New laptop. On my other computer (windows xp also) I am able to drag icons to the task bar (i usually keep the icons hidden). I an unable to do this on my laptop desktop toolbar...even though all...

Carol -------------------------------- This turns out to have been the worst sort of ignorant, arrogant, uninformed, zealous assertion. The experts on MCE tell me MCE 2005 is based on XP Pro...

I did a fresh install of my operating system. Systemworks 2006 Premier installed fine but no option for NPM Norton Password Manager. Then I saw on the CD that the folder is there. By clicking the...

I used Desktop Architect to change the icons for My Computer, etc., and they show up fine on my desktop and in Windows Explorer. On the "Open File" dialog box, the icons on the left-hand side for My...

Put in a new harddrive and reloaded Windows XP home. But when I did it was assigned a letter other than C. Will this cause problems and if so can I rename it without messing things up? -- baumer

For some reason, when I right-click on my screen, click "properties" and then click "desktop", there are hundreds of photos available as background pictures. How can I delete these...

Hi, my right click menu is getting a bit unwieldy. I have alot of programs that have added multiple options etc to my right click menu in explorer. I want to keep some of them, add dividers, and...

My memory card reader is drive A:\ and B:\. The dvd drive shows the card reader icon while the card reader just shows the generic removable disk icons. I have tried...

Currently have Office XP (2002) installed. I have Office 2003 and would like to install it. The 2003 version is not an upgrade but the full Professional suite. Should I un-install the old first...

XP2 Home SP2. How do I change the "File type" display in Windows Explorer to show the file type name that I want. For example I would like to change "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Document" to just "Acrobat"...

Dear All, I have created a shortcut to an application installed on the server. When I right click on the shortcut and go to Properties, I see a shortcut page with the Target Path as the server...

Hi, how can I add a shortcut to the File->New menu in explorer/My Computer? I want to be able to create a Word document from a particular template (i.e. not Normal.dot). Thanks AJ

Thank you kindly. There have been, what, about 38 hotfixes and upgrades to XP Pro SP2 since it was released -- a total of six or seven just in the last few days? Can one also install all those in...

Hi My account has recently been reset on the domain, same user name but different id (it's call the uid or sid?). This caused the profile to be recreated. I have done: A. change the security...

How can we make folders list default to any folder. Right now wheneveri have to see the list of folders i have to click on 'Folders' button. I want to make it default so that whenever i open any...

I am having the same problem - My Recent Documents suddenly stopped updating itself, and I emptied it. Now it doesn't show anything, even after I have opened a few documents. I have not selected...

Carol -------------------------------- Unproven assertion. DSH

When I put my mouse over an icon on the taskbar I get the little box (Tooltip?)describing what that icon is for. Well, the box opens under or behind the taskbar so I can't see what it says. How do I...

We still have not resolved this issue -- in fact we have directly conflicting statements. Ken Blake tells us: "Media Center is a superset of XP Professional (with one exception). Everything thatis...

Here is a useful site -- better than anything we have seen posted by either Carol or Ken Blake -- who just keep regurgitating Microsoft sites, some of which contain Bum...