because the recovery was on the harddrive itself on a hidden partition, can't get the software due to warranty expiration. home with home, oem with oem, pro with pro, etc. Sooo, I would like to know if it's possible to put the disks and keys together, should I even try or is it a waste of time. Any input would be greatly appreciated.
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XP error: qfdomsrd.dll
by Guest R- 3 replies
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Hello all- I get an error that my computer (hp pavilion zd7000) can't find a dynamic library, qfdomsrd.dll. I haven't been able to track down what this library is anywhere on the web. Anyone with any ideas what's happening here? Thanks. Randy
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Low Disk Space
by Guest Robin L.- 8 replies
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We keep receiving the message warning about low disk space but show available space on all drives. Tried disk clean up tools but still get the message.
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Works 8 Calender
by Guest lena- 4 replies
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My works calender "froze" back in April, and I can't get rid of the error message from Microsoft that shows up every time I turn on the computer, saying that there is a problem and error report has been sent. How can I get rid of this annoying problem? Works was pre installed on my computer when I bought it, and I don't have a disk that I can use to re-install it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Event ID 27(operation failed) in Event Viewer
by Guest REA- 2 replies
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: Cannot access e-mail accounts, data files or send/receive in Outlook 2003
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Malware Registry Changes
by Guest Russ M- 1 reply
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Spybot located two changes in my registry that may be due to Malware. What is your take on this and what change do I need to make to each key to set things right. HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1123561945-1677128483-1708537768-1004\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN\iexplorer.exe The second key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Serevicewscsvc\Start
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How to change system user name in the Documents and Settings folde
by Guest Ronaldo- 11 replies
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Try this way: http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2006/07/04/change-your-user-account-name-in-windows-xp/ Restart the computer after changing your account name in the Control Panel\User Accounts, and check the profile folder in the Windows Explorer and also check the registry to see if it has also changed there: Check in Start\Run\type; "regedit" (w/no quotes) and hit Enter: Next go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\ look on the right pane for the string value named "DefaultUserName", double click on it and Change "Toby" to your user name if it hasn't changed. ------------------------------------------- "Flashf…
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WindowsXP 64-bit new install: any tricks?
by Guest Ken- 3 replies
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I am building a system for my daughter, who is a design student and "needs" a system to run her CAD programs. I am told that her instructors urge that the system run WindowsXP 64-bit. I have done a number of installs of the 32-bit version; are there any tricks to installing the 64-bit version (other than checking to be sure that drivers are available for devices)? are there any websites that may be helpful? Thanks Ken Krone
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Hi, at work we have a couple Dell GX620 ghosted with our standard XP Pro image. We can log onto these networked PCs OK, but those assigned admin access don't have admin admin access. Someone told me they had seen this before but didn't remember if anybody found a fix for it. Any idea how we can gain admin access to these PCs? Tom
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Heres a patch idea for you Microsoft
by Guest qwerty- 8 replies
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stop win xp from assigning allready USED drive letters to newly added disk drives, annoying!
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Repair Install
by Guest JohnD- 6 replies
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I have a Compaq Evo notebook that I "inherited." Couple weeks ago on boot up I got a message that Windows had recovered from a catastrophic failure and did I want to advise Microsoft? So I did and got a Microsoft Online Crash Analysis that advised me to run Windows Memory Diagnostic. So I did that and it ran all night and came up with nothing. The computer boots into XP Pro and runs, but I know it is not healthy because I no longer have the desktop of shortcut icons that I used to have - just a half dozen or so basic ones. Also. I am unable to restore to a date before the crash. In fact I can't even restore to yesterday. So, I'm thinking Repair …
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Windows Size
by Guest PSULionRP- 3 replies
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How come when I open a .txt file it never seems to open full, maximum, screen size??? It's always sized. I MAX the screen do a <CTRL> Left-Click on the close button and it always seems to open sized. Just annoying is all. Is there any way to tell windows to always open to the maximum window size? I'll shape it if I want. Thanks in advance. PSULionRP