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    - XP, SP3 - Office 97-Word Print problem Windows XP, SP3. All Updates and patches as offered to date installed. Today being August 31, 2008 HP USB port printer CS3100 series. I have licensed copies of Word 2002 on this system as well as an older version of Office 97 that includes Word, Access, Power Point, and the rest. Well... recently Word 97 has ceased printing. When you commit something to print, it is sent to the printer queue but just sits there. When we look at the printer spool queue it says "spooling" and does nothing. At the same time I was having a problem printing from Word 2002 but learned that there may be a problem with the "normal" template. After resetting the normal template on 2002 I was able to print again no problem. However doing the same to Word 97 is not correcting the problem. I also tried reinstalling Office 97 (Word 97 Module) from the installer CD to no avail. Now, I can print from my web browser, Notepad, word pad, etc and also from Word 2002. I can also print from the other Office 97 modules such as Power Point, Excel, and the rest. Just Word 97 won't print. I was wondering if SP3 which was recently installed may have inhibited Word 97 in some way? I can open Word 97 and use it to create a document and save it. However when it is saved it receives an icon for word 2002 (expected) and next time I open it by double-clicking that file icon, it will open with Word 2002. I'd like to still be able to use Word 97 to open, save, and print docs when I want, and as noted, until recently I was able to do that. Oh yes... I recently also downloaded the converter modules from Microsoft so I can open and use docX files created in Word 2007 on Vista machines. Anything there to be concerned with? For what its worth, I have a Windows 2000 networked and share the printer on the XP machine. Form the Windows 2000 machine I can print from both Word 2002 and Word 97, so it is clearly not the printer. Open to suggestion on a fix if there is any. Thanks DMK Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934986
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    - Unable to apply file extension I have reloaded Windows XP home eidtion aftger having virus's. All loaded ok and computer working well. Loaded IE 7 and service packs. Have Powerpoint viewer and went to change the file extension (in folder options) so that all powerpoints would open with this. made the change but was unable to click on the apply button, it is greyed out. While in outlook express unable to open an attachment that is a powerpoint presentation, but if I save it to the desktop and then open it there is no problem. What am I missing and why can't I open powerpoint presentations with the viewer? Viewer will open from '97 to 2003. Many thanks Yvonne Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934981
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    - No audio device detected Greetings all, My system includes: ECS P4M800PRO-M motherboard Intel Dual core P4 3GHz processor 4GB Kingston DDR2 533MHz memory BFG 7800GS video card Windows XP Professional with SP3 installed Originally a SBLive! 5.1 sound card Also tried a CompUSA "CMedia CMI8738/C3DX based" 5.1 sound card (which is currently still installed) After downloading and installing a couple of "optional" software updates from the windows update site, my system started crashing to a HALT and Memory Dump screen. I did a "Repair" re-installation of my Windows XP Professional. Installed SP3 and all "necessary" updates from the Windows update web site. Also I downloaded and installed the latest motherboard chipset drivers. Motherboard drivers from the (ECS) manufacturer's website VIA Service Pack (4 in 1) v 5.07 VIA USB 2.0 Host Controller Driver v 2.44 I have not installed the On-board audio driver nor the SATA RAID driver since I do not use either of them, they are disabled in the BIOS settings.. When my system finally rebooted to the desktop and I was checking for broken software links, I found that the Windows 'Sound and Audio Devices' applet in the Control Panel did not recognize that I had a sound card installed. Under the Devices tab it had my SBLive! series sound device listed as being installed. Also, Device Manager showed that the SBLive! series device was installed and working properly. I tried reseating the sound card, deleting the sound card with Device Manager and redetecting it. The sound card system driver and joystick port were reinstalled but still not recognized as installed in the Control Panel's 'Sound and Audio Devices' applet. (I also tried moving the soundcard to a different PCI slot.) I then tried deleting the SBLive! 5.1 card and Creative joystick port and replacing it with a CompUSA 5.1 sound card (C-Media CMI8738/C3DX). The driver and application software seemed to install with no problems from the Install CD. After the required reboot, the Control Panel's 'Sound and Audio Devices' applet still did not recognize that a sound card was installed. Under the devices tab it has the CMI8738/C3DX device listed as being installed. Also Device Manager shows that the CMI8738/C3DX device is installed and working properly. I downloaded the manufacturer's latest device driver and installed it; with the same results. Sound card drivers are from the (CMedia) manufacturer's recommended dowload site www.Download.com CMI8738_WDM_0639XP v 5.12.1.639 I tried running DXdiag.exe. It recognizes the sound card as being installed and reported no errors. When I ran the sound tests, all the DX sound tests passed. I started up Windows Media Player and I can hear sounds being played by it. I do hear sounds in the couple of online games that I have tried and think that is because they are using the DirectSound drivers. Also, the problem with the sound card not being recognized occured before I installed SP3. Does anyone know what might have gone wrong? Any help in getting one of my sound cards to be recognized by WinXP would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Joe Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934966
