Is she running a firewall? If so, she needs to make sure Messenger has permission to access the net. In Zone Alarm, Messenger has to be allowed...
You probably just need to "take ownership" of those files so you can access them. The steps are in the MS KB article, HOW TO: Take Ownership...
Active Shield is that part of the McAfee Anti-virus program that runs in the background full time. You might check your McAfee program to make...
As long as you use the Product Key for your copy of XP, yes, you can use someone else's Windows CD. All Windows installation CDs are generic. The...
Also try the MS KB article How to Troubleshoot Invalid Page Faults (IPF) in the Outllib.dll File. Lots of information, although it's for Outlook...
I tried Netmeeting through a router. When it didn't work, I started doing the research. Since I don't need Netmeeting and was only playing around...
Something in this information, IE6 opens blank/empty/seethrough windows, should provide the answer.
Find the file "msimn.exe" referred to in the above post, then right click on it, point at "Send To" and in the submenu that appears, left click...
Open My Computer, right click on the drive for which you want to turn off auto-play, go to Properties, then the Autoplay tab. Click on "Choose an...
See if this information and the resources linked to on Troubleshooting Outlook Express Error 0x800CCC0F is any help.
See if the information on this page, under the subheading, "My dialup settings keep changing from 'never dial' to 'always dial' or 'always dial'...
For reasons known only to Microsoft programmers, IE remembers the size and position of the last secondary window closed if: It was the last IE...
Poke around in Outlook's Tools>Options>Preferences tab. Specifically the "Default Reminder" time and, next to that, the Calendar Options button.
Go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services. Scroll down to and double click on Indexing. Click on the Stop button. Leave that window open....
Those settings are changed in Control Panel>Appearance and Themes>Display>Screen Saver tab>Power button.
1. Click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, and then double-click Network. 2. Click Add, click Client, and then click Add. 3. In the...
It also usually works to go into Internet Explorer>Tools>Internet Options>Advanced tab and put a check in "Notify when downloads complete." When...
To remove Windows Messenger completely, go to Start>Run and type in (or copy and paste from here): RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection...
See if the fixes in the MS KB article, System32 Folder Opens When Logging on to Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0 apply to your situation.
I've used the Gateway restore/recovery disks a few times. The ones I've worked on have been less than two years old so if yours is older, it might...
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