Forum: General XP issues or comments
October 5th 09, 11:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 15
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6GB memory and XP 32 bit
I am running a VM of my old laptop on my new laptop and notice hardly any
performance hit. If VMs were underperforming, then they would not be as
widely used as they are. In fact, I also have a...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
October 4th 09, 10:24 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 15
Views: 301
6GB memory and XP 32 bit
You could install VMWare virtual machine and install XP into the virtual
machine. That way, she gets her vista and all the rest of her apps using the
max memory and XP using whatever memory you...
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Forum: Windows XP Help and Support
September 29th 09, 03:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
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Replies: 7
Views: 752
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 29th 09, 03:47 PM Posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely
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Replies: 11
Views: 442
static IP address needed on an AOL account?
My router offers this. I am not sure of your router, but lookup your router
name with dyndns on google to see if it helps.
I have a DDNS page in my router configuration that I enter the details. I...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 29th 09, 09:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general,microsoft.public.windows.server.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely
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Replies: 11
Views: 442
static IP address needed on an AOL account?
I am not sure with AOL as I thought AOL changed your IP very quickly (though
that could be their proxy system), but with many other dynamic IP providers,
you can have a dynamic DNS set up.
The one...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 22nd 09, 09:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 251
RPC won't start
Hi Kelly,
Thanks for your help, but I still have the problems.
I copied and pasted that command (I don't think I would have got it right by
typing it) and I got...
[SC] SetServiceObjectSecurity...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 21st 09, 09:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 251
RPC won't start
Hi,
I am struggling with this one.
My wifes laptop won't start properly. It is hardly allowing anything to run.
It goes into Windows XP Pro (SP2) but many things fail to run.
It all appears to...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 21st 09, 09:34 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 118
changing drive letter on boot drive
Open regedit,
Backup your registry
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices
Find the key marked \DosDevices\C:, right click and rename to an unused
letter.
Find your drive letter, (J:) and...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
September 4th 09, 05:28 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,576
Rotate single page in a PDF document
If you are handy with a programming environment, take a look at pdftk
(sorry, I don't have a link). You can seperate your PDF into pages, take
images, read text, do whatever you want with a page...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 22nd 09, 07:27 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 243
installing xp over vista
Another alternative that you could do is to use a virtual machine (VM) and
put xp on the VM.
MS do a VM but I don't know what it is called, and it will only support
Windows, but VMWare also do a...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 22nd 09, 11:14 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 7
Views: 243
installing xp over vista
The driver problem could be if you are trying to install XP on an SATA drive
without any SATA drivers.
I don't know enough about this area of installation, but I do know that
during the bootup...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 16th 09, 03:09 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 27
Views: 474
Recover the system
I never considered that the secret... at the time, I only had one caddy plus
the HD in the system. I knew that if I booted on the system disk, I couldn't
copy the files to the caddy. As I had not...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 16th 09, 03:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 27
Views: 474
Recover the system
No... the first real failure was the HD was just failing and I was able to
spot it and recover everything off it before it finally gave up.
The second HD never failed... just needed extra space so...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 15th 09, 07:00 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 27
Views: 474
Recover the system
Let me explain my sitation and why I absolutely know it works.
I am on my 5th hard disk and I have never done a recovery. Two of the hard
disks failed in identical ways... just wouldn't boot and...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 15th 09, 10:55 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 181
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 15th 09, 10:54 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 27
Views: 474
Recover the system
Why do you say that?
You can copy all the files from one HD to another and it will work. I have
done it many times after having 3 HD fail on me and an upgrade process to a
larger HD.
One problem...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 13th 09, 03:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 56
Views: 1,406
A REALLY strange problem - for experts only.
Try checking your dial up networking connections that are attached to the
modem.
Perhaps some malware or something has changed one of the properties of the
modem. I have just had a look for proxy,...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 12th 09, 01:18 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 294
how do I remove a "ghost" cd rom drive
Hhhmmm. that doesn't really show you the extra CD drive.
I don't know what to suggest.
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Best regards,
Dave Colliver.
http://www.AshfieldFOCUS.com
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http://www.FOCUSPortals.com - Local...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 12th 09, 10:50 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 8
Views: 336
No action when in Internet Options
While this doesn't answer your actual query, it may help with your
situation.
You don't need to go into internet options to change the connection. You can
dial up to the internet without being in...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 12th 09, 08:43 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 4
Views: 155
Batch FTP
Try putting
@echo off
as the first line in your batch file.
--
Best regards,
Dave Colliver.
http://www.AshfieldFOCUS.com
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 12th 09, 08:38 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 10
Views: 294
how do I remove a "ghost" cd rom drive
When he said open a command prompt, he meant...
press start then run... then type the word 'cmd' (without the quotes) then
enter.
Then you can issue the mountvol command by typing it into the...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 11th 09, 09:11 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 3
Views: 152
svchost.exe sing all my cpu
A couple of years ago, I used to always hibernate my laptop (still do) and
sometimes when it came back up, I would get 100% cpu usage with svchost.
It obviously had to be a service, so I went...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 10th 09, 02:31 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 223
Drive by virus help
Hi,
Yeah, I know the IT support world has moved on a lot since I did it. Still,
my general OS skills should still be good.
My current notebook is about 3 or 4 years old now. I will be getting a...
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 10th 09, 09:38 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 223
Drive by virus help
Hi,
I am an experienced computer user. I used to do tech support up until about
10 years ago when I moved into programming.
I am pretty good at handling virii and keeping my notebook clean....
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Forum: General XP issues or comments
August 9th 09, 07:20 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Replies: 6
Views: 223
Drive by virus help
Hi all,
I got infected with a drive by download a couple of days ago and I have
almost cleaned it all up, but not sure. I just need a bit of help to finish
off.
Let me explain the situation if it...
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