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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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815387
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    - disc clean what is "Setup Log Files" and can I safely remove them. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815347
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    - code 10 & nvidia video card I'm running XP Pro. In Device Manager, I'm getting a yellow exclamation point next to the display adapter. It's accompanied by a plain "code 10" error message and an error message stating that the device is not using resources because it has a problem. I've already updated the bios, chipset, and video driver. Also, I've reseated the video card. No apparent IRQ conflicts. Please help! Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815340
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    - xp home always rebooting I have an e-machine that is always rebooting to the boot option screen, the one you get when you press F8. It time out and then reboots again and again. I would like to do a repair to not lose data, but this computer came with a restore CD. I tried to load it on to another Hard Drive, but ghost could not find the restore file on it, which would be correct. I do have a copy of XP Pro, but I don't know if this will repair my XP Home. Any Ideas? Thanks Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815339
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    - Windows XP would not start This morning, I turned on my computer, the eMachine logo appeared and stays... Nothing will move it. I hit the F8 in an attempt to switch to a Safe mode or something. No luck. Turned computer off (pushing the button for 10 sec), then turned it on. Again, the same logo appeared and Windows would not load. Last night, everything appeared normal when I turned computer off. What happened? How can I fix this problem and restart my computer. Any suggestion is appreciated. -- Ilya Zeldes Fort Myers, Florida Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815337
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    - XP Pro. SP2's explorer.exe crashing a lot and randomly. Ever since 7/9/2008 according Windows' event logs, I noticed my explorer.exe would crash randomly and I can't figure out what is causing it and why. I tried removing, disabling, downgrading, etc. programs/updates (e.g., SpyBot v1.6.0, KB951748 (DNS), Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool - July 2008 (KB890830) [don't think it removed anything], uninstalling Sun Java(TM) 6 Update 6 to install update #7, K-Lite Codec Full Pack v4.00, and TrueCrypt v6.0 portable. These were the products that I recall installing since then. I might have more and need to dig and think more. I already ran full scans with the latest definitions from Norton AntiVirus, SpyBot, SuperAntiSpyware, Ad-Aware SE Perosonal, and a-squared Free. I am not a programmer/developer so I am hoping my memory dumps and logs would help. I did notice it can take hours for the crashes to occur. When the firs tone strike, then explorer.exe will crash randomly like crazy. Even Start Menu will start going nuts. I have to reboot to keep it stable for a few hours. I doubt it is temperature related because my other software and hardware don't crash. Here are the first two event log crashes: Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 7/9/2008 Time: 8:11:36 AM User: N/A Description: Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2900.3156, faulting module comctl32.dll, version 6.0.2900.2982, fault address 0x0002918d. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 65 78 70 ure exp 0018: 6c 6f 72 65 72 2e 65 78 lorer.ex 0020: 65 20 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 e 6.0.29 0028: 30 30 2e 33 31 35 36 20 00.3156 0030: 69 6e 20 63 6f 6d 63 74 in comct 0038: 6c 33 32 2e 64 6c 6c 20 l32.dll 0040: 36 2e 30 2e 32 39 30 30 6.0.2900 0048: 2e 32 39 38 32 20 61 74 .2982 at 0050: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset 0058: 30 30 30 32 39 31 38 64 0002918d 0060: 0d 0a .. Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: (100) Event ID: 1000 Date: 7/9/2008 Time: 8:11:40 AM User: N/A Description: Faulting application drwtsn32.exe, version 5.1.2600.0, faulting module dbghelp.dll, version 5.1.2600.2180, fault address 0x0001295d. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. Data: 0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat 0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail 0010: 75 72 65 20 20 64 72 77 ure drw 0018: 74 73 6e 33 32 2e 65 78 tsn32.ex 0020: 65 20 35 2e 31 2e 32 36 e 5.1.26 0028: 30 30 2e 30 20 69 6e 20 00.0 in 0030: 64 62 67 68 65 6c 70 2e dbghelp. 0038: 64 6c 6c 20 35 2e 31 2e dll 5.1. 0040: 32 36 30 30 2e 32 31 38 2600.218 0048: 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 0 at off 0050: 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 31 set 0001 0058: 32 39 35 64 295d I also noticed explorer.exe doesn't return and Dr. Watson gets stuck and crashes too. I have to kill their processes to restart Explorer manually via Task Manager. Any ideas? Thank you in advance. :) -- Allah's Apostle said, "Once while a prophet amongst the prophets was taking a rest underneath a tree, an ant bit him. He, therefore, ordered that his luggage be taken away from underneath that tree and then ordered that the dwelling place of the ants should be set on fire. Allah sent him a revelation: 'Wouldn't it have been sufficient to burn a single ant (that bit you)?'" --Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 54, Number 536 /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ 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: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815335
