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I would super love to be able to have a shortcut on my desktop or quick launch bar to change my screen saver active time. Because it is password protected, I like it to activate within the minimum time (1 minute) when I leave my desk - but when I am at my desk, it is annoying to have to log on every time I get distracted from computer for more than one minute. And clicking a button or shortcut would certainly be easier than logging off, or going to display settings everytime my boss calls me into his office or I go to the restroom. Does anyone know how to do this in a batch file or some other way? Thanks in advance for your help! magmike

Hi, No matter what utility I have tried i can not make html shortcuts appear with anything other than the generic shortcut icon. I've tried reg and exe utilities with not luck - they didn't fix it and probably added unnecessay junk onto my system... What is the apparent challenge in fixing this, and how do I fix? Thanks, Lee G. xp sp3

When I turn on my computer these days, I'm getting sound---voices, music, sounds like a commercial. Why??? My browser isn't even open! My DSL is on though. Glitches like this on my computer are really getting annoying. :( Any help would be appreciated.

Over the past few days when I bootup my computer, the System Configuration Utility window pops up. It has the following message: You have used the Sys Config Utility to make changes to the way Windows starts. .....is currently in Diagnostic or Selective Startup mode, causing the message to be displayed and the utility to run every time Windows starts. Choose the Normal Startup mode on the General tab to start Windows normally and undo the changes you made using the SCU. I don't recall making any changes to startup..Can I just select Normal Startup mode, or is something else going on and if so, what should I do? Thanks in advance, sheana

I'm using Windows XP Pro with all latest updates... I'm confused about my computer automatically going into hibernation when it is not used for certain lengths of the time. Sometimes it seems to do this, and other times it is does not go into hibernation even after hours of non-use Does anybody know why it works sometimes and not others? Thanks, Bob

Hi, I have two HP Pavilion PCs, one running Vista32 and the other one running Vista64. On Vista32, Quicktime Player is starting in about 7 seconds, the same procedure takes up to one minute when starting on Vista64. Is there any known issue, any remedy that could help? I tried switching off Prefetch, I deactivated Aero, but no success. Using Quicktime Alternative is not an option because I need QT installed for another application. TIA, Michael

I have 56 single file Flash game short cuts in a folder on desktop. After nearly 2 years they have started appearing in data form and take ages to transform into their icon short-cuts created by me. Any idea why this has just started happening? It is also happening in my Spy & Virus folder with all my 10 short-cuts in there! - Thanks - Andy

Hi, We recently updated a number of our office PCs with the windows xp service pack 3 update, since the update a number of users are having issue with the mapping for there active directory home folder. The user normally has a H drive that is mapped to their own share. We are running a windows 2003 domain controller and when the user logs in it doesn't map the H drive. There are no errors reported in the event viewer and when the user logs in to a SP2 machine there home drive maps fine. we also have a log in script to map a number of other drives, this is working fine regardless of which service pack is installed. As a test on one of the PCs I rolled back …

when i click -view the status of my system hardware and software on the page i get this message -Automation server can't create object. what has happened.thanks for your help.

I have XP Home and the current default is Windows Media Player. I've downloaded a file not recognized by WMP and want to change my default player. How can I do that? Thanks much in advance. Mike

I noticed that 2 of our Win 2003 servers have some folders under the WINDOWS folder with names like NS9_KB933508_ENU or SQL9_KB933508_ENU, etc. What are these folders for? Are they from hotfix/updates or something? Can I get rid of them and their contents? Thanks. David

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I have read about the Settings and File Transfer wizard for years but there is at least one thing I don't understand that is important to me now that I think I need to use it. I am about to assemble a new computer and want to know how to transfer all,if not most, of the programs installed on the old one to the new one. I feel confident in getting all the files I want in 'Programs Files' from the old one to the new one but can someone tell me how I get their Registry entries or any other required system info over to the new one? The old one has XP Home as probably will the new one. (I might wind up with XP Pro on the new one because I have an unused l…

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