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    - ballacing a hardrive? Is it true that you should balance out your hard drive? If so, how? Here are my hard drive numbers. Local disk (C ) used space is 16,674,054.144 bytes 15.5 GB Free space 9,548,103,680 bytes 8.89 GB Capacity 26.222.157,824 bytes 24.4 GB Programs (D) used space is 341,504,000 bytes 325 mb Free space 23,774,982.144 bytes 22.1 Gb Capacity 24,116,486,144 bytes 22.4 gb Files E) used space 2,449,547,264 bytes 2.28 gb Free space 29,168,394,240 bytes 27.1 GB Capacity 31,617,941,504 bytes 29.4 g -- Jspeedo Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815568
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    - Stop when installing Windows XP I am trying to reinstall Windows XP. I have ordered in BIOS the computer to begin with CD. This function. When I went on with reinstalling and I read the rules for using Windows XP and I was asked to print F8 for approving and go on, this did not function. I was stop. Why? LG Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815567
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    - Prevent windows default admin user from appearing in the "Run As" How can I prevent the windows xp pro sp3 default administrator account from appearing in the "Run As..." Dialog ? Application Icon -> context menu -> Run As... Instead of the win default one the own administrator user is defined and in use if necessary. The win default one is permanently disabled - user management console. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815556
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    - Unable to Access LinkStation (Wireless External Hard Drive) Files I have been using a Buffalo LinkStation Pro LS-250GL High Speed NAS Wireless External Hard Drive and all of a sudden I can't network with it. It has worked fine for over a year on my primary XP (SP2) laptop, and 2 other laptops I own (both XP SP2) have no problem accessing the hard drive and its files. Now - although I can access the hardware through its web interface and can log in and change settings, it won't let me access files. I have been in contact with BuffaloTech support as well as Symantec/Norton and both insist that something changed in Windows to cause access problems. I have disabled and re-enabled Norton Antivirus and uninstalled and re-installed the Buffalo LinkStation software and updated their firmware to no avail. I haven't used the external drive for a month, maybe 2 months, and I doubt I could rollback far enough to a system restore point to see if that would solve the issue. Is there any other way to see what could be causing this issue? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815545
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    - Discount air max,discount nike shox,discount AF1 Here are various and latest styles for your choice in our website. We insist the principia: Prestige first,high-quality,competitive price, best services,and timely delivery.We can deliver the products of our customers within 24 hours upon receiving the payment. We never mind starting the business from minimum order even 1 pair. For more inf please visit http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?myprofile&hl=en Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815532
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    - OMG XP hangs at startup I useOk guys, I just did a clean reinstall of windows xp pro on my gateway desktop. I had all my printers, scanners and almost all of my software in as well as all window updates including SP3. I was loading Winfax and had a problem installing it. When I restarted windows it hung up at the Windows XP screen with the scrolling blue dots. I rebooted to safe mode and uninstalled Winfax. Again it hung up. I went back to safe mode at used system restore to last night. Restarted, same problem. I am 95% done with a 10 hour project (reinstallation of windows, drivers, updates and all other programs I use). What can I do? Thanks, Scott Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815530
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    - How to save and later restore icon layout? I carefully arrange icons on my desktop. Every once in a while I ending up running applications that think they need to rearrange the icons on my desktop, completely messing up the arrangement I had set up. Is there a way to save and later restore my icon layout, so I can set up the arrangement I want, save it, and then if something rearranges it later, I can then restore the layout I had saved? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815523
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    - certificate problems I HAVE HAD MY COMPUTER FOR AWHILE BUT NOW I AM HAVING PROBLEMS WITH A CERTIFICATE ERROR ON SOME WEB SITES THAT I HAVE NEVER HAD THIS ISSUE SO CAN ANY ONE HELP HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815521
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    - CHKDSK - Volume Dirty, Can't Recover System Upon Startup...XP goes into CHKDSK of which the reason is Volume Dirty and hangs at 60% complete (Stage 1 of 3). It just doesn't seem to be doing anything at this point as it appears hung, dead in the water. What has me concerned is, there is no option available for me to go another route to recover my system, even with the XP CD. It goes straight to CHKDSK as mentioned earlier and hangs. What has happened? Have I lost my hard drive? I'm frustrated with it as my system is fairly young and haven't experienced anything like this before. Thank you. -- Joe Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815520
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    - problem with windows sizing Hi, its me, the fussbudget with DOS experience - latest rub (and I checked the NG for similars) is: all of a sudden, when I open Windows Explorer, it comes up filling about 2/3 of the screen. I maximize it, Ctrl-X out, and re-open, but the next time I open Windows Explorer, there was no permanent effect. Also my web-browser comes up about 98% of the screen, and I just like it as maximal as possible, because of my weak, old eyes. Any advice would be gratefully appreciated! -- Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815506
