I have a new Dell laptop with WinXP Pro SP2. They apparently customized the shut down menu. Windows is configured as a domain member so it is the old style shut down dialog with the drop down box to...

As I'm trying to track down instability in one of my programs (Memory Map), I decided to use the XP SFC tool. I did a quick google to remind myself of its syntax. At this...

Hello, By default Windows XP sorts all files in the folder by name, and I cannot figure out how to remove sorting completely. For instance, I'm working with images. I switch view to Filmstrip...

Creating a Restore Point on my system seems to consume about 20 MB. Is that fairly standard -- or is it widely variable? Thanks. DSH

After the posts from DSH and others, I decided to use my new 250GB external drive as a backup for my C: Drive As was done by one poster (was it DSH), I decided to start with backing up all of...

I have a very simple problem, but I am unaware as how to fix it. I want to change my desktop background colour from this boring shade of sand, to white. I do this by right clicking on my desktop...

Hey people, im looking for a way to tell a program that starts up when i login to wait X seconds before starting, like for non-essential but ressource hogging background/tasktray items. Sounds simple...

I wonder how many people are under the erroneous impression that System Restore will restore their: Passwords My Documents Folder Contents Windows Authentication Information User Created Data Stored...

I've done it several times now -- just to compress everything on the WD External Hard Drive. I saved 2GB. The .bkf file is about 9 GB and takes a very long time to defragment -- about 15-20 minutes...

It is possible to modify the blue color from the taskbar to another color, but without changing the visual styles neither the desk color?. Also, in those alone visual styles you can select 3 colors,...

Are there any particular dangers involved in using Disk Defragmenter to defragment an external hard drive used for storing XP backups of everything on the computer? DSH

hello when i use run>msconfig>service i want to delete a service from the table that appears ... how can i do it thnks..

I am setting up windows and want to put all my files on one drive and the OS on the other... how do you do it?

Hi, For some reason I copied the Administrative Tools to a 'parking lot'. Later on I could delete the contents but the folder itself is stuck. "Administrative Tools is a Windows folder and is...

Hi, Somehow I managed to add a folder named Paint to -Documents. (This folder exists and is used as user default for My Pictures.) How to get rid of it? I might have used any stupid trick to add...

I have XP Pro. I have bypassed my log on screen so I didn't have to hit enter for the computer to fully load up. Now the computer will only load the XP's version of administrator files. I have my own...

Hi All, with out the need of a external program or skinner how do you change boot up screens and menu bars, or do "have" to buy programs to change things like this with win xp. Thanks in advance --

The text and buttons in dialog boxes seem to be too large and don't fit properly. The words are cut off and I can only see part of the message inside the dialog box. I searched through Microsft...

Hey people i have a question, i want to get more info when im browsing my hard drive, especially when wanting to see how much files and how big a folder is, like adding a column in "Details" View,...

I love the "user" thing for the machine my husband and grandkids use; it works great. This machine, however, is mine, and none of them better even *look* at it. How do I stop all the rigamarole at...