Several years ago, I installed the Windows XP Winter Fun Screensavers. When I want to disable the screensaver on my computer by selecting desktop properties, then the screensaver tab, select "none"...

For some reasons, after I customize my windows like: Startup Program, Background, Screen Saver, even types of "Sorting" in each folder; when the computer restarts everything reset to what it was...

Hi I have winXP set up as a dual boot system with my old win98 as a second option. all is working fine, but... win98 and the boot files are on my old C drive (40 gig drive) while win XP is on the D...

IS there anyway to change the size of open programs on the taskbar. For example get rid of the text so it jsut shows the icon or change it so there is more text showing? Thanks

Although the program icons in the quicklaunch area work fine, when programs are opened or minimized, no open-program icons/buttons are displayed in the taskbar/quicklaunch area. They seem to...

Is it possible via the registry or a program to add an option when you right click on a program and say you want to send a shortcut to the desktop... instead of sending it to the desktop, is it...

Steve, See also Manage the context-menu entries for files, folders, drives and Namespace objects: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm -- Regards,

I am using a webcam page as my desktop. I want to update it every hour throughout the day. I have tried creating 24 update schedules for this under advanced properties, but only the first in the list...

After having a problem or two with Internet Explorer over the past couple days, I now find that all .htm or .html files are displayed with the default file icon in Windows Explorer. (The default...

For some reason, I can't make this computer show the minimized windows / programs on the taskbar. So, to switch from program to program I have to ALT-Tab all the time. It's driving me nuts and I...

Down in the lower left, on the quick launch bar, all sorts of little yellow (absolutely useless) messages pop up all the time with messages like "WLAN is On" or "FDM Download Complete" or "WireNet...

The drag and drop option is missing from my start menu options. How do I recover that function? I am used to rearranging my start menu and am unable to. When I clck properties and customize the...

Steve, this might help http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1838906,00.asp "Steve Roper" <SteveRoper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

I want to make a shortcut onto which I can drop files. The file names are then to be supplied in the command line passed to the target program. I can make the shortcut. The target is not to an...

Hi all: As the topic says, when I go into display under control panel, it won't let use jpegs as backgrounds for the desktop. I can use bitmaps, but not jpegs. It will let me select a jpeg but when...

Okay, so, something similar to a Safe Mode boot, only I want to include more modules, services, etc. I want to know if there's any way to create a customizable selectable (on the boot screen)...

Hi I try to run a system script on a commuter, before the user login. The script change the user password. I need that the script will run before the "Windows Authentication dialog" appear (before...

DL the thing what was it 6 meg??? all it does it sits there does NADA. No sunrise and sunset? with lights going on and off? and the sun or moon doing its thing. WHY the @#)(@#)($)(@# is this such a...

Hello, I am trying, for the first time, to increase the verbosity level; I have the full admin rights on two PC, one running WXP SP2, and another one running W2K SP4 (both french versions) On both,...

Hello How can I customize the bindings of the windows XP's hot keys? For example bind "switch application" to another key sequence than alt-tab. What I'm particularly interested in is to bind...