Threads Replies Last Post 51 Pages: <<  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  >>   Replacing the CMOS battery When I replace the CMOS battery in my Dell desktop will my XP(MCE) recover its settings on its own or will I have to provide all those settings myself? There is a DOS program (CMOSRAM2) that copies and restores all those settings automatically for Win98. Is there such a program for XP? Thanks... 19 7/2/2007 5:42:19 AM taskbar notification area problems windows xp pro sp2 I have recently noticed that the button with the left-pointing arrow that separates the taskbar from the notification area has disappeared, and I cannot "show hidden icons" any more. I have gone to taskbar/properties/notification area and reset the properties, but that has not fixed it. Any ideas how to repair this? (Note that taskbar behavior is normal on another ... 9 7/1/2007 11:41:23 PM shut down is very slow I am having a problem shutting down my computer. When I click Start>turn off computer it takes around 2 minutes before the shut down dialog appears. When I click Shut Down, it gets to the "Windows is shutting down" screen, then hangs for another 2 minutes. This only started happening recently, and a couple of weeks ago it would shut down completely within 45 seconds. I have run ... 12 7/1/2007 11:23:18 PM how write files and folders to a dvd disc I have a few folders which I would like to back up to a dvd disc (these folders are about 3.5Gb in total, which is why I don't want to use a CD disc). Can anyone tell me how to do this? Do I need any special software to do it? The only option i am getting at the moment is to send them to the built-in CD drive, but that won't qwrite to DVD's. Please help.... 6 7/1/2007 10:22:01 PM Can't see entire new window when it opens - goes beyond viewing ar Sometimes when I open a new window, it displays larger than the view area. Also, if I go "Start", "Programs".......I can not see the entire list because they are displayed beyond the monitor's screen, Any advise??? Thanks... 6 7/1/2007 4:12:41 AM Cant change Read only attribute for folder I have an application I am writing and when I tried to run it I got the following message: Visual Studio could not copy a support file to this location C:\xxxxxxxxxx. Please verify the path exists and is writable. Sooo I opened Explorer and went to the folder and found the read-only bit was set so I unchecked it and hit OK. I got the same message so I once again checked that folder ... 5 6/29/2007 6:31:49 PM hard drive partition I need to create a new partiton(which I drastically need to do so I can back up to the new partition, then clean up my primary drive). I can't figure out how to partition my hard drive - am trying to follow the steps in Disk Mgmt, but where it says to "right-click unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition, then click New Partition," I'm lost. Nothing hap... 2 6/29/2007 5:32:22 PM Net Framework In trying to download Net Framework 1.1 it will not complete installation. It says Error 1935 HResult:0X80070005. How do I proceed? Thanks James... 5 6/29/2007 4:50:02 PM "Start>>Run...." I like cmd and msconfig and a few other choices selectable there. Today, without me doing anything exceptional, they're gone. I can put 'em back, but I'm curious as to what I did to clear them. Any clues?... 7 6/29/2007 10:52:20 AM Notification Area Icon Issue For some unknown reason, well unknown to me, at times, when a few select programs (unrelated programs i.e.games , a yahoo window) open an icon of a small black rotary telephone, that has the handset rise as if ringing, appears in the notification area in the bottom right of the window. This is accompanied by what I would describe as a wave sound of "exclamation", for lack of a better word.... 2 6/29/2007 9:46:03 AM online video streams I can not watch any videos on either "Yahoo music videos" or "MSN videos". The video screen turns green, but can hear the audio. What is wrong and how do I fix it. Running XP Home Edition on a 05'Sony VAIO RB30. Help would be greatly appreciated. -- jmk310 ... 2 6/29/2007 6:02:03 AM Help needed re "print screen", Word, msconfig I'm sure this question has been asked previously, but I can't find an easy solution to the problem. - Starting with msconfig, I'm trying to print out several of the listings of programs (e.g., lists of start up programs, lists of services). Unfortunately, I can't print out the lists directly. So I have pasted the PC screens showing the listings (five or six pages of them, giving me f... 4 6/29/2007 4:03:35 AM How to run SCANDISK Surface Scan in XP Hello, Does anybody know how to run a Scandisk surface scan the old-fashioned (Windows 98) way, where it gives a VISUAL representation of how many bad sectors you have on a disk? I've run the new-and-improved "CHKDSK /R /F" but that doesn't give me the visual information that I'm looking for. Is there any way to boot an XP machine into DOS and FORCE it to run a Scandisk surface scan (r... 9 6/29/2007 11:45:15 AM Internet only works after I VPN into other office???????!!!!!!! I hope someone can help me with this. It is quite odd. I have two offices. Office A and Office B. I regularly use VPN at both locations. Office A uses SBS 2000. During a storm Wednesday, we lost power several times within 60 seconds. After that happened, I discovered that I could access the server, get email (both POP3 and Exchange) but could not access the internet. I rebooted but that did ... 