In a Windows XP home system from which I have just removed viruses and
spy ware, the search window no longer shows the "Search by any or all
of the criteria below" dialog.  It looks like that portion of the
window has been hidden or reduced to nothing.  The little animated dog

How does one set up EMS memory in XP in order to run old DOS programs that
require it?
There is no EMM386 any more!
Regards

I just got a new XP machine and it has Windows Media Player but when I click
the icon it tries to install and says that it is going to be the default
player for everything.  Well, I don't want it to play my mp3 files because I
have a player I'm comfortable with.  I try to uncheck ...

How do I locate and restore a user profile that was tucked away somewhere
during a re-installation of XP?

Having set the taskbar to auto-hide it would be good to have a clock on the
desktop
Either would do, but analog preferred
Date as well?

I have an old laptop with 98SE preinstalled and I have the recovery disc
that came with it.  I have a second laptop with XP Pro preinstalled and I'm
very happy with XP Pro.  I'd like to upgrade the old laptop to XP Pro (I
realise that there may be hardware conflicts but I am ...

Two weeks ago I installed Norton Internet Security 2005. Everything worked
great, including my e-mail. After the Norton Live Update on Wednesday, I can
no longer download and send e-mail. I am on Windows XP and use Outlook 2002
for e-mail. The e-mail is on a POP3 server (access ...

When I try to open quickbooks I receive a message saying
I need internet explorer 6.0 or newer. I have it. I have
tried reloading quickbooks no luck. Quickbooks technical
says it has to do with internet explorer. Any ideas

We have implemented the reg script that keeps machines from downloading or
installing XP SP2 until after April 12th from
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2aumng.mspx.
Does anyone know of a way to extend this date to further out in the year?

jimmybry Wrote:

with no thanks to Miss Persicacia who offered nothing but abuse an

Anyone have any thoughts about what the best method for back up is in XP?

I just bought a desktop w/XP Home. I upgraded to XP Pro to join it to a
domain.
I also installed Office 97.
Now when I try to save something (anything) it tells me "Access Denied".

When you add (install) software under a particular user under windows XP Home
edition... How do you control what other users may get or not get (as far as
program access, placement of shortcuts, etc).  
Somebody told me I must log on as administrator, but I do not understand

Hi. For two computers networked. One a Win 98 SE with Office XP and the other
a Windows XP SP2 with Office 2003. There is a share on the Win XP machine
which the Win 98 SE can fully access. Inside the share is an access database.
The database was probably created in Access XP. ...

Hi.  I only have 1 user account on my Windows, this one, and no password.  
Until now, I've been able to switch my PC on, and have it boot straight to
the desktop.  It didn't stop at the logon screen b/c there was only one
account, w/ no password.  After running Windows Update, ...