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    - Reinstall Windows XP problem!, Where are the harddrives??? Alright. I'm a pure Linux user (The kind that programs by using magnets on the harddrive ) Anyway, so I'm trying to help my mom out but is having kind of a hard time since I ain't that used with windows. Here's the problem. When booting up Windows it takes quite a long time loading the OS. Plus when you go into "My Computer" it takes even longer to find the harddrives. So my mom decided to reinstall Windows XP Pro on her pc. But then when she put the CD into the CD-Drive and started the installation. She had to face quite a bizzare thing. It can't find the harddrives. And when you try to proceed it gives this error: (Translating Swedish to English) QUOTE An error occured and Windows have shutdown to prevent problems with your computer. Following file can be the cause for the problem: setupdd.sys PAGE_FAULT_IN_NOPAGED_AREA If this is the first time, reboot. If the message is shown again you should... Control that all new hard- and software are correctly installed. If this is a new installation, you can contact hard- or softwaremanufactures if you need special files for Windows. If the problem remains you can try to deactivate or remove new hardware or software. Deactivate alternativs for the bios for example caching or shadowing. [NOTE: Didn't have anything like that in the BIOS] Technical Information *** STOP: 0x00000050 (0xE5132708, 0x00000000, 0xF77BA9A8, 0x00000002) *** Setupdd.sys - Address F77BA9A8 base at F7793000, Datestamp 41107c8f So I thought it was kind of wierd that the installation CD can't find the harddrives but there's no problem in booting up the system and start Windows. My mom though checked what the error means and according to Microsoft that error is supposed to mean that there's an error in the computers RAM. I put in my Ubuntu Live-CD which includes a program called MemTest1.7 which testes the RAM. I did the test twice and the test passed both with no warnings or problems at all. So I booted up a virtual Ubuntu OS on my moms computer to confirm that the harddrives were working. And they were. But there were no windows in them. According to Linux they were completley empty. Ubuntu is also made to detect any Windows installation and ask if you want to install Ubuntu on the same Partition. But that never happend. So from what I know from previous experiences, my mom is currently running on a Windows system but I don't know where it is. My common sense tells me that it should be in her harddrive but windows can't find them. Linux can though, but it says it's empty. I got two solutions, but I hope you have a better one. Install Linux and then hope that the harddrives are visable for the Windows CD.(Though my mom doesn't like that one) Ask the ghost living in moms computer to nicley surrender the harddrives and get a free cookie. Here's a small list of specifications: CPU AMD Athlon 64bit 4000+ 1.81GHz RAM 2x DDR400 RAM 512MB HDD 2x SATA Harddrives with RAID1(Uncertain) Thanks on before hand! Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815502
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    - Certain things are unclickable Seems that my system will semi-freeze. I will bootup and i cannot click the start button. From here as i navigate to other pages using Firefox or EI i have to use Ctrl-Alt-Del to unlock the system till i again go to another page. The system has been scanned using many apps to scan and remove malware. None is on the system yet it still responds in the same way. used hijack this, combofix, drweb...so on Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815501
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    - XP Themes disappear again When I Restarted the XP themes were gone again but they were in the themes folder. I received an error message stating the theme service was not running and so I tried to start it in the Computer Management Administrative Tool in the Control Panel. I then got Error 998:Invalid access to memory location. Can someone help fix this and what should I do to keep it from happening again? Thanks Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815500
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    - I am having a few problems with Windows XP I have lost most of my control panel and am wondering how to reinstall it without having to do a complete reinstall (yet again) of XP...HELP Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815493
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    - Computer is in reboot loop after installing SP 3 after installing SP3 I am unable to fully load windows. I get the screen that asks what OS I am using. I choose Windows XP Home edition. Then it goes to screen where there is choices like Safe Mode, Safe Mode Networking, Last know good configuration, start windows normally. I am only able to go to the safe modes. But what then...?? How do I fix this? Help! Why does windows update recommend you to install this SP if there is issues? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815486
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    - SP3 to install or not? Should I install SP3. PC seems to run ok without it, have heard negative reports of SP3. What do you think? Cheers. Classic Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815482
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    - xp repair in win xp i have on my hp laptop i was installing a free lavasoft product to remove spyware and computer froze and upon re starting only to get hp start up screen and then a black screen unable to get into safe mode but able to get into Xp installation disc to do the repair routine to completion at reboot it only returns to black screen no cursor and no windows logo i am a novice at this but now what can I do none f the F8 functions are assesable with most options to start loadin and stop 1/4 way Reply With Quote -- dgdl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dgdl's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=53030 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=1000733 http://forums.techarena.in Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815480
