I am slowly getting used to new powers and abilities; I found a website
which plays a very catchy background tune, and wanted to capture it.
I managed to find the sound recorder and basic instructions on how to
use it, but when I went File|New, nothing happened, so I am guessing I ...

I have a problem with Windowws Xp Home .When I minimize a window it totally
dissapears and then there is no way to bring it back. It use to go to the
task bar at the bottom , but that has changed for some reason . Any help on
this would be greatly appreciated. Moe

I have set the option for Windows windows to remember their view setting
(expanded to full screen), but most of them don't, for example Windows
Explorer, Event Viewer, etc.  What might be wrong?

I am in the UK.
I've made a newbuild and installed Win XPProSP2. Generally works grand. A
small problem is that if I type @ I get " and viceversa. This is the same in
all programs. Haven't checked all keys but most seem to work fine.

I have invalid shortcuts to folders on desktop which cannot be deleted. I get
message "Cannot delete <folder name>: Access is denied <etc>". They are all
meant to be shortcuts to folders but the icon does not show a folder image,
more an image like a "pop-up window". The shortcut ...

How can i turn off the firewall at logon to a domain...???
I think the easiest way is to turn off the firewall with a registry key...
Have anyone an idea what key it is?!
ciao david

i've just run a program to find duplicates on my pc. the folder
"c:/swsetup/itunes/" contains about 20-30 folders like "37" "AR" BR"
"CH" "CS" etc.  in each of these folders there's an itunessetup.exe
(about 20megs) file.  what is that??? did something mess up on

I am trying to learn how to creat a link for web related chats or for emails.
All instructions I can (finally ) find keep referring to the "Insert Menu"
...."just click on the Insert Menu...."  WHERE DO I FIND THAT?!  Sorry, I'm
VERY frustrated.  I remember some time ago seeing ...

I have formatted the drive and want to re-install windowsxp pro. All seems
to go ok but it eventually keeps on staying on the screen where it says
"Restarting computer" but it never goes beyond it.
I tried to shut it down completely and then start up again, but that just

Let me preface this by saying I'm a computer illiterate slob.
I'm runing XP sp2 home editon.
My, \Documents and Settings\Owner\LocalSettings\Temp file,
recently is over run with literally dozens of identical copys of a 691KB

Running XP Pro, originally, when opening "My Computer" I had a nice view
starting with a list of folders for documents i.e. "My Documents", "Shared
Documents", and so on. This was followed below by a line/seperator and a
title that said something like "Local Disk Drive" where my ...

thnx that worked, appreciate the help
Ted

I cannot believe this!
I've had this Dell computer running XP for over three years and
tonight it began running slow and hanging. At first I thought I'd
picked up something nasty and began looking for possibilities.

I'm running Windows XP Pro on a computer with approximately 30GB on
the HD. The System Restore settings indicate that the disk space usage
used by System Restore should be "12% (3307MB)".
If I understand correctly, this means that the total space in the SVI

I cannot get my windows xp default appearance, all I get is classic. Any
Ideas, tried appearance on control panel, tried settings, any ideas?