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Hi All......... I have a computer running on WindowsMe and XL97. I did some designs in Excel using the Vineta BT and other Fonts. I then upgraded my system to WinXPhome, Version 2002, Service Pack 2, and the new installs of Excel, (97, 2k, and XP) do not recognize that Font as well as many others that I had in the WinMe installation of those same Excel verisons........anybody know what I may have done wrong........or is this just normal business? TIA Vaya con Dios, Chuck, CABGx3

My wifes computer (HP A1210n w/Windows XP Media Center Edition SP2) no longer switches to screen saver when inactive. Selecting a screen saver in Properties and then clicking Preview shows the screen saver, but the screen saver will not activate automatically. Any questions/suggestions? TIA, Fred

Hello. I am using TS 2000 server. I have setup the regional settings to switch between English and Japanese. However, those settings dont show up for all users. Only I have the language icon on the taskbar. For other users, I have to go and add it manually for each user. I know in XP there is an option to make this change for all users. Does 2000 have the same option somewhere? Thanks.

If a user logged off from Windows Server 2003 (or the other Windows OS), to which (area, i mean session?,applications?,etc) is the "logoff event" sent? I first thought it might send to the processes that the user executed. But, a process which was created by a windows service recived the logoff event. I want to know the exact range to which the "logoff event" send. If you have any infomation, please let me know. like the web page, or book recommendation will be very helpful too. Thank you.

I bought an Acer laptop that came with Vista and I am upgrading (downgrading) the OS to XP Pro. After wiping the hard drive and installing XP, the XP setup went through just about everything and failed with an error of "Setup can't load internet connection wizard" to which I replied OK. It then finished the setup and, upon first reboot, came back with another message : "File download - Do you want to open or save this file?" for the file msobshel.htm from C:\Windows\system32\oobe. I choose open (for some reason) and it brought up the dialog box on what program to open the file with. I just cancelled it out. Anyway, after rebooting the laptop again X…

Hi All, We recently applied a software restriction policy on our terminal servers to stop a group of users who are executing exe's that are prohibited by our company’s policy. When one of these exe's is executed, it displays a message about not being able to execute because of software restrictions. Was wondering if there is a way to suppress this message, so that it is still logged to the event log, but the user doesn’t see any message? Thanks in advance, Gavin

I have a computer with XP pro. When I do a file operation such as copy, paste, cut or move the change is not reflected in Windows Explorer view of the folder. When I got to VIEW>>Refresh then everything is as it should be. How do I turn on automatic refreshing ? I must have turned it off somehow. Thanks in advance for your help, Jim

Thanks, Alex. What I had was a shortcut called My Recent Documents, which was a shortcut to the Recent folder which is a hidden folder. But I was able to find the Recent folder and then set the Desktop.ini folder inside it back to "hidden". Your telling me that Desktop.ini was where it belonged was a big help. *TimDaniels* Alex Levi wrote: >When you change folder settings (icon, make it read only ...) this file >Desktop.ini will appear. It can be located in any folder. >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc144102(VS.85).aspx > > >"Timothy Daniels" wrote: >> A Desktop.ini file has appeared in My Recent Documents folder, &g…

I have been unable to get Windows Media Player to open now for several weeks. I did a reinstall to no effect. When I select the search page in the START menu, it opens, but all I see is the puppy, but no text or search fields. IE won't play any flashplayer, java, etc. I am using Mozilla Firefox now to get by the IE problems, but I still can't get into WMP or my Search Window. I found out today that the Help and Support option in START menu won't open as well. All these problems cropped up at the same time. I've done a complete virus scan, but nothing has been found. Any suggestions? Also, I can't find my XP cd so no luck trying a reinstall.

I was about to start the backup when I noticed there was no provision to enter a backup name. I looked at the HELP and read "On the Confirmation page, review the details, and then click Backup. The wizard prepares the backup set, FORMATS the optical or removable media (if that is what you are using), and then creates the backup." Strike me pink - I had other backups on that USB HD. Can someone confirm (oe deny) that backup 'takes over' the entire destrination HD. -- Regards Tom

Hi, I have a windows 2003 server domain controller which has DHCP installed. I see their is a backup option - under what circumstances would somebody do a backup of the DHCP server? Thanks

My old XP desktop started getting a BSOD just about the time I got a new laptop. Which was good timing, but I've decided I need to figure out how to resurrect the thing. I'm not having any luck tracking down the cause. Symptoms: system powers up, goes through the Windows splash screen, then BSOD's just before it would display the login page. BSOD says it is an INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR, ***STOP: 000000A0 (0x00000101, 0x00000007, 0xBA517764, 0x00000000). (And naturally some of the later numbers change each time.) I can run the system in "safe mode with networking" but it's not usable in that state. Googling on INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR didn't get me any…

I recently had to replace my hard drive and reload WindowsXPpro. I have a Westinghouse L1975LW wide screen monitor (1440x900), but now I can't find that setting in the screen resolution section. I don't recall having any software for the monitor, and I cant find any drivers on the Westinghouse website. Any ideas? Stu

Which folders are best suited for compression? You know, when you right-click a folder, select Properties, Advanced, and check the box "Compress contents to save disk space" For example, I would guess that C:\WINDOWS\Installer is a good choice. A good read, but lacking: Should I Use Windows File Compression? http://www.lockergnome.com/windows/2006/07/04/should-i-use-windows-file-compression/ ju.c

I am developing a specialised system which uses a satellite phone for internet access. The phone itself is buggy and does strange things, and the satellite connection is even less reliable, dropping the connection after a few minutes on average. I am finding that the built-in Windows dialler is not really suitable. It doesn't properly detect that the connection has been dropped, and gets itself confused if the connection has not been dropped but the application is asking for data, and I sometimes get what looks like multiple instances of the dialler, and then nothing works at all. Also the satellite provider occassionally fails to complete the DHCP proces…