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    - XP SP2 CD I may be re-installing XP soon, and I was thinking about ordering the CD for XP SP2. I was wondering if the SP2 cd will contain media player 11, and IE 7, or do you still have to go out and download that stuff after putting on SP2. Thanks in advance. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321439
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    - IE Cannot display the Webpage message....... Help!!! I am running Windows XP Professional SP2 with all available updates. I am not able to connect to the web and recieve the message "Internet Explorer Cannot Display the Webpage". I have disabled the Firewall and have disabled the Antivirus Program. I have ran Ad-Aware 2007 and have ran WinsockXPFix, ISPFIX, LSPFix, RegCure and they have corrected found problems with out correcting the connection problem. I can see my Local Network but not the WAN through IE. I have even tried reinstalling IE7 and Windows XP Pro (over itself) and yet I still can not see the web. I have tried removing and recreating the Internet Connection and Networks. I have the problem even if I am connected through Wireless, Wired or Broadband Cellular connections. The only updates that I have not installed is the .NET Framework 2.0 Update and the 3.0 Update. I have searched the forum for assistance and have tried everything that has been suggested in previous forums without success. I am just about ready to REFORMAT and RE-Install the OS to see if that works. I am able to get online with other computers (both Wired and Wireless) over the same network but not on my DELL Inspiron 5100 Laptop that is having the issues. Any information that you can provide to aid in the repair of the problem is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ray Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321436
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    - Startup window When I was first setting up my system, Windows XP Pro asked me to enter the user names that would be using the computer. After that when I rebooted, Icons with user names would appear at startup. How do I get back to that? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321430
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    - Asus A696 USB Driver I just got an A696 but XP will not let me connect to it via USB. In Device Manager it gives me a ? symbol under USB devices. When I try to load a driver by having it find one, it says it cannot find a driver. There is no info on the ASUS website that can help. Any help here? Thanks. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321429
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    - No DST change Hi I have Windows XP SP2 and all updates (supposedly) Computer did not update DST this morning. Have been having problems with programs that set time preceding (Mozilla Sunbird) March 9. I tried to download the XP update for DST but got a message that it was already installed or a later version is installed. But it doesn't work. (KB931836) Some background. About 2 months ago I had no sound in my system except for a few items like AIM. I decided to reinstall windows on top of my current copy. I did this so I wouldn't have to reinstall all my applications. Sometime ago I slipstreamed XP with SP2 so they would install at the same time. So I ran that installer. The install went OK, but Windows Update would not update after that. I sought some help from MS, and ran a program that they sent me to clean the registry.Updates now work, but for some reason the DST updater does not work. Any ideas for a solution? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321426
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    - reading a file updates the modification time I just noticed that reading a file updates the "Date Modified." Even using the TYPE command in a command window updates the Date Modified, even though the TYPE command cannot possibly modify the content of a file. Why is this happening? How can it be fixed? I often really want to know how old the content of a file is, and the only reliable way, looking at the Date Modified, is no longer reliable. Is this the result of some security update? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321421
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    - Copy favorites to a USB flash drive Is there a way to copy my favorites to a USB flash drive? I want to copy them on to my wife's laptop. Thanks, (jbrown15@hvc.rr.com) Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321418
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    - New Hard Drive Windows XP Pro, Dell 4100 system, ATA-66 or ATA-100 Ultra DMA hard drive. A recent disk check showed an error in one sector. Elsewhere in this NG, it was recommended that I get a new hard drive ASAP. I have only one now although there are two bays. It is 20 gb. Can I replace that with a 100 gb or any size gb hard drive or am I limited to the 20? Can I just add it to the remaining bay? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321409
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    - Autoplay I have an external HD attached . After I boot up autoplay starts and seems to scan through every file. Is this supposed to happen? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321391
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    - can't find network card Now and again, say once a month, Windows (XP SE) fails to find my network card. In order to make it do so, a "cold" reboot is necessary. Pushing the reset button alone won't achieve it. Is this normal or does it mean that there is something seriously wrong either with my network card or XP. OR Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321385
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    - Bluetooth not in the control panel Can anyone help me? I've just spent ages trying to discover where the bluetooth devices area is in the control panel so that I can connect my PC with my phone. I have tried changing the control panel to classic view and it still is not there! Has anyone out there had this problem and did you ever resolve it? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321384
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    - How do I get a single column list back? A long time ago I was able to do some sort of tweak so when I had to open a file list it looked exactly like my Windows Explorer and everything was in one long column. Having to do a repair install and numerous updates after that, I no longer have that. Instead I have multiple columns which require a horizontal slider bar...unacceptable. Since that was a long ago, I don't remember how to do that. Can anyone help with advice or point me in the right direction? Thanks. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321371
