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Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP July 27th 10, 03:52 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 10
Views: 2,021
Posted By geoff
patchregcleanup-x86.exe

It would be really good if someone just explained how to obrtain the
approriat GUID. As another user said...micriost says to run this tool if you
want to clean up errors from patch installation...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 28th 09, 05:21 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 382
Posted By geoff
Cannot delete or display CDROM drive D: in Dev Mgr or Disk Mgm

DISKPART display:
DISKPART list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- ---------
--------
...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 28th 09, 05:17 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 382
Posted By geoff
Cannot delete or display CDROM drive D: in Dev Mgr or Disk Mgm

BIOS is OK. I have two DVD's and they are correctly shown.

"philo" wrote:

Geoff wrote:
I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support December 28th 09, 03:07 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 4
Views: 382
Posted By geoff
Cannot delete or display CDROM drive D: in Dev Mgr or Disk Mgmt

I recently installed a larger hard drive but cannot assing it to D: because
there's a phantom CDROM drive D: in Win Explorer. However, it does not show
up in Dev Manager or in Disk Management so I...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP August 23rd 09, 08:31 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 4
Views: 1,337
Posted By geoff
Home networking

Jack,

Thanks for the thorough and fast response, I'll read up on all of them but
ironically, I solved my own problem.

My LT only has one share, the DT I was trying to connect to has about 5...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP August 23rd 09, 08:31 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 4
Views: 1,337
Posted By geoff
Home networking

Jack,

Thanks for the thorough and fast response, I'll read up on all of them but
ironically, I solved my own problem.

My LT only has one share, the DT I was trying to connect to has about 5...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP August 23rd 09, 02:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 0
Views: 1,077
Posted By geoff
Home networking

I've had a workgroup working for quite a while and sometimes I was unable to
connect to shared pcs completely or some shared folders.

I have everyone, wired and wireless, all on the same workgroup...
Forum: Networking and the Internet with Windows XP August 23rd 09, 02:02 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
Replies: 4
Views: 1,337
Posted By geoff
Home networking

I've had a workgroup working for quite a while and sometimes I was unable to
connect to shared pcs completely or some shared folders.

I have everyone, wired and wireless, all on the same workgroup...
Forum: Security and Administration with Windows XP March 20th 09, 04:18 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin
Replies: 1
Views: 380
Posted By geoff
Access Denied to Vista drive

Dual-boot system (Vista Home and XP Pro on two hard drives). Vista can
read/write all files on XP drive, but XP gets "Access is Denied" when trying
to open Documents and Settings on Vista drive. ...
Forum: General XP issues or comments January 21st 09, 09:22 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 3
Views: 123
Posted By geoff
pop3 smtp settings muddle

We have a user with an XP pro machine on which he and his wife have
acccounts. Each account has Outlook Express setup with different incoming and
outgoing mailservers.

All this has been in place...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support October 9th 08, 03:03 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 1
Views: 107
Posted By geoff
XP - shortcuts stopped working

Abruptly with no signs of other problems, shortcuts stopped working.
Including desktop short cuts and also "My Documents" and "Recent Documents"
short cuts on the Task Bar. Computer appears to be...
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 17th 08, 01:24 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 150
Posted By geoff
missing .bin file

Thanks for the info everyone

--
remotelearner


"Gerry" wrote:

Geoff
Forum: General XP issues or comments August 17th 08, 08:52 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 6
Views: 150
Posted By geoff
missing .bin file

Hi, AVG is telling me I have a missing .bin file, and so would accept
updates. I've tried downloading avg again. This doesn't fix it. What could
this .bin file be? How would I get it back....
Forum: The Basics May 4th 08, 07:46 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Replies: 2
Views: 278
Posted By geoff
Reinstallation of xp

I was wondering why when I put the Windows XP installation disk into my
Compaq Evo N800c I get the message that tells me it can not proceed because
Vista is installed on it.

In order to install my...
Forum: Windows XP Help and Support March 27th 08, 11:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Replies: 0
Views: 235
Posted By geoff
USB detection

I have a MP3 player, which Windows XP will not detect in a user account
(Computer Administrator)
But if I start in Safe Mode as Administrator it is detected.
Any idea why this is happening
Other USB...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 24th 07, 10:29 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 0
Views: 112
Posted By geoff
Videos won't play

I recently changed my motherboard back to one I used before which meant
reinstalling a few cards, but not the O/S (Windows XP pro) and now I seem to
have lost the video facility. I can't play any...
Forum: General XP issues or comments December 14th 07, 04:25 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 1
Views: 98
Posted By geoff
Folders view in Explore - set auto directory tree display?

Each time I open Explore to find a file, I have to click the Folders button
to get the directory tree on the left-side panel. Is there a way to set a
default so that the window will open with the...
Forum: Hardware and Windows XP November 21st 07, 06:45 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
Replies: 12
Views: 492
Posted By geoff
Hardware Error : 1024

I have just encountered the same problem after a Vista update. Is there any
fix yet?

"smlunatick" wrote:

On Oct 25, 6:24 am, Carole UK
wrote:
Oh dear -...
Forum: Microsoft Messenger June 6th 07, 08:26 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.messenger
Replies: 1
Views: 660
Posted By geoff
Lifecycle

Anyone have any idea when Messenger 5.1 support will die?
Thanks,
--
Geoff Haim
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 17th 07, 10:56 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 100
Posted By geoff
'Intel(R) Proset wired' error message/Problem

Hi nass
Firstly, thanks for your reply & also sorry for taking a bit of time to get
back - on the road with work.
There were no conflicts showing with the adaptors.
I have, as suggested, uninstalled...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 15th 07, 02:04 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 100
Posted By geoff
'Intel(R) Proset wired' error message/Problem

Thanks nass for advice, however under Device Manager there is no Intel(R)
Proset Wired.

There are other 'Intel(R)'s under eg: device adaptors, IDE ATA/ATAPI
controlers, Network adaptors,...
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 15th 07, 12:56 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 100
Posted By geoff
'Intel(R) Proset wired' error message/Problem

Sorry, me again. As soon as I clicked 'Post' I thought I should have put the
following in case it helps.

My pc is Dell 3000,
Windows XP Home SP2
CPU 3.0Ghz
Pentium 4

Geoff
Forum: General XP issues or comments May 15th 07, 12:51 PM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 5
Views: 100
Posted By geoff
'Intel(R) Proset wired' error message/Problem

Hi

I was just clicking around in my Control Panel to see what things were when
I encountered 1 'error' messages that hopefully someone maybe able to help
with.

When clicking on the icon -...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 24th 07, 07:40 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 69
Posted By geoff
Is there an Automatic Refresh setting?

Some info there but doesn't seem enough.
I found some other info using javascript or meta, but they say to copy/paste
a setting inbetween the header of the particular webpage.
Which bit is the...
Forum: General XP issues or comments March 24th 07, 05:53 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Replies: 4
Views: 69
Posted By geoff
Is there an Automatic Refresh setting?

Hi
Just wondering if it is possible to have a setting to allow a page refresh
to done automatically say every x number of minutes without having to alway
click the refresh button (or F5).

So, if I...
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