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I have an application that hangs occationally, and I need to script a forced reboot. I tried to manually use "shutdown -r -f", but it didn't work. I then manualy closed all open applications with thier GUI close program buttons and that worked just fine. I thought that the whole purpose of the "-f" switch was to deal with stuck applications?

Hi Some of the programs I have installed like Winamp have added menu Items to the Start Menu (right click) and the Popup Menu (right click) in Explore. How can I get rid of them I know about MMM http://hace-software.com/mmm.shtml I just want to get rid of them without installing another Application. cheers Peter Skiner

I was playing (Fear-Extraction Point) when it froze with red patterns. Every time I restart PC, I get patterns of red dots on the very first black screen, and green dots on windows welcome. Then screen goes blank. I tried safe mode but got same kind of result. Tried safe -VGA and that did get me to desktop, but with bands of colours corrupting desktop. Tried a restore from there but no difference after restart. I booted from Acronis disk image CD, and once that was going, the Acronis program loaded up with no visual corruption. How can Acronis look OK, but even the very first bootup screen (presumably with windows display drivers (?)) be corrupt? Any sugg…

it vanashed from my computer and wont let me reinstall. any help. also cant install silverlite either.

I don't know how to search through all of the newsgroup messages to find a particular subject of interest. Can someone walk me through the process? I would like to be able to find answers without posting a new message on the same subject. -- Dave

Hi, What is the main Office 2007 newsgroup? My ribbon icons are fuzzy, yet Word, etc works fine and all other programs on my computer are fine. I'm not sure of the main Office newsgroup to ask some questions. If you'd point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Thanks

23/Oct/2008 23:20 I have Windows XP with SP3. I have my windows updates set to automatic. However when the updates are done I get a CONSTANT reminder to restart my computer so that the updates can take effect. (Now I've been running personal computers for about 15 years, and rebooting for changes to take effect was one of the first things I learned. The constant reminder is pain in the butt.) The reminder message appears every 05 to 10 minutes. When the (annoying) reminder message is not appearing on screen, it sits next to the clock as a small yellow shield icon. The icon does not have a delete option, so I cannot delete it the normal way. Is there…

WinXP Home - with all latest updates installed In my user account (but not in my Admin account) I see little white boxes around the text of the main items in the menu bar of some programs (but not all - not in MSOffice for example but I do see it in Notepad Plus, and Mailwasher). I do NOT see these white boxes if I open the same programs in my Admin account. I am not aware of any program that is open in the user account that is not also in the Admin account. I use ZoneAlrm free as a firewall, Skype, Mailwasher Pro 6.3, Winzip Quickpick, Counterspy VIPRE, RealPopup, - these are all present in both admin and user accounts. Anyone any ideas please?…

On both my laptop and desktop computers, I have the screen saver set to display a slide show of the My Pictures folder. It works fine on the laptop, but on the desktop about a third of the pictures display sideways, not even all in the same direction. The folder contains the same pictures on both computers. How can I get the pictures to always display in the correct alignment on the desktop computer?

I am new to learning and getting involved with Terminal Services. I'm trying to learn this on my own. I have a few older PCs that in order to run Windows, they need a lot of upgrading which takes money and I do not want to have to deal with the basic windows maintenance, licenseing, etc. I would like to know if anyone knows of a bootable, probably linux based and free, OS that will turn an older PC into a thin client? thanks, ~alan

Router/Gateway - WinServer 2003. DHCP and WINS configured I have a client PC now on standby, and i want to wake up the client PC. It is in a workgroup and pointed towards the router above. I know we can use Wake-On-LAN to wake up the machine, but i do not have the MAC address of that client PC now (since it's alrdy on standby - running XP Pro). Is there any method of getting the MAC Address? I tried "arp -a" and it does not have the MAC Addr of that client. Thanks.

Hi all Am unable locate my cookies folder icon. Have tried - "mycomputer/documents & settings/username" - but said file no longer shows up as it previously did. I might have inadvertantly deleted it. Thanks in advance. Winxp pro.

I have changed a line in the boot.ini file, and now I cannot boot Windows Server 2003. I did save the original boot.ini file under a different name, but since I cannot get the system to boot, I can't delete the changed file and can't rename the original. Can anybody help me with this problem? Thank you -- J.Fabian

Hello all, About 3 month ago I made a new installation of WinXP SP2 on this computer. Pentium III 1.6 GHz, 768 MB RAM. All worked well until a collegue installed google desktop on this computer. I think it was since then, photo previes is extremely slow. Does not matter what program is used to view the pictures. She normally uses xnview, latest version. But als with the windows explorer the preview of picture are very slow. About same speed on local or network drives. I removed google desktop, but the speed did not change. All other seem to work with normal speed. Have anyone an idea what I could do? Thanks in advance, Siegfried

I've seen a screen in Win'XP that lists all the open programs and allows you to close any or all of them. Can't find it. Please help. Don J ---------------------------------------------------