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    - MP3 Properties/Summary Problem I have been going through some of my mp3 music files & updating the properties.... Now, nearly all of them have the expected standard Artist, Album Title, Year, Track Number, Genre, Lyrics... etc.... under 'music' in the summary.... but.... I do seem to have a few random mp3's that only list Track Number, Title, Comments, & nothing else at all under 'advanced' which doesn't make sense to me... xp identifies them all as the same file type, standard MP3 Audio... I certainly cannot spot any file differences at all.... any idea how to enable the full summary selection so that I can add the Artist data etc.... Tia.... Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321370
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    - Thank you I would like to say a big thank you to all who give their time to help those of us who are less knowledgeable. What would we do with out you? I thank you. James Morgan Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321368
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    - why don't I have Security tab in Windows Explorer? I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC that is part of our Domain. When I right click on a folder i.e. "C:\Program Files" and choose properties there is NO Security tab. There's a share tab and a General tab, and that it... I had the PC rejoin the domain. changed mydomain.local, to just mydomain and it went throught the steps, welcomes me to the domain and rebooted. I didn't delete the computer in Active Directories... I found a news group thread that says to go into Windows Explorer and from the menu go to Tools\Folder Options\View and uncheck the option for Simple File Sharing. That didn't give me a Security Tab. I did reboot after I made the change. On my personal PC same setup, the "Simple File Sharing" option is checked, and I do have a security tab. Can someone point me in the right direction to resolve this? Thanks Kelvin Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321357
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    - Explorer.exe slows/freezes my pc experience! I have Windows XP SP2; 512 MB RAM; 40GB Harddisc space (maximum; about 12 GB left) and 1,0 Ghz CPU. Last month I had discovered that I had about 16 viruses and trojans on my pc when I had them removed with Adaware (The updated Mcafee VirusScan did NOTHING!) and used a "registry cleaner" too. (I made no backup, to save some of my 40GB diskspace) But now sometimes when I reboot, explorer.exe will fail to initiate (with an error message) and when it does, it slows my pc after some minutes. Examples: when I am surfing the net (or moving through my folders and files) a website (or folder or file) will take 1 minute to load or would freeze. But when I use taskmanager to shut down "explorer.exe." the surfing speeds up. And when I restart explorer.exe I can once again move through my folders and files again...but only for about 15-20 minutes. Because it will freeze again! When I look in taskmanger I see that explorer.exe is adding 4 kb of RAM every second, yet the entire windows explorer is frozen. (no way to go to my documents or even activate the "start" button! Unless if I shut down explorer.exe then resatrt it...) Is there a way to fix this...or is my RAM and Processor Power too low for today's standards??? Or has the virus/trojans/malware done something? (or Adaware and the registry cleaner) Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321347
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    - XP too many user accounts? Set up new computer in office. 12 users. When one logs off, the next user cannot put in password without restarting computer. Help? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321345
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    - Reinstalling updates I am having to reinstall all my updates. 84 of them. They all download and start to install. All goes well until I get to #75 which is the IE-7 update. It will not install. It starts to update and then continues to run for hours. I have turned off my pop up blocker and my anti-virus but it will not complete the install. This is the third time I've tried it. Can anyone tell me how to proceed. I have downloaded it months ago and it worked OK, but because of a problem I had to reinstall my OS and all the updates. Thank you for any help. James Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321342
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    - Stop Error 0x0000008E HELP, I was just doing my thing today when blink, I got this Stop Error Blue Screen. I haven't installed any drivers, I wasn't even doing anything when it happened. I have plenty of HD space (&0+ GB Free) and RAM (2 GB), I've not added any hardware or changed anything. I rebooted and it seems fine, but now since I don't know what caused it, I'm afraid it'll happen again. Under the tech info it said: Stop: 0x0000008E (0xc00000090, 0x2ECF1772, 0xBA4E7E10, 0x00000000) Beginning dump of physical memory Physical memory dump complete How do I find out what caused this so I can fix it so it won't happen again? Thanks, Dawn Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321338
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    - PC won't boot after new motherboard fitted My Medion 8383 wouldn't power up and the local computer shop diagnosed a duff motherboard. I took out my HD and put a blank brand new one in before I took it to the shop. They fitted the new MB and said it was booting fine. I have now connected up the original HD, so just moved the power and data cables over from the new HD to my original. It won't boot up. I get a black screen offering to boot nortmally, safe mode, last good configuration, all options return to this screen. I get the black Wiundows screen with the couloured window as it boots up. Apart from take it back to the shop, is there anything I could try? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321327
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    - Administrator Signon How do I sign on as an administrator? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321323
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    - user accounts trouble!!!! i had 1 user account the admin account that i used for everything the i created another one and when i turn on the pc it says that the admi account will only come up in safe mode. and the new account doesnt wor when i try to run programs or anything. any help you can give me woul be very appreciated! thank you -- jeremy2008 Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321321
