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    - CPU running high My cpu randomly begins to run high, sometimes at 100% for no apparent reason. At least none that I can see. It causes extreme slowdown on my machine sometimes causing webpages to take up to 7 minutes to open or close. There is no "regular" time for this, it just happens even after i clean up, defrag, etc. I have to sometimes shut down my PC by holding down the power button or wait 10 minutes for the menu to open. Any tips on what could be causing this or a way to stop it?? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802815
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    - HELP - Lost data after reinstalling XP My laptop is a DELL Inspiron 6000. OS : XP Home edition. During boot I got the error message : "No master boot sector found" or something similar. After several attempts I decided to reinstall the OS (XP Pro, from an old CD, as Dell did not give me a Windows CD), as I had done in the past on another PC, believing it would keep my application programs and data. Unfortunately that did not happen, as i found myself with a bare-bones OS and no trace whatsoever of other data on the HD. Can I recover the old data ? I downloaded a couple of utilities but they are hard to manage and no appreciable results were obtained. Can someone please help ? I am in a terrible fix, as I use the laptop for my work. I had all my invoices stored there, along with clients' data and emails, three-years-worth of stuff. Thanks in advance. Mike Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802814
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    - Freeze My XP Home edition with SP2 on a Compaq Presario desktop will freeze on occasion; sometimes during startup at the XP screen, sometimes on standby. It's quite random, and rarely at the same exact spot. Pressing ctr-alt-del does nothing. It's been suggested that the computer might be overheating, so I cleaned the dust out of the case and made sure that all three fans are operating, but it did not cure the hang/freeze problem. I also shut down screen savers and auto standby functions, and disabled all unnecessary startup programs/processes, to no avail. Any other ideas out there? Richard Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802810
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    - Neeed help with a "windows - sysytem error"...Thank you Hello, Hope someone can help me out. I keep getting an error popping on the screen. It is a small gray box with a red circle with an "x" in it. The title of it is; "Windows- System error" and the error in the box is; "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API." My PC specs are ass follow; AMD X2 processor, 2 Gig of Ram, Nvidia graphic card and runs XP pro. Not much installed on the PC, a couple of small programs for work, windows office and I use Firefox extensively for work as well. BTW, I reinstalled windows twice recently and I keep getting that error even after the fresh install. The main problem is that if I get the error while I am logged off the system, I can't get back in, I have to shut the PC off manually to be able to log back in. If I get the error while I am in windows, I can simply close the error window and keep on doing what I am doing. Thank you very much in advance. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802806
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    - a tick mark is there a tick mark (as opposed to a cross (X) ) shortcut on a qwerty keyboard that i can use to put a tick into a question and answer box. i have tried using the extra keyboard functions that bring up (i think) the extra symbols such as alt 0065 produces an hebrew sign (cant remember how to do it and this is only a maybe example). would love some help. just seems like everything in form filling is a green dot. this is just frustrating and irritating Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802798
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    - How do I get a 16 bit application to run on XP Pro? How do I get a 16 bit application to run on XP Pro? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802786
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    - intermitent sound I have Windows XP 5.1 and Windows Media Player11. When I play any file in any mediaplayer or from a cd the songs skips like an old phonograph. Alomost in a streaming issue. i upgraded my ram thinking that 256 was not enough and added a 1g since I added a wirless network however it did not solve the problem. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802781
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    - Password Is it Possible to protect a folder by the use of a Password. Thanks in advance. Pete Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802780
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    - resize / reduce the all programs lists Is there a way to resize /reduce the 'all programs list' that appears from the start menu as i have lots of programs and i now have 4 columns wide and cant read the last column properly.I dont want to delete any of the programs but i seem to remember or have seen the 'all program list' in 1 completely vertical position with an up / down arrowhead on it Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802778
