If you have no luck with any of the suggestions, try doing what I do. I use a stacking clipboard and copy the characters I need from the Windows...
FWIW, when I monitor the Registry for changes while resetting that applet, I get changes to 6 different keys:...
Open Task Manager and double click on the area at the bottom of its screen.
That's one way of skinnin' the cat John. You should consider getting a boot floppy or boot CD that will allow you to select Safe Mode when you...
The quick answer would be to delete the Windows folder on D: drive. You may also want to consider deleting the Program Files folder and the...
It could also be that your .lnk file association has been lost. Download, unzip and run this Doug Knox reg file. It will restore the association.
My system came from HP in April of '02 and it says Whistler in the boot.ini so I guess it's nothing to be concerned about. It's a genesis issue...
Nobody can argue with winning points! There are often many ways to affect a cure. If I were in your seat now, I would plug the small drive...
Try running System Restore from the Task Manager: c:\windows\system32\restore\rstrui.exe I hope you had it enabled. Pick a time before the...
Nice going! I can imagine how much data you had to sort through to reach that conclusion! Wow, that's quite an accomplishment! Often when we...
The IE7 folder is apparently not needed except for uninstalling the browser. I dumped it on my "test dummy" XP and it had no ill effect - the...
I was assuming you had IE7 successfully installed based on the data from your error report. That said, it should be listed, as MS indicated, in...
How to uninstall IE7
Sometimes merely disabling the items will not repair the system glitch. Please see. Since you say this problem "came out of the blue" I'd...
Have you tried rolling back to IE6? You'd need to get that out of the mix before doing much else.
Thanks for the heads up Dave. That's good advice for those who aren't handy with the tools. For my own situation, I don't see it as a big...
The MS outline of the switches is somewhat misleading. Instead of the usual forward slach ( / ) you now use the minus ( - ) symbol instead....
I'm sticking with the bad hardware diagnosis. Power supply would be next in line since you report RAM and HD pass tests. I will hedge that by...
John, there is no "w" switch for XP Defrag. The following are the valid switches: /a Analyzes the volume and displays a summary of the...
Maybe a hardware issue. Check your RAM and HD. The power supply may also be going south. Substitution with a known good is about the only way...
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