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 | Does anyone know if Windows Longhorn will be able to read FAT16 partitions like Windows XP, or is it too early to tell?  |
| | ok i just moved and got my DSL set up here but i am having a major problem that i or my DSL provider can not figure out..ok its windows XP if you go in to control panel network connections there is lan and high speed connection under that has … |
| | Whenever i hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE my task manager pops up, then befor i can do anything it crashes and i have no clue why. Microsoft.com wasn't anyhelp, and my help topics on my computer didn't eather :mad: What to do?? :?: |
| | HP Officejet R 80 printer/fax/scanner worked just fine until I upgraded to XP SP2. Printer works, but scanner does not...saw some info indicating that the drivers were not SP2 compatible. Searched quite a bit and cannot locate SP2 drivers for scanner. Anyone? Thanks, Carrie |
 | Ok, I've had it, SP2 causes more problems than it fixes. Although, im not [i]quite[/i] sure how to uninstall it. My guess is I just go to add/remove progs and select Servie Pack 2 yada yada but i have a terrible vision of it uninstalling more than just SP2... |
| | I have re-installed Win 2000 Pro on my daughters PC after she loaded something onto the system by accident. 2000 kept asking fot a Paperport 8 disc even though this program was removed. We removed all Paperport files and documents and re-loaded again. Now when re booting the PC comes … |
| | Hey guys, everytime that the monitor goes off or the screensaver goes off, xp hangs. if the monitor is off, it will turn on and bring up the desktop and i can move the mouse, but i cant click anything and CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't work. i have to turn it off … |
 | my friend has a really crappy computer that he has messed up even more so yesterday i said i would help him reinstall everything. The problem was he didn't have the discs all he had was this crappy hp tools program that does a system recovery. I did that and … |
| | Did a clean install yesterday of XP as computer kept freezing. After the install my slave drive (F:) is not showing. Instead it is showing on my computer as removable disk. How do I get it back as my slave hard drive? |
| | I have an XP machine that works fine on the internet. However, there is one web site I can't get - [url]www.geocaching.com[/url]. I have tried three browsers - no luck on any. I have disabled the firewalls. I [B]can[/B] get the site on other PCs on my network. I [B]can[/B] … |
| | a few days ago i was running my computer perfectly fine.. after a few days i started noticing these lines (short horizontal lines ..multi colored-ish).. soon the problem grew worse and my whole desktop would be filled with these lines and i wouldn't be able to access any part of … |
| | Good morning, I recently received and installed the service pack 2 on my XP OS. The system slowed dramatically; to almost a crawl. When I discovered that I couldn't install anything else after that, I had to resolve myself to uninstalling it. Whenever an additional application attempted to load, it …  |
| | I have win XP Pro. When I wish to shutdown the computer it gives me a window that says trying to shutdown rundll32 however after it tries that I get another message saying that it cannot shutdown the file because it is not responding. Kindly let me know how I … |
| | [FONT=Verdana]For what ever reason in Windows XP Professional some of my icons seem to go from black text to blue text for no reason, mainly in directories. When there is a new icon the text is black but ones that have been there for a while are blue. This doesn't … |
| | Hello, I have been trying to log onto MSN and I can get connected to the internet. Upon sign in MSN says that it could not detect an internet connection and I cannot sign in. I have run the regsvr32 softpub.dll and I have uninstalled MSN and its components. I … |
| | Initally, when I installed Ghost it changed the settings for when I log on from auto logon to my having to click on my name (I am the sole user). The real problem first developed when I rebooted my computer after using Norton Ghost 9 for the first time. Anytime … |
| | Hi everyone - new to the forums Here's my problem - it has me so confused. I recently built a new machine, new everything including the OS which is XP profession that came pre upgraded with SP2. The first weird thing I did was buy a motherboard that did not … |
| | Have a new Compaq desktop computer running Win XP Home. Randomly, it seems to freeze up: no mouse input, no keyboard input allowed (not even control-alt-delete). Have to hard re-boot to get it to run again. Happens not only after awhile of sitting, but sometimes while doing work on it. … |
| | How can I hide or preferably, protect (via with a password or etc) the timedate display at the bottom right hand corner of the Windows screen? I would like to prevent people from changing the PC timedate. :?: |
| | Hello - I am having a really bad day! I hope someone can help. My computer has been acting strage for a couple of days. I have problems printing and sending and receiving email. My Outlook hangs and doesn't operate normally. I have a print out of what is going … |
| | hello, I have bought a new acer laptop, with linux as platform. I want to install windows xp as the other operating system. If anybody could be a help , I would be very thankful. |
| | Say i am using my computer for the last hour or so and decide to restart or (turn off and start again) 95% of the time the computer restart and ask me for my user name to log in, when I try to log in , it takes a while …  |
| | HI, Just wondreing where I should post a problem ( namely a download.dialer problem) in the Forums. Thank you Eric |
| | Hi i'm new to this stuff. i have a HP pervilen that takes forever to start up. i have refomatted it to original settings and it still runs slow. i was told that it was my hard drive that is bad. is this true? every thing still works on it … |
 | I know I complain a lot but I have another problem. When I used to have Windows 98 I installed my new ProPad 6 gamepad by Interact (yeah I know its cheap, but it was a bargian gamepad). It worked just fine. The gamepads documentation only mentions it to be … |