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    - Windows Start Up When I turn on my computer from it's off state I'm seeing a message about a hardware or software change. No hardware changes were made. Tried to start in safe mode and got this list, all the drivers, multi(0)disk(0)partition(1)Windows\system....... Windows will not start. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815330
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    - windows xp x64 drivers My widows xp x64 can't recognize my USB card reader and my digital camera Also my monitor has built in SD card reader and it connects to PC via USB the card reader part of the monitor does not work either It looks like the windows xp x64 can't recognize any USB mass storage device Can someone help with this ? Thanks Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815323
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    - WinXP very slow to start, and very very slow starting up programs I just installed WinXP on a P4 computer (1MB RAM) that runs Win2000 with no problems. WinXP was running normally until I installed some drivers from the motherboard (ASUS P4PE) CD. After rebooting I discovered that 1) the boot up takes 3+ minutes, and when WinXP finally starts up anytime I click on a program to start it, not only does it take about 3 minutes to start a simple program, but during that time I loose the use of the mouse. That is, the mouse cursor will show on a spot and if I move it, after 15-30 seconds the cursor will pop up in another location, and so on. I've looked at the task manager and when this slowdown is occuring (and it takes minutes to get the task manager to open up) there is no sign of anything hogging the cpu power...the system idle process is usually at 95-98% and whatever process I've tried to start is only using 2-5%, even though it will take 3 minutes to start up it's program. Given what I've noted, where would I look to find out what is causing this slowdown? I've turned off some services, such as Messenger, and some other non essential ones, and I've looked at msconfig but I don't see anything unusual there (although I'm not as familiar with XP processes as I am with Win2000 ones). But there's nothing hogging the processor, so how else could this slowdown be occuring. Any suggestions would be very helpful. John Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815310
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    - Issues I've just recently performed a system recovery, using a recovery disk that came with this computer, reverting from XP Pro back to XP Media Edition 2005. Now everytime I try to encrypt a file on my system I get an "access denied" error, even though I'm on the main user account. I've been to Microsoft's help center and they mention this, but didn't provide a solution. Also, I currently have no Standby or Hibernate option when I go to shut it down. Curious to know what would be causing these issues, whether I have something disabled which inturn is keeping them from functioning properly, or if I have to d/l a component thats required for them to work. Any help would be apppreciated, thanks. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815306
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    - movie maker can I put movie maker on my external hard drive? Is movie maker on the windows XP CD? -- Jspeedo Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815302
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    - AntiVirXP08 My machine is infected with AntiVirXP08. McAfee Antivirus was unable to remove it. I've read that this virus can make it impossible to install other virus removal tools. It appears that the virus also deleted all my system restore points. However, I have some system state backups made using the MS Backup Utility on an external hard drive. The MS Win XP guidebook describes it as making "copies of your registry hives". What are registry hives? Would it be reasonable to try to restore a recent system state backup using the backup utility under these circumstances? What other parts of the system might need to be restored separately? (MSCONFIG/Startup, etc.). How is the system state backup different from creating a restore point? I appreciate all guidance and references to explanatory material. Bobbi Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815300
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    - KB951748 - ZA fix didn't work As suggested, I downloaded and installed the revised version of Zone Alarm and allowed MS to reinstall this KB. Result: Internet access blocked again! I have now stopped all automatic updates and will screen for this diabolical program and delete it if it shows up again. MS created this problem. MS should fix it. Jim. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815299
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    - Microsoft Fax Running at Startup Something called Microsoft Fax appears to be running at startup and continues searching for something. I don't have a phone line hooked up for fax and so I don't want this running as it seems to periodically interfer with startup. I can't seem to find any program called Microsoft Fax though to shut it down or disable it. I am running Windows XP with SP2. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815290
