For some reason, as of yesterday, the text underneath the icons on an XP Home desktop are solid blue instead of transparent. Some error about active desktop popped up, but the user click okay before...

Back in Win98 when I made a modem contact with a remote PC system, I got a modem connection indicator in the system tray, which I could click on to check connection speed etc. Is there a similar...

Hi All, I got this Device Not Recognized error when I connect a USB Flash Drive 15meters away in a another room. I have tested my equipment with the following scenerio for possible cause: 1....

Can viruses or other malware be attached to .wav files and if so what software will check for the viruses before I save the files. I think I was infected by a .wav file and I want to avoid the...

I have a HDD divided 50/50 between C and D. Basically, everything was on C, but I got so many photos that I moved just the photos (well, most of them) over to D. But, My Pictures is of course still...

Hi, After reinstalling Windows XP (SP1 +2) I can not longer read my encrypted data (word, excel, powerpoint). I get "access denied" on all files. Some of the files is backed up without encryption, no...

My Son's Compaq Laptop using XP, fairly new. Internal CDrom/DVD/RW drive has disappeared from Windows Explorer, My Computer and Device Manager. It is shown in the BIOS and is not disabled. It had...

Is it possible to move the contents from the Recycle Bin on one computer to another computer? Is it possible to merge the contents of two Recycle Bins? If so, how? Thank you!

On starting my machine, a msg appears saying that NAV/NIS is deactivated use norton prog to fix this, once machine has completed oppstart all is ok. has this prob. been noted before with xp.

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:03:34 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote: Lie number one, You Think. I'm so sorry that you are such a moron that you have a problem with my mere words! But my being...

Hi, Irecently added a Sony DVD-RW to my hardware to suppliment a Toshiba DVD-R and a Sony CD-RW. After doing so, Device Manager no longer contains a heading for CD drives and has moved all three of...

Hi guys, I've made a big mistake while 'spring cleaning' and moved the NTDETECT file, now I get a black screen with... NTLDR is Missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart Of course when I do that I get...

I have some private files which I have encrypted and I want to ensure that if anything happens I can recover them. I have set my main administrator account up as the recovery agent and when I check...

Hi, Is there in way in Windows XP Professional SP2 to set a program so that it always runs in a specified priority? -- BadHead :) --- OS: Windows XP Professional SP2 (32-bit)

I'm noticing now that some applications are not launching in my Windows XP setup. I'm wondering what some causes of this might be. For instance, emusic download manager, pdf995.....when I click on...

Hi Everyone, I'M new to this group. I have recently upgraded Win 98 to XP and transferred my Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 platinum version over using Roxio update for Win XP. However a section of Creator...

After running a bat file reregistering a few dll files (required to setup a remote web access site) the Internet Explorer stopped working and the user lost Internet access. Now Internet Explorer...

Is there any way to remove taskbar buttons from the lower left of the taskbar? They're taking up a ton of room, and some of them I never use. I can't just completely remove the programs, though, as...

When I open User Accounts in Control Panel I get: "Internet Explorer Script Error ! An error has occurred in the script on this page. Line: 4 Char: 1 Error: Access is denied Code: 0 URL...

I use Windows XP SP2 with the modernXP start menu(not classic) and in the left-hand pane I have several permanent shortcuts to programs pinned there. One of them is Mozilla and I would like to modify...