| | Windows XP system on Dell Insprion 600m and HP Officejet 6110. I have photos I want to print as 4"x6" I use Paint to set it up. What is the right page set-up? How do I insert the paper? |
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| | Alright, my net was disconnected on campus so I scanned for viruses using AVwin and while scanning it found a few trojans and then all of the sudden my comp suddenly restarted and since then it thinks that my rundll32.exe file is not there even though it quite obviously is. … |
| | When I left mouse click on a url in outlook 2003 I get an error message that says I need to ask my administrator to help. This use to work before I installed SP2 for XP. TIA :evil: |
| | I have started and checked that a service (right-click on My Computer @desktop and goto Manage -> Computer Management -> Services and Applications -> Services) is under 'Started' status. but sometimes later when I check again, this service has stopped. how can this happen? How do I ensure that the … |
| | when im browsing my programs in the start menu. it takes a couple of seconds to view all my installed programs. how can i make it load faster. i got a suggestion to a friend that i can edit it in registry but i cant find the exact category in … |
| | I've seen some stuff on the internet about doing this. They say it's much faster for your computer to do this, but I simply want to try it for learning purposes. What I would like is some screenshots of this in action, or at least a clear discription of what … |
| | I recently added a extra harddrive to my win 2000 pc, after I installed it booted fine. after I formatted it now it trys to boot to that drive. I found a boot.ini file, it shows both drives in there one is 0 and the other is 1 so I … |
| | This is not a Windows problem, but I did not know where to place it. ( if someone has a better place to list it, please let me know ) My Monitor is locked with the mesg ' No Signal Input or Cable Disconnected ' I have disconnected and reconnected … |
| | The message i keep getting is 16 bit window subsystem error C:Windows\system32\autoexec.nt program not suitable so far ive tried to edit the registry VDD key and ive tried to install a anti virus program...... |
| | every cd i write ends up like this: [IMG]http://img26.exs.cx/img26/9446/error9.gif[/IMG] why ?!?!? |
| | i have an asus a8v deluxe motherboard, my problem is that when i enter bios my hard disk is not shown thus i cannot format windows any help would be greatly appreciated |
| | I accidentally dragged a $NtUninstall folder from my C:\WINDOWS directory into another $NtUninstall folder and now I can't move the folder and its contents back to where it was. That is, I moved $NtUninstallKB821557$ from C:\WINDOWS into C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB823182$ and when I try to move $NtUninstallKB821557$ back to C:\WINDOWS, I get … |
| | I have a ATI AIW 9600 XT and am trying to record my movies(bought) to my computer. I get a protection error when I try to record from my VCR via Video composite and left/right audio jacks. It will record if the video is a home video, but not if … |
| | [font=Verdana][size=2][color=Black]Is it possible to create AN EXCLUSIVE USER ACCOUNT IN WINDOWS 2000 PRO? What I mean is:None of the other users,including the Administrator,should be able to see and access my installed applications and of course my data.How do you install applications only for the current user,when the program installer doesn't … |
| | [FONT=Impact][SIZE=4][COLOR=DarkRed]I HAVE BOTH WINXP AND WIN2K PRO INSTALLED IN MY COMPUTER,BOTH WERE WORKING FINE,TILL THE FATAL DAY I DECIDED TO CHANGE THE BOOT SEQUENCE. AS WINXP WAS INSTALLED AFTER WIN2K PRO IT WAS FIRST IN LINE,I WANTED WIN2K PRO TO BE THE FIRST,SO ACCORDIGLY MADE THE NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE …  |
| | I BELIEVE APPSEC.EXE IS AVAILABLE ONLY FOR WINDOWS 2000 SERVER EDITION IS SOMETHING SIMILAR AVAILABLE FOR WINDOWS 2K PRO TOO? :D |
| | Ok, here's the deal.... I recently bought a run of the mill Microsoft Optical mouse. Ever since I installed it, it seems to have a mind of it's own. It's a USB mouse, and at first I ran it through an adapter in the PS/2 port. Then, I changed to … |
| | OS is WIN XP. Using Outlook Express for mail. From time to time I find all my mail boxes have been emptied for no reason that I can discern. Very frustrating when one wants to reply to a previously received e-mail. Have tried to duplicate this problem every way I … |
| | I've been having problems with Hotmail and MSN. First: my MSN keeps changing my screen name from 'whatever' back to 'dlbell00@hotmail.com' - when I change it back, it will go back to the e-mail addy name the next day! Then: my Hotmail won't even load up. It just gives a … |
| | Sorry, I've lost my hard copy. I can't access system restore. When I tried to get to a back up date last week, There were none that worked. Tonight, when I went to check, I clicked on system tools and then system restore and it coughed up "My Computer" but … |
| | Hi there, This is a great web site and it's helped me sort all my recent problems out. I'm new to computers and I hop I explain myself properly with the problem Ive got. I have a problem sending e-mails on Outlook, it will let me recieve e-mails but when … |
| | My computer stops responding at start up. I can get it to the windows XP screen where u see the green back going across the bottom but i cant get it any farther then that. it does it when i try to resinstall windows it does it when i try … |
| | When I setup WinXP it forced me to make another account, so I did planning to delete it later. I just want one user, the administrator account and no other users. Unfortunately I cannot delete the other account I made (which is also an administrator), nor can I change it … |
| | :confused: please help me i can not boot my friends system ,even if i use the windows Xp disk it gives an error "disk boot failure,insert system disk and press enter" to get here i,had a hdd with xp & red hat on 2 partitions,i couldnt remove the linux so … |
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