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Forum: General XP issues or comments January 13th 05, 01:16 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 323
Posted By Guydpb
Interesting to notice that even PC's with enough...

Interesting to notice that even PC's with enough "resources" have the same problem (mine is only 1Gb and 500Mb SDram). The thing I do now is the following: I let autostart as few programs...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 7th 04, 07:08 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 625
Posted By Guydpb
Sorry, but I'll assume you just bought your...

Sorry, but I'll assume you just bought your PC.

Here's how to remove the background: On your desktop R click with your mouse scroll appearing menu all the way down L click "properties" small...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 7th 04, 06:43 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,656
Posted By Guydpb
Which partition is nearly full ? The one (C) with...

Which partition is nearly full ? The one (C) with your OS or the other ?
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 7th 04, 03:36 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 208
Posted By Guydpb
What kind of update do you mean ? Windows Update...

What kind of update do you mean ? Windows Update ? Update to SP2 ?
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 6th 04, 04:34 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 349
Posted By Guydpb
Pagefile Settings

I have a laptop with a drive devided in C (primary), E (logical), D (logical), K (primary). This latest partition (2Gb) I keep free (I've used it before to put a second OS but now it's formatted and...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP December 5th 04, 06:47 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 534
Posted By Guydpb
Wonderfull thanks, but now I see that there are...

Wonderfull thanks, but now I see that there are under SYSTEM to subdivisions:
SYSTEM\Mounted Device1 and SYSTEM\Mounted Devices. The entries for DosDevices\A and DosDevices\B appearing once in each...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP December 5th 04, 12:23 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 534
Posted By Guydpb
Drive Letter for Diskette station

While putting an external USB stick in my laptop, this stick assigned its "key" partition to the letter "A" of my OS (the stick is devided in 2 partitions the key partition assigns itself to A or B...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 10th 04, 01:40 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 823
Posted By Guydpb
Take 15 to 20 Gb for C since you seem to have the...

Take 15 to 20 Gb for C since you seem to have the space. And use Ghost or any other Image program, and make regular backups of wathever you want. Use Diskeeper Pro to defrag on a regular base set to...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP November 6th 04, 10:44 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 286
Posted By Guydpb
Notebook HDD problem

Lately while trying to start up I got the message that XP could not find my product key (I've worked with this HD 60Gb and my XPPro for more than a year and done regularily Windows Updates). Funny...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 6th 04, 10:37 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 204
Posted By Guydpb
This a major bug with XP since the beginning and...

This a major bug with XP since the beginning and usually happens when you ask too much resources of your PC (building of large number of icons, opening or closing windows etc..). You will notice that...
Forum: Forum feedback about PCbanter.net November 6th 04, 03:35 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,089
Posted By Guydpb
Thanks for the reply, good service. Greetings.

Thanks for the reply, good service. Greetings.
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 2nd 04, 04:30 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 823
Posted By Guydpb
Totally and completely disagree. See my thread XP...

Totally and completely disagree. See my thread XP 2x. Most of the time at one or another moment something is likely to happen with your OS and then you've lost all your precious data. My opinion is...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 2nd 04, 04:04 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 412
Posted By Guydpb
Quite right, only works for app's that didn't...

Quite right, only works for app's that didn't need an "installer exe"
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 2nd 04, 03:57 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 323
Posted By Guydpb
Has indeed nothing to do with icon cache. Now...

Has indeed nothing to do with icon cache. Now we're talking about the "system tray" R and not the shortcuts on the L in the taskbar.
This system tray icons disappearing is a permanent problem that...
Forum: Customizing Windows XP November 2nd 04, 03:10 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 319
Posted By Guydpb
I don't understand your question. Anyway not...

I don't understand your question. Anyway not every URL has it's own associated icon, sometimes you have to go back to the URL to get the icon back. Another way around is to customize your icon....
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 2nd 04, 02:53 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 443
Posted By Guydpb
So why don't you use PM ? It can create a...

So why don't you use PM ? It can create a bootable diskette, and has all the necessary tools needed on another (program) diskette without you ever having to access your OS. If ever your original OS...
Forum: General XP issues or comments November 2nd 04, 02:34 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 194
Posted By Guydpb
XP 2x

Here's an idea that could solve problems.
No hard drive is perfect as you know and soon or later some small but necessary file needed for the startup of your OS will get corrupted or worse...
Forum: Forum feedback about PCbanter.net November 2nd 04, 01:49 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,089
Posted By Guydpb
Hot thread, delete and/or repost

Q1: what is a "hot thread" and who decides that it is hot ?
Q2: sometimes one never gets a reply to a thread mostly because it's too old and people always look at the new ones.
Q3: Can I delete my...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP October 20th 04, 01:13 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 198
Posted By Guydpb
2,5" HDD problem

XP Pro with SP1

Lately while trying to start up I got the message that XP could not find my product key (I've worked with this HD 60Gb and my XPPro for more than a year and done regularily Windows...
Forum: Forum feedback about PCbanter.net August 4th 04, 08:37 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,592
Posted By Guydpb
New look

Is there something wrong with my IE or is there really a new look to PCBanter, and where are my last posted threads, could they have disappeared ?
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support July 30th 04, 03:48 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 158
Posted By Guydpb
Impossible to get old account working again.

Since quite a while now I can't fully login using my own account which has administrator rights. So I managed to login as an Administrator, made a new account and transferred a lot from the old...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support July 30th 04, 03:48 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 165
Posted By Guydpb
Impossible to get old account working again.

Since quite a while now I can't fully login using my own account which has administrator rights. So I managed to login as an Administrator, made a new account and transferred a lot from the old...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 23rd 04, 07:55 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 325
Posted By Guydpb
"proxy desktop" & "sysfader"

On these two messages that sometimes appear while trying to close Windows I've done a Google search which gave a result: Absolutely NOT clear what this is.. How can it be that there is no clear...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 22nd 04, 01:54 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 416
Posted By Guydpb
Thanks. In fact I have the very latest of...

Thanks.
In fact I have the very latest of Ad-aware (also with Ad-watch which should prevent spyware to get on your PC "before" where Ad-ware can delete it "after" it's already installed.) [Ad-ware...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 21st 04, 01:41 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 416
Posted By Guydpb
Shut of problems

I had 2 accounts (Administrator + Name1) on my XP Pro. Lately the Name1 account started to have problems. So I made a new one Name2 and transferred a lot to this new account. If I trie to shut down...
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