Threads Replies Last Post 9 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9   Start Menu (Virtual merge of All users with the user maps) Hi, Afther the installation of Windows all the items of the 'all programs' menu are joined visualized, but afther I right click on 'explore all users' some items are shown separately. I have searched the web for a way to get this feature back, but all I found where suggestion to fysicaly copy the files to the 'all programs' folder. Does anyone here know a alternative? Alex ... 2 26.06.2007 01:24:18 Windows XP Pro SP2 Firewall management How do I turn XP Pro firewall on/off with a script? I need to be able to disable it system-wide without having to edit each registry. Thanks ... 3 25.06.2007 10:23:52 Control Panel Missing from Setting Menu After attempting to delete a photo prgram from Ad and Delete Programs, I restarted my laptop and found that Control Panel is now completely gone from Settings. How can I fix this without reinstalling Windows XP? ... 21 25.06.2007 02:26:10 Font on pages too small to read, need to make it larger. This happens mostly on web pages. It is about a size 6. I thought is was my eyes but then another person who was over commented on the small print and when I compared it to a couple other PC's it is really small. Using the View / Test / Largest does nothing. When I go to IE / Tools / Internet Options / Accessibility and change it to Ignore the words then overlap each other and ... 8 25.06.2007 02:18:26 NTFS drive, Windows 2000 and "Write Signature" A researcher gave me a 320 GB SATA drive from a Windows XP machine that he wants to have access to. I put it in a Windows 2000 machine and in "Disk Management" it shows up as "Unknown". The only option appears to be "Write Signature". Could doing this be a bad thing as far as being able to access the data on the disk? I have used "FinalData Enterprise" to see if there is data on the d... 11 22.06.2007 14:19:34 Screen Saver Setup Trouble A user was switched from Windows 2000 SP4 to Windows XP SP2. She had a screen saver that ran under Win2K. It was reputedly written for Windows 3.1 during the Win 95 Beta by Micrografx for Hallmark. She loves it! She wants it to run under XP. We haven't been able to get Windows XP to enable it even after using the original SETUP program. It's as if it's not even on the system. It appea... 5 21.06.2007 23:04:41 Windows XP Connection Speed Hi again! Well, I am almost finished with my fix list and, after several Goggle searches, today I have decided to post here again. I believe there is a simple fix, perhaps Registry related, that can help Window XP report the "correct" Connection Speed. I am a lowly USRobotics Sportster 56K user and prior to purchasing this new PC with XP, connection speed was always reported correct... 22 21.06.2007 21:54:47 CPU Flatlines & Heavy Kernel activity Hi, I have a WinXP Sp2 portable (dell inspiron 8200) with 750Mb Ram installed. (all updates installed) HDD 80Gb 7200 Rpm. Secondary bay : HDD 40Gb 5400Rpm Since a few days CPU flatlines some time after startup (this differs from a few minutes to a few hours). When taskmanager is active it shows that explorer consumes somewhere between 5-25% CPU and taksmanager consumes up to 65%.... 2 21.06.2007 05:47:29 Cannot log into Windows XP Windows XP starts up and presents me with press CTRL-ALT-DEL to log in Apply valid username and password and observe system loading personal settings Receive the message "Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is too small ........." with various instructions about increasing the size of the page file etc... Only problem is that the system then proceeds to log off immediat... 2 21.06.2007 00:54:30 Display Properties will NOT stay set to Windows Classic Hi, I am a Windows XP Home Edition user and prefer the standard gray Windows Classic buttons, color schemes, screen saver, etc, over the more eye-straining Windows XP. The problem is that after setting Themes to Windows Classic, after rebooting the the Display Properties reverts to Windows XP. I reloaded the O/S and the problem remains. My Display Properties settings are set to (... 11 20.06.2007 17:58:00 Start up and Shut down problems I recently wiped/reformated/reloaded Windows XP Pro. sp2. Unfortunetly I didn't reset my boot order to first, A:floppy, second HHD, third, CD-ROM. Now every time I start my computer, the screen says, "Select O. S. to start... M. S. Windows XP M. S. Windows.... blaa, blaa, blaa. At shut down, Windows gets as far as "Windows Shutting Down" then stalls. I have to cut the power to finish s... 5 18.06.2007 17:35:00 2nd request: Can't Boot to Safe Mode David Lipman in Security NG told me to boot to safe mode and run his Multi AV checker. I cannot get to safe mode. I select safe mode at bootup, but it freezes at MUP.SYS. I asked David hos to get SAFE MODE to load up, and he said to ask in a more appropriate newsgroup. I asked here. Now I'm making a second request. Please, why can't I boot into SAFE MODE, and how do I fix it? I have... 10 18.06.2007 14:42:46 Time & Date Changing on their own Hello, I have a problem with my Windows and this have been happening recently. Everytime I restart the computer the date and the time changes on its own to 2006 and a random.. Help please!... 