Threads Replies Last Post 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11   Change Name of "Administrator" First of all, I read through the other posts to see if I could find the answer to my question. Interesting how many sole users of their PC want to by-pass their logins all together. I almost jumped at that option, then I remembered why I don't want to: can't trust my kids to stay off my PC when I'm not looking :) So, that said... I've been having lots of fun installing software, moving ... 13 30.05.2007 22:32:13 Automated creation of hardware profiles Hello We have a large number of Windows XP laptops and we need to add four different hardware profiles to these laptops (for various combinations of docked / undocked / wireless / network / modem enabled and disabled). Adding these profiles manually is very time consuming and I wondered if anyone had information on how the process of creating the hardware profiles could be automated.... 2 30.05.2007 06:07:01 MUI Removal Is there a command switch that will make the MUI language removal silent ? Now it displays the files transfered to the "Recycle Bin" during unistall/removal of a specific language. I am planning ot have rhe command run in th ebackground silently and the pc will restart after the unistall of the specific language, howver I don;t want the end user to see any indication of the removal Curre... 2 30.05.2007 05:40:01 Active Desktop I asked this question a few weeks ago but have not yet found a cure, so I am posting again in the hope that someone new may see this or that someone may have thought of a cure:- I used to have a html page (just a home made creation) displayed on my desktop a few years ago, however I have tried to do the same on my XP machine and I am unable to display it. Active desktop is enabled as I use ... 2 30.05.2007 05:28:00 how do I make a hot key for left click (mouse) Laptop HELP, I have an acer laptop, like any normal laptop it has a built in mouse, I want to make it easier to do a left click using the keyboard key example ` the button above tab key ` I cant find how to do this anywhere, I am sure someone would make a lot of money if they made a simple program to complete this task. !!!! Can anyone help me please, on how to do this ? ... 3 30.05.2007 01:36:33 Windows XP Desktop Icon Title Backgrounds I've got Windows XP Home Edition. The background for my desktop icons and titles used to be transparent with shadows on the text. Now, for some reason, the fonts and icons have a blue, opaque box behind them. I've gone into Display settings under Control Panel, and clicked the Advanced button under the Appearance tab, but have not been able to find a setting that will take me back to ... 3 29.05.2007 20:26:58 What characters define word separators in Window XP? How to change? When I double click on some text in my word processor, or web browser, etc. Windows tries to select a complete word. Many times it grabs multiple words because they are separated by "_", "\" or other characters. How can I modify what Windows uses to delimit words? I'm sure there must be somewhere to tweak as these delimiters would be different for different languages. ... 3 29.05.2007 02:18:52 Suppressing the screen saver Windows Media Player has an option to suppress the screen saver if it is active. Is there a simpler program which would achieve the same effect? I can't just turn off the screen saver, as my company enforces a setting that it cuts in after 30 minutes inactivity. This is all very reasonable in an open office, or public place, but I work from home, and my desktop PC isn't going anywhere. ... 6 28.05.2007 22:01:19 Taskbar Buttons - Customize Icon, Text? One app, "ui_mv32" and its icon, are unrelated to the English content (a cdrom of searchable text). Is there a way to change the taskbar button's icon and text to my preferences? Thanks.... 1 28.05.2007 18:47:01 Web pages How do I go about making all web pages open maximized automatically when I open them with Explorer 7 and Windows XP operating system? The only pages that do so now are the ones that I go to directly to from MSN hompage. If I open any other webpage from my favorites option on my desktop they are all minimized until I click maximize.... 