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    - Error 1402 when trying to uninstall a program Running XP Home SP3. I downloaded a trial version of Migo Software PC Backup Pro. Had problems running the program, and wanted to uninstall. Uninstalling in Contol Panel/A/R Programs yeilds an "Error 1402. Could not open key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\.nbk\Shell New. Verify you have sufficient access." Searched MS KB articles and found kb236592. Went into Registry, found key, right clicked, selected permissions, changed to give me full control, checked "Replac e permission entries on all child objects..." Tried to uninstall again, got same error message. I am unable to send a support inquiry to Migo Tech Support since I didn't buy, and don't have a serial number. Located their phone numbers. One doesn't connect, the other doesn't answer. I recall thet Microsoft had a uninstall utility that I used to get rid of some Symantec "leftovers". Is it still available would it work? Please help. -- Phil Runyon 57 Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815471
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    - Trouble with Microsoft Word When I finish composing a document and go to "Save As" in the FILE pull down menu I get a small window titled MICROSOFT VISUAL BASIC. In the window it says, "compile error in hidden module:Main". There are 2 buttons, 1 says ON and the other says HELP.If I click on OK, the window goes away, (no SAVE AS action) If I click on HELP a new window appears titled "Microsoft Office XP Professional with Front Page". In the box it says, "Please wait while windows configures Microsoft XP Professional with Front Page" Then it wants me to insert "microsoft Office XP Professional with Front Page"disk and click OK. I do not have Windows XP Professional, I have Windows XP Home Edition. This whole thing started when I loaded the language recognition software, IBM's ViaVoice. In an attempt to fix the problem I went to the Control Panel and removed theViaVoice software but that did not fix the problem. I assume the ViaVoice had a file conflict somewhere with my MS Word. Any help would be appreciated. Loring Hutchinson Loringh@yahoo.com Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815459
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    - New XP Pro in dual-boot is mute Hi Folks, The computer (Medion Multimedia PC MD8833) has Vista Home Premium pre-installed. I have installed a newly-bought XP Pro in a separate partition as a dual boot setup. All in XP is now working after several trials and tribulations EXCEPT the sound. Realtek High Definition Audio is on the motherboard. Attempts to install drivers for it, from various sources including the CD supplied with the computer as 'XP Drivers', a file recommended by DriverDetective and one from Realtek site, fail towards the end of the installation process with a cryptic 'failed' message. One error code announced is 0xE0000227 Does anyone know what this means and what has generated it? I wonder if anyone else has encountered this sort of problem with sound in a dual boot? The Vista installation partition is Hidden and Vista has not been booted at all when I try these installations. The Installshield runs for quite a long time, extracting many files and it is almost at the end of a progress bar when it fails. This seems to imply that it thinks it is installing to the correct hardware?? It may be relevant that, if I go into Device Manager (where a yellow ! is shown against this item) and ask Windows to reinstall the driver, nothing at all happens when that button is clicked. Also 'uninstall' does not work - something says 'device may be needed to boot up' which is surely ridiculous!? Any ideas on how I proceed to get sound working? TIA Derek Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815458
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    - explorer.exe proccess keeps stoping Greetings, I am working on a Dell dimension 4600 that was riddeld with spyware. I've done several scans and install AV protection. However, at startup the explorer.exe process keeps crashing caussing the desktop to flash about every 5-10 seconds. This happens in safe mode also. I can get to a command prompt and launch task from there. I've done: 1) Scanned with counterspy and spy-bot S&D 2) Scanned with McAfee 2008 3) sfc /scannow 4) installed SP3 5) Reinstalled video driver 6) Uninstalled any unnecessary programs Any ideas out there? -- Glen Spidal Cybercorp Computers Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815455
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    - slow boot up I have winXP Home/WSP3, when I boot up it take about 15-20 minutes to boot. once I boot the computer works normally as it should. I have tried to disable several start up items, but the computer still takes aover 15 minutes to boot up. How can I lower boot up speed? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815454
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    - Need help disabling a function key/shortcut key I turned the ?/ key on to act as an F10 key, how do I turn that off? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815450
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    - sfc.exe command -- only show problems, not replace. Hi. Is there a way to have sfc.exe only show problems and not repair/fix/replace? Thank you in advance. :) -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815444
