Threads Replies Last Post 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11   Icon Color Depth Greetings, I have an interesting problem. The icons on my desktop and start menu appear in 16 color mode, even though I am in a true color environment. That is, the color depth is at full, but all the icons display as if you were in a very low color depth. When previewing a desktop theme, the theme displays the icons in true color in the preview window, but you apply them, and the ar... 5 14.05.2007 16:48:03 2 different icon resolutions on taskbar? I was playing with the Properties/Appearance/Advanced settings just trying out some different Font/Window/Color options and settled on a scheme I liked. However, I just noticed that my "Quick Launch" icons are rendered in a higher resolution than my lower right "Taskbar" running processes. Here's a screen capture... http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/5813/taskbariconsmn9.gif I realiz... 2 14.05.2007 08:55:01 Folder options Using WindowsXP SP2. I am trying to get all folders to display as details. I set the view the way I want, and then I go into Tools, Folder Options, View, and click "Apply to all folders." That works fine until I shut down or reboot. Then the view always returns to the icon view. How can I set the details view so that folders come up all the time as details, even when I reboot? Thanks. --... 2 13.05.2007 16:50:00 customizing my curser How do I customize my curser? It's too fat, I want it thin, like it was before. I changed it myself a long time ago, now I can't remember how to change it back.?... 6 13.05.2007 09:30:36 Permanent desktop icons Hi everybody, Is there a way to make a desktop icon undeletable? (ie RecyleBin icon can not be deleted off the desktop) I have a program that is network based and everytime the computer loses network connectivity, the icon disapairs from the desktop. I want to prevent this. Thank you to anyone who can help. tempest... 2 13.05.2007 07:29:27 curser thanks to all who answered questions about customizing the mouse pointer. What I really need to know is how to change the curser..that little flashing mark at the end of a sentence, not the mouse pointer. Mine used to be thin, and I made it fatter, but it was a long time ago, and I can't remember how I did it. I want it back to thin, again. Thanks for any help.... 2 13.05.2007 07:27:47 Locking desktops Is there sombody that can help me to solve this problem? i am a teacher at a school. The learsners are constantly changing the desktops of the computers. how can i stop this. they are on a network with server 2003. Is there any software that can help me with this? -- RJHattingh... 3 12.05.2007 21:05:13 Hide DesktopIcons=Jagged Background Image Right-clicking on Desktop to hide Icons transforms a a crystal-clear Background Image (eg. Bliss), to a "jagged" display. I have tried to find a solution to this by searching this forum and also a by general search using Google. This produced no related solution but perhaps my input was not clear enough. I leave my desktop absolutely clear of any icons, and instead have a Toolbar poin... 1 12.05.2007 14:56:00 Sound Event files - need to hear first I wanted to assign a different sound to the event of receiving an email. As the present one supplied by Windows hardly draws your attention to it. I was delighted to see such a large choice of wav files in the sound event menu. However, if i am to choose the best one, i would like to hear a fair few of them. I've tried right-clicking at various stages and places within the section, but ... 10 12.05.2007 13:47:04 Display properties problem I've set the theme to windows classic. Under appearance I've set windows and buttons to windows classic style and the colour scheme to windows classic. Most of the time this theme is displayed when I start up. However, once maybe twice a week the settings for windows and buttons changes to windows xp style and the colour scheme changes to default (blue). Why is this happening? There does... 3 12.05.2007 13:10:00 windows xp home background file Hi, I have a new computer (vista) and really want the background/wallpaper picture from my Windows XP computer and I cannot get it. I don't know the file extension, I have tried saving a theme, but I am lost. This came with the windows xp computer (home edition) and it is a wonderful picture of an adobe home with a blue window and a wood ladder that has two bunches of dried flowers in p... 2 11.05.2007 20:22:39 Logon wallpaper customization Hello, I'm trying to change the background of the logon environment in the windows xp pro with something funny like a bmp image or jpg image. I'm not using the welcome screen, so i get only one dialog asking for the user and password, and the background is totally empty filled with the well known blue. I already try to seek how this can be done and if is possible of course, and i alread... 1 11.05.2007 15:24:52 Monitor problem I laid the phone book on the keyboard and it changed the diplay sideways. Anyone know how to change it back? I can't turn the monitor on it's side! Help! Thanks... 