1 6/29/2007 7:52:03 PM any tool can tell me if I visited a website before? Is there a tool that enables me to detect if a website I am visiting, I visited before? Basically, if I visit the site, then visit the same site a second time, the tool tells me. The browser color-codes a visited link, but the color goes away, but this does not work when clicking a picture or a java button. Please let me know a tool that can help me. Thank you ... 2 6/29/2007 11:30:41 PM Problem Creating Shortcut to Folder I've had desktop shortcuts to frequently used folders since the day the Earth cooled. Today, none of them work - that is, clicking on the shortcuts produces a long pause, then nothing. I even recreated several with the same result. Shortcuts to websites work normally I can't for the life of me think of what I could have done to cause this. -- PT ... 3 6/30/2007 12:30:09 AM Backup won't open I have XP prof,Media center. My backup will not open, I get the wait, then after awhile it shows "seaching for devices" and when I restart it says backup not responding. I have reinstalled the NTbackup and still nothing. I did a complete backup in Febuary when it was working but can't restore that one either. HELP lol... 1 6/30/2007 8:40:17 AM saving files to a re-writable disc can anyone help!! i am trying to save important files to a re-writable disc, the disc already has files on it that i have put there from my "sonic" programe, however when i insert the disc and try to save any new files the disc is ejected from the drive and a message comes up on the screen saying that the disc is not a blank one, there is ample space available on the disc, can anyone he... 7 6/30/2007 11:11:04 AM Temporary Folder Where is the temporary folder? I did a search and it came up not there. I downloaded a file and it said it was going to my temporary folder, but I can find no such folder. Thanks James... 7 6/30/2007 8:18:50 PM I can,t register my Windows Dear All, Recenlty i bought a hp compaq brand pc with licence copy of windows xp professional. But during my registration period of windows i skip my registration with windows because i have no net connection that time. Now i can use internet on my PC and i want to register my windows with microsoft. But i don,t know how can i do this. So could u plse tell me how can i registe... 9 6/30/2007 9:39:55 PM My windows "search" can't see some folders .............ts When I execute the "search" operation it cannot see some folders that really do exist. The Windows browser sees tham ok. Perhaps there is an index file someplace that has become corrupted. Thanks, Ted ... 3 6/30/2007 10:53:32 PM windows xp repair install questions I've been working on our church office pc, and am going to need to do a WinXP repair install. I haven't done a clean or repair Windows install, so am trying to anticpate potential glitches with the repair. Some questions: A. Will some of our peripheral programs survive the Windows repair (I assume the repair simply overwrites all the Windows files/programs in the OEM CD)? Maybe those t... 7 7/1/2007 3:52:54 PM XP home stops at login screen Hi, I'm having trouble with windows xp home. Not big troubles. What it does is stop at the login screen and wait for a password, but there is no password so I hit enter and it finishes the boot to the desk top. I had this same problem with a laptop a while ago and gave up on it. Both times I found advice that said to "run control userpasswords2" and reset the admin password. Both t... 5 7/1/2007 4:47:10 PM Hardware Problem? Windows XP Home This is apparently a hardware problem but thought there'd be some pretty good ideas of the problem here. No power, no lights, no fan action, no HD noise... nothing at all. Checked swith for continuity - ok Checked power supply in another computer - ok Tried another power supply in this computer - still nothing. Suspect bad component on motherboard. Is there anything s... 9 7/2/2007 1:04:41 AM Log Changing File Diskeeper told me was that the fragment problem was in a file \$Extend\$UsnJrnl[Excess Allocation] and gave me a little tutorial on the Page File and the Master File Allocation Table and said that the Table was 84% used up and this was bad, BAD. However, when I used the Configure utility to edit the MFT size, it said the MFT was just fine and should not be reconfigured. Smith ... 1 7/2/2007 3:28:01 AM 51 Pages: <<  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31  32  33  34  35  36  37  >>