I have an application that hangs occationally, and I need to script a forced reboot. I tried to manually use "shutdown -r -f", but it didn't work. I then...

Hi Some of the programs I have installed like Winamp have added menu Items to the Start Menu (right click) and the Popup Menu (right click) in Explore. How...

I was playing (Fear-Extraction Point) when it froze with red patterns. Every time I restart PC, I get patterns of red dots on the very first black screen,...

I don't know how to search through all of the newsgroup messages to find a particular subject of interest. Can someone walk me through the process? I would...

23/Oct/2008 23:20 I have Windows XP with SP3. I have my windows updates set to automatic. However when the updates are done I get a CONSTANT reminder to...

WinXP Home - with all latest updates installed In my user account (but not in my Admin account) I see little white boxes around the text of the main items in...

On both my laptop and desktop computers, I have the screen saver set to display a slide show of the My Pictures folder. It works fine on the laptop, but on...

Hi all Am unable locate my cookies folder icon. Have tried - "mycomputer/documents & settings/username" - but said file no longer shows up as it previously...

Hello all, About 3 month ago I made a new installation of WinXP SP2 on this computer. Pentium III 1.6 GHz, 768 MB RAM. All worked well until a collegue...

I've seen a screen in Win'XP that lists all the open programs and allows you to close any or all of them. Can't find it. Please help. ...

I had to do a destructive reinstall of Win XP, from the original CD, about a year ago, with the step-by-step instruction of a MS tech support person. He had...

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i have a pop up at start on pc, it says please re-install apc main

I have XP Home Edition. When I right click on the Start button and sselect properties a window pops up. Then I select Taskbar and click on Customize. ...

Dear All, Every time the computer boots something in the registry causes a "My Computer" window to pop up It's not in win.ini system startup etc as I...

hi all, just got a new Inspiron 1525 preinstalled with Vista Home... and I need to install XP Pro however when using the Dell Reinstallation Disk for XP Pro...

Does anyone know what this is? I see it in the task manager but don't know what it is related to. Is it a Windows XP product?

I am trying to use my XP Pro disk to do an XP Repair. Below I will detail the steps I do and the problem I end up with: 1. Boot up with the XP disk in the...

I'm trying to automate some printer installs and capture the printer settings. I'm trying to use rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry command to capture the...

I apologize if this is here somewhere but I haven't found it. I recently installed IE7 in XP-Pro with FP3. When my screen saver (SETI) would go to the...