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    - Windows not starting up completely, no start menu, no task manager Had a virus attack and have cleaned it using McAfee including a full scan in DOS safe mode. No infected files are on the disk based on the scans. When I start the PC in â??normal modeâ?? the desktop displays but the start menu nor the task bar display. Even when I use the windows key. Right clicks on the desk top do not work. I normally do not have icons on my desktop so I do not know if other programs work. In the safe mode I have attempted to run windows explorer and the system says in can not find explorer.exe even though I can see it in the windows directory using the DOS dir command. I have attempted to do the sfc /scannow process but got the following error message "windows file protection could not initiate a scan of protected system files. The specific error code is 0x000006ba (The RPC server is unavailable.]. I have reviewed what is running in the Task Manager and notice that explorer.exe is not running and expect it has something to do with the fact the system can't find explorer.exe for some reason. Not sure where to go from here. -- Jim 5coat Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934955
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    - 70 yr old needs help - reactivating XP Wife and I are going to the States for 50th wedding aniversary. We are going to drive from Los Angeles to Washington. We intend to take a old IBM laptop and use it to download videos onto. Trouble was that it was rather full of programs which, although I deleted as many as I could, did not give enough space on the hard disk. The original XP operating system is held in a hidden sector on the hard disk but I didn't know how to get to it. What I wanted to do was to format the disk and then reinstall the OS. However I couldn't do it so I took it to the local "Guru" who done it for me. When I switched it on I was asked to "actviate" the software. When I went to input the activation code, which is on the bottom of the computer, it would not take it. Specifically I could not input the letter "O" or the number "O" (zero). I can input these in other programs, eg: Wordpad , etc, but they just do not appear when I try to input them into the activation wizard. Not being sufficiently computer wise, I am asking help from any of Knowledge Army that supports this forum and would appreciate any suggestions. Many thanks - Tony Evans (England) Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934948
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    - Optical Drives Greetings All- When I use the "Eject" button when right clicking on an optical drive in my computer it only opens the drive but does not close it. Would anyone happen to know of a fix for this or how I could change my settings to make it both open and close when clicking the eject button? Thank you in advance. Elaine Beauxrauxgard-Weiderhoff Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934942
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    - Micrsoft Virtual PC backup image of my C: hard drive Hello NG! I haven't found an other more specific NG on the question I want to ask. That's why I'm going to ask my question here. Can I restore an image of my pc with Microsoft Virtual PC so I'll find everything as I left it? I know it's said to function but I hardly can think it's true. I have reinstalled Window several times after hard drive failures or on new computers as well. I made backups of my files and I'm also familiar with restoring these files. Only thing are program settings I had to restore manually, which was getting tiring today ( due to the number of programs installed ). Steve Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934932
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    - How to stop MP Upgrade Notification How can one stop the irksome Media Player Upgrade Notifications appearing? Thanks - RAH Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934931
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    - hibernation mode always used When i switch on my pc from its' hibernate mode it boots up very quickly. Much quicker than when i turn it off in the conventional way. Since in hibernation, i cannot hear the cooling fan running; does that mean also that the hard drive is not spinning? If that's the case, would there be any reason *never* to switch it off in the conventional manner; but to always use the hibernate mode? Thanks for advice. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934928
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    - SP3 changing OE Newsreader settings? Hi there, Having held off SP3 for a while until the dust settled I thought I would update all my computers. All seemed to go well apart from my main machine (isn't it always the way:-) where I rebooted and I saw the 'Setting up Outlook Express Preferences' or something similar. Why would SP3 want to do that? I see now my customised toolbar has defaulted back to something else and I don't know what else may have changed. So...why did SP3 decide to change my OE Settings and more importantly what exactly did it change apart from the toolbar that I can see? -- Thanks & regards, -=pp=- Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934922
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    - Problem with web links Lately, when I attempt to go to a web link embedded in an email, Outlook Express locks up. When I use Task Manager to get out, OE closes and the computer locks up, requiring a restart. Going to a link by any other means causes no problem. Any ideas? Jeff Stanton Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934921
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    - Question for RAMISH MVP or anyone else (incorrect htm icons on vista) there is a known solution to the incorrect display of htm, html, mht icons on XP with the IE7- and office 2003 combo... its here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/htmicon.htm However when I try to run this FIX under vista, the exe says that's its made only for XP!!! I am running vista now.. and the icons are changed to the blue IE icon. I am sure the fix works since it did the trick for XP many times.. but it wont run with vista. Is there another version of this fix for vista or what is the work around to make it work? I tried running it in compatibility mode and admin, but no go... thanks in advance! Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934916
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    - Slow XP Startup & Login Since Media Player 11 Installation? Hi, I'm running a Dell Latitude D830, 3gb ram, 2.6Ghz Centrino, and Windows XP SP3. The machine usually boots, and logs on to the point where you can begine to run programs, in under 2 minutes. Friday I decided to upgrade to Media PLayer 11, (because I was fed up with it nagging me to upgrade). I performed the upgrade, and rebooted. However, since the upgrade, bootup now takes about 5 minutes, with Windows hanging at the 'running startup scripts' screen, then once you've entered your username/password, login takes another 5 minutes, with Windows just displaying the standard background, and nothing else. You can't even ctrl+alt+del to bring up task manager to see whats happening in the backgroup. There doesn't seem to be any disk activity, at least the disk light on the laptop isn't flashing, it just seems to hang. Eventually when you do get to the desktop and try to run a program, it just hangs again, launching IE7 just took me 2 minutes from clicking the icon, to it actually opening, and it seems to be about the same for other programs. I have run WMP11 on this laptop previously, with WinXP, (ended up formatting due to another reason) without any issues. Can anyone suggest why WMP11 might cause this problem, or how to fix it? I'm just about to install BootLogXP and reboot again, to try and see whats running at startup that might be causing this issue. Many thanks Ben Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934914
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    - SP3 problems ~ with IE7 ??? or not Hi I use IE7 and am happy with it ~ up until now have had no problems, however, since a few days ago I have been having problems getting web pages to open ~ I keep getting IE cannot display this page . . . I checked my MS update history tonight and found SP3 had downloaded automatically ` would this be the cause of the problem ? How do I get back to normal ? Do I uninstall SP3 ? What effect will it have on my computer ~ ? Do I need SP3 ? I do not want to change back to IE6 ( as I like IE7 ) if I really don't have to. Thank you in advance for your help. Tillpott Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934910
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    - Restarting Comp My Desktop Com With p4 - 2.4 Whis is Restarted abnormly after some time But some Time It Still Run more than 3 -4 hour continue & Some time Restart With in 2min Pleae Help Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934909
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    - How to use Sandisk pen drive as RAM On P4-2.4 Win XP-2 Can I Use My sandisk Pen Drive As RAM ON Windows Xp -2 My Com Features : p4 - 2.4 845 M Board Please Relply Me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934908
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    - "Not Responding" for HOURS My Excel 2007 spreadsheet has been "Not Responding" for HOURS. I can hear the hard drive spinning (at various speeds) but, on the PC, the green activity light (indicating that data is being written to or read from the hard drive) has been flashing very infrequently. I don't want to lose the changes I've made to my spreadsheet so how can I save my spreadsheet? What could be causing the "Not Responding" condition? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934905
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    - Change Windows Splash Screen - Legal? Hey, My company developes an enterprise application for close companies. As part of our product, we replace the winlogon shell from explorer to our application main entry, And the windows splash screen to our logo. My question is - is it legal? If not, is there a legal way of doing it - by asking permission from Microsoft or adding a small icon of Microsoft in our logo as well? Thanks alot --sternr Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934903
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    - Can't follow threads - error on page I don't know if I can get an answer to this, because every time I try to read any response to a question in this newsgroup I get an error on page message down in the status bar and nothing happens. If iI roll over the name of the responding post, the status bar says "javascript:void(0);" - is the whole page messed up? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934900
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    - adjust speed for restoring taskbar after auto-hiding? Is there a way to make the taskbar re-appear a bit quicker? Is there any way to adjust this speed? I do have it set in the Taskbar properties window, to auto-hide. I'd like to keep this function, just have it appear a bit quicker. -- Paul MS Office Pro 2003 XP Home Dell Inspiron 1501 Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934893
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    - Windows XP immediately reboots after login PC had indicated viruses last week and tech came and cleaned it up. However, apparently there is no antivirus program installed. This week noticed appearance of Antivir08 which I thought was AV put on by tech but found out it is malware. Shortly thereafter PC cannot be booted other than safe mode because after Windows login PC immeidately reboots. I was able to get into Safe Mode and install Malawarebytes Anti-Malware (as suggested in another forum) which indicated it removed Antivir08 but the reboot problem persists. Any ideas how to solve this? Since safe mode is only option to start successfully, I cannot get to Windows updates or other installs as I get "cannot install in safe mode" errors. System is Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 SP2 on Dell Optiplex GM-280 (Pentium 4). Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934892
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    - OCR, scanning, Omnipage Hello, Nuance (Scansoft) doesn't seem to support Omnipage 16 well. The initial install worked OK until six months ago. Since then I have failed to get one good OCR of a document. The program Omnipage 16 crashes in msvcr80 and msvcp80. I've tried putting the latest versions of those programs in the c:\windows\system32 directory, but that does not work Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934884
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    - Programs take TOO long to open -- Hello, I am running Windows XP Home Edition SP2 Pentium 4 Processor 2.53GHz 512MB Memory PC 1066 RDRAM (2x256 modules) My programs take too long to open. I've deleted Temporary internet files,history & Cookies along with TEMP files. I've done a defrag and deleted many files on my hard drive which is 110GB 54GB free. Cleared Recent file folder and ran Ad a Ware, Spybot and AVG. My Firewall is only Zone Alarm, I turned off Windows Firewall thinking the 2 may be causing the delays. Any suggestions? I already re-formatted my entire computer. Is it time to buy a NEW Computer? -- thank you thank you Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934881
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    - New XP Disc still crashes I submitted a question about two weeks ago I was getting blue screen errors bad pool header windows has revcovered from a serious error CHDSK errors were appearing I reinstalled windows XP and receved the same errors. I then ordered new recovery disks and installed them last week. For days the system worked fine. Today I am getting the same error messages, constant shut downs, blue screen errors, system hanging up. Hour glass freezing, internet explorer shutting down every 3 minutes. bad pool header messages etc. Also the wireless network cannot be found at tmes and says no networks in range while another laptop in the same room works. when I tried to play videos it completely shut down. I formatted the disk on the same partition upon installation. The only other symptom I had previously noticed was the laptop does overheat at times. I have to run it near a fan. Any ideas? I did once last reinstall today, and received the same errors on a fresh installation with the new disks. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934880
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    - Windows XP SP2 keeps crashing my Videos How can I stop Windows XP SP2 from popping this dialog while I am capturing video with my Canopus's ADVC-55 Hardware ? Anyone knows ? Windows keep detecting the dam thing over and over and nocking down my video ! This link is to my website: http://www.gondarelectronics.com/images/WINERROR.JPG That Picture shows the dialog....... Thanks...... Gesy Gondar Electronics Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934872
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    - Can't modify folder details (XP 64-bit) When I have detail veiw selected, I go to View> Choose Details and select the details I want to be able to see, but no matter what I select (such as album title, artist, year, track number, etc) and click OK, it makes no difference. On the main folder at least the detail titles show up, but the details themselves don't, and for any subfolders, even the detail titles don't show up. All I'm able to see is Name, Type, Size and Date Modified. Thanks in advance for your help. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934870
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    - SP3 Could someone please tell me just what SP3 is. do I need it? cause its hanging around behind its little shield, I started to download then stopped cause of all the stuff you have to do to do it. Need a little help please. Thanks Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934869
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    - I have a mess with ny desktop icons I hope I can make myself clear. I have about 25 icons on my desktop. The first several work fine when I double click on them. However they look to be super imposed with another desktop icon. When I double click the other icons nothing happens. When I right click it does not give me the option to open the icon. Thanks!! Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934852
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    - Keyboard Mystery I have an IBM laptop running XP Pro, where the keyboard does not seem to work (in regular windows mode) - no key works at all. However, when I go to Device Manager, the keyboard does not report any errors; when I run PC-Doctor (which is a part of the supplied IBM diagnostics) it reports no errors and indeed the keyboard works just fine for navigation and option selection. In fact, when the laptop boots up, it requires a log-in password and the keyboard works perfectly to enter the password. This leads me to think that keyboard per se is not defective. Once it has booted however, the keyboard becomes totally non-responsive. What could be wrong and how could this be fixed? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934840
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    - Error in Microsoft Update - Administrators Only Hi I get the following error on Windows XP x64 Professional when I try to do a Microsoft update. I tried to run Microsoft update by right clicking on the update program. Here I selected 'Run as', and unchecked 'Run this program with restricted access. -Start- Administrators Only To install items from Windows Update, you must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. Note If you are running a Windows 2000 (except DataCenter), Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 operating system, you can run the local administrator account on your computer without having to log off and then log on again. To run as the local administrator in Windows XP or Windows Server 2003: Click Start, and then click All Programs (or right-click Windows Update if it is available). Right-click Windows Update. Click Run as on the menu that appears. Do one of the following: Enter the password for the administrator. Enter the user name, domain name, and password of a different user account that has administrative permissions on this computer. To run as the local administrator in Windows 2000: Click Start, right-click Windows Update, and then click Run As on the menu that appears. Do one of the following: Enter the password for the administrator. Enter the user name, domain name, and password of a different user account that has administrative permissions on this computer. If the option to run as the local administrator is not available: Click Start, right-click Windows Update, and then click Properties. Click the Shortcut tab, and then select the Run as different user check box. -End- I tried the following; still the error persists! -Start- 1. Click "Start," and then click "Run." 2. In the Open box, type regedit and then click "OK." 3. Locate and select the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate 4. click "Edit," and then click "Permissions." 5. Click "Add," and then type "Everyone" in the dialog box that appears. 6. Click "Check Names," and then click "OK." 7. Select "Everyone" in the "Group or user names" list. 8. Under Permissions for "Everyone," select the "Full Control" check box in the "Allow" column. Note that the "Read" check box in the "Allow" column is now also selected. 9. Select each user, in turn, in the "Group or user names" list, and then verify that no check boxes are selected in the "Deny" column. Clear any check boxes that are selected in the "Deny" column. 10. Click "Advanced," and then select the "Replace permission entries on all child objects with entries shown here that apply to child objects" check box, and then click "OK." 11. Click "Yes" if you are prompted for confirmation. -End- I tried to run the update with firewall disabled. But still the error stays! Help is appreciated very much! Hemanth Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934832
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    - Starting applications on a maximized window Some applications can't be started with its windows maximized, requiring a mouse click or keyboard shortcut (that is not always the same, since it changes with the language of the OS). Someone knows of a method, like a small portable freeware application, to create a command line that starts an application maximized? Try to start the Microsoft Computer Management Console maximized (compmgmt.msc). Thanks to everyone! Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934831
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    - Slightly Off-topic but not way off? I have a Sony Vaio PCGFXA 47 notebook with WindowsXP sp3. The computer came with Recovery cds and not a WindowsXP cd. So there was no Recovery Console originally with my computer. However about 6 months ago I was at this website http://www.aumha.org/ and there was a procedure in a thread outlining the steps to installing the Recovery Console on any WindowsXP computer. I followed the procedure and I now have the Recovery Console listed as a boot option on my Boot.ini file. A few weeks ago i deleted Screenblast Sounforge&Acid; Photoshop Elements; and WinDVD from their default install locations on my C:\drive so I could make a smaller image to burn. These programs are OEM to my computer. Anyways after burning the image i wanted to reinstall those programs so I put in the Application Recovery cd to do so but was given the message "This application is not designed to run on this computer". So I could not install the programs. My question is this: Did my installing either SP3 or The Recovery Console cause this effect? I know this isn't specifically a Windows XP question but some of you posters here might have insight to whether this could be the case. I know one thing --The tech at Sony's chat site didn't know. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934811
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    - External Dail-Up USB-to-Serial Modem Hangs and Requires Reboot To Fix I have an external serial modem that is run through a serial-to-USB converter. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16825134002 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812107956 &Tpk=trendnet%2busb%2bserial It will occationally hang, and the the only way to get back control of the modem is to reboot the computer. When I query to modem from the control panel, it says: "The port that the modem is using is currently open by another application. Exit any application that may currently be using the port." I don't know what could be causing the problem. I have tried disabling all other needless applications that run in the background, but that is still no change. Anybody got any ideas of other things that I can try? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934807
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    - Problem creating User account As the computer administrator on my PC, I created a new limited User account. However, when I tried to open up this new account, I got a small window saying Personal Settings. Setting up Internet settings. (Or words to that effect.) An hourglass appeared. This continued for about 5 minutes with no change. I then rebooted the PC and tried to open the new account again, with the same result. Can someone explain why the new account will not set up properly? Thank you. -- Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934806
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    - Do I have a Virus? Shutdown problem Hi every one, I've been experiencing a weird problem with my computer recently. When I turn off my computer, the light on my monitor will go from green to the orange standby state and the computer will shutdown normally. But after 60 to 90 seconds, my monitor light turns on green again and the power 'on' light on the front of my tower flickers really fast as if the computer was turning on and off and on... I can also see the fan at the back of the computer turning. Any idea? I my computer corrupted? thanks, tbof Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934805
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    - Auto Restart on Standby Hello, All! Anytime I put my machine on Standby it goes into Standby and then immediately comes out of Standby. Any thoughts as to why this would occur? Is there some setting I'm missing? Thanks, Colonel Blip E-mail: colonel.blip.at.bigfoot.com Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934797
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    - Install and uninstall of beta/new software - a tip Sometimes there are issues involved in the install and uninstall of beta and new software. I bypass all such issues simply by creating an image of my system with Acronis before installing, say, IE 8 Beta 2. If I decide to go back to IE6 on this particular PC, I'd then restore the machine itself to that stored image. Thereby avoiding all uninstall hassles altogether. I run SmartSyncPro everyday to back up Outlook, OutlookExpress, My Documents, Firefox profile and certain other folders. An Acronis image is created every other day besides. I generally keep in store the last three images. Plus the fall-back ones like that mentioned here. I cannot count the number of times these two utilities have saved my ass. Takes the same time while I finish my coffee. HTH. I apologize if I have stated the obvious here. But I keep reading about uninstall issues pretty often! And, for almighty's sake, I'd not even dream of installing any beta software on any of my systems without having a full recovery option at hand! An otherwise marine-layer topped Southern California morning here as usual, thank you! Rubicon --------- Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934779
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    - Registering previously installed Windows XP Home Edition Months ago I installed and registered my OEM Windows XP Home Edition on an older computer. I just installed it on my new computer but I haven't registered it yet. Do I have to do anything to de-activate my old registration before I can register my new version? If so what would that be? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934767
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    - Can't RESTORE to previous date or remove some programs in Add/Remo Had to remove an extra AOL program, but the Add/Remove stalls and says that there was an error and had to close (says something about app conflict in info sent to Microsoft). I believe that the program I wanted to uninstall is the problem, but not sure. Then I went to RESTORE my computer state to a previous time that was good, but it goes through all the steps to restore only to state that it is unable to restore to any previous date. What is going on? How can I fix these issues? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934759
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    - XP Pro SP3 took out Mouse and driver from Device Manager I see the pointer frozen in the middle of the display but no mouse activity and weirder yet is no sign of any mouse installed and no mouse drivers can be seen in Device Manager. Scary. Opinions on what to do next? I do have really old IntelliPoint 1.1 on floppy disk and a CD to boot from. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934746
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    - Start menu When I add a folder and name it to the programs in start menu it stays there for a few days then it disappears. What is deleting it and what is the fix? Thank you. Mahlon Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934745
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    - UNABLE TO CONNECT WIRELESSLY TO INTERNET When I try to connect my XP laptop wirelessly to the internet using a belkin router. I get a message saying "windows was unable to find a certificate to allow you to connect to the network". What do I need to do here. I can connect ok using a wired connection. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934739
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    - Recover data from hard disk My laptop retired last week, so I have retrieved the hard drive and now want to recover the data from it. I have put the drive into a case and plugged it in via the usb ports on my new machine. There were 2 user accounts on the drive, one account I can get into and have recovered everything. The second user account will not allow me any access. Everything I try I get the error message - f:\documents and settings\andies\my documents is not accessible Access is denied. I have tried creating a user account with the same name on the new machine - still denied Booted from the hard drive, still access denied. Can anyone tell me how to get past this please? David Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934738
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    - Backup program Can somebody point me to a good simple backup program (to an external HD), free if possible. But if it's necessary to pay ... Daniel -- _________________________________ Daniel Royer University of Geneva daniel at royer dot ch Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934732
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    - inordinate defrag time... 2nd PC - Asrock AliveNF6G|dual core x6000|2x512PC2-5300 XP Home boot hd SATA 80gb ...C:\ ...and a IDE 80gb on IDE0 for storage, and Ghost backups. ...D:\ 1536mb pagefile was on the default size and located boot drive C:\ An hour ago I set 128mb fixed swapfile on C:\ and a 1404mb fixed swapfile on D:\ ...and set Perfectdisk to offline defrag meta and paging file/s, on those two drives on reboot - and rebooted. It whistled through C:\ in no time at all, and has gone into slow motion for the offline defrag of drive D:\ cuurently at 34% and looks like it's going to take the all the rest of the afternoon. D:\ was not heavily fragmented and has over 50gb empty space - there are two or three Ghost backup folders on there, each about 4gb in size and each is a "spanned" backup in 1gb chunks. ...any idea as to why Perfedtdisk is taking so long to shunt things around on D:\ i.e. it never used to take this long ! regards, Richard Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934727
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    - inordinate defrag time... 2nd PC - Asrock AliveNF6G|dual core x6000|2x512PC2-5300 XP Home boot hd SATA 80gb ...C:\ ...and a IDE 80gb on IDE0 for storage, and Ghost backups. ...D:\ 1536mb pagefile was on the default size and located boot drive C:\ An hour ago I set 128mb fixed swapfile on C:\ and a 1404mb fixed swapfile on D:\ ...and set Perfectdisk to offline defrag meta and paging file/s, on those two drives on reboot - and rebooted. It whistled through C:\ in no time at all, and has gone into slow motion for the offline defrag of drive D:\ cuurently at 34% and looks like it's going to take the all the rest of the afternoon. D:\ was not heavily fragmented and has over 50gb empty space - there are two or three Ghost backup folders on there, each about 4gb in size and each is a "spanned" backup in 1gb chunks. ...any idea as to why Perfedtdisk is taking so long to shunt things around on D:\ i.e. it never used to take this long ! regards, Richard Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934726
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    - inordinate defrag time... 2nd PC - Asrock AliveNF6G|dual core x6000|2x512PC2-5300 XP Home boot hd SATA 80gb ...C:\ ...and a IDE 80gb on IDE0 for storage, and Ghost backups. ...D:\ 1536mb pagefile was on the default size and located boot drive C:\ An hour ago I set 128mb fixed swapfile on C:\ and a 1404mb fixed swapfile on D:\ ...and set Perfectdisk to offline defrag meta and paging file/s, on those two drives on reboot - and rebooted. It whistled through C:\ in no time at all, and has gone into slow motion for the offline defrag of drive D:\ cuurently at 34% and looks like it's going to take the all the rest of the afternoon. D:\ was not heavily fragmented and has over 50gb empty space - there are two or three Ghost backup folders on there, each about 4gb in size and each is a "spanned" backup in 1gb chunks. ...any idea as to why it's taking so long to shunt things around on that drive ? i.e. it never used to take this long ! regards, Richard Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934725
