My dialogue boxes for the shortcuts on my desktop did not have any color in their backgrounds -- they were transparant so that the wallpaper showed through...

Hi, Recently I had to reload XP and for some reason, probably by me not paying attention, the drive letter became "D", or the boot drive and my secondary drive...

How can I "hold" the recent documents list in place once I click on it so I can delete more than one file at a time? The list automatically disappears as...

I have an application that has run happily under Win95 & Win98SE. In XP when I attempt to run it I get the error message: Exception EAccessViolation in...

Is there a simple way to determine if adding RAM will make a material change in performance? I have 512Mb and do not do anything particularly unusual though I...

I noticed yesterday that my machine at work (which I recently updated to SP2) has a built in pop-up blocker in IE. Is this something that came with SP2? My...

Upgrading Your Internet Speed: Making the Move from Dial-Up to Broadband In this article, Columnist Joli Ballew offers a detailed description of how to find...

I had a MVP nominate himself, so any MVP that wants or needs to be inducted into the Microscum MVP Hall of Shame, please feel free to drop me an email! So...

A friend with very little PC experience, had bought a new PC. What is the cheapest/easist way for him to move his files (My documents, photos, etc) to the new...

I just shifted from win98 se to xp and decided to finally ditch Norton Utilities. I see that xp has a native defragger and disk scanner but I have not seen...

We need to add a certificate to our XP standard build. We are currently using RIS to build our machines and I was wondering if there was a way to add a cert...

Hi There! I have faced with strange problem. My home network is based on tcp/ip. Recently I noted that some of files/folders on shared resource of server...

Hi there, I have already installed WINXP in my machine. After that, I've used my provided Acer distribution cd to install VGA so that I can have fine...

Sometime ago I mentioned here that my compaq 1200 asks to be activated at every reststart, Michael Solomon gave me a fix but the problem has reoccured and the...

Hi there, I have ~50Gb data (my home made videos) and I want to back up those videos in DVD disks(7.4GB ones). But as soon as the first disk get burned...

There are several hundred files *.TMP which Symantec Clean Sweep found in C:\Windows... and in c:\windows\System32.......... and they recommend deleting. Any...

If i click start then all programs my list of programs opens. Problem is two of them are missing from the list: accessories and administrative tools. They are...

Get to disk defrag page and nothing happens. Used this before and it worked perfectly. What could be the problem??

Shortcuts on destop have no file associations

Windows help suggests putting the Page file onto the fastest drive or the one that has less use, which in my case is my D drive with 17GB free space. I have...