Threads Replies Last Post 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11   Add CONTROL PANEL to Quick Launch? Yes -- I use Control Panel quite often. I'd like to add it to Explorer's Quick Launch, right next to the Desktop. I've looked at Kelly's site, but didn't find anything like that. I'm using XP Home. Is this possible? -- Lady Dungeness Crabby, but Great Legs! ... 9 04.07.2007 20:58:40 Ken Blake & Leonard Grey (Pls. Read) Response to My 06/05/07 Posting: NO, Ken Blake, you are very very much mistaken. I FINALLY decided too run a, 'Registry Scan,' using - IObit's Advanced WindowsCare V2 Personal; freeware I downloaded from www.cnet.com. It FIXED a YEAR long gruelling problem that consumed a couple hundred hours of my life! So, this dragging issue, was a very very tiny price to pay. Corrupt files I... 2 04.07.2007 12:29:57 Startup Aplication Hi everyone, I need some info.On windows XP i need to have only one application running.When Windows starts i will setup aoutomatic administrator login,application will start and after close application i need to get windows to go to shutdown.How to do this? Thanks in advance ... 2 04.07.2007 07:03:02 Dragging windows setting Changed? A setting has changed? Now when I hold down/drag a window to another location - I only see the bounder outline of the window, while dragging. How come? I used to see the the entire contents of the window while dragging it. -- Thank you, Jean... 6 04.07.2007 02:42:01 Share custom paper sizes We have a client in the field of civil engineering and they have demands for custom paper sizes for when they print/plot their documents. When we create custom paper sizes on a PC, they are only available on that PC. Is it possible to create custom paper sizes and have them available to all users on the network without having to visit each PC and create them manually?... 1 02.07.2007 16:18:12 URL's in Ms Apps If I have a web link (a url) in an Ms App (eg Word, Excel) then on clicking the link to access the web page the Ms app automatically minimises. Thus I have to click the app button on the task bar to see it again. I don't want this (when I was running win 2k this didn't happen! Ms App remained open on worktop) Can I stiop this occuring in WindowsXp ? -- Jim Bunton ... 2 02.07.2007 00:28:30 Custom startup sound Hi: I want to play a custom .wav file of any length or size at startup. Currently I've encountered two problems. 1. Substituting my .wav file for the Windows start sound, XP truncates playback at less than 5 seconds. 2. Running mplay32.exe in the startup folder in a cmd or .vbs file, it doesn't seem possible to suppress the UI on playback. The /play / close command line parms work as... 6 01.07.2007 20:31:45 A challenging question Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown up. scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to new shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so user can't create new shortcut or new folder? Thannk you very much. David ... 3 01.07.2007 20:30:27 Killing off a few Win XP Home folders/programs I have uninstalled Windows Messenger, following the instructions on Kelly's site. I plan to have this XP Home SP2 computer on a home network soon. If the following folders/files/programs are not needed for a Home Network, I'd like to uninstall them as well: MSN GAMING ZONE NET MEETING MOVIE MAKER XEROX MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE WEB FOLDERS WEB SERVER EXTENSIONS Is it possibl... 3 01.07.2007 20:28:46 Recycle bin i would like to know whether there is a way to set the recycle bin to show a confirmation when clicking the "Restore all items" button.... 2 01.07.2007 20:27:19 Guest account I have several computers that run Win XP sp2. Some time ago, I setup ONE of the computers to use the guest account that REQUIRED A PASSWORD. Now I want to do the same for my other computers. However, I can only setup the guest account that requires no password. How do I setup the guest account such that it requires a password? ... 3 01.07.2007 19:17:25 Gateway GT4016... Hi All, I'm in quite a jam.. I have a Gateway GT4016 with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 installed and it had been acting kind of weird for a few days, but now I have nothing when I start it.. Actually I shouldn't say "Nothing".. I first get the Gateway name and at the bottom right of the screen the 2 promts of <Boot Settings>'F10' or BIOS Settings 'F2'... Then it goes to a ... 