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    - Should I use KB909095 to fix hibernate problem I have had two laptops now which have failed to hibernate properly because of 2Gb or more of RAM. The first is nearly four years old and I applied KB909095 to it and that fixed the problem. My latest laptop only a few months old has 4GB of RAM and is now suffering the same problem. I resisted applying KB909095 because the EXEs in question appear to have been replaced by later versions. However I know there are different services branches also, so not sure whether one is really an update of the other. Does anyone know if its safe to apply the hotfix now given the newer versions of files already installed? I really would like to sort this out on my new laptop as it fails to hibernate everytime I try at the moment after a couple of hours using it. Thanks Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802768
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    - Sound, Video, Game controllers (Drivers) Hi guys, I have a Dell Dimension 8200 running Windows XP Pro SP2 with a TBS Santa Cruz Sound card. It is working perfectly until I bought and installed a Logictech Orbit AF webcam. During installation, it screwed up my sound drivers rendering my PC without sound. When I checked the device manager, the device drivers have yellow exclamtion marks on them and the device status have code 39. I have reinstalled the latest driver for this sound card and reinstalled the drivers but XP won't let me saying that it cannot find a driver better than I currently have. To make matters worse, the Dell technician I called uninstalled the other lines as well such as Audio codecs, video codecs, legacy, etc. None of my restore points work. I suspect that the registry has something to do with the new drivers not being reinstalled. Can you guys suggest something to bring back the sound to my PC along with the XP audio and video codecs short of reinstalling Windows XP? Thanks in advance for your help. John Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802760
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    - Sound Driver Hi guys, I have a Dell Dimension 8200 running Windows XP Pro SP2 with a TBS Santa Cruz Sound card. It is working perfectly until I bought and installed a Logictech Orbit AF webcam. During installation, it screwed up my sound drivers rendering my PC without sound. When I checked the device manager, the device drivers have yellow exclamtion marks on them and the device status have code 39. I have reinstalled the latest driver for this sound card and reinstalled the drivers but XP won't let me saying that it cannot find a driver better than I currently have. To make matters worse, the Dell technician I called uninstalled the other lines as well such as Audio codecs, video codecs, legacy, etc. None of my restore points work. I suspect that the registry has something to do with the new drivers not being reinstalled. Can you guys suggest something to bring back the sound to my PC along with the XP audio and video codecs short of reinstalling Windows XP? Thanks in advance for your help. John Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802759
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    - Windows update causes printer to stop working correctly Fresh install of windows on a newly formatted hard-drive, always results in this same thing: I install Windows XP Pro on a newly formatted hard-drive, and attach the computer the the network's printer using the [Printers and Faxes] dialogbox. Everything (including printing) works fine before I do any Windows updates. Then I do all the windows updates (including SP2) and test again, now, the print dialogbox, takes 45 seconds (instead of about 1 second) to come up when the [print] menu item is selected, and the print job takes 45 seconds (instead of about 1 second) to begin printing after the [print] button of the print dialogbox is pressed. I have tried this same sequence over-and-over many times for the last six weeks. I always start with a newly formatted hard-drive and a fresh install of Windows XP Pro. What could be causing this? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802756
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    - Notification area: right-click on an icon also brings up taskbar m Hello, I've had this bug for ages but sometimes, like now, I trawl the internet in the hope of finding one solitary person who has the same problem .... as always I've failed in my searches, so I'm trying here. Essentially, the problem is, with some applications' icons in the notification area, when I right-click on it to access its context menu, sometimes the context menu also comes up for the windows taskbar. Almost as if the cursor is partly 'mis-aiming' on where it is clicking. Something I've noticed about this behaviour, seemingly consistently, is that the 'double menu' problem does not happen if first i left-click on the blue area of the taskbar. If however I first left-click on the desktop for example, the problem happens. The problem is inconsistent by the way, sometimes it happens and other times not. For reference, I'm currently using a new XP Home install of only a few days, fully up to date, except I haven't installed IE7 or the cumulative IE6 security update which creates the annoying 'click here' glass/window over active browser items such as flash. Maybe ironically, the only way I previously found to stop this unwanted 'double menu' behaviour, was as a side effect of running Regseeker and letting it delete every 'un-necessary' entry that it found. So, any ideas how I can stop this small but annoying bug? Thanks a lot, Lee in England Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802753
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    - Favorites and how to get in alphabetical order? Hi there, I recently moved some favorites from one user to another on the same computer. My question is how come most of them are in alphabetical order now except after the Z, there are several recent favorites that I have made. How can I make those at the bottom of the list become incorporated into the alphabetical order? Thanks ! --Sytkeepr Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802750
