Threads Replies Last Post 16 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16   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 5/28/2007 10:01:19 PM 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 5/28/2007 6:47:01 PM 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 5/28/2007 3:35:25 PM 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 5/28/2007 7:24:01 AM 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 5/27/2007 11:51:15 PM 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 5/27/2007 6:49:24 PM 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 5/27/2007 1:00:01 AM 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 5/26/2007 4:24:32 PM 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 5/26/2007 6:47:56 AM 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 5/25/2007 7:38:00 AM 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 5/25/2007 3:26:01 AM 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 5/25/2007 12:12:29 AM 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 5/24/2007 7:24:54 PM 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 5/23/2007 5:37:08 AM 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 5/22/2007 6:00:55 PM 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 5/22/2007 4:17:27 PM 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 5/22/2007 3:39:59 PM 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 5/22/2007 3:32:24 PM 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 5/22/2007 3:26:00 PM Having folder show delete x How can I get the folders to show the big red delete X among choices? -- incredable one... 4 5/22/2007 1:46:04 AM 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 5/22/2007 1:31:22 AM 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 5/22/2007 12:04:08 AM 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 5/21/2007 9:19:42 PM 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 5/21/2007 5:06:35 PM 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 5/21/2007 4:44:26 PM 16 Pages: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16