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    - XP Start up applications Is there a microsoft application that can optimize my startup time without me having to play detective one check mark at a time on over 50 odd files? I have installed and deleted several trial programs that automatically added their startup routines, but did not remove them when I uninstalled. Now I have a very long startup, and I cant' figure out which line is nessessary, and which ones are phantom without hours and hours of try this one, then that one, etc.... Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321318
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    - PLEASE HELP!!:):) Help!! When i open a program, it doesnt show up in the taskbar! What's wrong!?!?!? Help appreciated, obviously!! Thanks!! -- ___-___Eoin___-___ Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321316
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    - My Windows XP Pro is not detecting modem and Dvd Combo Drive My system is P-IV, HP Intel Original Motherboard,20 Gb Hard Disk 256 Ram,and 1.7 g Processor. I reinstalled the windows with new cd but windows xp is not dectecting the modem driver?I also have replcaed my modem with new one but same problem presists,in past when i used to refresh my Windows Xp Pro it dectects all the drivers automatically. And if i install the Dvd Combo Hardware drive, system shows message on startup incompatible device and if i cancel it then it is not present in the My Computer and also the Cd Rom icon also not present?if i install Dvd Rom on system on then cd rom icon vanish? And my system is not shutting down, when i shutdown the system after shutting down LED on CPU doesnot go off and system restarts automatically,and i have to unplug it for shutdown? Tell me is there any Virus or some problem in my Bios or tell me how can i fix the problem? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321305
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    - Clock not updating My PC clock is not updating. In the settings its greyed out. Using XP Pro. How can I get it to update? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321303
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    - Downloading IE 7 I spent hours last night trying to download the new IE 7. It would download allright but when it got to the part of "Installing Updates" it would never finish. It literally ran all night and never did complete the download. How do I do it properly. It seems pretty straight forward. Thanks James Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321301
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    - TweakUI for XP Produces Registry Error I use TweakUI for XP SP 2, and I was having trouble keeping the folder settings. So, I opened the registry and looked at what TweakUI had entered. It was NOT the same as what Microsoft had recommended on their website. The numbers were correct and the placement were correct, BUT, where the correct way to have the entries is BagMRU Size, TweakUI has it entered it as Bag MRU Size - with a space inbetween the Bag and the MRU. After hand correcting this, my folders are now keeping their settings. Is there anyone else that has noticed this error, and if so, is there any way to advise Microsoft's TweakUI developers of this of this error in their program? Thanks! Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321298
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    - How do I get pics to show "in order" in display/slideshow? I use My Pictures Slideshow as a screen saver; but can't seem to find how to get them to display 'in order'. Using old family pics, I have them named with date first, such as '1913-Mom&Dad', '1999-Susie' etc. They sort correctly in the folder, and if I use the slideshow function when viewing them, but in the Display/Screen Saver/Slideshow function, they show randomly. I've checked under Display functions within the Control Panel & I can't find anything to help. I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions! Thanks so much. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321297
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    - My Laptop Goes On Standby when in use While I`m using my laptop, suddenly it will go on standby and shut off. This is annoying and what causes this? My system is Processor 1600MHz, RAM1.00 GB, windows xp. James Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321293
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    - XP speed question Looking for some ideas .... I am using XP Home w/ SP2 on a Dell w/ 1g ram on a 1.7 g P4. Computer is a Dimension 8200. I do have a fair amount of software on the machine - so the boot time & save settings time is long. It would be nice to speed that up - but I am tolerant of that problem. What would delay the opening of a window - or the saving of a file? It is pretty clear that the computer slows down at times. I am noticing it more now that I am using Dragon Naturally Speaking Pref 9. It takes an esxtraordinary amount of time to process and type the dictation. Other functions seem slow at times as well. I am using Norton as an antivirus program (2004) - and I have noticed that Norton can slow things down scanning a file. I am looking globally for reasons the machine is slow - not all the time - but on occasion. Another thing I noticce is there is hard drive activity after the desktop appears - and looks ready to go - and when I look at the task monitor - the usage is by normal things like explorer airsvcu - and svchost - etc. Would it make sense to create users for different kinds of use - would that prevent all of the drivers from being loaded (if that is the problem). Currently I have one user. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321286
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    - email message at login at the login in screen on xp i get a message that i have emails unread,now how do i get rid of this message/disable it and where are the so called messages kept on my computer,i now have outlook turned off but i cant find theses emails that i am suppose to have on my computer anywhere Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321278
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    - don't want welcome or login - can both be disabled How do I disable this. A few days ago ... there was obviously an update. I now have to choose between welcome or logging in. I can't find the option in user accounts to "not" use either. I have an older pc and just want the thing to boot up as it takes a while for a/v, etc. to update. Can I disable both? Thanks. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321269
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    - Hidden files in /Recycler New to XP (I have just been given a neighbor's discarded laptop) . . . 1. The Recyc Bin is called /Recycler -- is that right? 2. My / Recycler contains a (hidden directory) called NPROTECT containing 352 Mb of files, dated 2001 to 2006. Is it safe to delete the whole subfolder? 3. This laptop has no NTBACKUP modules and instead has routines called System Restore. Is this normal for laptops? (The two WinXP instal disks are in some proprietory format, one big file each, and I believe the online manual says their installation includes a reformat: this is why I don't think I should try to copy NTBACKUP from them: but perhaps I do not need to.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321268