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    - Syskey created.. and floppy went bad.. can't get on my computer! Windows XP Pro When I first got my computer, I enabled the "Syskey" option, which requires a certain floppy disk to be in my computer when it started up to let it start up. It has always come up to a screen while starting up that said "This computer has been configured to require a disk to be present during startup. Please insert the disk and press OK." For some reason, the computer doesn't recognize my disk, and when I put it in and click OK, it says "The Startup Key File has been damaged. Please contact your system administrator" Is there any way to get around this screen now? I tried safe mode, but it still comes up.. -- x4words Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802746
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    - MS Windows Searcy Indexer problems For the past few weeks I've had an on-going set of problems with my MS Windows Search Indexer. The Microsoft Windows Search Indexer error pop-up window keeps opening, mostly when I'm trying to use Outlook, but it happens in other situations occasionally. I checked Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel and find no entry for Microsoft Windows Search Indexer. There is an entry for Windows Desktop Search, but as I understand, this is a totally separate program. Device Manager shows no ? or ! marks on any of the entries. Apparently everything is working right as far as Device Manager can tell. In addition to this, something keeps changing my MIDI settings such that my Pizzicato Music software goes mute. I have been able to get the MIDI sound back on by tinkering around with the Control Panel Sound settings and with the corresponding settings in my Pizzicato Music software, but the problem usually recurs within a day or so. It seems to happen when I've had a spate of Indexer error messages. My computer specifics; Home built using a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L motherboard with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB RAM, two 1GB memory sticks. Running MS Windows XP Pro with SP2 installed. The hard drive is a Western Digital 500 GB with only about 100GB in use...400GB free. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802744
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    - Unable to locate a given file type (mid) I just installed vanbasco karaoke 2.53, but when I double click it doesnt start. Specifically, when I try to open a .mid file with this application (from context menu, open with...) on any .mid file an error window comes up: Unable to locate the ".mid file"... How can I fix it please? (if I choose opening by wmp it works regularly, sound is ok) ric Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802742
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    - Microsoft Request to Remember Login Microsoft's request to remember my Login appears on some of my Login web pages after entering the Login info for the first time. It then auto completes Login info in the future on that web page (as it's suppose to). But on other Login web pages, the Microsoft request to remember my Login never appears. Is there some way of making it appear or manually getting Microsoft to remember a web page Login? Does the web page itself determine whether or not Microsoft will offer to remember the Login info? Some web page Login's have a "remember me" box which I usually check, but doesn't seem to have any effect on whether or not the Microsoft request to remember my Login appears or wether the login is remembered. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802730
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    - Excel won't open I cant seem to get my excel files to open from anywhere other than from within the program. It seemed to happen ( maybe coincidently) after a Norton update. It's a pain to have to leave a window, go to EXCEL to browse and find a file ...is there a setting I should change that might have been altered during a Norton upgrade? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802728
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    - Window 'jumping" in frame I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I am experiencing " jumping" whenever I open a window when I'm on line... or trying to access another URL. Is it my monitor? My Mouse? Something else? My desktop remains static so I dont think it's the monitor. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802726
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    - svchost.exe consumes CPU and Memory - Memory Leak? svchost.exe consumes increasingly more CPU and Memory after computer is left on for more than ~ 5 hours. svchost.exe consumes about .7% of CPU within first 1-2 hours after startup and increases to >10% after 5-10 hours. If the computer is left on for long enough, I get â??The Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service terminated unexpectedlyâ?? and Windows will automatically reboot. In Task Manager, svchost.exe (owned by: NETWORK SERVICE) starts with ~4k handles and increases to 40k overnight (12k in non-paged pool, 379k in paged pool). In Process Explorer the only thing that this instance of svchost.exe controls is RpcSs service (Remote Procedure Call - RPC). I ran PoolMon 15 min after starting and about 12 hours later and took screens of paged and non-paged usage. The interesting tags are listed below. I tried searching for some of these tags and didnâ??t find much information. The increased CPU and memory usage does not affect normal computer usage but is detrimental when gaming as FPS reduces noticeably and Ping increases 10x. I also have not found an effective way to search for XP SP2 hotfixes. I have also posted my machine specs below. Let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks for your time, -Luke Paged: Toke: 832K -> 20.2M MmSt: 6M -> 7M Useb: [not listed in screenshot] -> 7M SeTd: 123K -> 3M SavE: stayed at 46M Non-Paged: SeTd: 96K -> 2.2M MmCm: stayed at 22M Alienware 7700 (Clevo d900t) - 3.6Ghz P4, 3GB RAM, 7900GTX Go 256MB, 120GB hdd. Startup Software: Symantec AntiVirus Corporate, Nvidia Driver Package, Realtek Audio Driver Package, Logitech MX Revolution driver, and Daemon Tools. (Norton, Spybot, and Ad-Aware scans are clean.) Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802723