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    - Windows XP reinstall Yesterday I got a trojan and virus. I installed XP again and choosed the full version. But that version went to Partition D: instead of C:. I should have choosed to complete. But I did not see that before it was too late. Now I have Windows XP at two places.I have installed Panda virus program at C afterwards. I have also been able to clean my system from the trojan. My question is how I get the computer to start Windows XP with the version at C. Perhaps I must install some Office programs again. But how can I do get rid of one version. I want to have Windows away from partition D: Before I used MSDOS to make the C: partition empty with format C: in earlier version of Windows. How can I do? I am a little tired of install again. LG Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815442
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    - Install Yesterday I got a trojan and virus. I installed XP again and choosed the full version. But that version went to Partition D: instead of C:. I should have choosed to complete. But I did not see that before it was too late. Now I have Windows XP at two places.I have installed Panda virus program at C afterwards. I have also been able to clean my system from the trojan. My question is how I get the computer to start Windows XP with the version at C. Perhaps I must install some Office programs again. But how can I do get rid of one version. I want to have Windows away from partition D: Before I used MSDOS to make the C: partition empty with format C: in earlier version of Windows. How can I do? I am a little tired of install again. LG Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815441
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    - Netmeeting causes remote keyboard to fail I was conducting a Netmeeting session with a remote Windows XP laptop user last Friday. After our session was over their keyboard would only type gibberish. Rebooting did not help. I set up another Netmeeting this morning and without doing anything other than setting up the meeting the problem went away. I had the user power cycle the laptop and the problem returned. Once again we set up the Netmeeting and the problem was resolved. Does anyone know what causes this and how it can be resolved? -- Thanks, Bendar Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815440
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    - Does XP Pro. SP3 have newer ntdll.dll and explorer.exe? Hello. I am having problems with my XP SP2's explorer.exe v6.0.2900.3156 crashing with ntdll.dll v5.1.2600.2180. I am wondering if SP3 have newer versions of explorer.exe and ntdll.dll. Thank you in advance. :) -- "I killed an ant, now all my relatives are afraid of me." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Phil/Ant @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) | |o o| | Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL): http://aqfl.net \ _ / Remove ANT from e-mail address: philpi@earthlink.netANT ( ) or ANTant@zimage.com Ant is currently not listening to any songs on his home computer. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815427
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    - Updates will not install I picked up my computer from the shop a few days ago after a re-build of the OS system (XP Home). While in the shop I let them install Norton AntiVirus 2008 and Webroot SpySweeper, but nothing else. Now that I am at home, I keep getting the message that updates are ready for my computer. I instruct it to download and install (Express Install) the updates. A few seconds later, I get the message that: Security Update for Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Service Pack 2 (KB936181) Security Update for Windows XP (KB951748) Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830) Update for Windows XP (KB951978) Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP (KB950759) CANNOT BE INSTALLED. I thought that either NAV or Spy Sweeper might be blocking it. I turned off SpySweeper (but can't figure out HOW to turn off NAV) and tried again (actually tried six times) with the same results. Don't I need these updates? And if so, what are some suggestion for resolving the problem? Thanks in advance. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815426
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    - How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? When I start a search for files using Windows XP it always open the Windows Desktop Search. Since this almost never finds what I am looking for, and doesn't allow date ranges, I always end up using the 'Click here to use Search Companion" link at the bottom. Is there a way to make all searches default to the Search Companion? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815424
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    - Where do I stick my license key? It's a VERY long story... I have a dell Dimension 2300 with xp home that's gone corrupt. I don't have the Administrator password, so I've limited access to clean things up. I decided to just reload it. It won't install from the i386 partition on the hard drive. Complains that it needs drivers.cab and mstask.ini. When I borrow those from another similar Dell machine, it gets a lot further but has problems: sxs.dll finds syntax errors in default.man... Ok, I give up. I cloned the drive from a Dimension 4550 and after a lot of messing around with drivers, it appears to work and msoobe claims it's activated. Now, I have two machines with the same license key. I have two keys for the 2300. One from the sticker on the case and a different one extracted from the registry. I "understand" that's normal for an OEM preinstall??? I also saved the wpa.dbl file from the original disk. So, to make it all legal, which key do I use and how do I get it into the right place...without screwing up the activation? What's the risk of doing nothing? Am I likely to encounter downloading or activation-related problems later? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815421