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    - Sansa e280: Synch cable doesn't charge I've had my Sansa e280 for several months now, with no major issues. I just plugged the cable in to recharge the battery (it's at about 50%) and it's not being recognized. The OS doesn't show it as a removable drive like it usually does, the Sansa doesn't show that it's plugged in to a USB port and it's also not charging. As far as the Sansa and the OS are concerned, there's no cable at all. This is my work laptop, and I've charged with no problem in the past. The last time it worked was about 2 weeks ago. There may have been some updates to the laptop that I'm not aware of, but I know the USB port works because I had a flashdrive in it earlier this morning. Any ideas? Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321265
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    - Weird boot problem Hi, I have an HP Pavillion DV9731CA laptop (DV9000 series). The laptop has Windows Vista Home Premium installed. 2 gig ram, 250 gig HD, Nvidia 8400 video card. I was installing a network drive (Mediagate player) and the laptop stopeed working. I am not sure it had anything to do with the installation of the drive. What is happening is that Windows is booting up, gets to the point where mouse pointer is visible, it says "please wait" and it keeps on going through this cycle, without the actual login screen. If I restart, I can get in via safe mode, but even there the explorer does not open up, so the only thing I can do is go ALT CTRL DEL and get to task manager where I can start a new task of Firefox or open a Window explorer window (which sometimes closes itself). I can connect to the internet, I can access the hard drive and run most applications, which are allowed by safe mode. What is important is that the drive exists, boots, is visible and accessible. I do no have the recovery disk, so I ordered it via HP site (will get it this week), but my other copies of XP and a modified Vista CD, if loaded, get to a point where they can be installed, but tell me that the hard drive is not visible. Same goes for a D with Ubuntu (Linux), it loads itself into memory, it can see that the hard drive is there, but does cannot access it. With an Ultimate boot CD, I can see the partition, can see the disk name and size, but cannot reformat it. I thought it was a problem with the HD, so copied everything from there to an external HD (so the data is there and it is accessible!), but replacing the HD with a new one did not help - it does not see the new HD and dos not allow me to install a new system (XP or Vista). So it is not a problem with the hard drive. I thought it could be that somehow in Vitsta the network hard drive I was trying to add affected the BIOS - which is my only real theory at this point, but I cannot flash the BIOS in Safe Mode, which is my only method of accessing the system at this point, and I do not know a manual way of updating/resetting the BIOS. The only place that I found to update my BIOS was an HP download page, that installs a Winflash utility, ut it tells me that it cannot run in safe mode. BIOS is accessible if I press F1 during start up, but it is very basic, not like the ones on older PCs - I cannot set master or slave drives, etc. I tried installing XP on an external USB drive, but it does not boot from there, even when I can tell the system to use USB - it reads the drive, but fails to load Windows. So here is my dilemma: Hard drive is there, but it is accessible only in safe mode, not through dos apps, or any other way. Bios can only be updated in real mode, but I can only boot in safe mode with limited capabilities. It seems that he problem is the BIOS settings as it is the only thing that keeps some settings after the hard drive is replaced. Any thoughts of advise? Any alternative ideas? Any thoughts on how to manually reset the BIOS? I read up and others had this similar issues int eh past with HP and other laptops and they said it was a result of an ptomatic update from Microsoft or HP, which is possible in case, as I do not know if the new network drive intallation was the actual cause of this. Thanks KK Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321260
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    - Windows messenger How do I stop Windows Messenger from starting up and putting itself in the Taskbar? Thx. TomS Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321257
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    - Cannot Uninstall Program I have a program (Advanced Registry Optimizer)on my computer which pops up when I turn my computer on, and since it wasn`t needed I thought I would uninstall, so I went to the add/remove programs in the Control Panel and when I clicked on Advanced Registry Optimizer to uninstall a sign pops up that says "Program does not exist cannot uninstall". Does anyone know how I can uninstall the program, I`ve even ran System Restore and that didn`t help. Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321245
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    - what has happen to Leonardo da Vinci screenshaver? I thought it was a part of Windows XP but I cannot find it. Where is it? Jack Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321234
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    - probleme reseau bonjour, depuis un certain temps, dans mes favoris reseau, il n'affiche plus mon 2eme pc! qui connait la solution pour remedier a ce probleme? merci -- Roger http://le-meruvien.skynetblogs.be/ http://passionanimaux.skyblogs.be/ Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321233
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    - Locking desktop icons Hi Group, Whenever I change my resolution under Display>Properties>Settings all of my desktop icons get re-arranged. This also happens on a restart after a crash. How can I lock the icons so they come back in the same place each time. I am using WindowsXP Home SP2 on a stand alone PC. Hope you can help, Gus Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321227
