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Windows Dialog Boxes
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 5 Comments

How do I set windows to display its dialog boxes in English? I installed East Asian language files on my computer (Regional Settings, Languages tab, under Supplemental language support, selected...

Program to export Thumbnails of Themes/Styles, Bootscreens, Logon-Screens
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Hi! I'm evaluating StyleXP. Nice but... - no Export of Style-Thumbnails, Bootscreens, Logon-Screens Any idea of a program which is capable of that? Thanks! Bruno

Re: Windows Backup Utility
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Or an External Hard Drive. DSH "S.Sengupta" <ssengupta_@msn.com.invalid> wrote in message news:e67UWP5KGHA.2036@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Tool Bars
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Does anyone know how you can change the color of your toolbars? Im just curious...my friend had her tool bars pink and she said she doesn't remember how she did it. I get to the settings but I only...

Customize Taskbar
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 5 Comments

I would like some help in customizing the Taskbar in XP Pro. I used to run ME and had it set up as below: Quick Programs/Folders Launch Links Address

Changing folder tree behaviour in Windows Explorer
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hello everyone! One thing that's been bothering me in Windows Explorer in Windows XP is that if I select a folder containing subfolders in the folder tree it will get expanded so all subfolders are...

Stand by Disabled
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I'm running XP on a desktop computer. I've not made any recent OS or driver changes. I just recently noticed I am unable to put the computer into Standby mode. I used to click START, Turn off...

Suppressing Small yellow popup Tooltips in Taskbar
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Greetings folks! Been doing a lot of digging tonight, attempting to thwart the little annoying Tooltip popups that occur when you hover the mouse pointer over an open program in the Taskbar. Usually...

Search Defaults?
Posted on February 12th, 2006 | 11 Comments

When I use search the columns are Name, Size, Folder, Type, & Relevance. I right click and change it every time but how can I make my choices permanent? #2... what does the "relevance" column show?...

Tray Icons don't show
Posted on February 11th, 2006 | 8 Comments

I seem to be having trouble getting all my System Tray icons to show on startup. So, I have to use the Task Manager and shut down the process - then restart it. That usually works. What a pain!!! ...

File has no 'Date Modified'
Posted on February 11th, 2006 | 1 Comments

In a My Computer folder of 20 or so JPG files, one has no entry in the Date Modified column. Don't recall ever seeing that before. Remains the same if I move it elsewhere. Any ideas how that might...

CD Read Limits?
Posted on February 11th, 2006 | 7 Comments

I'd like to make a CD - but want to limit how many times it can be read. Is there a utility that will do this? Thanks........

Re: Defragmenting Backup Files
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Recte: 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...

Re: MsConfig - no System.ini / Win.ini
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Hmmmmmmm... Another Barefoot Empiricist. DSH "ULguy" <ULguy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F16A98F1-023A-4F41-8940-AD9BCDB24766@microsoft.com...

screen saver does not activate
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 5 Comments

Hi my screensaver does not activate automatically although it worked fine at some point. I can see it working just fine in the preview under "control panel", and the time is properly set up. I tried...

How to get this Hotfix?
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 18 Comments

At this page http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472 there is a description of a 'hotfix' for the problem I've described in a separate thread 'Uninstall/reinstall HD to recover DMA?' It tells me...

C:\WINDOWS\Downloaded Installations
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Can all the files in this directory be safely removed? There seems to be a Good Deal of leftover ash and trash in it. DSH

System Restore
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 27 Comments

How much space needs to the allocated for this? My system wants over 9 GB. DSH

Firewire 800 Drive Will Not Wake
Posted on February 10th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Hi, I have a LaCie Big Disk Extreme Firewire 800 Drive connected to XP SP2. Unfortunately, when the Drive enters a Sleep State; it appears in Device Manager with Yellow Asterisk (Error 43) and will...

Re: Norton AV '06 Killed Windows
Posted on February 9th, 2006 | 41 Comments

Will McAfee Antivirus work better with Windows XP Pro SP2 than Norton? If so, why? DSH "PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:O05RDZBLGHA.2492@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...