As a personal philosophy: In answering a tech support question, if there is a way to do so in the GUI it is my preference to suggest that. I...
The following is what I have in my notes:
I forgot to mention earlier, but this could well be a codec problem. Determine the codec being used, and see if you can find an update or...
Does 'Registry Booster' automaticly create restorable backups of the registry keys it modifies/removes? If so, go ahead. Count me in the...
I never intended you to touch the settings for your physical CD Rom drive. In addition to hiding non–Plug and Play devices, Device Manager...
Open regedit again. Navigate to: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\explorer Is the key there?
Start, Run, devmgmt.msc Expand the CD Rom section. Disable the device. Note: many, many CD utility software install a 'Virtual' CD ROM...
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Note that Microsoft has a very cool utility to handle the User Agent String issue. It creates a new Window under IE that runs in non-persistent...
http://www.updatexp.com/tip21.html
Try using the default ports rather than the SSL ports. For POP, that would be port 110 and for SMTP, it's port 25. TLS will work with the...
With all IE instances closed, do a Start, Run, gpupdate.exe If no joy, download and double click this registry edit:...
Only by connecting to it with a cable directly. SOHO routers in the main will not do reverse lookups and connections. One exception: If...
You can stop it remotely. For example AppKiller by MS-MVP Greg Palmer: http://www.palmersoft.co.uk/software/appkiller.asp Disable UPnP on the...
Use Disk Management: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_drive_letter.mspx?mfr=true However, the...
XP is having some issues with authenticating your installation. If this is a Media Center version of XP, install this Hotfix:...
Last question: did you use the ASR feature? http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q818903 I am going to guess you did not....
Use System Restore.
The utility does not change websites. Your browser on your computer has a usesr agent string that identifies its capabilities, and browser...
The files were copied to a CD? The files were copied to Tape? The files were copied to a hard disk? You did a Full State backup? You did a...
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