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How do I change the icons for the different users as displayed when I first power up XP?

This update addresses an issue when you view a Web page that can render vector graphics on screen in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Internet Explorer may stop responding or crash and you receive an access violation in Vgx.dll. File Name : …

Is there an answer to my problem? I'm not an expert on the computer--so I'll need detailed steps and not too technical. I really am a mom of two college girls. Be gentle and patient with me, ok? I have had this hanging problem since I got my computer. It …

O-kay, So I built my computer a little over a year ago, and its my baby. My issue is this: I can't get it to go into standby mode, -it jumps in for about 30 seconds, then right back out, with a ctrl+alt+del prompt to unlock the computer, ( I …

[FONT=Verdana]undefined[/FONT][COLOR=Red]undefined[/COLOR][SIZE=6]undefined[/SIZE] :o Hello I am lost here Just joined!! Have a question about drivers in Windows XP where do I need to go? :o Oh well,I accidently deleted a driver and now can't load certain programs -like Incredimail Thanks for any advice vanilla

Hi - any help here will be very much appreciated. I installed SP2 last week and since then my system has frozen every time about 16 minutes after booting up / rebooting. The application I'm using at the time continues to function after 16 minutes but everything else is dead …

I've fought a long battle trying to solve this irritation and have given up. I thought I'd post here in hopes sombody would have an idea what's wrong. The problem is that I can't open some web pages, while others open with no problems. There doesn't seem to be any …

I have a 7 gig hard drive. I have only 3 gigs of files but for some reason it shows that I only have 755 mb left. What has happened to the other 4 gigs?

Ok,,,,,,,,, really wierd....... whenever I try accessing yahoo.com, or google.com, for some reason it forwards me to some site called "cpanel" and the message on the site says "There is no website configured at this address." The address bar on IE still displays google.com or yahoo.com even though this happens …

Hi, I have a Win XP 1.1hertz 512 ram with 40 gig hardrive. A few days ago I installed an additional 80 gig Maxtor drive, & everything had been working perfectly for a few days, but today I opened explorer to navagate to some files & it didnt display my …

Some how while changing themes I must have deleted the xp theme. Now my screen is black, all I can see are icons and web pages. I can't install another theme because I can't see the display dialog box. I'm guessing blind, I have been abel to connect to the …

Hi Folks, I am having a problem uninstalling Norton Antivirus. I have the latest version and it is asking me to uninstall the old version before proceeding. Just into the uninstall a dialogue box pops up with......COULD NOT ACCESS NETWORK LOCATION %SYSTEM DRIVE%\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\NICK\MY DOCUMENTS\. Can anyone help me …

Hi, I am using Windows Xp and a dial-up connection. Having removed kazaa and Perfectnav and running adavare, sybot etc. I can no longer connect to the internet. When I press the connect button I get a busy tone and it just keeps dialing over and over again, never connecting, …

[FONT=Georgia][COLOR=Indigo]When I try to setup my server extensions, it says that I do not have permission to do it. I have an account that is the administrator and it is a member of all groups. :([/COLOR][/FONT]

Heres the deal, i cannot get into my internet by clicking on any of the IE icons, nor by clicking on iexplorer.exe. I can how ever, get into IE my opening My computer, then typing in the address of where i want to go. When i am in IE, if …

Hi I'm new and my computer knowledge is limited. I'm running Windows 98SE and am subscribed to BT Broadband. I set up an e-mail account through BT and set Outlook Express as my e-mail receiver. All was fine until I had a bit of a glitch with Internet Explorer which …

Right, iv'e been stressing over this for the past couple of days. The lowdown is my Broadband connection connects fine, i can ping the dns server recieving 4 packets, so there is a connection. The problem is that IE6 wont loud any pages "cannot display..." also my games wont work …

when i try to play video with an extension of .avi on win 98 os the media player displays errors which undefined cannot play back the video stream: no suitable decompressor could be found. the errors messages is Unable to download an appropriate decompressor. (Error=80040200) Cannot play back the video …

I got my old pc out of the closet,,lol reformated it, putting it in my race trailer,,,the problem im having is,when i open IE , sometime the pages open good,,other times ,i get a page that has a bunch of words on the page,nothing else,,if i refresh it,,its good,,,any help …

I just instaled XP Home on a Dell Latitude C610 from a Dell XP Home CD. It installed fine. My question is that I have heard about needing to connect to the internet to activate XP or once I access the internet it will kill XP if I dont have …

For a while now my modem has been acting funky. I'll dial up my ISP and it'll work alright for maybe five minutes. Then it stops transferring data. The connection is still open, it just won't let me access anything on the web. I've recently moved and now have a …

Hi All Using windows XP I am having problems E mailing pics via the My Pictures Folder.Clicking "E mail this Folder"in the Pic task pane brings up the pic size window.click o.k.here and instead of the E mail message coming on screen the Msn log in passort window appears click …

:!: I'm having a problem now with my explorer showing that there is an error on page when I connect to hotmail. I found older posts from people, but they didn't say what the solution was. And those postings are from last Feb. I have explorer 6 and the service …

I have a fairly new computer, and about a month ago it started having the problem of windows not starting and the screen displays a geometric pattern of squares with colored shapes in them. Sometimes you can see the windows loading page faintly in the background. I have a Nvidia …

[FONT=Comic Sans MS]When using WGET command line utility to download a file using HTTP from a website, this works ok, but when i go to delete the file later, I am unable to. e.g. wget [url]http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe[/url] This works ok, but then I cant delete it Any ideas anyone? Cheers[/FONT] :confused:

