When i open the administrator's settings, only the wallpaper appears. There's no start button, or desktop icons. I don't know what the problem is. All the other settings are working fine. Need...

When i try to open the administrators settings, nothing appears on the screen except for the wallpaper. No Start button, no desktop icons. What could be the problem, and how could it be fixed?

Start by treating this as a lost password: If you have XP Pro on your computer, at the log in screen type ctrl-alt-delete twice. In the user account type administrator, leave the password blank...

As I understand it you are taking the CD to stores which can turn the JPGs into prints. When you say you are inserting the disk in store processors, you mean the machines they use to read CDs. Are...

Write click on taskbar then click again on Show the Desktop. This should bring all your icons back on screen. "bill k" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

Try installing the Boot Magic component of Partition Magic on the Win2k setup. Assuming you didn't wipe out the XP setup when install Win2k, it should see both setups and allow you to create a boot...

Even if you had the setup disk, there's no guarantee the system would accept an installation as a magnet can do much more than wipe out files on the hard drive. Short of taking it to a shop, your...

It's all based on when the screen saver is invoked. Open Control Panel, open Display and go to the Screen Saver tab. If you wish to continue using this option, simply increase the time until the...

Assuming your system is set to boot from the CD-ROM drive and you have an actual XP CD as opposed to a recovery CD, boot with the XP CD in the drive and perform a repair install as outlined below. ...

There's no need for you to use both as your purchased firewall protects against both incoming and outgoing while the Windows Firewall only protects against incoming and gives you nothing that your...

First, be sure viruses are gone from both setups. If yes, personally, I'd start over with clean installs instead of installs over the top. In either case, you need to install 98 first. Once...

One workaround is to simply place the hard-drive in another computer (With an OS that supports the NTFS filer format). This should lay down the file protections, and thus allow you to acces your...

hmmm, that's strange. anyway, let's see if this works out better. right click on each file that you want and select send>floppy do this for all 12 files you need go and check on your floppy disk to...

one of your OTHER hardware components might be causing the issue. maybe a failing cd drive or a defective sound card, etc etc. try calling up your technical support, they might be able to help you...

reboot your computer, get into safe mode. you can do this by hitting on the F8 key *before* you see windows when you boot up. select safe mode and hit enter. when you're there, go to start>run and...

try to acquire the appropriate XP driver files for your palm and install them into your laptop, after that, reinstall the hotsync software. hope this helps. "TK"...

it might be that you've accumulated a lot of "junk"ware when you surf the net. these spywares won't bother telling you that they've installed themselves and even the best anti-virus programs won't...

you might want to purge the appropriate log file located in your c:\ directory; the file usually keeps a record of problems during boot up. it might have retained an old problem that was not properly...

try searching it through www.google.com and enter the keywords you need "Stash" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:182901c3e05b$213011b0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

here's a faster way, go to start>run type in the word control then enter that should do the trick btw, i'm assuming you're using windows xp "frustrated" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote...