I would use Tweak or X-Setup or Group Policy Editor to restrict access to cmd.

Wallace - one simple & obvious question : What do you plan to install onto the harddrive after formating it? Or are you just wanting to wipe the drive clean for resale reasons?

So when you press F2 when you have the "new" folder selected, Windows does not allow you to rename it? It does nothing? A beep even?

How are you logged into you system? Do you have...

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Did this just start happening? Were you able to print prior to this error, or did you just start receiving it?

What printer?

Have you installed anything recently? :-|

Jetdoc - When you tried typing the Administrator and a blank password, did you just hit enter or click OK after typing Administrator? Or did you actually tab down to the password field with the...

Umm Wallace, are you refering to Internet Explorer asking you this on websites that prompt you for a login?

"Being new to this" I have to ask you why would you want to do that?

I assume that you have the two drives already installed. To put on both OSes just install windows 98, then once you have...

I am assuming that W2k partition is using NTFS partition. As for a solution I have none other than Recovery Console and have windows repair itself....or at least try. I had this issue once myself,...

Moves? You mean copies....right?

So you are saying, at this time, if you were to take it to your folks place place right now it would work fine. But it does not work fine at your place?

Hmmm, this was all just recently tried?...

OK, well the drive is going, and it sounds like it will be a constant issue. So my advice is to copy the files off of it (at least try) before you loose them. And I mean copy and NOT move! Move...

Sorting will not change what he has lost. It is there in all but the list and details view by standard. So changing the views has not fixed it. I think it may have to do with mssstyles.dll. ...

By freezing you mean it locks up? You can not do anything? Start menu? Alt + Tab ? Ctrl + Alt + Del (i.e. bring up task manager) ?

And no problems with either drive other than the mentioned...

And it just suddenly disappeared?

Hmmm, something corrupted in the msstyles.dll ?

Anyone have thought?

I agree with caperjack. Your message makes no sense dude! I can view the linked picture, but what does "Lost this line on every topic" or 'Lost the topics bottom line in my comuter folder" mean...

Just out of curiosity, what do you have runnin in your taskbar? i.e. the little area where time is displayed?

Ok, to my knowledge, there is no way that an existing program (aside from a virus) could both modify a file and remove its' attributes, like boot.ini without direct tampering.

Saying that, your...

3177 - Ok, that is what I had hoped would happen. From your original message, I think I see there is a some issue within the Boot.ini file. Ok, from what you have said and shown, at some point...

Ok, did your screen not display something like "Booting from CD-Rom...." during the boot up sequence with you WinXP CD in the CD Drive? You should press a key or enter to make it boot from the...

C:\DOCUME~1\PATTIA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\bundle.exe

My question is what is this?

Have you tried hitting F5 when the system appears to hang? What are you doing in Windows Explorer at the time you are ejecting the CD from the CD-Rom? Are you acessing the CD that you are...

He is not using accesibilty options is he? Your friend that is? Because a particular key stroke or mouse click could have induced the magnifier ability?

Ok, well svchost.exe is not a problem, unless you have it sucking > 85% resources. But then, it could mean you are running far too many apps/task bar thingy's that are requesting services and thus...

And what kind of modem at you using that requires you to type AT commands directly too, for it to wake up? That is like the old days of Windows 3.11 or even older. Commodore 64 Days.

Never...

Actually No, the UDMA/EIDE connection on most boards in the past 2 years actually enable devices of different "speeds" to connected on the same IDE Channel without loss!

Sorry I do not have an explaination! Strange man..strange!

Motion Carried!

Do you have another OS that you want to install on to the computer? i.e. Windows 2000 or Windows XP ?

Do you have any software where like Partition Magic?

OK, just to check. Simple file sharing is UnChecked on both machines?

The file attributes are not set to read only or archive?

You have granted permissions to the files as everyone it has...

What is the error message exactly when you try to Open a specific File in question?

The reason I ask is because I have a network of computers at home with everything from Windows 2000 to Windows...

To start with, I would be interested in seeing the exact error message/dialog box that comes up when you try to access the file. And by access, what do you mean? Opening it? Copying it? ...

Well Ok, I have tried a number of things now, including the link (thanks caperjack .... nice to see someone on here from my home town), but with no luck..

I have tried importing using Outlook...

Good thought, but tried that...

Does anyone know how to have Outlook or Outlook express import the messages I have received with the use of Mozilla Mail.

I am just finding it so much easier to use a good old Microsoft Product...

So you have the ATI Card installed into your Computer?

Are you just getting the black screen on bootup or once the system is "supposedly" back into windows?

How long do you wait?

Have...

Yeah, well one other thought is to see what is running in the windows taskbar. Anything there that needs to be loaded at Windows start up can slow things down too. i.e. Zone Alarm, Norton...

OK, when you boot up with the Windows XP CD, you should got through the normal process of F8 to accept some CULA or something agreement, and then be prescent with something like ENTER to install...

Control Panel --> Fonts -> File --> Install New Font.

Easy as that...

Hardware conflict somewhere. Radeon may be the culprit. But it is hard to say. new drivers didn't fix anything. Hmm...

I would suggest Windows 2000.

My luck was the same jinx.

I tried for a 3rd time (charm right? ....nope!)... and still had too much of a performance lag. So much for Themes in XP.