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Did a stupid thing? sold mac for windows
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 11 Comments

Hello, Did I make a mistake selling my mac pb for a windows laptop? I just did not see using mac to browse the internet when most of my software is windows based. I took a loss, but nw have sony...

Recently opened Prog that R Pined to start is Shown 2ce
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

When I pin a program like Office Word 2003 to my start menu then click on it or the shortcut in the All Programs menu. It places it in the recently opened Programs list Below the pined program. This...

How to obtain a printed list of installed software?
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

XP Pro up-to-date How can my system provide a complete list of installed software? Hopefully, there is a utility about which I am not aware. Thanks Dennis

Re: Where's my calculator?
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 2 Comments

No, but restoring it from the backup file sure did. Thanks for the very rapid (and correct) reply. I have no idea what made it disappear in the first place. I am highly suspicious that some of...

CD Rom Drives not refreshing
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Good Day, I have a Inspiron 8200 system running Windows XP Home with SP2. I have two CD Rom drives on this system, primary and secondary. One is a burner the other is a basic CD Reader. I found...

system restarts unexpectedly
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 8 Comments

My system has twice restarted while I was opening a programme. Just now I was opening Adobe Photoshop CS. I also had Excel, Word & Office open. Does anyone have any idea what might be causing...

Deleting duplicate service pack files
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 6 Comments

I used a program called clean sweep to identify duplicate files on my computer. It found over 4000. Most are XP files with one copy stored in a directory called something like servicepack/386 and...

Photo Printing Wizard and old pictures
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Good Day, I have a few users that use the Photo Printing wizard to print Photos. The program works great but we seem to have a issue with it. It seems that it retains all the old photos that you...

Ok, so I have finally found a very knowledgable group of guys...
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 11 Comments

x-no-archive: yes I have been asking questions in a variety of places, and I've been getting a lot of very negative feedback. "Go read this! Go read that!" My problem is that while I'm very...

CD or DVD not recognized
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 2 Comments

When I insert a blank cd or dvd+r in either drive my computer do not ask for an action to take. In order for me to perform an action, I have to go into windows explorer. How can I get the computer to...

Modem turns on computer
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I recently put a new dial-up modem on my computer and plugged it in and it works fine but if my computer is turned off or on hibernate whenever someone calls my house my computer turns on and its...

no services are running at start up
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I just recently purchased an emachines PC for general use. I open the box, start it up and windows comes up like it should but is acting funny. I soon find out that there are absolutely no services...

service wont start
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

in the Services Management Console, the Application Management service is is not running. i assume it should be, because im having trouble installing a program. i start it (it's on manual). it fails...

911 Windows XP Help Requested
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Can I say HELP??? Yeah...I guess I just did. It all started with my installation of the IE7 beta,,,yes, I already know that it wasn't a public beta and it's recommended not to put it on...

Remote Computer administration
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I have a small network of 2 XP Pro computers, one connects on a wireless connection through a wireless router and the other is wired through the router. Occasionally I need to issue command line...

WinXP SP2 / IE6
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I've got a web application that uses the FileSystemObjects to write to a file locally. Prior to XP SP2 my users simply had to agree to the ActiveX Security Dialog. Post XP2, my users have to jump...

Copy Windows profile on upgraded pc
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 5 Comments

I have a laptop that I am going to upgrade from XP Home to XP Pro so that it can be added to a domain. The question I have: is there a seamless way to copy the user profile from the existing (xp...

Windows XP Unstable
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I recently got a new hard drive and a new copy of Windows XP, and I installed it into my current system, and I am getting errors constantly. To start, I had to install XP three times before I could...

A question on Active Desktop
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 7 Comments

Hi there. In WinXP, I need to progrmatically change the web page the user sees as their active desktop. I can change the url in the registry key to the - this is no problem - but obviously the...

Sharing disks
Posted on March 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I have a laptop and desktop computer. I would like to use a 2nd disk drive on the desktop from the laptop. The computers are connected via a router that also acts as a firewall. I have successfully...