As an alternate, you can use the caclc command from a command window. eg, cacls "full path to file or folder" /E /G username:F (Gives Full...
I know how you feel Martin. Sometimes the apparent easy help for a friend turns so sour it makes you want to give up on trying to help people at...
I know of no easy way to do that. Having said that, I realize that someone has written software for any eventuality and probably one exists for...
I'd say it's a good time to run SFC /scannow and see if it can fix things. If not, there is a way to fool XP into thinking IE isn't installed...
Just for laughs Martin, why don't you delete that Verto device listed in Device Manager, then click "Refresh" and let Xp put in generic drivers....
Perhaps it would pay to check the data cables, reseat them just to give them some frictional exercise. I don't know where else to look. I will...
Makes you wonder if opting to not have it report keyboard errors would work around the prob. Sparrow, you are too much. That's outstanding...
Think about this overnight...I have discovered that the /BASEVIDEO switch and probably all other switches will not work in the DEFAULT command...
Dell has many different ways to enter the setup routine for the BIOS. Try pressing Delete right after the POST screen fades. If no joy, reboot and...
Martin, I never give up that easy. I just wanted to establish the fact that you could actually have some anomoly in that card and if onboard...
Changing the Hal.dll was a mistake. That caused the loss of the video hardware installed. If you edited the boot.ini on the floppy according to...
Don't get buck fever on me Martin. You can do this boot.ini thing. Just format a floppy on that machine with the problem, since it boots...
I think some of you are misreading what the problem may be here. FWIR, Martin has no problem DIRECTING the system to boot in the Safe Mode. It...
Check for the presence of: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\vga.dll C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\vga.drv C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\bootvid.dll Also look in the boot log...
It may be that the VGA driver is corrupt. Boot to Windows and invoke the msconfig command. To safely test that, you could format a floppy and...
For those who don't like editing the Registry manually, RegCleaner by Jouni Vuorio edits that menu nicely and even makes a backup in case you...
The actual across the board comparison of the ratio between the speed of a Eide HD drive using DMA and a USB drive is approximately 8:5. That...
You're getting that error message when trying to extract that file because it's trying to replace the existing sndvol32.exe and it's a protected...
It's a protected system file so you won't be able to delete for long. It's still worth doing since you'll get a different copy. I doubt that...
Who knows? Could be I suppose but I rather think it was just a corrupt jpg or bmp in the cache. Some very odd things can result from the...
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