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Hi all, I installed 2000, SP4, VIA Hyperion 5.12 and video driver on a MSI KT4V board. It has a KT400 chipset which isn't the most compatible bit of hardware (never got a Promise TX2 to run with decent speeds on it). The problem is that USB flash drives when disconnected are immediately connected again! Whether I choose "Stop USB mass storage device" or "unplug or eject hardware" the drive will disappear from explorer, it's LED flashes off and back on and the drive appears in explorer again. It's not just cosmetic, I can use it. I do however get the "save to unplug" message. This does not happen with USB hard disks. Google is not my friend. 8+ hour…

My PC have two disks: C: and D:, both of them have an hidden directory "System Volume Information" with a very big file. Someone can tell me a little more about this?

Double sorry. The web interface fooled me into first posting this in the Media Center Edition newgroup. I know this isn't XP or even MS, but Symantec is next to useless, especially for an 5-year-old product, and there is very little traffic in the symantec.support. ... newsgroup. I know there are Ghost 2003 users who hang out here, so here's hoping ... I had been happily using Ghost 2003 on XP Pro sp3 to make images to a partition on a secondary internal drive. I bought a WD 500 GB USB external drive. It works fine with other apps, including Acronis TI. But Ghost 2003 crashes immediately after starting PC-DOS with Error Number 29004 "Read sector…

My daughters old Dell 8200 desktop quit - we dont know what happened but we suspect she left it on during a thunderstorm and perhaps there was a tremendous jolt that the surge protector couldn't handle - not sure though. The original symptom was 'it's dead' - no fan, no hum, no beep, no led, no boot to bios, nothing at all...dead. My suspicion was the psuu so i connected a known good one which provided power to the mb (fan worked but still no beeps, no booting, no anything). So then I reseated all the cards and all the memory sticks. Nothing. I exchanged the display card. Nothing.Removed the heatsink and reseated the cpu . Nothing. We accepted that the compu…

Hello! I have on my computer Excel 2003 AND Excel 2007. I need to have them both because I'm a developer and I like to try my programs on both versions. However, I prefer to use Excel 2003 as the default option. Since a few days ago, when I open an XLS file from a shortcut outside Excel, it opens the files in Excel 2007. I went to the file manager options to set the default application for .XLS files to be Excel 2003, but I now get a message saying "___.xls is not a valid win32 application" when I click on the shortcut. I can still access the files from within Excel 2003, but its kind of annoying that my shortcuts will only work for Excel 2007. Any tips?…

I have been noticing over the past few weeks that many settings I have go away after a reboot. For example, I have the quick link toolbar turned on and ordered a certain way, After reboot it's gone and when I turn it back on, it is ordered in the default, although shortcuts I added to it are there. I just bought a new 22" monitor with a resolution of 1600 x 1050. All is fine, then I reboot and the fonts are odd and the highest resolution available to me is 1600 x 900. If I reload the driver and reboot, it fixes it. It's almost as though things are not being written to the registry. Ideas? -Jim

Hi all, can anyone tell me how to get rid of three cookies sitting in my temp internet files directory? I've been able to delete all others but these - they're from retail sites (e.g. buy fencing direct, etc.) and all have expiry dates ways into the future. Thanks, chrissyd.

Somewhat off topic...... Windows 3.x thru Windows 98SE had the slowest defragger. I finally learned that I could install the DEFRAG.EXE from Windows ME. Finally there was one that worked fast. I just installed Windows 2000 on another computer. I see once again MS went back to the slow defragger. Not only that, but the older versions (Windows 3.x thru Win98se) showed the process in a graphic and showed the percentage completed. The one in 2K dont show anything except some colored bars, and I have no idea what percentage is completed. What a useless POS. Can I install the defragger from WinME in Win2K? (Note: I will not likely continue using Windo…

Every time I open a file that uses media player the computer shuts down and restarts. I can open media player itself and it opens fine until I try to play something then it shuts off. I just installed service pack 3 although I don't know if this is related. I have tried uninstalling MP11 and reinstalling didn't help. Any ideas?

Hello everyone, My problem is that my computer wont get to the desktop because it is so rooted with viruses and what not (the windows loading screen finishes then i get some message and a blank black screen), so i would like to clean install windows xp but when i search for clean install/boot on google and microsoft it says i must go to the start menu for the first step in the procedure. Is there an option for me to clean install as i cannot get into windows? also i have windows xp academic upgrade, and the full version on W98, would this mean id have to install 98 and then XP ontop of it? Thanks in advance to anyone who can help

I have a folder that allows access to certain users. Is it possible to have that folder prompt for a user and password when people try to save files to it? It would need to prompt them when they are saving from excel or word as opposed to somebody trying to copy a file into it. Is this possible? Thanks, Jasper

I have a folder that allows access to certain users. Is it possible to have that folder prompt for a user and password when people try to save files to it? It would need to prompt them when they are saving from excel or word as opposed to somebody trying to copy a file into it. Is this possible? Thanks, Jasper

For some reason I lost a hard drive although I can access the data on the drive through microsoft digital image it does not show up in my computer.It is not showing up in disk management. I am using XP Pro SP3. Thanks in advance

Windows Server 2003 Standard R2 - On a 2nd DC, I'm unable to load software when I'm signed on as network administrator. The error message indicates that there are insufficient rights to perform the install. AD replicates normally and I'm able to access all network shared folders.

Hi, I am looking for a solution whcih sends message to the desktop of logged in users or a group of users from active directory. Could someone help. thanks