I have a problem I can't seem to fix. When i try to activate my active desktop with a web page it displays in an 300x300pix window that I can't move or resize. The lock desktop items check box is not...

I just loaded WinXPsp2, ran all the updates. I have 3 user ID's. In control Panel, User Accounts they all have different "pictures" attached to the different ID's but on the "Welcome Screen" they all...

<plasticsmith@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1143491373.531654.212580@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... Well, you can make a shortcut to System from the Control Panel, and you'll be prompted to put...

Help! I'm using Office XP and used to be able to double-click to open a JPG attachment in a message. Now, it comes up with a Security Warning message asking me if I want to open the file. I...

I am wondering how Newegg sales XP Pro OEM for just $150. Isn't it the same thing I would get if I bought it straight from MS? Alternatively, isn't it the same thing I would download when I do the...

Any help will be appreciated. I have 4.5gb file and I cannot copy it to my usb ext Hard Disk drive, eventhough my usb ext Hard Disk drive has got enough space. I can only copy it through a network...

I have a Thinkpad which I wish to mount to the underide of a horizontal surface. Is there any software I could use to ROTATE the display 180 degrees? I don't want it FLPPPED upside down, because then...

I've set the file association for WAV files to execute this action: sndrec32.exe /embedding /Play "%L" /Close which plays the WAV without showing a window for SNDREC32. The problem is that some WAV...

Hi, My pc was running very slowly . . . i.e., it took about 10 minutes to reboot. Someone told me to Start > Run > cmd > ipconfig /flushdns. It worked beautifully. My pc speed is more than twice...

I get DWWIN.EXE fails to initialize because windows is shutting down. How can I get rid of this message? Thanks, Marc

I am having problems with the "Media Detection" screens. I have PowerDVD installed (due to sound issues) and whenever I insert a disk it starts playing in PowerDVD before the media detection screens...

How can I make .rtf files open with a default application, not Word, but another wordprocessor, Jarte, I have on my computer? Thanks, CMA

I have a very strange situation and have tried everything I can find via search engines and still no luck. The problem is that somehow, the title bar no longer displays the name of url with...

Is there a way to disable ballon tips in XP Home for one user account but not another? I have the EnableBalloonTips registry edit trick, but that kills them universally, doesn't it? Thanks

A while a go I had a virus in my computer and fixed it, but ever since then my desk top page is all in gray/silver. When I go into start the menu is also the same color. How do i get it back to the...

I know that the PCB (Process Control Block) is in the L2 cache and if you change the PCB to L1 cache you win too much performance in the OS, because the L1 cache is closer to the Kernel. Somebory...

Hi, I would like to disable the Processes tab in Task Manager so that users are only able to access to applications tab. Thanks.

Hi, I have Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600), 950 megahertz AMD Duron, 768 Megabytes Installed Memory, .NETFramework 1.1. I read about the new features of 2.0 and compatibility...

Followup To My Last: I took your advice and sprang for the $30 charge for DFX 7. It's worth it. I can tweak the sound in various ways now. It's particularly useful to increase the Dynamic Range,...

Does enabling balloon tips consume any system memory at startup, which then can be recovered by disabling them? DSH "Bert Kinney" <bert@NSmvps.org> wrote in...