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    - total nightmare and need help Hi everyone, After my unlce told me he thought he had a virus I told him to bring the computer over, He has Windows XP on a Dell Computer and he had no password setup for his account, There are other accounts and all are administor priveleged account but I think only one had a password. I found it had that Vista Antivirus fake stupid program and I followed the manual removal instructions at http://www.enigmasoftware.com/support/vistaantivirus2008-removal/ and it went away fine but then after a couple reboots and never giving it a password, it is not showing me the Windows is Not Activated Window at the bottom of the login screen and all accounts are asking for a password. I have tried rebooting to safe mode and logging on using the administrator account but that is also asking for a password that was never set by anyone. :( Is there anything besides a re-install that will help me get back in to actually set a password now? I hope? -- James M Driscoll Jr Spaceman Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815288
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    - Desk top folder question There are a couple of desk top folders Windows XP created and they are now in the Unused desk top folder. Internet Explorer.{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D} Microsoft Outlook.{00020D75-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} These folders appear as a file folder icon. The Outlook folder seems to do nothing. I have MS Outlook installed but I do not use it. I use OE. The folder is empty and doesn't launch anything. There used to be an Outlook icon, but Windows mysteriously deleted it during a recent unsolicited desk top clean up. There is still a shortcut to Outlook via the start button. The IE folder appears empty, but it launches IE. I have a separate icon elsewhere to launch IE, although I use Firefox as a web browser. Question: why were these created and can I delete them without corrupting anything. I know icons are usually just pointers that can be deleted. But Windows created these two folders, so I want to know for sure if I can get rid of them for should I just leave them ignored. I am running Windows XP SP3. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815284
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    - Xp start menu lag I am running XP Pro SP2 on Intel C2D8400,Msi P35 mobo,2Gb ddr2,NVidia 9600GT and Seagate 500Gb Hdd. Often, but not always, when I try to open up the [All Programs] list in the start menu, it can take up to 10 to 20 sec before it will fill in the list of programs. Everything else seems to run just fine. I've already check the obvious (adware, etc). Adding more RAM did nothing to speed this up. It started only recently when I added 500 or more icons in my start menu with the installation of a lot of yahoo mini games for my kids. It goes back to normal if I deleted all the shortcut in the start menu. but how am my kids going to play the games just without the shortcut. It will turn worse once I exit the game and try to access the start menu again, it will pause or hang for 60 or more sec before I can see or access the icons in the start menu again. Need help please. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815280
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    - TAKING A LONG TIME TO START UP Hi having problem to boot up once it does no error message it works fine once booted up but it take a long time thank you if you can help Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815279
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    - "Open", "Save" or "Save As" dialog box default settings I use WIN XP Pro and have a question about an annoyance in the â??open â??, â??Saveâ??, or â??Save Asâ?? dialog box that appears with just all programs and Internet explorer. It seems the â??open â??, â??Saveâ??, or â??Save Asâ?? dialog box defaults to the â??Listâ?? view to show files. I all ways have to change to the â??Detailsâ?? view each time I use the â??openâ?? selection. A real time waster when you open many files. Is there any way to set the default value to open to the â??Detailsâ?? view? I have searched and been unable to find any settings. I may not be asking the right question, Tweak UI or Power Toys did not seem to mention. I am sure there is probably a registry settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815277
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    - Java In the Control Panel the Java applications 'about' info is: Standard Edition 6, Version 6 Update 5 (build 1.6.0_05-b13). I also have the following Java in my add/remove programs: J2SE Java runtime environment 5.0 update 9 Java(tm) 6 update 3 Java(tm) 6 update 3 Java(tm) 6 update 5 Are the Java 6 updates accumulative and can any of the above in the add/remove programs be deleted without affecting the Java application? TIA.... G Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815268
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    - Making a change in account program access I am rebuilding my computer after a crash and an OS reinstall (Windows XP Home). I set up two accounts: one for me, and one for my wife, both with "Administrator Privileges". After installing a new program today ("MyAlert" - a "reminder" program), it shows up both on my "account" and on her "account". How can I eliminate it from operating on her account? Thanks in advance. Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815267