2 01.07.2007 19:15:35 Taskbar colors change after restart. Running Windows XP SP2. Have set everything in Display Properties for 'Windows Classic style',' Windows Standard', etc.. Click Apply/ OK, colors and display changes to the options I checked. But then when I later restart the computer the colors and theme change back to the default XP colors and theme. Why??? ... 2 01.07.2007 19:10:55 Tweak UI How can I get the Focus function in Tweak UI "General Tab" not to default back to: "Prevent applications from stealing focus?" Every few days I have to go back and uncheck that little bugger! Ideas? Marc ... 2 01.07.2007 19:08:31 Links From Ms. Apps to web pages If I have a web link (a url) in an Ms App (eg Word, Excel) then on clicking the link to access the web page the Ms app automatically minimises. Thus I have to click the app button on the task bar to see it again. I don't want this (when I was running win 2k this didn't happen! Ms App remained open on worktop) Can I stiop this occuring in WindowsWp ? -- Jim Bunton ... 1 01.07.2007 18:36:29 Ctrl-Alt-Del password change Is there a way to get to the Ctrl-Alt-Del password change mechanism if you have the Welcome Screen enabled? I end up in Windows Task Manager. If I change my password through User Accounts, then I risk losing access to my encrypted data (I have in the past). -- Steve Swift http://www.swiftys.org.uk/swifty.html http://www.ringers.org.uk... 3 01.07.2007 10:22:16 "Send To" file tab How do yo uset up files on the "Send To" tab. I know how to do it on Vista, but it will not setup the same way on XP... thanks Joe Krause... 5 29.06.2007 01:38:08 C Drive Icon I have lost the Icon for my C Drive, I can still see the drive and everything works ok but the yellow folder icon will not show. I have 3 drives, C, D & E, D & E are the same as they always have been but C is now just a basic standard icon. Any ideas how to change back to the usual XP Drive Icon? Thanks Keith ... 8 28.06.2007 03:24:01 Key Assignment How do I assign keys from the character map. None of the instructions I find in the Help File work out for me. Any help you can give me will be very much appreciated. Regards, Tuaz ... 7 28.06.2007 00:57:02 Roaming Profile and Offline Files + Folder Redirection I have My document folder redirected to network drive. I have enabled Offline files. I see synchronization that happened, I see local copy of offline e files. I can open local copy of file, when I disconnect my self from network, problem is following. When I click document, it takes cca 10 minutes, before I can edit file. Computer looks for the file on network server, where my document f... 1 27.06.2007 13:06:01 Settings for desktop? Stupid me downloaded a spyware program that told me some reg files were infected. I deleted some, which affected my desktop settings. Now instead of the wedding pic I had for wallpaper, it's a blue background, but the pic is there underneath, because it's there upon bootup. How can I restore the options to change my wallpaper? I bring up the tab and all the original options are not c... 4 27.06.2007 01:08:03 Recent Documents in Start Menu Hi, Is there a way to specify how many recent documents are displayed in the 'documents' folder on the start menu? Thanks, marc ... 6 27.06.2007 01:06:01 Shortcut Key for Escape Is is possible to have Ctl-] as a shortcut key for the Escape key? I was used to that in Unix systems. Customizing Word with Ctl-] for Cancel failed when it came to dialog boxes. I recently noted while in Word that Ctl-Alt-S brings up an HP machine summary, suggesting that XP has the shortcut.... 3 25.06.2007 18:44:21 Administrative Tools - Links Locations I know of four ways to access Win XP Home Administrative Tools. 1. Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage. 2. Run services.msc 3. Control Panel > Administrative Tools 4. Start > Programs > Administrative Tools I would like to remove the Administrative Tools folder from the Start Menu. Unfortunately, Win XP Home tells me it cannot me done. Is there a reg hack or som... 8 25.06.2007 04:37:12 Disable msn messenger I installed msn messenger on my pc for my daughter. Unfortunately it seems to be causing another program to crash. Can I disable it for all other users? I am also trying to cut down the number of processes running in the background, as I use some music editing software that is quite processor intensive. Installing msn messenger has slightly undermined my efforts. Kev ... 6 24.06.2007 13:39:05 11 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11