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Boot disks creation
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 6 Comments

I would like to create emergency boot disks that do more than merely boot to a prompt. I can create the ISO boot disks in floppy, CD and DVD using the Command.com, msdos.sys and io.sys that are part...

WinTasks 5.0 Professional
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 5 Comments

What's the verdict on this software by the experts here? Thank you kindly. DSH

Remove Picture from Background Picture List
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 6 Comments

The Background Picture (wallpaper) list is displaying all the pictures from "My Picture" folder. How do I stop that other than removing all my pictures from that My Pictures folder and putting it in...

Cursor thickness while typing - how did I change it?
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I changed the cursor thickness, and I don't know how! can you please suggest ways that I may have done it. I didn't do it in display, or mouse, in control panel, so how else could I have done it?

Cursor thickness
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have been changing all the settings on my computer, like backgrounds, and cursors. I managed to change the thickness of the cursor, so that when I am typing, I cannot work out which letters the...

cannot change desktop wallpaper
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Cursor thickness
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have been changing all of the settings on my computer, the mouse pointers and backgrounds and stuuf, and somehow I have changed the thickness of the cursor, so that when you type, it comes up...

XP Color Schemes: more than just 3?? How to change?
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi I'm wanting to change the XP colour schemes, which for some weird reason are limited to just three. I'm happy to create my own, but Windows won't accept the change for the Active Task Bar. (It...

Re: Useless Leftover Files In Windows XP
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 0 Comments

From: Shenan Stanley Date: Sat, Jan 14 2006 6:15 pm Email: "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> Groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize "...Who knows what you might need to get rid of...

Re: Save Space After Installing Updates
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 2 Comments

http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/spack.htm That is a good gouge. Clear, Concise, Coherent. Written by Jupiter Jones? I also deleted more than 50 MB of ash and trash in...

Folder got converted to Control Panel, please HELP!!!
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I've been looking for a solution for my problem for some time now. I uninstalled a program called lockfolder which functions to lock out folders using a password. I used it to lock the My Pictures...

Folder Status
Posted on February 26th, 2006 | 9 Comments

I have left a thread on here before about getting rid of pictures which I assigned to one folder that were subsequently being assigned to nearly all the others at random. I was informed how to stop...

Cannot change drive names
Posted on February 25th, 2006 | 6 Comments

I cannot change the name of either of my CD drives in My Computer. All other hard drives and removable drives (CF card reader, SD card reader) *can* have their names changed, so why not these...

Re: C:\WINDOWS\$hf_mig$
Posted on February 25th, 2006 | 13 Comments

Safe to delete this folder? I'm suspicious because it seems to contain all the KB's -- 43 of them -- but aren't they IN the OS? It's 125 MB and if its useless it should go. Any ideas? Thanks,

How add context menu entry for item in Quick Launch bar?
Posted on February 25th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I want to add some entries to the context menu I get when I right- click one of the small icons in the Quick Launch bar (which is on the main XP taskbar). Of course, the entries in Quick Launch are...

Folder Templates in system folders cannot change
Posted on February 25th, 2006 | 5 Comments

Hi, my problem is that my Drive C:\; Program Files; Windows folders are displayed either in Music Files Folder Template or Photo Album Folder Template how can I restore them back to Document Folder...

Erased the Recycle Bin... can I put it back??
Posted on February 25th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi everybody, I erased by mistake the recycle bin on the desktop... does anyone has an idea to put it back...??? Thanks in advance, FRSNK

Skinning question...
Posted on February 25th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Ive recently downloaded a skin for my comp, but the only problem is I dont know how to install it. Help?

Partioning when you have a recovery partition
Posted on February 24th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I want to create 2 more partition on my harddrive, but the recovery partition seems to be stopping me from doing this. I have Partition Magic and it won't do it because the partition can not be...

My Start toolbar menu
Posted on February 24th, 2006 | 2 Comments

My start toolbar menu is at the top of my screen instead at the bottom left how it has always been how do I change it back?