Threads Replies Last Post 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11   Disabling Back and UP button in windows explorer Hi all. I'm trying to disable back and up button from the windows explorer. I tried editing the registry with the Regmon tolls. It gave me lot of keys, not sure which to edit. Can anyone guide me in this. Thanks ... 5 22.05.2007 15:26:00 Having folder show delete x How can I get the folders to show the big red delete X among choices? -- incredable one... 4 22.05.2007 01:46:04 Word Invokes Messenger When I bring up my Word Application, Microsoft Messenger gets launched. I don't want this. Where is the setting that stops this from occurring? ... 2 22.05.2007 01:31:22 Which folder contains the windows OS Im about to partition my c: drive.. need to know which folder the xp operating system is in.. -- incredable one... 10 22.05.2007 00:04:08 Pin to start menu Hello, If I pin a shortcut to the startmenu, where does XP store this information? Is there a folder oder a registry key where these shortcuts are stored? The problem is, all the shortcuts I pinned to the start menu have disappeared, if i knew where windows keeps this information, I could check some older backups and restore these entries manually, the only thing is, I don't remember... 3 21.05.2007 21:19:42 xp windows I can't get a full screen anymore, my monitor has 1" boarders on either side of the windows. How do i get rid of these boarders? thanks... 6 21.05.2007 17:06:35 Active Desktop 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. I don't see any settings anywhere to enable Active Desktop, but I believe that active desktop is enabled as I use Active Desktop Calendar. I tried disabling ADC but still cannot get any kind of html page to dis... 11 21.05.2007 16:44:26 How to get Photo gallery "make a movie" button open WMM 2.6? When I clicked on "Make a movie" button in Windows Photo Gallery, I got an error stating that WMM could not start because my video card does not support required hardware acceleration. After browsing through its help, I downloaded and installed WMM 2.6. Now my problem is how do I tell this "Make a movie" button to open WMM 2.6. It just always tries to open the default WMM which came with ... 3 21.05.2007 11:30:00 desktop display problems i really need some help. my desktop background is blue and i cant change it. i go to display properties to choose a wallpaper that is already on the computer (not from websites) and click on desktop and its as if the whole area is locked up. it wont let me preview wallpapers or anything. the only icons that are highlighted are customize desktop, ok, and cancel. i recently had a system re... 2 21.05.2007 02:55:25 Problems with wallpapers If I go to a website, and right click on an image to set as background, this applies the image to the background as it should do. However on computer reboot, or even tidying up the icons (refreshing on the desktop), means that the background picture disappears replaced by a blue background. When I click on properties it says I have a modified theme. Only way around this is applying the W... 5 20.05.2007 20:21:02 Win Xp Explorer settings problem...???? Hi, My problem is that when I select "Show hidden files and folders" option in addittion to unchecking the "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" option so that I be able to view hidden and system files in my system but after doing that It does not work I mean Windows does not obey or follow its options and does not let me view hidden or system files on the hard drive. ... 9 20.05.2007 16:56:57 Changing taskbar colour Hey guys! How do I go about changing the colour of the taskbar and start button / text. I've seen it been done, and cant figure out how to do it. googled it and alot of people are saying its in the themes / apperiance settings and I cant find any option to change the taskbar! I have a black background image and the green / blue looks horrid! thanks guys!... 3 19.05.2007 17:21:53 Making Windows XP Start 60% Faster Whenever you start your computer, you are faced with a few moments of thumb twiddling while Windows XP boots and prompts you to log on. Although you should expect to wait for a few moments, sometimes Windows XP seems to boot rather slowly. In fact, you may notice that over a period of time the PC that used to roar to life seems a bit sluggish instead. Fortunately, you can perform several tech... 4 19.05.2007 11:34:19 How can i when i minimize a file make it go to the bottom desktop Well when i minimize the file it just dissapears and so i have to go to the task manager to put that file back on does anyone know how i can fix it so it goes back to the place where it says start and stuff plz help me... 2 19.05.2007 04:14:32 Add menu item and sub items to right click in explorer I can add items to the right click menu by adding keys to the */Shell registery but I can't and a item then submenu items. Example: Open Test> Test1 Test2 Print I can get Test in the menu but not the sub items. ... 