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Forum: General XP issues or comments January 4th 08, 12:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 197
Posted By Anando [MVP]
what is the fast and easiest way to set up a computer?

Hello Lisa,

If you are running Office 2007, you can choose not to supply the product key at installation. If you
do so, and create a sysprep image and then deploy that image on multiple PCs, when...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 1st 08, 01:21 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 197
Posted By Anando [MVP]
what is the fast and easiest way to set up a computer?

Lisa,

You can manually install Windows on one machine and setup it up as per your requirements (install
drivers, third-party software, change settings etc) and then run sysprep and prepare your...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 29th 07, 03:39 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 10
Views: 197
Posted By Anando [MVP]
what is the fast and easiest way to set up a computer?

Hello Lisa,

You might want to consider using 'sysprep', an automatic system deployment tool provided on the
Windows installation disk. More information he

How to use the Sysprep tool to...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP December 29th 07, 03:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 5
Views: 364
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Pop up window to choose which apps to open file from cd don't

Hello Mike,

You might want to check out the Autoplay repair wizard, which is a free tool from Microsoft.

Autoplay Repair...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP December 25th 07, 02:01 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 5
Views: 364
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Pop up window to choose which apps to open file from cd don't

Hello Mike,

An easy way to remove Autoplay handlers would be through TweakUI. Under TweakUI you can naviagte to
My ComputerAutoplayHandlers and then you can select either edit it or delete it....
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 25th 07, 01:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 163
Posted By Anando [MVP]
DESKTOP FOLDER

Hello,

I am pretty sure that the last file is the "desktop.ini" file. If you enable viewing hidden files,
you can see the file on the actual desktop as well as the desktop folder in windows...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 2nd 07, 02:35 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 16
Views: 199
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Best Wireless Mouse

Hello Diane,

A good place to start would be :

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard

I have used a variety of wired and wireless Microsoft mice and have never had problems with any of...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 1st 07, 01:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 156
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Designate Non-Default Browser from shortcut

You are welcome !

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


My Blog
http://www.anando.org/blog
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 18th 07, 03:59 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 156
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Designate Non-Default Browser from shortcut

No, you dont want to make a internet shortcut....you just want to make a general shortcut to the
application with the additional command line.

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 16th 07, 04:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 3
Views: 163
Posted By Anando [MVP]
File ID program?

Ummm...if you want to determine the file format in Windows XP, why dont you just right-click on the
file and select properties. That will tell you the file format and a lot more about the specific...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support November 16th 07, 04:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 246
Posted By Anando [MVP]
File ID program?

Ummm...if you want to determine the file format in Windows XP, why dont you just right-click on the
file and select properties. That will tell you the file format and a lot more about the specific...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 16th 07, 04:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 156
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Designate Non-Default Browser from shortcut

Hello,

If you want to create a shortcut to some website which would open in IE7 and not in your default
browser, you can try the following. Create a new shortcut with the following command...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 15th 07, 01:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 75
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Insert a DVD Movie and it plays straight away

Hello Ben,

My Computer Right click on DVD drive Properties Autoplay Select DVD movies and set to "none"


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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 15th 07, 12:55 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 186
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Left Click on Explorer's Context Sensitive Menu

Hello,

This might help you:

Manage the context-menu entries for files, folders, drives and Namespace objects
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/context_folders.htm

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 10th 07, 11:43 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 106
Posted By Anando [MVP]
How do i flush the runas dropdown name cache

Hello,

If you are talking about the Run command on the start menu, the MRU is stored in the registry at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU

You can...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 4th 07, 04:59 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 110
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Windows cardspace??!!??**!!

Hello,

Windows Cardspace is a Windows Vista specific feature. You can read more about it he

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/7dc9c520-9d16-473d-b21b-413ac7226fb61033.mspx

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Forum: General XP issues or comments November 4th 07, 01:43 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 7
Views: 126
Posted By Anando [MVP]
houscall logo and nothing else

Hello,

Obviosuly, this is a third-party application you are talking about. You might want to contact the
vendors of the specific software for more assistance.

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 2nd 07, 11:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 2
Views: 291
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Why can't I see picture icons on one computer but not the other?

Hello,

On the toolbar, click on View Thumbnails.

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Forum: Customizing Windows XP October 19th 07, 05:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 1
Views: 236
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Can I prevent MyDocuments from opening in Windows Explorer?

Hello,

How To Customize the Windows Explorer Views in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307856

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Forum: Customizing Windows XP October 19th 07, 05:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 1
Views: 322
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Disable Close(X) button

Hello,

You cannot disable the close button of an application from windows. This feature is application
specific. It would help if you specify which application you are planning on running on the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 19th 07, 05:41 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 96
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Windows XP and Virtual PC 2007

John,

Apologise for the delayed response. What kind of wireless adapter do you have on your machine ?

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 15th 07, 04:04 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 148
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Remote From Home To Office PC

Ask the network admins who manage your office network is the remote desktop ports are blocked or
not. Typically, in a corporate environment, unused ports are blocked to prevent malicious...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 12th 07, 04:32 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 177
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Account Settings

I should have added that you can create a standalone Local Users and
Groups console by doing the following. Go to Start - Run and enter
mmc.exe in the Open box. Click File on the toolbar at...
Forum: General XP issues or comments October 11th 07, 04:13 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 99
Posted By Anando [MVP]
Privacy: Recent documents. Stop this being recorded.

Hello Rob,

I am not sure if you can entirely disable the ability of Windows to record
the recently opened items, but you can definietly disable them form showing
up the way you did.

You can...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP October 11th 07, 03:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
Replies: 15
Views: 2,007
Posted By Anando [MVP]
how do you change the logon background image?

Do not hijack this thread. Post a new post with your problems.

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Anando
Microsoft MVP- Windows Shell/User
http://www.microsoft.com/mvp


My Blog
http://www.anando.org/blog
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