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    - Aquarium Screensaver I used to have an Aquarium Screensaver on my pc but now it's no longer in my drop down menu. I've tried to find it on the MS WinXP download site, to no avail. Can anyone please tell me how I might download it again? Brian Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815246
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    - windows xp theme started up my computer and windows xp theme had been replaced by classic theme i cant change it back .. xp no longer appears under appearance Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815241
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    - attachments Everytime I try to open an attachment it brings up notepad with alot of writting in it. It does the same thing when I try and open anything from Kellys Korner. Can any one help.I tried to restore my pc back but that didn't help. I used to be able to open my attachments. Thanks Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815240
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    - Need to Deactivate my XP Pro I am going to sell my pc to a friend with loads of software i have on it. I want to deactivate my xp & he has his own registered product key (5 PC License). I dont want to reformat pc & cant seem to slipstream SP3 onto it as the CD doesn't have SP1 on it. I dont have the cd's to allot of the installed sofware. Is there a way to do this so when he boots it up he need to enter his product key? Its windows XP Pro & has SP3 in it. I was told its simple & googling it gave me incorrect info. Thanks Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815237
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    - With XP SP3, how do I repair my XP installation? I'm having BSODs that last time they occurred, I was able to repair by following these directions: 1. Start your computer with the Windows startup disks, or with the Windows CD-ROM if your computer can start from the CD-ROM drive. 2. When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option. 3. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console. 4. Type the administrator password when you are prompted to do so. (NOTE: If no administrator password exists, press ENTER.) 5. At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is installed, type chkdsk /r, and then press ENTER. 6. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER to restart your computer. However, now I have installed SP3 from a CD made from an ISO I got from the MS site. So.... to follow the instructions above, do I still use my XP upgrade CD or should I use the SP3 CD? TIA. -- John Corliss Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815234
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    - IRQL_.... error on XP....and no safe mode Friends computer is crashing with the ol' driver_irql_not_less_or_equa message got him into f8 control screen but safe mode wont start, nor any of th other choices there....computer sinply throws up the same error messag and down she goes again... i am heading over to see if i can help him out and just thought i woul get some advice first......my first thought is to change ram, then mayb check for temp. dust. connections etc... any other/ better ideas?.... much appreciate -- johnspee ----------------------------------------------------------------------- johnspeed's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=5294 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=99997 http://forums.techarena.i Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815233
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    - Changing installation user interface option Hi, How do I change the installation user interface option to basic ? I need this because a program won't install and is showing such a message. Thank you in advance for any help. Jack Tag: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? Tag: 815229
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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?

RE: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? by ReySantos

ReySantos
Mon Jul 14 07:24:11 PDT 2008

How To Default To Search Companion With Windows Desktop Search 3
http://www.johnsadventures.com/archives/2006/11/how_to_default_to_search_companion_with_windows_de.html

--
Rey

"M Skabialka" wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>

Re: How do I make Search Companion my default search engine? by M

M
Mon Jul 14 07:35:49 PDT 2008

From the site -

Open RegEdit (hit Start > Run then type 'regedit'). Go to the following
node:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS

Then double-click on 'ShowStartSearchBand' and set the value to '0'.

This worked - Thanks so much - even the nuisance of the little dog pales by
comparison to the annoyance of the Desktop Search which never finds
anything, even things you are looking at in an explorer window!

Mich

"Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A1353500-C6E8-4891-A4DC-DED73CB7455B@microsoft.com...
> How To Default To Search Companion With Windows Desktop Search 3
> http://www.johnsadventures.com/archives/2006/11/how_to_default_to_search_companion_with_windows_de.html
>
> --
> Rey
>
>
> "M Skabialka" wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>