Threads Replies Last Post 35 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>   windows xp repair install questions I've been working on our church office pc, and am going to need to do a WinXP repair install. I haven't done a clean or repair Windows install, so am trying to anticpate potential glitches with the repair. Some questions: A. Will some of our peripheral programs survive the Windows repair (I assume the repair simply overwrites all the Windows files/programs in the OEM CD)? Maybe those t... 7 01.07.2007 15:52:54 Can't see entire new window when it opens - goes beyond viewing ar Sometimes when I open a new window, it displays larger than the view area. Also, if I go "Start", "Programs".......I can not see the entire list because they are displayed beyond the monitor's screen, Any advise??? Thanks... 6 01.07.2007 04:12:41 My windows "search" can't see some folders .............ts When I execute the "search" operation it cannot see some folders that really do exist. The Windows browser sees tham ok. Perhaps there is an index file someplace that has become corrupted. Thanks, Ted ... 3 30.06.2007 22:53:32 I can,t register my Windows Dear All, Recenlty i bought a hp compaq brand pc with licence copy of windows xp professional. But during my registration period of windows i skip my registration with windows because i have no net connection that time. Now i can use internet on my PC and i want to register my windows with microsoft. But i don,t know how can i do this. So could u plse tell me how can i registe... 9 30.06.2007 21:39:55 Temporary Folder Where is the temporary folder? I did a search and it came up not there. I downloaded a file and it said it was going to my temporary folder, but I can find no such folder. Thanks James... 7 30.06.2007 20:18:50 saving files to a re-writable disc can anyone help!! i am trying to save important files to a re-writable disc, the disc already has files on it that i have put there from my "sonic" programe, however when i insert the disc and try to save any new files the disc is ejected from the drive and a message comes up on the screen saying that the disc is not a blank one, there is ample space available on the disc, can anyone he... 7 30.06.2007 11:11:04 Backup won't open I have XP prof,Media center. My backup will not open, I get the wait, then after awhile it shows "seaching for devices" and when I restart it says backup not responding. I have reinstalled the NTbackup and still nothing. I did a complete backup in Febuary when it was working but can't restore that one either. HELP lol... 1 30.06.2007 08:40:17 Problem Creating Shortcut to Folder I've had desktop shortcuts to frequently used folders since the day the Earth cooled. Today, none of them work - that is, clicking on the shortcuts produces a long pause, then nothing. I even recreated several with the same result. Shortcuts to websites work normally I can't for the life of me think of what I could have done to cause this. -- PT ... 3 30.06.2007 00:30:09 any tool can tell me if I visited a website before? Is there a tool that enables me to detect if a website I am visiting, I visited before? Basically, if I visit the site, then visit the same site a second time, the tool tells me. The browser color-codes a visited link, but the color goes away, but this does not work when clicking a picture or a java button. Please let me know a tool that can help me. Thank you ... 2 29.06.2007 23:30:41 Internet only works after I VPN into other office???????!!!!!!! I hope someone can help me with this. It is quite odd. I have two offices. Office A and Office B. I regularly use VPN at both locations. Office A uses SBS 2000. During a storm Wednesday, we lost power several times within 60 seconds. After that happened, I discovered that I could access the server, get email (both POP3 and Exchange) but could not access the internet. I rebooted but that did ... 1 29.06.2007 19:52:03 Cant change Read only attribute for folder I have an application I am writing and when I tried to run it I got the following message: Visual Studio could not copy a support file to this location C:\xxxxxxxxxx. Please verify the path exists and is writable. Sooo I opened Explorer and went to the folder and found the read-only bit was set so I unchecked it and hit OK. I got the same message so I once again checked that folder ... 5 29.06.2007 18:31:49 hard drive partition I need to create a new partiton(which I drastically need to do so I can back up to the new partition, then clean up my primary drive). I can't figure out how to partition my hard drive - am trying to follow the steps in Disk Mgmt, but where it says to "right-click unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition, then click New Partition," I'm lost. Nothing hap... 2 29.06.2007 17:32:22 Net Framework In trying to download Net Framework 1.1 it will not complete installation. It says Error 1935 HResult:0X80070005. How do I proceed? Thanks James... 