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    - Can Windows Defender Skew Programs? I have XP Pro, SR 2 and all updates; using Windows Defender, Avast, & Ad Aware - run latter daily, and maintain updates. plenty of space, no defrag needed, etc. Some strange changes have occurred in my system, and one adaptive program (that is up to date) now won't open (ZoomText v.9) with only a window stating it isn't supported by this version of Windows - iow less than W 98! The arrangement of my OE 6 layout/toolbars, et al were altered today, and other programs changed, including layouts pulling up OE 6, etc. I can't easily check for the status of other programs, or in Control Panel w/o adaptive software. I have Kurzweil 1000 but haven't used it for a windows program reader - only scanning, editing, and converting docs. What can be happening? thank you. -- "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them" ~ Albert Einstein ~ Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321222
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    - Strange Boot Problem Just put this machine together and installed windows xp pro. MSI P4M80 Motherboard with sata. Installed a Western Digital 80GB Hard drive, 1GB of DDR2 memory. Board had integrated lan, video and audio. Before installing windows, entered bios and disabled sata since I am using an IDE drive. Windows installed fine but after completion when it was time to reboot I receive the following message: Boot from CD: Intel UNDI, PXE 2.0 (build 082) VIA Rhine II Fast Ethernet Adapter v2.42 PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM Disk Boot failure, insert system disk and press enter I have gone back to BIOS and disabled the Other feature under boot sequence. I have tried disabling the onboard ethernet but the same mnessage appears. If I reset boot sequesnce to hard drive first, I get the same message. I believe hard drive is working properly because if I insert windows CD the machine will open to windows, and I have successfully installed other programs at that time. I have looked to see if there was some kind of PXE setting to disable in the bioas but none exists. Please ... any help would be greatly appreciated. -- kah Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321217
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    - BPO CALL CENTER JOB How to earn easily. now a many people to search the jobs. Its on easiest job. To maintain only records. http://offinbpo.blogspot.com Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321215
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    - Organizing documents - re-organizing them ... With this great XP Pro, is there any way to easily organize documents that are filed in different folders? I've noticed being active in several advocacy groups that much that I've saved could be better organized. Any tips would be helpful. XP Pro, SR 2, Word 2003; Front Page, Kurzweil, OE 6 - all updates current...etc. -- "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them" ~ Albert Einstein ~ Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321209
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    - Getting the "site Code" Hi, On a Dell machine (P4 XP home edition) I'm trying to activate a product. The program supplies, on initial run, a "site code" and I'm to supply the matching "site key" On this machine the "site code" returns blank. It has to be my computer because it works on two others. Granted, on ONE of the two others I had to turn off, temporarily, the AVG A/V. Needless to say I tried the same, on this one. Any idea? Thanks, Uzidengineer Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321208
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    - Safe Mode Access For diagnostic work on your computer I often see the below info given to access Safe Mode. I also know that if you use msconfig in the run box, select /safeboot on the Boot.INI tab it lets you get into safemode so much easier on reboot. Are these two methods the same for entering Safe Mode or are they different in some way? Boot into safe mode by tapping F8 as the computer boots and log in as administrator. Thanks for any help Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321201
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    - Backed up My Docs, but discrepancy in number of files and total sp I have backed up My Docs by Copying and pasting to an external drive. However there is a discrepancy beween the original and the copy of around 24 megs and more importantly there are 2 files missing from the copy. I can't work out where the missing files are or should be, although I do notice that some folders have a very small discrepancy in "size" (but not "Size on disk"), but recopying them makes no difference. Any thoughts as to how I can determine what files might be missing, how I can find them, etc would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321194
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    - Lost IE and Outlook Express connection A friend suggested I look for help here. My internet connection drops out after about 15 mins if I don't keep refreshing or loading new pages or checking for new e-mail. Anything that doesn't need an internet connection keeps working fine on the computer. It's a new system running WinXP with all the patches. It was working fine until Sat. My ISP - Shaw - says the modem is fine and it is giving them no error messages. An ipconfig when the problem occurs shows a valid Shaw IP address. We deleted Winsock and rebooted but that didn't help either. I didn't install or activate anything for at least a couple of days before the problem occurred. I had a Linksys router (wired) installed but disconnected it because my ISP figured that was the problem. It wasn't. Haven't reconnected it yet. I'm running System Suite 8 and using their firewall and AV. But even if I disable both of those the problem still reoccurs. A reboot always solves the problem temporarily. Nothing else seems to. If I let IE hang for a while it returns the message that the web page can not be displayed. Sometimes I get an error saying windows can't find an IP address. If I use the repair option it still can't find an IP address. I took the CPU back (since it's new) and had the tech check everything. No hardware problems, no viruses they or I could find, nothing. And they couldn't reproduce the problem. But they are working off a network using a setup different from mine. I figured it was probably an XP corruption or glitch somewhere. And I read some other messages similar to this but they were about wireless networks or problems a bit different than mine. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321192
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    - Upgrade to XP Pro under a Volume License In the past we were purchasing PCs with Win XP Home (OEM) and upgraded our systems to Win XP Pro under a Volume License Agreement. Now, it seems that we will have to purchase XP Pro AND "upgrade" to Vista Business then "downgrade" to XP Pro. In either case we would have to spend roughly $100 per system (just for the OS) in order to stay legal. Is this true? Or, can we still buy systems with XP Home and upgrade them to XP Professional? Thanks, Daniel Tag: Removing items from start menu Tag: 321188