3 28.05.2007 15:35:25 Dual Boot - - XP with 98SE, or Vista with 98SE Hi, I am planning to buy a new PC with Windows XP, Home or PRO, or Vista Home Premium installed and I would like to install my existing copy of Windows 98SE on it with a Dual Boot option at startup. I need 98SE's option to run a few DOS-based programs like AutoCAD v11 which cost me $2500 back in 1993 and still works perfectly. Instead of running DOS window from 98SE, when I boot or reb... 9 28.05.2007 07:24:01 Not able to customize folders in start menu I am able to create folders in "all the programs" but these folders can not be opened form the start up menu to show programs inside. If you press the right mouse button and select explore you can check the folder content. Why not from the start menu? When you look for properties of each of these new folders they are tagged as read only, and if you try to uncheck this setting the comput... 3 27.05.2007 23:51:15 MY Computer backgroud How do I make a picture a background for the My Computer Folder? Is it physical or virtual folder? How do I change the background color? JTM... 7 27.05.2007 18:49:24 Not able to move windows All of a sudden when I have multiple windows open and try to arrange them they keep wanting to go back to their original position. The cover each other up. Very frustrating and I'm not sure what I did to cause this. ... 3 27.05.2007 01:00:01 auto creating folders from a list i have a list of around 3,000 customers and i would like to make a separate folder on our server for each one. can someone tell me the best/easiest way to do this? thanks, anna ... 3 26.05.2007 16:24:32 Desktop shortcut for Task Manager? Is it possible to create a desktop shortcut for Task Manager? I'm using XP Home SP2. Did a Google search but couldn't find what I'm looking for. ... 8 26.05.2007 06:47:56 Problem loading services The first, sorry for my poor english. We have a problem loading WMI, this service is loading too late and the computer logon script don't work. Anybody knows how to change the services load order? Thank you very much.... 4 25.05.2007 07:38:00 How to change WinXP boot theme Hi there, is it possible to change the default blue theme that is used after boot to another theme? I am using Zune theme, and I'd like to have this theme at the logon screen. My notebook is member of domain so the logon screens replacements are unuseful...:-( thanks for any help or suggestion profor ... 2 25.05.2007 03:26:01 Advanced Appearance Settings not Saving When I make changes to the Advanced Appearance in Display Properties (such as Active Title Bar color) they show up in the preview window but they never get "applied." The only account on my PC is my admin account so I should be able to make all the changes. My backgrounds work fine, but the changes to Advanced Settings do not take. Please help me...... 5 25.05.2007 00:12:29 backing up email ? I'm going to have to do a full restore due to some problems. I'm trying to find out how to backup and restore all of my Outlook Express ver 6 email. I've tried exporting messages, that doesn't work they only goto apps other than Outlook Express. So I tried coping all of my .dbx etc files to a store folder and then reimporting them to my laptop Outlook Express ver 6 but it says files c... 4 24.05.2007 19:24:54 open a drive hello every one : Can someone help in this matter. when I click an icon drive at my computer it do not open but it shows the window of open with to select a program to open with. at the same time when I right click on the drive the menu appears starting with Auto and then open how can I change this order and make the drive open when double clicking its icon. thank you for your help ... 8 23.05.2007 05:37:08 default settings for OE6 Does anybody know how to change the default setting of "NO" in Win XP SP2 Outlook Express 6 in response to deleting permanently a file. In VISTA Home Premium Mail you do get a "YES". One nice thing with VISTA. Thanks, Erik:::: ... 2 22.05.2007 18:00:55 How to Change IE7 Desktop Icon? Any one have the reg key that holds this info? I'm guessing HKCU somewhere but can't find. . . thx, Rick ... 2 22.05.2007 16:17:27 Aero interface for xp I cant remember clearly but I think during vista development MS said that they will release the glass interface and few other vista features for xp as separate downloads. Is that correct?... 7 22.05.2007 15:39:59 Programme Events is Missing from Control Panel Sounds & Audio Hi Guys My first post and I wonder if anyone can advise me. I want to change the dull thump sound associated to incoming mail in Outlook (2002). I've gone into the Control Panel's sounds and audio section where I understand I can associate a different sound under Programme Events. Unfortunately Programme Events does not appear in the list.:( Can anyone advise me what to do to get programm... 3 22.05.2007 15:32:24 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11