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Forum: General XP issues or comments April 24th 10, 07:36 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 162
Posted By Neil
Taskbar Icons TOO small

CORRECTION to the above post--it SHOULD be "Icons in the NOTIFICATION AREA of
the taskbar" (next to time)...

TIA

Neil

"Neil" wrote:

I'm trying (in vain, so far) to adjust the size of the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 24th 10, 07:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 162
Posted By Neil
Taskbar Icons TOO small

CORRECTION to the above post-- I'm trying (in vain, so far) to adjust the
size of the icons in the NOTIFICATION area of the taskbar (next to the
time)-- as they are just TOO small--using some of...
Forum: General XP issues or comments April 23rd 10, 05:01 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 162
Posted By Neil
Taskbar Icons TOO small

I'm trying (in vain, so far) to adjust the size of the icons in the taskbar
as they are just TOO small--using some of the other posts as guidance , i
went to properties on taskbar & CLEARED "show...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 31st 10, 06:46 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 168
Posted By Neil
Can't install Etherent driver

Problem solved!

After hours of fruitless searching I stumbled across the answer - contrary
to what the ACER website says my NIC isn't Broadcom 5787!

Out of desperation I got the device properties...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 31st 10, 05:55 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 168
Posted By Neil
Can't install Etherent driver

Daave,

I have definitely downloaded the correct driver, (I've tried from both the
Acer and Broadcom sites and have the same thing)

The three files I have are the ones you listed, there was a bit...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 31st 10, 04:19 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 168
Posted By Neil
Can't install Etherent driver

Thanks for the advice.

Unfortunately there is not a setup.exe file in the zip file, just the three
files I have listed.

Right clicking on the .inf file and selecting 'install' doesn't work...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 31st 10, 12:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 168
Posted By Neil
Can't install Etherent driver

A virus infection has required me to re-install Windows XP onto my ACER 5630
laptop.

I have re-installed all the drivers with the exception of the Ethernet LAN
driver.

It is a Broadcom 5787...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 14th 10, 06:48 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 171
Posted By Neil
Windows Installer error

Hi,
Already downloaded that , but when the installer pops up it does not tell me
what it is trying yo install. So not sure what to remove in clean up utility.

Just noticed it doesnot pop up in...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 14th 10, 10:53 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 171
Posted By Neil
Windows Installer error

Another problem with XP home PC.

PC boots to login screen OK, but after login, windows installer always pops
up and runs.

Have disabled the service, rebooted and set service to manual stert with...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 14th 10, 10:47 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 200
Posted By Neil
XP logon screen message

Thanks for the comments guys.
Chcked for the message in the registry and it shows up under 'Lanmanserver'
as 'srvcomment' and refers to the computer description.

Maybe the user has changed...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 13th 10, 11:47 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 200
Posted By Neil
XP logon screen message

I have a PC running XP home with several users, some of which are password
protected, but all are admins.

PC has recently had a virus / spyware problem, which appears to have been
resolved.

When...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 4th 10, 05:44 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 256
Posted By Neil
Skipping spaces--Backspace forward

The problem DOES N OT occur in S afe M ode.

Help?

Neil


"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:

Forum: General XP issues or comments January 4th 10, 04:55 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 256
Posted By Neil
Skipping spaces--Backspace forward

"Pegasus [MVP]" wrote:



"Neil" said this in news item
...
A non-keyboard, non- ...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 2nd 10, 05:13 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 256
Posted By Neil
Skipping spaces--Backspace forward

"Big_Al" wrote:

Neil said this on 1/1/2010 6:58 PM:
A non-keyboard, non- MS Word problem.

For a week word processing is skipping 5 or 10 spaces in MS ...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 2nd 10, 12:58 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 8
Views: 256
Posted By Neil
Skipping spaces--Backspace forward

A non-keyboard, non- MS Word problem.

For a week word processing is skipping 5 or 10 spaces in MS Word
and email servers. Done, checked, scanned,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 8th 09, 09:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 26
Views: 970
Posted By Neil
Can't delete corrupt C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file

OS XP... I had a virus that redirected yahoo, Google, etc to another web
site. Ran a scan and eliminated the virus. The
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file was not visible when opening...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP October 23rd 09, 04:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 4
Views: 298
Posted By Neil
Win XP pro fails to start up.

Hi,
No one give me any clues here guys? should I be looking in a different group?

regards

Neil

"Neil" wrote:

done boot log startup
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP October 23rd 09, 04:03 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 4
Views: 298
Posted By Neil
Win XP pro fails to start up.

Hi,
No one give me any clues here guys? should I be looking in a different group?

regards

Neil

"Neil" wrote:

done boot log startup
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP October 20th 09, 04:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 4
Views: 298
Posted By Neil
Win XP pro fails to start up.

done boot log startup
first failed driver is acpi uniprocessor pc

does this help?

Thanks

"Neil" wrote:

I have a PC running Win XP pro which boots up and gets to the XP logo, after
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP October 20th 09, 04:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 4
Views: 298
Posted By Neil
Win XP pro fails to start up.

done boot log startup
first failed driver is acpi uniprocessor pc

does this help?

Thanks

"Neil" wrote:

I have a PC running Win XP pro which boots up and gets to the XP logo, after
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP October 20th 09, 04:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 0
Views: 109
Posted By Neil
Win XP pro fails to start up.

I have a PC running Win XP pro which boots up and gets to the XP logo, after
the XP logo I get a mouse pointer then start up just appears to stop and I am
left with a black screen with a single...
Forum: Performance and Maintainance of XP October 20th 09, 04:02 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Replies: 4
Views: 298
Posted By Neil
Win XP pro fails to start up.

I have a PC running Win XP pro which boots up and gets to the XP logo, after
the XP logo I get a mouse pointer then start up just appears to stop and I am
left with a black screen with a single...
Forum: Microsoft Messenger August 2nd 09, 03:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger
Replies: 27
Views: 3,901
Posted By Neil
'email address not verified'

The link is just being redirected to
https://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=liveidv1&market=en-us

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:

Greetings Jim,

Since you've already been using Messenger I...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP July 14th 09, 09:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 32
Views: 752
Posted By Neil
USB problem

Thanks again.
Changed DEP as there were suggestions regarding service packs causing BSOD's.

CHanged BIOS settings to disable USB 2 And memory sticks work OK.
Completely uninstalled printer drivers...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP July 14th 09, 09:14 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 32
Views: 752
Posted By Neil
USB problem

Thanks again.
Changed DEP as there were suggestions regarding service packs causing BSOD's.

CHanged BIOS settings to disable USB 2 And memory sticks work OK.
Completely uninstalled printer drivers...
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