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hi there, i just purcahsed a pc for my fiance, and had xp home installed on it. when i got it to our palce and hooked it up and began to load software for wireless mous eand keyboard xp shut down. as if i hade gone through the start menu to do a proper shut done. i am thinkign it is either a hardware issue or that windows didnt load properly? thoughts, ideas, suggestiosn needed? thanks JG

Hi, A drive on a Windows 2003 server is compressed and a user is reading and writing files on that drive over the LAN from his desktop computer. Which computer is doing the processing associated with compressing and decompressing the data? Is it the server, or the user's desktop machine? Thanks, Aengus.

How do I set my mouse so the left double click requires only one click?

Hi I would like to install IIS 6 in Win XP SP2, I searched and found that it is not available for download as stand alone version. Is there any other way to get IIS 6 and install it on Winxp Thanks Subash

I have a Gateway Performance 500 computer about 8 years old and using ME . I would like to start using a Jump memory drive (I don’t know the mfg.) After I installed the Jump memory drive and restarted the computer, I got a message that said “cmdnist caused an error in user.exe.” I found the USB disk and clicked on update driver, but I don’t know what to enter. I would like to find a new driver (free, I hope) that I could use. I would appreciate any help I can get? Thanks

Hi. I have a Dell XPS 710 that ran WinXP (32bit) so far with 4GB installed with no problems four 5 months. Have GForce 8, XFi SB, one SATA and one PATA drive. Got myself a second SATA hard disk drive to install Vista x64 that I want to use via dual boot. When booting from DVD I immediately got a "STOP: 0x0000007E" (plus four parameters, no additional lines below) blue screen. I removed 2GB and the install worked fine. Installed all Windows Updates and latest 64bit drivers that I could find for my configuration. Rebooted several times without any problems during that process. Then I placed the other 2GB memory back into my machine and the same blue s…

I am assuming that there is a system file somewhere that is a copy of the wallpaper and I would like to know what this file is called. Here's why...... I created a montage of photo's which I then set as my wallpaper by right-clicking on the desktop, browsing for the file and setting it. The file was located in a sub-folder of My Documents. Later, I was doing some "housekeeping" and I thought I didn't need the folder so I deleted it (forgetting that my wallpaper was in it). I want to edit the montage to add another photo, but when I come to look for the file I can't find it. I've done a whole system search and it is gone. I peeked in the current…

I seem to have a problem that i only discovered when i wanted to show hidden files. when i open a folder and then go to the tools tab and click it now comes up as map network drive, disconnect network drive and synchronize. this now says to me that somewhere along the line I have probably inadvertantly screwed up and now cannot access some important files. I have also tried going through the control panel and folder options but folder options does not seem to exist. can anyone out there help please??????????

Each time I run a search I want the search window to open to look in a specific folder which has already been set by me. When I open the search window, by default Windows is set to look in drive C: How can I change this so that it is set to a folder that I’ve specified?

We have an employee who appears to be browsing inappropriate web sites in his lunch hour. The IE history (normally stored for 30 days) has been deleted. Is there any way of recovering what the list of sites he had looked at or is there another way to do this in future. Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

I have recently developed a problem where the above message appears when I try to use any of the core programs i'e Outlook express or Explorer or control panel. I click on the shortcut for explorer in the desktop and I recieve that message. I f I click any other shortcut which points to a web page explorer opens normally. on the explorer shortcut it finds the target file fine and when clicked on manually it returns the same message . I get the same error with command prompt, control panel etc. i have tried sysem restore as most things work in safe mode but it won't restore...any ideas? -- PMM

I'm unable to delete the following dead link from the registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{436F4AD7-C95B-4d2f-B0F8-8DC643F7 A200}] A google groups search indicates that someone else has experienced the same problem (in XP). The solution, quoting MVP Raneesh, and confirmed by the original poster: "This CLSID may be created by a third-party application you may have installed. If you are unable to delete this key, check the permissions for that key and the respective software is not running. Or, leave this key as it is." How do you "check the permissions for that key"?

Before Windows XP, I was able to go to C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files (or some path close to that), and be able to view the history of websites visted. Under XP, I cannot find the the Temporary Internet Files folder, nor the History folder. I have even performed a search on these folders, making sure that system files are searched, and still cannot find the location. Can you tell me where these files are located? Carol

I'm having two GUI problems in Windows 2000. Perhaps they are related. In my desktop computer, which is set up the way I want, I'm able to display the files within the Control Panel as large icons. This is the only folder I do this with, for the rest I use the details view. Additionally, in the quicklaunch taskbar, I can arrange the application shortcut icons any way I want. Both of these aforementioned settings remain reliably consistent. By contrast, the laptop is kind of rebelious. It only allows me to use the Details view for the Control Panel icons (I can change it but it always reverts to Details when reopened). Also, the same application shortcut icons …

IE7 loads quickly but takes a long time (20-30 secs) to load the home page (MSN.com). Then, if I go to another web page, either typed in the address bar or from a favorite or search, it takes a log time to load that after finding the web site??? _ _ _ Retired Boeing Bill