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    - All apps open in notepad. I was trying to delete a file, .exe to be exact off of a second hard drive. It would not let me, said something about it being used by another program. I tried renaming it to a different extension and it wouldn't let me do that. Then out of confusion I selected it to open with notepad. So now all me programs and shortcuts open in notepad, no matter what I do. What Have I don't to deserve this and how can I fix it. TIA, Lance Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802717
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    - Odd undeletable empty folder on 2nd partition The folder is empty yet I as administrator, am unable to delete in the safe mode or normal Win XP SP2 modes with only the D:\ drive open. D:\34cae1902783ec06bc45fe0888 D:\ being the 2nd partition reserved only for games. Was playing Lords of the Ring On-line some time ago. Could it be the perpetrator? How to delete? Many thanks for your assist. drybones Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802716
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    - CAN'T OPEN .PDF FILES - "...not a valid Win 32 application." This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C88CE9.C29B10B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Friends often send me emails with .PDF mail attachments. If I click on = the icon to open the file, I get an error code with the following = message: "...Local Settings\Temporary Internet File\Content.IE5\PAUD8NYJ\(then = the file name) is not a valid Win 32 application." I can open the file by saving it to my documents and then opening it = with Adobe Bridge, but it's a little bit of a hassle, and it does seem = to me that XP should be able to immediately open the file as though it = were a .jpg file or something similar. Comment? Suggestions? Thanks as always, JK ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C88CE9.C29B10B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>Friends often send me emails with .PDF mail attachments.  If I = click=20 on the icon to open the file, I get an error code with the following=20 message:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"...Local Settings\Temporary Internet = File\Content.IE5\PAUD8NYJ\<EM>(then=20 the file name)</EM> is not a valid Win 32 application."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can open the file by saving it to my documents and then opening = it with=20 Adobe Bridge, but it's a little bit of a hassle, and it does seem to me = that XP=20 should be able to immediately open the file as though it were a .jpg = file or=20 something similar.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Comment?  Suggestions?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks as always,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>JK</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001D_01C88CE9.C29B10B0-- Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802712
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    - I NEED TO INSTAL ADAPTEC CD CREATOR STANDARD EDITION IN XP I want to get rid of ROXIO and install ADAPTEC - EASY CD CREATOR (Standard Edition) in my system that RUNS WIN-XP. What do I have to do in order to achieve it. Pleae HELP... I can't stand ROXIO!!!! Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802711
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    - Opening files I would like to know if there is a way to search for JPG files that contain certain words in their comments. Comments in this case being those you can add to JPG file properties using many programs such as Infanview. TIA SG Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802710
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    - slide show When I leave my computer unattended after a while it starts a slide show from `my pictures` how do I stop this? thanks Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802708
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    - Power Option Properties not working Widows XP Home Edition. I have a desktop with a flat screen monitor. The Power Option properties are not working. This includes the screen-saver as well as turning off the monitor, hard disc,etc. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802707
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    - How to mark/select 2 files from 2 different (!!!) dirs ? Assume I put a shortcut to a program on my desktop. This program is able to receive 2 files as parameter e.g. myprogam.exe filename1 filename2 Just think of a diff viewer as example. Ok. If now the two files are located in the SAME directory I can mark both and drag them onto the program shortcut and everything works fine. But what if the files are in different directories ? If I mark the first file in WinExplorer, then switch to the second directory and mark the second file then the previous marking of the first file is lost. Ok, I could copy the second file to the first directory in order to use multi-marking but this is rather unconvenient. How else can I mark 2 files in two different directories? Martin Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802701
