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Hi I want to buy a large internal HD which will be connected to my XP/SP2 system. I seem to remember that some years ago XP had problems recognising large HD's (often over 120 Go) Is this still an issue please? Regards Dave Neve

Asking $135 + shipping Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Service Pack 2 CD included

I have set our default domain policy to show homepage xyz.com and on certain OU's I have set it to abc.com, I run results wizard and it shows the users in OU to be getting home page abc.com, but in reality they are getting xyz.com any ideas?

Is there such a beast out there?..........or in the making?

Hey: After a shutdown or standby my keyboard will not work sometimes. In device manager, the yellow flag is visible. I "uninstall," reboot and it will work again. Never have used a disc for the keyboard, it has always worked off generic drivers (?) Thank you, -- Ed H Dell Dimension 4550, WinXP Home SP2 60 Gig. HD, 512 DDR, Pentium IV 2.40 GHz.

Okay. This isn't a life-threatening issue, but it's starting to gnaw at me that I can't fix it. When I click "Start" and access my startup menu, there should be a graphic and my name at the top of the menu. However, what is there is a black bar. I've checked themes, start menu and taskbar, and user accounts. Everything that I've checked tells me that my chosen graphic and name should show up. Yet, I'm looking at a black bar. Anybody have any ideas about possible causes? Like I say, not life threatening, but I think I should know enough about Windows to fix this, but I don't. Thanks, J

Since the last update I have from Mozilla had "Cannot find 'URL', make sure the pasth and filename are correct and that all the required libraries are available". I am using a bunch of shortcuts and have checked them; they are exactly as the header that comes up within the second, but the error message indicates something is wrong with the program. Unfortunately you cannot inform them as you complain cannot be 'submitted' Has anyone else had this trouble? Borge in sunny Perth, Australia

I D/L'd the evaluation version, burnt the CD, installed XP Pro 64 on a new SATA HDD - found all the 64-bit drivers, did the SP2 and other updates from Windows Update. Very few problems. (I can even see ALL 4 GB of my RAM now!!!!) It's a pretty tight instalation at this point (no performance issues; no yellow exclamation points in Device Manager, etc.). I am not a business, corporate, education or government user - I am one of those "enthusiasts" who likes to futz with software and hardware. My question is: what happens after the 120-day evaluation period? The Microsoft web site doesn't make that clear. If I'll be offered the opportunity to buy a l…

I define one startup script and one shutdown script in the group policy editor. When the system boots the script runs but when I try to login I enter my credentials and it starts to load my settings but then goes back to the logon prompt. When I enter my logon credentials for the second time I am able to login. When I remove the startup script this issue goes away. Any Ideas? Thanks

How do you know for sure that your computer isn't emmitting wirelessly?

I restarted my computer yesterday and an error box came up notifying me of an error (I don't even remember what it was) with Windows. I clicked to send the report to Microsoft. Later on I started to do a backup to my Iomega drive and saw that the amount of data on my C: was monstrous. I have a 220 GB drive on a pretty new computer and only had used about 17 GB. It was showing I had 182 GB used. I opened defrag and it showed a tremendously long red line indicating massive fragmented files. I began looking for the culprit and found the log file for Dr. Watson was 166 GB. I have no idea what the error was, but it wrote a massive amount into the log…

in an attempt to reinstall xp i get to the "installing drivers" area and it asks for files on the motherboard disk but the mouse and keyboard lock up and i can't initialize the drop down menu or the disk to load the files

I am using XP pro. Yesterday it gave me a spooler problem when trying to print. I restarted the computer and it has now wiped out all the printers there. I cannot get into the services to see whether the spooler function needs to be restarted as it gives an error message snap-in failed to initialise. I wanted to restore and this function is just not there. In properties it has been turned on, but if I go to Accessories it doesn't show. I have been on the Help and Support, but the system restore wizard will not start. I would be grateful of any help.thanks -- Patricia

My system clock is an hour behind and when I attempt to manually adjust the time and tell it to update, I get the following error message, "An error occurred while Windows was synchronizing with time.nist.gov" or any of the other time servers, why? And, why doesn't my system keep the time current when I manually change the time? It continues to reset back to an hour behind.