Hi !
How can I permanently remove items from the start menu in msconfig, not just
un-checking them but removing them.
ThankX

Mike from Africa
South Africa

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Re: Removing items from start menu by Ken

Ken
Mon Mar 10 10:29:39 PDT 2008

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:16:07 +0200, "Mike" <michaelvdm@telkomsa.net>
wrote:

> Hi !
> How can I permanently remove items from the start menu in msconfig, not just
> un-checking them but removing them.

Go here: "Clear Disabled Items from Msconfig" - line 148 (right hand
side) http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

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Re: Removing items from start menu by Gerry

Gerry
Tue Mar 11 14:25:03 PDT 2008

Mike

Have a look at Autoruns (freeware) which covers ALL not SOME startup
items and is generally safer to use than msconfig.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/Autoruns.mspx

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Mike wrote:
> Hi !
> How can I permanently remove items from the start menu in msconfig,
> not just un-checking them but removing them.
> ThankX
>
> Mike from Africa
> South Africa

Re: Removing items from start menu by Mike

Mike
Wed Mar 12 08:47:54 PDT 2008

Thanks for the answers
Mike from Africa
South Africa

"Mike" <michaelvdm@telkomsa.net> wrote in message
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> Hi !
> How can I permanently remove items from the start menu in msconfig, not
> just
> un-checking them but removing them.
> ThankX
>
> Mike from Africa
> South Africa
>
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