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    - External HD stopped showing A Maxtor External Personal Storage Drive has stopped showing up in my computer. It shows in Disk Management but has no drive letter. It behaves exactly the same on a laptop, though it was working on a different XP PC last week. How can I get access back to it? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802687
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    - Missing "send to" when I right click on something that i want to s I am missing "send to" when I right click on something that i want to send to send to the desk top? Any idea what I did and how I can get it back? Also, I am missing one of my hard drives. I have 3 hard drives on my PC but only "C" and "D" show. The third one does not show on the right click either. Can someone give me some help? Thanks carmanhere@aol.com Harry Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802685
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    - Missing Calculator in Start/Programs/Accessories I have a shortcut to calculator on my desktop but there is no icon in Start/Programs/Accessories now. I have no clue how to get it back there. Any ideas are appreciated! Thanks, --Sytkeepr Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802679
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    - "Tcl" Folder Too Long To Delete A while back I came across a Folder in my System that I don't have any what it's for or where it came from. It's simply titled "Tcl"...upon opening it, I found that it's contents consists of 36 other folders with same name. Thinking I somehow created it, I tried to delete it. Everytime I tried to delete I got a pop-up message stating "'Tcl' contains items whose name is too long for the recycle bin". I've stop trying to delete, but recently, I found that on my "Add/Remove" list there's a listing for "Tcl 8.0.5 for Windows" (2.15MB), and I haven't got a clue about where & when this was added. I need to find out this "Tcl" is all about, because something tells me it's not good. I would greatly appreciate any input on this issue. And Thank You!!! Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802678
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    - USB flash drive problem I have a LEXAR USB flash drive I plug it into my laptop and it shows as g drive no problem, but when I plug it into my desktop if does not show under my computer or window explorer. it does show up in device manager as working. . How do I get it to show on my computer so I can use it. TIA Marty Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802677
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    - User not recognized as administrator When I try to edit the startup menu in msconfig.com, I receive an error message that I should log on as an administrator when I am logged in as the administrator. I am trying to stop the computer from loading MSoffice, Acrobat 7.0 and a program called Motive. These delay the startup each time I reboot. I tried to create a new user account also as administrator but it was also not recognized by msconfig. -- lee Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802671
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    - Hibernation I can,t activate hibernation. I have sufficient space. When I tick 'enable hibernation' and enter apply, I get the message 'Power Policy Manager unable to reserve the hibernate file.' The info reads, "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." Can anyone help, please? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802664
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    - Random restart I am running Windows XP Media Center and recently had to completely erase my HDD and reformat due to random restarts and errors that eventually led me to no being able to use my OS at all. Now iv after the reformat i am experiencing similar errors and looking for a fix before i get the results as before after the random restarts iv been getting this error: BCCode : 1000008e BCP1 : C0000005 BCP2 : BF9C6F0F BCP3 : AB30EC68 Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802659
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    - CPU @ 100% & windows & PC hangs"" Greetings: Dell DM4400, Windows XP SP2, 1 GB memory. Problems are PC stops functioning after 15 minutes if unattended. PC runs much better in Safe mode. that Windows updates download slowly e.g 255 kb download had downloaded 41% after 30 minutes, CPU runs 100% most of the time even though I have all startup programs removed from startup.Have used Chkdsk, Defrag, NAV 2007, Spysweeper, Windows Defender and no problem indicated? Any suggestion or assistance will be greatly appreciated John L. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802658
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    - Hard drive almost stops I have a machine with WinXP, all the latest updates, P4 3.0GHz, with a 650GB Adaptec Hardware Raid 5 Array (3 500 gig SATA drives) as my hard drive. Recently I've been having a probelm where the OS seems to slow to a crawl for upwards to three minutes. For instance if I delete a bunch of files, the progress bar stops at 10 seconds, for a long time, related to how many files are being deleted. Other disk access operations frequently have similar problems. The machine will do anything non-directly disk related, like change pages on the browser, but the icons on my desktop stop midway throught refreshing, and Windows Explorer is frozen for that time. Is this possibly that I have a 600GB drive, with just over 100 GB free and 'default' cluster size, or has no one ever seen this before, and it's likly that it's the Raid controller? Any thoughts would be helpful. C. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802653
