Am trying to assisduously set System Restore Points. Is there a command line executable for creating a restore point and/or getting to System...
Thanks to all of you, Pete, Johanna, and Charles for the helpful input. Pete, the suggestion to view the System Event Log was right on!...
From reading previous posts on subject, XP Pro users don't seem to be experiencing many problems. But in our case, with 2 XP Pro systems on 24...
Maggie, Was just able to implement the recommendation re. the registry entry in http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/...orum/85930.html. It...
Maggie, You were right. It had to do with the share name for the drive... no $, but a blank. Can now *see* the external usb drive from the...
Have a USB 80 GB hard drive shared on one WinXP PC. Cannot see it from other WinXP PC on LAN. Why? or how? Chuck
Johanna & Jim, Thanks. That did it. Sorry for the delayed response. Have been traveling. Chuck
Am using small icons. The default spacings were too large: horizontal = 43 and vertical - 30. Changed the horizontal to 24 and the vertical to...
Daisy, Thanks for the lead. Had entered Eudora previously in the Internet Options>Programs>email but it hadn't worked. On your suggestion,...
Was using Netscape as default browser. Have moved over to IE but when I click on a link in my email program it brings up Netscape instead of IE....
Started getting the message "Memory Access Violation in kernel32 4833-64615381" when winXP starts today after installing MS Reader. Performed...
Pete, Thanks. Good advice. Will follow. Chuck
My user account in WinXP belongs to the Administrator Group. In preparing for the reformatting of a partition, folders were moved to another...
During atomatic update, it is not clear from the WinXP Help whether ALL updates are automatically installed or just the Critical updates. Any...
Pete, Thanks for the feedback. The KB article did not identify the -b option either. Yes I did try 'Start > Run > type in defrag c: -b ',...
in Microsoft Windows XP by Bott & Siechert, pg 227, is written: ========================= "The prefetching code is even more effective when...
Miz and Jim, Thanks to you both for your responses. Miz, I like your procedure and am anxious to try it as soon as I get home to Seattle....
Thanks for the suggestion, Phar- but this won't work for 2 reasons: 1) changing the icon is independent of changing the linkage; 2)...
Right File Type not shoing in WE In the Windows Explorer Tools > File Types the file type for the extension TIF was originally opened with 'MS...
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