I cant find the icon for IE anywhere, so as to launch my internet broswer.
The only way I was able to launch the browser was from a saved web page and
just clicked on the home icon from there.
Can see it in task bar, quick launch bar, start>programs.

I want the XP Home taskbar to show all minimized program icons, no
matter how small the icons need to be in order to display all of them.
It used to do this, but now it has an up-down arrow at the right to
display more icons.  How do I get back to the old behavior, without

For some reason, Notepad won't access the printer, any more.  I click
on PRINT and nothing happens.  Nothing.
It used to work.  And I use it now and then for quick things I get
off the net that I'd like to print -- like a recipe, or something.

We have a Dell inspiron 2500, which has been doing odd things; it has now
responded to a lot of tech support and knowledge base and PC World attention
and seems to be OK. A number of posts and articles refer to "Fn" key as a
function key. I do not see it. Will some one enlighten ...

Kindly advise on the steps or method to set the Environmental variable, so
that all the PCs in the network will have the same setting each time they
login. Thanks!

Kindly advise on the steps or method to set the short date format to
dd/mm/yyyy in the Regional and Language Options setting, so that all the PCs
in the network will have the same setting, each time they login. Thanks!

I use a keyboard shortcut to activate a macro in MS Excel 2000. (Shift-Ctrl-V)
With Win98, this shortcut worked all the time regardless of the position of
CapsLock.
However, with WinXP, CapsLock must be off for the shortcut to work.

I have set up Customized settings for both my desktop and sound. I Shut down
the PC every night. Most of the time it  remembers the settings and boot up
fine, but at least once a week when I boot up in the morning it will revert
to XP default settings.  Is there something to ...

After installing the new Internet Explorer 7 the mouse scroll wheel goes
into "automatic" when I want to wheel-scroll up or down. Can stop the
unwanted motion only by clicking on the side scroll bar. Logitech mouse. I
tried everything I could see in Mouse/Control panel. Very ...

I have 2 internal hard drives, D & D.   Suddenly the D drive does not appear
under My Computer on in Explorer.   Any ideas how to get it back into the
system?
Win XP 2E

How do I run the Chkdsk with a parameter for fixing corrupt files?

I copied some jpg's from a cd to my hard drive last night and I viewed all
the pics after they were copied to my hard drive.  Today I went to view the
pics and only about 8 out of 100 are now viewable.  Even jpg's that were in
that folder previous to last night are now unreadable.  ...

I copied some jpg pictures from a cd to a folder in my hard drive which
already contained some jpg's.  When I was done copying , I removed the CD
and viewed the pictures I just copied.  I was able to view them all no
problem.  Later that evening I tried to view them again and only ...

I want to give my nephew a PC for his room.  Is there a way to set it up so
it shuts down at midnight every nite and refuses to function tell 7 am?
Also, is there anyway to remotely tell it to lock down such as when he is
grounded?

I have installed a number of trial games on my computer and when they are
done i can no longer uninstall. The computer tells me that it cannot find the
uninstall log file. i need to be able to uninstall these to keep room on my
computer but I cant seem to remove them...Help?