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Have somewhat of a problem and need help. After a recent update, I no longer have dialog when I select 'Search' from the 'Start' menu (Start > Search ). The animated character appears, but there is no dialog (options for searches or to change preferences). 'Google is my friend' but have not found anything to tell me how to get the dialog back. Depressing F3 closes or opens the dialog window, but NO dialog appears along with the animated character. How can I get this functionality back? Responses are greatly appreciated. -- Jim "What we know is minuscule to what we don't know..."

First the accolades. The guys on this site have been great, staying with my many questions and working through what I thought was unsolvable. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Now the next question. I have XP pro, 2.8g processor, 1g of memory and quicktime, volume control, usb removal, realtek audio manager, norton, and a logitech itouch program loading on the task bar. When it boots up sometimes all of these show up, sometimes some of them, sometimes none of them. What's happening? Thanks again.

Whenever I download files, zip, wmv, mp3, etc. I can only download 2 at a time. Is this a function of my computer memory or processor capacity or is it a setting win windows? tia dennis

Hello: An end user reported something regarding the XP System Restore feature that I am surprised at. He had installed a program on his laptop. Beforehand, he created a Restore Point to use just in case the program created issues. It did. It was "messing up" some other programs of his, so he decided to use that Restore Point in order to get himself back to square one. He claims that, when he restored, it restored his laptop to the previous day rather than simply to the previous point from before installing the program. That does not sound right. I have used System Restore in the past to restore my laptop to a point from just before I installed…

Hi, I am trying to figure a problem on start up of windows. When I boot up after o'night close of system next day my sysytems locks up half way through windows boot, if I then switch off and reboot it works fine from then on and allows reboot all day. Next day after overnight close, boot up freezes again half way through ? Anybody any ideas whats wrong and what I can do to fix. Thanks Note I have already done a complete system xp re install has no effect still same problem. Do not have xp home cds as system came with already installed.

Still having problems with my system restore files. Trying to view them to see when they were created/modified. Windows won't let me as they are all greyed out and I get an error message when I double click. Under "Tools"; "Folder Options"; "View"; I have checked "Show Hidden Files and Folders" and I have unchecked "Hide Protected operating System Files". What else can I do to view these files?

I need to purchase a new laptop computer for my college-age daughter. It appears that the new ones (HP, Sony, Dell [i know that there is a higher end in Dell that uses Vista Business] all come with various flavors of Vista. My experience is with Win2K and Win XP Pro, which I have come to know well enough to do most of the support (with help from people here). I have heard problems about Vista being a memory hog and having "problems" but I am unclear about what those problems might be. In addition, I am not sure if these newer computers would run XP Pro (which I would prefer). If someone would venture their opinion about potential problems using …

Picking up from my last thread, I have now tried to reinstall XP. Setup could not locate HD drives and aborted. It will rebook with current configuration (with the viris) but cannot see C drive. Thanks again for all of the help.

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 at this page :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373201.aspx an…

I know that I can click on a .txt file and have it open with Notepad. And to open it with something such as WordPad or JEdit, I can right click on it and either use 'Open With' or 'Send To' [after putting the respective shortcut in the 'Send To' folder. But, I was wondering if there is a way to accomplish this by doing something along the lines of selecting a key and left clicking the application [such as holding down 'Control' and double clicking the application to have an alternate application open the file], or something along those lines? If there's anything anyone could help me with, it would be appreciated. Thank you. Matt -- remove t…

RE: 2003 Terminal services connections Hi guys Need a bit of advice if you wouldnt mind. I have setup a TS with two applications that the users need. I have locked it down with a TS GP and everything is working correctly. I have also written a GP to put an RDC connection on clients that need it to allow them to connect to the session. The issue I have is all the clients currently connect to X Domain and the terminal server is on Y. I dont want to have to create them accounts on the Y Domain to allow them to login so I wanted to utilise a single account. However I am finding if a user is logged in on one machine and I try and login as the same user …

This is driving me nuts! I don't know if it's just SP3 in general or if it's this useless file indexing thing or what, but my computer runs MUCH slower, it sometimes hangs when a program is trying to read a directory, and often the thumbnails it shows are only a fraction of the regular thumbnail size and I have to click refresh to get the fill size. This is supposed to be an improvement how??? When I looked in Windows Help to see if I could shut it off, it tells me there should be a "Fast Find" or something in the control panel. Not! I did find "Indexing Options" but it only gives me options, not the ability to shut that feature down. I tried to unclick…

Hi.. Im running Xp on 2 of my computers and Vista on laptop Ive got on of the Wireless USB Internets sticks with Three.. The computer has been working fine and internet but in the last week i cant get into secured sites im not sure why, i have not done anything to it.. I cant get into my bank accounts online or hotmail or ebay and stuff like that every other site works fast and good except sites like those.. I allready checked and made sure i have enables SSL and TSl in internet connections not sure why this keeps happening.. doesnt matter which on of the computer i put the stick in i cant access those sites... any suggestion what the problem coul…

Re: product identification number HI I NEED A 25 CHARACTER PRODUCT KEY CAN U GIVE ME ONE "Will Denny" wrote: > Hi > > Do you mean the 25 character Product Key (used to install XP) or the PID > (used to contact MS with for a problem)? If the latter - right click on My > Computer and select Properties. The PID is 20 character number you in the > format of: > > xxxxx-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx > > -- > > Will Denny > MS-MVP Windows Shell/User > Please reply to the News Groups > > > "steph" <steph@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:0C043F1B-59DE-46AC-978A-CF00E193DC3A@mic…

My computer died, and my son gave me his desktop that he doesn't use anymore since he got a laptop. How do I get rid of the Documents and Settings that say Brian (his name) and establish files for me? Same with Brian's Documents. How do I eliminate his name and files from everywhere I see it in one fell swoop and establish me as the owner of the computer? It is running XP -- David Schwartz Commack, NY