3 10.05.2007 20:48:36 Open / Save Dialog Box Not Displaying Files in Name Order My other installations of Windows XP display by default all the folders and files in alphanumeric order. I have just reinstalled XP on a computer (brand new hard drive, fresh install) and all of my folders and files are coming up in some unknown order. In fact, it appears to be most recently accessed at the top of the list. That is a reasonable order, but I really want it to be alpha,... 7 10.05.2007 17:09:10 Creating New Partition I am trying to create a new partition without going through the lengthy process of a complete and total reinstall. The Help File shows the following: Open Computer Management (Local). In the console tree, click Disk Management. Where? Computer Management (Local) Storage Disk Management Right-click an unallocated region of a basic disk, and then click New Partition, or right-cli... 2 10.05.2007 07:21:59 Special Folders Location I am running out of space on the drive which holds 'My Documents', I have therefore created a folder called 'My Music' on another drive with far more free space and moved all my music into it. What I want to do now is to use this new folder as 'My Music' as opposed to the old 'My Music' folder within 'My Documents', I know this is possible as I did it once before on a previous PC, can a... 5 10.05.2007 03:59:36 Special Folders I am running out of space on the drive which holds 'My Documents', I have therefore created a folder called 'My Music' on another drive with far more free space and moved all my music into it. What I want to do now is to use this new folder as 'My Music' as opposed to the old 'My Music' folder within 'My Documents', I know this is possible as I did it once before on a previous PC, can a... 6 10.05.2007 03:05:22 folders not opening Someone in my family has been messing around with the settings on the PC. I have win XP pro. If you click on the hard drive, it instead opens a search window to search that drive. No matter what subfolders you click on, it opens each one in a new window. I have tried to 'reset all folders' in the folder options, but that's not working. It's like things have been rerouted. Help! I ... 4 10.05.2007 00:05:00 Monitor Brightness I have my monitor as bright as it goes. Videos are dark... I adjust brightness on all movies but some of them you can't. Is there some way to boost my brightness? ... 7 09.05.2007 21:35:59 XP Theme Corruption I am running an XP Service Pack 2 box with the newest Microsoft Updates. The start menu has turned into one large green button. Here is a screen shot: [URL=http://img508.imageshack.us/my.php?image=garrisonweirdfb1.jpg] [IMG]http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/3087/garrisonweirdfb1.th.jpg[/ IMG][/URL] The problem only occurs when the XP theme is active. I have replaced the WINDOWS\reso... 1 09.05.2007 17:43:54 Is anyone interested in booting WinXP/2K from CDR/RW media? Res-Q-ware LLC is making the beta release of RescueBoot available to everyone interested in experimenting with a Windows XP/2K disaster recovery environment that operates entirely from CDR/RW media or a protected hard disk directory. Links to the beta download page and online documentation for RescueBoot are on the company homepage at www.resqware.com. The online docs include quick use inf... 1 09.05.2007 17:29:16 Hiding Directory Hello! Please excuse me, and I apologize, if my cross posting are not relevant to any of the groups that it appears in. Is there a way to hide a directory? Or fix it so that someone has to enter a password to switch to it? Or is it possible to encrypt it such that someone has to enter a password to decrypt it and view it(hopefully this should be fast becuz I have large data files of a to... 5 09.05.2007 06:04:03 E-mail options in internet options When I go to control panel/network and internet connections/internet options/programs, I no longer have an option for e-mail. I used to have this set to Outlook Express, and then changed it to Hotmail. Now I have neither option, so if I ever click on an e-mail link, I get an error message. This used to work fine, and under programs I can change the settings for html editor, so there doe... 8 09.05.2007 04:58:11 ++++ Desktop Background change does not stay after reboot. After selecting an entry in the drop-down list of Background on Desktop tab of Display Properties, the desktop background was changed after clicking Apply and OK. However, after reboot PC, the background went back to the original one. Any suggestion? Thanks.... 1 09.05.2007 00:48:00 Running a Batch File Using XCOPY I wrote what I thought was a simple batch file to copy a directory ("Timeprog") and all subfolders from my C: drive to my E:\ drive, The following line was put into a batch file named "Timecopy.bat" which resides on my C: drive. XCOPY C:\TIMEPROG\ E:\TIMEPROG /S /E When I run the file, a DOS window appears briefly, closes, but nothing happens. What am I missing to make a working ba... 4 08.05.2007 17:34:50 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11