2 19.05.2007 03:08:08 Auto arrange in folders. Setup to new items as they go in? Not sure what I did, but when I would put new files in a folder it would put them in consecutively. Say I had 6 files in a folder, the next item would be number 7.. the next would be 8th in line, reguardless of name/size/type, ect.... It was all about what was new comming in. I put a good bit of stuff in one of my folders and when I do I have no clue of what's the newest item I've pl... 2 19.05.2007 03:03:01 Batch Files in Win XP I am trying to write a batch file for use in Windows XP. Here is what I have now: CD\ CD.. cd Temp Data Files cd Raw Data del lexall del lexall.out rename lexall.txt lexall. 9005LEX.EXE I need to change the lexall.txt file name to include a user variable: 1234567_lexall.txt The Number 1234567 needs to be input by the user every time. Does anybody have any ideas? Any and al... 3 19.05.2007 02:25:46 Batch Files in Win XP using Variables I am trying to write a batch file for use in Windows XP. Here is what I have now: CD\ CD.. cd Temp Data Files cd Raw Data del lexall del lexall.out rename lexall.txt lexall. 9005LEX.EXE I need to change the lexall.txt file name to include a user variable: 1234567_lexall.txt The Number 1234567 needs to be input by the user every time. Does anybody have any ideas? Any and al... 2 18.05.2007 20:21:20 NoDriveTypeAutoRun - Disable for CD-ROM, but enable for removable drives... Hi We are using the USBDML product and trying to enable autorun for USB devices only (i.e. disable for CD-ROM drives) This is because some of our USB drives use the DTE_Privacy_Launcher, which is autorun from one of the USB volumes to allow access to the encrypted data on the other volume. We are struggling to get Windows XP to differentiate between CD-ROM and removable drives The re... 2 17.05.2007 18:16:07 drive hello every one : Can someone help in this matter. when I click on a drive at my computer it did not open but it shows the window of open with to select a program to open with. I tried from edit file type but the edit buton is not working . thanks in advance... 2 17.05.2007 18:15:02 hidden files Hello everyone : I'm having a problem to view hidden files each time I choose to view hidden files nothing happened and the files still hidden> I tried folder options from control panel but still having the same problem , I downloadedsico- XP SP3 and the problem still. Can someone help me with this.... 6 17.05.2007 13:48:00 Replacement GINA Hello all, One of my clients has recently raised a request to see whether it would be possible to add a button to the logon screen that would allow a user to read the firm's security policy without actually logging onto the PC. The standard LegalNoticeText is not adequate due to the 512 character limit. Does anyone know how this can be achieved? I would appreciate any advice. ... 2 17.05.2007 03:54:28 Script/regedit: Explorer-View-Arrange Icons by-Show In Groups... Hi I am trying 'script' a customised default explorer view that is used in a custom desktop build (i.e. I need to do this via reg fragments or VBS - please don't post answers that require use of the gui!!) I have managed to get put together a 'reg' file that puts Explorer into Details view for AllFolders (using the [HKCU\Software\Microsoft \Windows\ShellNoRoam\Bags\AllFolders\Shell] key ... 3 16.05.2007 19:27:37 Bookmarks in Internet Explorer Hello people, I wanted to clean up my favorites, bookmarks in Internet Explorer 6.x. I does not allow me to select multiple files to delete them and it would take too much time to do it a single bookmark at time. Where does IE store bookmarks do I can edit it by hand and delete all the garbage at once? I could export everything and edit that by hand but when I import them back in they will ... 7 15.05.2007 16:30:02 Locking folder pictures Does anybody know if there is a way to "lock" folder pictures so that when I move a file it retains that picture? It is very tedious to have to go into each folder, after it has been moved, and reset the picture that I have assigned to that folder, especially when there are several hundred folders. Thanks for any help or suggestions anyone can provide.... 1 14.05.2007 19:32:01 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11