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    - Paint Shop Pro X2 .. won't closeout been using PSP X2 since it came out last October .. all of a sudden when I close it out off the desktop.. it remains 'open' in Task Manager'.. the only way to reopen it is to 'End Process'.. or do a reboot.. any fixes available.. any help much appreciated.. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934724
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    - Problem with drivers I had to reinsall everything as my computer had a virus. After I installed Windows XP Professional Version 2002, there is no sound and no internet on my computer. My USB port is not working too. When I insert my usb drive, it does not recognize and does not show the removable drive icon on my comptuer --- Device manager shows exclamation mark on the following items: Ethernet Controller PCI Device Video Controller (VGA Compatible) Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller --- I downloaded and ran the Intel Chipset Identification Utility, Version 3.20 to find out my chipset number. On the left, I got four links: Intel Chipset Identification Utility Home (http://support.intel.com/ support/chipsets/inf/chipsetid.htm) Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility Home (http:// support.intel.com/support/chipsets/inf/) Chipsets (http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/) Support (http://support.intel.com/support/) On the right, I got System Information which says: Detected Chipset: Intel 946GZ Express Chipset (http:// support.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-022898.htm) Chipset Components: Memory Controller: 82946GZ I/O Controller: Intel 82801GB/GR I/O controller hub (ICH7/ICH7R) SATA Controller found in IDE mode And finally an Exit Button --- For sound, I downloaded audio setup file (AUD_ALL32_5.12.1.5240_PV2) and (AUD_ALLOS_XP_VISTA_5377_PV_REALTEK) from Intel website but during installation, it says no drivers found, reboot and install again. For usb, I downloaded (infinst_autol) but it says, This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. reinstalling the application may fix this problem. For video, I downloaded (winxp_14344) but it says, Error executing the specified program \locals~1\temp\pft42~tmp\setup.exe and then says, unable to execute the specified command line --- It looks like there are some drivers missing. Can somebody tell me what exactly is the problem and where can I get the drivers? Can somebody give me links where I can download all missing drivers? Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934718
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    - Quick Launch icons randomly changed and odd program doubles I've been getting a couple annoying glitches for the past few months on my copy of Wndows XP Pro. I doubt they are related, but I'll address them both at once... One thing that has happened several times, is I will log in to find the Quick Launch icons randomly reassigned. If I right click and select properties, the correct icon is shown in the "[Show Desktop, Mozilla Firefox, Windows Live Messenger, etc] Properties" box. They will be back to normal when the computer is restarted, but while I'm using it, the only way to get the correct icon back is to create a new Quick Launch entry for each item. The other glitch may or may not be Windows' fault. I'm getting a similar glitch with two different programs that started happening at the same time. When I open Winamp, then close it, the process is left running. The next time I go to open it, it won't let me. It has to be closed from the task manager each time - very annoying. Firefox is also leaving a spare process open some of the time. In Firefox's case this means that if I go to open a second, or new window, all my bookmarks are gone. Tag: Picked wrong keyboard Tag: 1934717

I have a Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard. It was working properly
except the shortcut buttons. I tried changing drivers, but picked the wrong
one and now the keyboard and mouse only work in BIOS setup and recovery
program. They don't work in safe mode. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Carl

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Re: Picked wrong keyboard by Ron

Ron
Sun Aug 31 17:46:57 PDT 2008

Click the F8 key repeatedly during the boot and on the resulting menu, pick
last known good configuration.

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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP
Windows Desktop Experience

"creynolds" <creynolds@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:233CB4C6-39FE-427F-96A3-AF977561926B@microsoft.com...
>I have a Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard. It was working properly
> except the shortcut buttons. I tried changing drivers, but picked the
> wrong
> one and now the keyboard and mouse only work in BIOS setup and recovery
> program. They don't work in safe mode. Any help appreciated. Thanks, Carl

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