Hi, After my PC was repaired due to a power failure. For some reasons, the antivrus software (Trend Micro's Internet Security) does not automatically restart itself. Usually, the icon would be at the taskbar, now it's missing and I have to manually find the icon under my Start - Program …

[FONT=Arial Black]undefined[/FONT]Whenever I disconnect from the dial-up service. It brings up it the blue screen, it sometimes it disconnects by itself, although i think dial-up does that. The details are the following: An exception OE has accurred at 0028:C86CO233 in VxD ---. This was called from 0028:C84C5AD0 in VxD. It …

Hi guys, can somebody talk me through the steps I need to do in order to have my yahoo and msn e mail accounts linked to my outlook express e mail account which is my primary account. I want to be able to have all my e mail accounts checked …

specs: Maxtor diamond maxplus 16gb hd ASUS A8V Deluxe SATA bios wonte detect hard drive thus i cant format my disk as windows cannot find a hard drive. I have looked inside the comp and there are 4 SATA conection ports on the mobo, 2 two say above them sata …

I have an Asus board, 512 DDR Ram and a fresh install of XP Pro Svc Pk2. Everything seems to be fine, it flies. One problem is that every once in a while it will freeze; can't control alt delete; have to shut down and reboot. It does not have …

I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro SP1. Prior to formatting my HD, my PC was having boot problems. I received “We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully

I recently installed a Lexmark X5270 printer/scanner/copier. It works fine, but whenever I try and reboot, my computer will freeze on the screen that says "HP Invent". After troubleshooting, I unplugged the printer and rebooted, and it started up with no problem. Obviously, I don't want to have to unplug …

[size=2]In my computer I have Win98 and Win2000. When I use Win2000, I can use the mouse, however, when I use Win98, there's no movement or any sign regarding the mouse. I don't have a clue what's happening. Before, the mouse was ok with both operating systems. Actually I try …

Ok im using windows xp pro sp1 all updates are in. I have been sing hiberate....i last used it about 3 days ago...but to my surprise when i was to use it late this morning it is gone....its not there when you right click and go to screen saver ..or …

This morning, I turned on the PC (windows ME) and I discovered that I have no sound, then in the afternoon when I went to Start, Settings, Control Panel, Sounds and Multimedia and then clicked the Audio tab, under Prefered Device, it says I have No Playback Devices.

Recently, my computer screen has been going black during both startup and while in use. The tower remains on, but "freezes" up so that the power button doesn't react - forcinging me to turn the tower off from the switch in the back. Sometimes, a single restart will get my …

For some reason I can't click on most links in internet explorer. It would be apprerciated if you could help me.

Hey, everytime I close it IE, a damn error pops up saying it has to close the program.. but I just closed it! Is gets very annoying and it's giving me a headache. I can't find any help anywhere on the web! Can you please help me? In event Viewer …

HI, I am not sure if I am at right place for this. Installed 98 and then when starting up computer, this is the message that I get every time, MSVCR70.DLL was not found. How can I fix that? Not sure where to look for to get it fixed. Thanks!

I have a Compaq5300. It had windows 98SE. Had to remove EVERYTHING and now I have an empty HD. On this notebook, the floppy and the CDrom have to be changed manually. I need to reload windows and cannot figure out how to do it. It boots with the floppy …

Hi, We've been away from out home for 4 months and the computer has been shut off. My wife went back to the house and tried turning on the computer, and she cannot get it to get pass the "Welcome " blue screen..It keeps saying what is your windows password. …

hey guys ihave run into a dilemma , i have a usb memory stick with 16 mb of space on it and i dont know how to access it . im running windows nt ,, any help is appreciated

:( well when i try to install game it says 16 bit windows subsystem and the message it says is a file called AUTOEXEC.NT. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications.Choose 'close' to terminate the application. the there are 2 buttons at the bottom …

Hello, My MSN Messenger and IE are not able to connect as if I am not connected to the Internet. The error code in MSN Messenger is: 0x81000370 I downloaded HijackThis but I am not sure what is bad and what is good. This is the log. Logfile of HijackThis …

When I attempt to open System Restore I get an Error message as follows: AppName: rundll32.exe AppVer: 5.1.2600.2180 ModName: srrstr.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.2180 Offset: 000099b2 --------------- Another thread with an identical problem had the following message: "However, running the sr.inf:install solved the problem. Had to browse around, a bit, to find …

hi i have 2 hardrives on my computer but when i start up it show 4 drives and then sayes low disc space runnin xp pro sp2 how can i resolve this back to two hardrives

After loading RegAnalizer I deleted something under software and now Windows 98 is messed up and will not respond or load. Display messed up it wants to check for new hardware but then it stops working. Help me please.

Hello All, I used 98lite to remove Internet Explorer from Windows 98se and all is well. The only thing that does not work is Hijackthis... Is Hijackthis dependent on IE ? I run both Opera and Firefox behind a ZoneAlarm Firewall with Spybot and Adaware_se. Thanks for listening...

Yes me again :/ Just dug out an old computer....thought it could do for Linux :o Anyway I don't know much about this computer seeing as it was my dads until now, so I boot it up, the boot screen comes up and starts detecting hardware. It finds one item: …

Please ,plaese help me!! I have talked to internet provider,service provider and manufacturer and no one knows what is going on. I have had this xp computer for a little oevr a yr and never had any probs with it. I have my site, my churchs site and a project …