Hello to all. I'm wondering if I can get some advise. A friend emailed us a document, and at the end of the name of the document is says: .pub I'm guessing that's a format of some sorts. I can't...

Hi, Is there a way that i can stop people from downloading programs such as MSM, and or stop them form using them? I am using windows 2k and i am trying to stop the junior lab trainees from...

I have MS Windows XP Professional SP2. I have System restored last week (because of slow running). By Ctrl+Alt+Del, showed 25 Running Process after I performed the System Restored. After installing...

Hello All The job issued me a new computer with XP Pro. I use win 98 on my home machine. (I sure do wixh MS would stop monkeying this stuff and making us relearn everything everytime it issues...

I have been here earlier (in the XP General section), several times, asking about Laptop to TV connections. Not much has come out of it. So I did a little more studying on my end. My TV has a...

can I safely delete all *.tmp files

I am trying to install "pctattletale" on a machine running xp-home. I receive the following message. "error 1304. error writing to file c:\windows\system32\exployer32\netlogon.exe". When I click...

I'm looking for a small utility/script that will be able to wake my Media PC on a home network remotely. Any tips/links appreciated. I've Googled but could only find "Magic Packet" which worked...

I am working with old DOS batch files in XP. These files utilized ANSI codes for color (color for prompts, color for screens, etc). ANSI.COM (old DOS program) does not work in XP as in DOS. It allows...

Hi, I have a firewire 80 GB external drive split into 2 partitions. One is ~50GB and the other is ~30 GB. My studio PC has 2 hard drives, C: for the system and D: for audio. Both are 40GB drives....

This may be hopeless...but worth asking My hard drive is corrupt and I need to start fresh. I do not have the XP cd and can not really afford to go buy one. I want to know if there is a way to wipe...

We have a 2003 Active Directory Domain and backup domain controller in the tree. There roughly 200 workstations in the domain tree (150 WinXP and 50 w2k) 80% of the Windows XPs are processing the...

Please could anyone help me with a recurring problem in my word documents (Microsoft Windows XP, Version 2002)? I am using footnotes, which are meant to appear in a continuous sequence at the foot...

windows xp. I burned a software cd and it works find. I installed it and everything the cd has to be in in order to use the software. The problem is I burned the cd and if I dont have the original cd...

Have a Gateway 450 laptop Pentium4 Mobile CPU 1.60Ghz 1.60Ghz 256 MB RAM XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2 and just found out my son is sending me a new 80G hard drive and another 256 ram for it. I...

Hi... I have customized the display of some of my folders and their contents to be thumbnail view for easier browsing of pictures and images but for some unknown reason, they occasionally get reset...

I need to rebuild my system (XP Pro SP2) after a disk failure. I have normal backups of everything (excluding System Volume Information and RECYCLER directories) on DVD made with the Windows Backup...

My younger son's computer was acting up, so my older son took his OEM version of XP w/SP2 (German Version) and loaded it over the OEM XP (English version) on his computer. The computer worked, but...

I see that the Windows Movie Maker is a useless software.. I could remove the widnows messenger as it is better the MSN 7.5 .. Now I can not find the Movie Maker Name on the add/remove widnows...

I have Win Updates set to alert me of new updates, not to automatic install. I have chosen not to install an Oulook critical update as I do not use it but use Outlook Express instead and nowhere in...