If by thumbnails you mean movie specific thumbnails then:

I know you said you have tried everything else but... well this may be a completely pointless post but: have you tried copying the files...

Do the students take the laptops home? if not can you not just put a blocking program on the school network? I do think it would be better to achieve this actively rather than in a passive manor.
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Does it do this with other windows blings themes? You could put your PC into hibernate for the time being and see what we can come up with... that should be atleast your computer is completely "on"....

Hi JBennet, You have certainly racked up the post count etc since I have last been here!

It definitely isn't overheating. It could be the power supply. Anyone else have any ideas? I really hope...

Something very strange has started happening to my PC recently. For some unknown reason at completely random times, for example when clicking a hyperlink or when changing window, the computer just...

Sorry, I think John A might be right... we do appear to have gone rather of topic.

Yes Korento, You can LEGALLY clone your hard drive onto an upgrade as long as you don't use the two at the same...

Yes there is a Safari for windows and has been for quite a while!?

I suggest you run the scan on the program caperjack suggested and then uninstall any program that you think may have been...

Agreed. The question is if you clone the drive, will you still be running the old computer aswell. If so that is illegal without a doubt. Otherwise it seems to be legal if you only intend to use...

Try running the virus scanner again and curing the infected files. It should still pick them up.

It looks like it's time for a major reinstall to me.

You should run a full virus scan to see if the problem is easily recovered.

If you still have all your original disks for the program it...

Cloning the XP disc is Illegal no doubt. As for cloning your old harddrive I'm not completely sure, although I am pretty sure if you are cloning the operating system as part of that then yes that is...

OK. So sorry. I should have tried before asking. It did turn out to be a partition. I don't know why it appeared though.

Resolution (for anyone interested):

Control panel > Administrative...

I'm in the process of reinstalling my whole pc. I have completely formatted C: and left D: (second HDD) as it was with my data on it. I have reinstalled XP and had next to no problems doing that. ...

I think thats what i'm going to end up doing. It even fails to restore so I don't really have much of a choice.

But if anyone has any other ideas i'll be happy to give them a go. I won't be...

I am (attempting) to repair a computer for a friend and it is a typical teenagers computer ie. more things start up on boot than i have ever seen!

Moving on... THe first problem i came accross...

Apart from media center you don't need anything, however you may want to purchase the following items:

Media Center Remote
Tv Tuner Card
Look into what specs you should have on a mc pc.
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That's called Dual booting. This should help you http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic9371.html

here's some more-

Alcohol 120%- CD image burner and Virtual drive
Ares- p2p
Bittorent- Couldnt possibly tell you
VLC Media Player- very good media player, plays most codecs
Filezilla - very...

I'm sure by now these have been mentioned already but, I feel they are all worth mentioning again!

Corel Paint Shop Pro X - excellent graphics editing sofware.
Macromedia Suite- Ultimate web...

There must be an easier way to change from the secure version to the normal xp look one. I never new that the other one existed apart from when the pc goes into sleep or standby.... There has...

Thanks all working great now!

Will the first solutionstop it running at start up or stop it running all together?

Thanks for your response.

Hi all,

I am running on Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and I am having a few problems. I have aCreative Audigy 2ZS sound card and I have recently bought Micorsoft Visual Studio .NET C++. ...

If you're using XP you could got into control panel>sounds and audio devices, this should show your main sound device, if your mic is not plugged into this it is unlikely it will work. I have had...