Cannot locate where to increase registry size -- following Microsoft
instructions does not go the correct place.

When i use SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED to show my window in maximum size will the
windows OS takes care the task bar there at the bottom? I mean will the
window be shown on the full screen without the task bar or the task bar will
be shown.

 I cannot delete two .tmp files from my computer. Today's .tmp files are JETF1D2.tmp and JETF230.tmp and apparently they change names each day, but seem to always be JETFxxx.tmp. The size of the .tmp files are 0 KB.
 The string is C:\WINDOWS\Temp\JETF1D2.tmp etc.
 There are ...

My 3 and a 1/2 year old Windows XP system has been running with very few
problems since I had it. Today I decided that I wanted to put a DVD
writer in and it all seems trivial, remove old DVD ROM, plug in new DVD
writer after checking the master/slave pin thing and turn on the PC ...

I'm trying to create a subfolder that will be in many folders.  Is
there an easy way to do this or am I stuck to creating each subfolder
individually within each folder?
An example of what I'm trying to do: have the folders "alpha", "beta",

is it possible to automatical play my music over the internet, whenevr I log
on to my computer?

I am convinced that these Microsoft applications don't actually do anything.
These are exactly the kinds of names you'd come up with if you want something
non-existent to sound legitimate, just as sci-fi movies somethimes use
technical-sounding names for devices without actually ...

Are there monitors which do not work well with XP? When I boot XP my
"ViewSonic" flat panel often does not initialize. XP boots fine, but I have
to press the windows button, then u and u again  -I memorized that :-)  to
restart.

I am currently installing XP professional on a new computer (new
motherboard, processor, graphics card) and everything looked o.k. until
after the decision point to either install XP new or repair an existing
installation, check of the hard drive started and it has been at it for

My system has a partitioned hard drive (in fact 2 IDE drives mirroring in RAID
1), and 2 optical drives, one of which is a dvd writer.
I have a number of data dvds which I have not closed so I could subsequently
write more information to them (ie I used Windows' option to use the ...

An article in PC World suggests a relatively easy way to convert Windows XP
from FAT32 to NTFS:
See: < http://pcworld.com/article/id,127734-page,4-c,xp/article.html > which
states:

XP Pro stopped recognising my CD drive awhile back. Although annoying, I
assumed that the data cable was loose inside, & since I also have a DVD-RW
drive, I have put off wriggling away under the desk into the nest of cables
to sort it. However the same thing has now happened to ...

simply trying to play a DVD from the store, consistently get this error
message.  Tried system restore.  No new software that should be interfering.
Any suggestions?

I'm told by a networking guru that an XP SP2 patch was
recently issued that denies further use of the welcome
screen if a network is added to the computer. One of my
computers recently visited update.microsoft.com and it now

What can I do to get rid of them? I have Windows XP on a Dell Inspirion 9300
Laptop.