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    - DCOM Errors I continually get DCOM errors at start up. There are eight events in my last boot up. They seem to be the same. I copied the trail of info here. I follow the instructions to change the launch and activation permissions but I get lost when I open the DCOM configuration in Administrative tools because I canâ??t figure out the â??friendly nameâ??. Could someone please help me resolve this issue? My system is as follows: My Computer Information - General OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name ALAN-BLACK-PC System Manufacturer NVIDIA System Model NVDAACPI System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2399 Mhz Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 6 GenuineIntel ~2400 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 1/26/2007 SMBIOS Version 2.2 Windows Directory E:\windows System Directory E:\windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)" User Name ALAN-BLACK-PC\Alan Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 2,048.00 MB Available Physical Memory 1.25 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 3.85 GB Page File E:\pagefile.sys Error from System Event Log Event Type: Error Event Source: DCOM Event Category: None Event ID: 10016 Date: 3/22/2008 Time: 2:01:35 PM User: NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE Computer: ALAN-BLACK-PC Description: The machine-default permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {BC866CF2-5486-41F7-B46B-9AA49CF3EBB1} to the user NT AUTHORITY\LOCAL SERVICE SID (S-1-5-19). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Response form Microsoft.com Response Details Product: Windows Operating System ID: 10016 Source: DCOM Version: 5.2 Symbolic Name: EVENT_COM_ACCESS_DENIED_IN_SERVER_ACTIVATION_OR_LAUNCH_PERMISSION Message: The %1 permission settings do not grant %2 %3 permission for the COM Server application with CLSID %4 to the user %5\%6 SID (%7). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool. %1 = machine-default, application-specific; %2 = local, remote; %3 = launch, activation; %4 = ; %5 = /; %6 = . Explanation A program, the Clsid displayed in the message, tried to start the DCOM server by using the DCOM infrastructure. Based on the security ID (SID), this user does not have the necessary permissions to start the DCOM server. User Action Verify that the user has the appropriate permissions to start the DCOM server. To assign permissions 1. Using Regedit, navigate to the following registry value HKCR\Clsid\clsid value\localserver32 The clsid value is the information displayed in the message. 2. In the right pane, double-click Default. The Edit String dialog box is displayed. Leave this dialog box open. 3. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. 4. Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Component Services. 5. In the Component Services snap-in, expand Computers, expand My Computer, and double-click DCOM Config. 6. In the right pane, locate the program by using its friendly name. 7. Right-click the program name, and then select Properties. 8. On the Security tab, in the Launch and Activation Permissions group box, select Customize, and then click Edit. Add the user to the permissions list, and give the user the appropriate permissions. ________________________________________ Currently there are no Microsoft Knowledge Base articles available for this specific error or event message. For information about other support options you can use to find answers online, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx. Info from Regedit HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{BC866CF2-5486-41F7-B46B-9AA49CF3EBB1} HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{BC866CF2-5486-41F7-B46B-9AA49CF3EBB1}\LocalServer32 Value data E:\PROGRA~1\NVIDIA~1\NETWOR~1\bin\NSVCAP~1.EXE -- Alan Holzhausen Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802650
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    - External monitor toggling Is there a way I can toggle between my laptop monitor and my external monitor without using the keyboard on my laptop? This will sound lame, but my keyboard on my laptop messes up and won't work, so I have to have it unplugged and use an external keyboard. THerefore, I'm unable to just use the fn+f5 toggle key I got so used to using. I don't want it to do the dualview, I don't want it to display on my laptop screen since my laptop max resolution is 1024x768 and my external monitor goes higher. Does anyone know if there's a toggle function in the windows system that would do the same trick as the keyboard controls? Thanks. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802647
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    - No Sound after External Monitor Installed Windows XP; Thinkpad t40 laptop (being used as "desktop"); Gateway FHD2400 Monitor. Monitor will display video, etc.; but no sound accompanies the video. Also, when running applications with sound effects, no sound. Any ideas why this would be happening and how it might be fixed? Thanks in advance folks. And thanks again to Mark Ferguson and Shenan Stanley for responses earlier today on separate issue. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802643