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    - Permissions problem after upgrade Hi all I just upgraded my 2000 server with an additional 1gb RAM. Now I have a problem.. Users (which are not admins) are complaining that they cannot save a file which they open from their folder on the server. They have full rights on their respective folder but still they cannot save, change filename or delete file.. it says a sharing violation or something like that. Also the office files are leaving like TMP files when opened and I cant delete these files also! Can someone suggest a solution to this problem please?? Thanks a lot! Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815414
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    - help: drwtsn32.exe error with 0xc0000142 Dear all, My computer couldnt start. Every time it failed with the message: application error application failed to initialize properly (0Xc0000142) click ok to terminate the application. I could not terminate it even though i clicked OK. I tried with save mode,...., all failed. Please help me out! Charles Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815411
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    - Don't get Login Screen Hello, I know that I may have to chase this up with the Nortons Ghost help, but I wanted to know what it may have done to cause the following. I have XP2 with what I believe is all the latest updates. I have not put SP3 on unless it just did that automatically. I have had a few crashes and lost too much stuff in the past and wanted to clone my primary C drive so if it happens again I don't have to spend days getting things up to speed again. I used Ghost to clone the C (with XP) partition to a good drive of the same make, size etc.. I have done this umpteem times so know what I am doing. It did it's job well and when I rebooted I was able to continue my work. When I had time, I wanted to check the clone drive so swapped it. It booted up fine but when I was expecting to get the Login screen, I got another same colour and style screen, but with a smaller XP Windows logo etc. I was unable to interact with it as there was nothing to interact with although the mouse was moving fine. Any ideas on this? Thanks rock Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815401
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    - IE displays BIG letters Suddenly when I manually ran Windows Update, the display was like one for someone who is legally blind. (Very BIG letters and images) It's like someone turned a giant magnifying glass on the content of IE 7.x IE does this on every page for every web site, even with encoding set to Auto. It still happens. -- ________ Brian M. Kochera mailto:brian1951@earthlink.net Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815397
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    - System Restore points have disappeared Whilst trying to resolve a problem I performed a System Restore to a point on 1st June. I subsequently chose to undo that restore and now I have no restore points beyond 1st July. Is this normal? Gallopinhairpin Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815396
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    - explorer.exe problems I have recently encountered a problem with my Dell laptop running XP. The first thing I noticed was that my desktop background disappeared, replaced by a plain blue screen. Then after a while explorer.exe would shut down right after I logged in. Now when I use Task Manager to boot explorer.exe it boots up and shuts down over and over. Anyone know the problem here? I suspect some kind of virus but I have no idea where to begin. Thanks. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815388
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    - Blotchy XP Open Screen, Dots Around Cursor & Sys Tray Icons I just installed XP Home SP3, but that may be just a coincidence. Since then, the XP Open Screen has blue dashes or sometimes blue squares or rectangles scattered throughout the black background. Cursor arrow lower half is dots or other times has a rectangle of black dots horizontally on either side of its lower half. In systems tray, PC-cillin icon bottom half has dots in it, the Quicktime icon has a rectangle of dots through the bottom half and the Creative Diagnostics Agent icon is just a rectangle of dots. Otherwise, all screens are clear and no operating problems with Word, IE or anything else. I tried a system restore, so then I had to reload SP3. I did a Safe Mode start and the cursor looked fine. I did a scandisk and disk cleanup. Still the same problems. I didn't want to get into msconfig.exe for fears of screwing something up, so I thought I'd ask for help. Is it something I can fix without reloading Windows (I hope)? -- Thanks, Mike Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815387
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    - disc clean what is "Setup Log Files" and can I safely remove them. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815379
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    - after changed motherboard xp won't boot This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030007080108020604080106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have installed XP on my harddrive and all my files are on that hard drive, but Xp won't boot with newer motherboard. It asks me to go to safe mode...or ...normal windows entry...but on both functions the blue screen appears and in sec. it restarts... Is it necessary to reinstall XP, and what are the things i will have to do again after reinstallation to be as it was prior when it worked ? Is there some easier way to boot XP with another Motherboard ? Aha...and when to use jellybean ? --------------030007080108020604080106 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="comitter.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="comitter.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Majki Majk n:;Majki Majk adr;dom:;;;Zagreb email;internet:comitter@europe.com tel;cell:091/504-5311 note;quoted-printable:Cijenjena ponuda na e-mail kontakt!=0D=0A= Ozbiljne ponude molim!=0D=0A= Mo=C5=BEe i sms-om! x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------030007080108020604080106-- Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815374