2 17.06.2007 19:51:02 msi installer is corrupt running XP Pro SP2 with all updates. If I use the xp disk and repair the install will that fix this or is there another way? Thanks Duster ... 4 17.06.2007 15:48:46 Taskbar toolbars sub-menu cannot be enabled Can anyone suggest how I can re-enable the Toolbars menu on the taskbar right-click menu? I am running XP Pro SP2 with 1.0Gb of RAM and an AMD 2700+ CPU. On right-clicking the taskbar, I get the normal menu appear. Clicking Toolbars reveals the menu but will everything ghosted and unavailable. I can access elements like the Language bar through the Control Panel, but nothing via the... 2 17.06.2007 03:09:15 trouble after reinstall (for experts) This is a hard one folks. I had to reinstall Windows XP pro (new media player and Kangaroo drive were not compatible and I was not able to start Windows again). On reinstall I reformatted the drive but I changed no hardware. I have two problems: 1. Windows update periodically fails to function (it calls for a debugger and upon cancell it closes). I can get it going by renaming or de... 1 16.06.2007 01:41:00 Certclas.inf Missing or Invalid I have 2 customers that cannot get my device's USB root-enumerated driver to install. Both systems report the same problem in SetupApi.log: ------------------------------------------------- [2007/06/11 11:16:41 3512.228] #-198 Command line processed: "C:\Program Files\Panini\MyVisionX\USB Driver\wdreg.exe" -inf "C:\Program Files\Panini\MyVisionX\USB Driver\WinDrvr6.inf" -silent install ... 1 15.06.2007 15:55:02 All our machines on the AD domain have a different time According to MS's documentation, running XP machines on an AD domain should make all the machines sync their clocks to, well, SOMETHING. It's not entirely clear what that something is; "Windows Time service that is available on domain controllers". Well we are on a AD domain, and every one of our machines has a different time. The deviation is not TOO bad, with a delta of about two minu... 1 15.06.2007 14:22:00 Phone and Modem Options Problem - Empty Country List I am running into a serious problem with the "Phone and Modem Options" setting in the Control Panel. As I am setting a dialing rule for the first time, the "Location Information" dialog pops up, where I am supposed to enter information about my current location. In this dialog, I shpuld enter my country/region, my current area code, a carrier code and a number to access an outside line. ... 2 14.06.2007 19:35:00 Help to modem Trust MD 4050 Hi, I sated my modem-router to connect in internet. But it not connect in auto and the led PPP it's no light. I can connect only go to 192.168.1.1 and click on Diagnostic so it's the way to go on line. Do you know where I wrong something ? Thanks Fabrizio The error in logo is : 1/1/2000 0:0:1> MPOA Link Down 1/1/2000 0:0:1> LAN promiscuous mode <1> 1/1/2000 0:0:1> ... 1 14.06.2007 14:39:17 Explorer Command Line Switches I want explore to open and expand to c:\ but can't seem to get it to work. I thought, c:\windows\explorer.exe /n,/e,/select,c:\ was it but doesn't get expanded. Any help will be appreciated James ... 4 13.06.2007 21:10:44 Input file C:\A\b.txt is not a valid Win32 application I have emacs associated with ".txt" files. I get the error message "C:\A\b.txt is not a valid Win32 application" when I try to open the file by double clicking on its name in Windows Explorer, or by selecting emacs from the "Open with" list. I can open any ".txt" file from within emacs, or by running the emacs executable from a Command window. The file C:\A\b.txt cannot possibly be ... 1 13.06.2007 18:08:01 Automated Install of Windows Live Mail Desktop Does anyone know how to automate the installation of the new Windows Live Mail Desktop? It seems that this new version that they've put out that now works for both XP and Vista doesn't allow this. The version I'm trying to automate is 12.0.1184 and the executable is Install_WLMail.exe. The standard /silent or /S or /quiet or /Q don't seem to do the trick. Thanks! ... 2 12.06.2007 19:59:03 offline files i have a shared folder on my server, the size of this folder is 100GB. i want to configure offline folder for 30% size on my disk (20GB). how to syncronize data, for date, for size...? i want to syncronize only last documents... thanks...... 1 12.06.2007 16:32:01 Can I make TweakUI affect only 1 account? I am trying to create a student account on some lab computers. I want to lock these systems down tight to prevent a couple of methods the students have been using to get around the restrictions. Is there a way I can lock down the student account using TweakUI but still allow the administrator account full access to the things that are locked down?... 1 12.06.2007 13:40:01 9 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9