5 29.06.2007 16:50:02 How to run SCANDISK Surface Scan in XP Hello, Does anybody know how to run a Scandisk surface scan the old-fashioned (Windows 98) way, where it gives a VISUAL representation of how many bad sectors you have on a disk? I've run the new-and-improved "CHKDSK /R /F" but that doesn't give me the visual information that I'm looking for. Is there any way to boot an XP machine into DOS and FORCE it to run a Scandisk surface scan (r... 9 29.06.2007 11:45:15 "Start>>Run...." I like cmd and msconfig and a few other choices selectable there. Today, without me doing anything exceptional, they're gone. I can put 'em back, but I'm curious as to what I did to clear them. Any clues?... 7 29.06.2007 10:52:20 Notification Area Icon Issue For some unknown reason, well unknown to me, at times, when a few select programs (unrelated programs i.e.games , a yahoo window) open an icon of a small black rotary telephone, that has the handset rise as if ringing, appears in the notification area in the bottom right of the window. This is accompanied by what I would describe as a wave sound of "exclamation", for lack of a better word.... 2 29.06.2007 09:46:03 online video streams I can not watch any videos on either "Yahoo music videos" or "MSN videos". The video screen turns green, but can hear the audio. What is wrong and how do I fix it. Running XP Home Edition on a 05'Sony VAIO RB30. Help would be greatly appreciated. -- jmk310 ... 2 29.06.2007 06:02:03 Help needed re "print screen", Word, msconfig I'm sure this question has been asked previously, but I can't find an easy solution to the problem. - Starting with msconfig, I'm trying to print out several of the listings of programs (e.g., lists of start up programs, lists of services). Unfortunately, I can't print out the lists directly. So I have pasted the PC screens showing the listings (five or six pages of them, giving me f... 4 29.06.2007 04:03:35 I can not not find folder option in Windows xp professional Dear all, I always use windows xp professional in my PC. Thats work good and i have no problem. But few days ago i have a problem which troubles me so seriously. My O/S affected by Many kinds of virus, so i clean my pc by Mcafee 8.0i but i can not find folder option when i explore my computer , on tools menu. I repair my O/S .but steel i found this problem. how can i solve this ... 6 29.06.2007 03:39:38 Creating Backup Disks of Windows XP Hi all. I am not sure what microsofts position is on this. Are you allowed to make a single backup copy of your original Windows XP disk for security purposes? If you are allowed is it Possible? If it is possible how do you do it?? Thanks Dominic Coombe... 14 29.06.2007 03:23:55 help and support When I go to control panel, help and support, wendows news groups I do not get windows news groups, but windows home page. how can I fix this? thanks meaginn -- Kindness is the oil that takes the friction out of life... 3 29.06.2007 02:10:01 How to rename a drive? I apologize for not saving the replies when I posted this before. I use external hard drives and flash drives on my pc. One external hard drive is full of music, and I have playlists that look for it on the I drive, which is what it usually is. But depending on what drives I have used most recently, it sometimes becomes a different drive and the playlists won't work. When it has b... 2 28.06.2007 15:29:44 default folder customizations and tasks change My XP MCE 2005 is constantly changing the preset customizations and tasks for the special folders and the harddrive root folders. However often I reset them back to defaults sooner or later they invariably change to something else. For instance right now Explorer is showing the following: My Documents (on C:)-- Video files customization and Tasks [923 folders including My Pictures]... 1 28.06.2007 15:13:25 Dual Monitor Problem I use my laptop at work with dual monitors and at home as a single monitor. When I switch back to a single monitor, some programs actually still try to open in the second monitor (that is not plugged in). So I end up with a taskbar window showing the program but the application window is not visible. If I minimize and maximize I can see the window flashing to open in the second monitor (... 3 28.06.2007 15:09:37 custom unattended windows xp install Hello, I've got a slipstreamed xp CD and a machine that i want to install it on. I know that the box's video, sound, and possibly network interface, are not in the xp install. I'd like to do an unattended install and include these drivers in the setup. I've read about the $OEM$ section but am uncertain how to set it up for multiple drivers, and the OemDriverPATH setting in winnt.sif... 1 28.06.2007 05:51:48 35 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  >>