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    - help - folder titles gone weird Hi I am still having trouble with my folders. The folder names are all correct when viewed in explorer etc but when I open a folder the name of the folder in the blue bar at the top of the dialogue box only displays the first letter of the folder. This is the same for major folders like My Documents, as well as all folders within it, also for Control panel the same thing is happening - when I open it there is only a "C" in the blue bar. For webpages and other applications it's fine though. It's quite annoying and I wondered what I've done to the computer for it to display it like this. I've tried all the folder options but it is still there. Can anyone help? (I'm using windows XP home edition with all the relevant service packs and updates). thanks Nancy :) Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802631
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    - External Monitor Challenges Recently bought new laptop; looking to use old laptop as "desktop" but trying to use external monitor in lieu of LCD. Currently doing so via "clone" mode; toggle FN F7. 1. Any way I can set the external as the default and thereby not employ the LCD at all? 2. Performance has worsened. Applications respond more slowly; hanging is more frequent. The only change has been the use of the external monitor. Any chance that's related and if so, how might the issue be resolved? Thanks in advance folks. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802626
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    - FLASH DRIVE FREEZES MY PC? I just bought a flash drive for my WinXP SP2 Home edition. As soon as I inserted it, my computer froze and locked up. I've tried it in all my additional USB ports and it remains the same. Even if I insert it prior to boot up, Windows stops and freezes. My webcam works fine and the memory stick light comes on, but the `New Hardware Detected' indicator doesn't even show. I don't have anything else taking up USB ports other than my webcam. I've tried it in other computers, not my own, and it worked fine. This seems to be a mystery, which nobody seems to have an answer for????? Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802621
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    - Date and Time Properties doesn't keep time Hi, can anyone tell me why after I set my time and date correctly on my date and time properties, the next day it throws it back to January 2003 and the time is all messed up? I've tried eveything I can think of and I am hoping someone here has an answer. Thanks RV Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802614
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    - third party software unable to create VPN entry problem started about two weeks ago after PC hung and I power it off manually. First issue I notice was that I was not able to surf the web so I immediately tried reboot using Last known good configuration and that solve that problem but soon I notice my VPN to work was no longer working. I tried reinstalling the software (repackage ROVA) that my company gave us for the VPN access and still no luck. Then I created a Virutal PC on my PC and the software worked in the VPC so I started comparing it to the host PC and notice that somehow the type of connection somehow went from VPN to Broadband and also the device is missing from those entries. I then did more searching on the internet and found articles about reinstalling the WAN Miniport (PPTP) and still no luck. I would have use the VPC going forward but because it doesn not recongnize USB port so I cannnot use the VOIP software that my company provided together with the VPN back to office function. I think last resort would be to install Vista on top of existing XP hoping to resolve the issue. Please help I don't think I am ready to go Vista yet. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802611
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    - Monitor settings I have a ProView plug and play and had proper display setting but had to reinstall windows XP Home edition and now cannot get the proper display settings and unable to find driver for it. Tag: Windows XP Media Center Tag: 802608

Hello.
I recently bought a media center pc used from a friend of mine. The
computer originally had xp media center edition running on it. It now has a
fresh install of XP Professional on it. I want to do a system restore back
to media center xp; but it for some reason it won't let me. (says hit F10
during startup for system recovery, but hitting F10 does nothing). The
recovery partition is still there. Any ideas?

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Re: Windows XP Media Center by Ken

Ken
Mon Mar 24 16:20:15 PDT 2008

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:13:00 -0700, cyb3rwolf
<cyb3rwolf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hello.
> I recently bought a media center pc used from a friend of mine. The
> computer originally had xp media center edition running on it. It now has a
> fresh install of XP Professional on it. I want to do a system restore back
> to media center xp; but it for some reason it won't let me. (says hit F10
> during startup for system recovery, but hitting F10 does nothing). The
> recovery partition is still there. Any ideas?

System Restore (which you can *not* do) and the OEM vendor's System
Recovery are two entirely different things.

How to do an OEM system recovery depends on what OEM is it. It's not a
Windows function, and not all OEMs do it the same way. Contact your
OEM for help on how to do it.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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