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    - Delete programs in startup Hi,I have too many programs in my startup menu box,so it takes a while to download. I go to msconfig.exe then startup but I cant decipher the programs to delete,is it possible to delete them all and reload startup with windows essentials if so how.cheers Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815368
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    - Icon jumps to other side of screen at every start up? I have 4 icons on left side of screen. when I restart computer the recycle bin icon is always on the right side of screen. I rearrange it, right click and select save desktop icon layout to no avail. this started about one week ago and do not know what else to try. thanks for any help Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815367
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    - MMC and other system utilities not starting without any error mess I have a fully patched XP Pro SP3 laptop where no MMC snap-in (or mmc.exe itself) is starting and also things like ntbackup.exe and msinfo32.exe are not starting. They give _no error messages_, nothing just happens when clicking things under for example Control Panel/Administrative Tools (actually the Finnish equivalents, this is a Finnish language Windows) or trying to start things from the console. There are probably others in addition to mmc, ntbackup and msinfo32 that are not launching, but basically this problem seems to be limited to Windows components and not applications. Some things that do work are IE7 and Windows Explorer. Things ruled out thus far are simple drive errors and installed AV. I wish I knew what happened to the machine just before it started acting up like this, but reports from the user indicate that the latest patches are probably the only things installed on it recently. Can't look at any logs since Event Viewer is part of the problem. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815364
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    - My xp keeps restarting i turn on my pc and it load to the desktop on the desktop it has somrthing about a virus and needed to update virus scan but then before i can do anything like in matter of 5 to 15 seconds it restarts and it wont let me do anything? please someone help me i think there might be a virus or something on my other computer? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815356
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    - Now that SP3 is installed, what can I delete? I'm running XP Home Edition, upgraded to that from an OEM copy of ME. I've heard that if I create a slipstreamed SP3 XP installation CD, I won't have such folders as: C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$ and: C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ so can they be deleted now? Also, the C:\WINDOWS\ie7 seems kind of pointless to keep around at this juncture. Can any of these be deleted? Are there any others I don't need? They take up a lot of space AND they slow down defrags and AV scans. TIA -- John Corliss Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815354
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    - Blank screen I have a computer with WindowsXP SP2 on it and the splash screen will come up but then after that it goes to a blank screen. The only thing that will show up is the mouse cursor. I've tried safe mode, safe mode with command prompt and also VGA mode, and they all produce the same reslult, a blank screen. Like I said the Windows XP splash screen works fine so I don't believe it is a video card or monitor problem. I went to Microsofts web site and found this hotfix for the problem "WindowsXP-KB948277-X86-ENU.EXE". So I downloaded it with another PC since I can't see anything on the screen with the bad PC. They give you no instructions on Microsofts web site on how to apply the fix. So my question is how do I execute the EXE. since all I have is a blank screen? Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815352
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    - IE7 not connecting Hi, I installed IE8 Beta, played around with it for few days then uninstalled it. Now it seems something in the TCPIP level seems broken. I can ping and tracert out to any site, but IE7 will not work (nor will Firefox). I've tried: netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt , unchecking TCPIP at the network config window, uninstalled IE7, same problem with IE6 - reinstalled IE7 still not - I'm getting the page can not display error. any thought, leads? thanks for your help -- ---------------------------------- The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. Tag: Saved searches Tag: 815347
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I accidentally posted this message to the XPgeneral newsgroup, to which I
apologise.

I specified a search to scan my C: drive only. When it found the files, I
saved it to my desktop; but I notice that it saved it as having searched
both my C & D drives. Why should this be, and can it not be changed to save
as specified?

Geoplay

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Re: Saved searches by Ron

Ron
Tue Jul 15 11:31:51 PDT 2008

I think you are out of luck with the native search engine which is not very
good in my opinion. I use Agent Ransack, a freebie search utility, and it
does exactly what you want.
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"Geoplay" <yer_i_be@primehome.com> wrote in message
news:%237J5kzo5IHA.1468@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I accidentally posted this message to the XPgeneral newsgroup, to which I
>apologise.
>
> I specified a search to scan my C: drive only. When it found the files, I
> saved it to my desktop; but I notice that it saved it as having searched
> both my C & D drives. Why should this be, and can it not be changed to
> save
> as specified?
>
> Geoplay
>
>

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