I downloaded the trial version of two registry management programs and both
identified several "Registry Errors" but many were  not the same.   I cannot
"clean" the registry with these programs until I purchase the full  version
but before I do that I would like to know if anyone ...

I have a Dell printer (Lexmark) for which the driver comes with XP-Home and
all works well.  My question is whether I can somehow install multiple
instances of the driver?  So that for example I could customize one to print
normally and a second instance to print "2 Up" and a ...

I have a newer Windows XP laptop that works fine when it is in the office
and connected to the LAN. When the user takes the laptop at home, they log
in as their domain user account, which is cached.
There is a great deal of hesitation when the laptop is connected to the home

I don't know where the "my computer" icon went. How do I get this icon
back  on my desktop?

Thanks to all for the replies.  However what I need is not in any of the
links.  My problem is that I can't distinguish the colors to select the
codes.  What I need is something that will say BLUE ##### where ##### is
the code.

I have just bought my second external Plug & Play HDD. On plugging it
in, the normal found new hardware --> hardware is installed and ready to
use process occurred but a shortcut for the drive isn't displaying in My
Computer. The Device Manager shows it is installed as a USB Mass ...

I have a folder containg subfolders each containing a photo gallery which is
activated by an index.htm file.  I wish to create relative shortcuts in the
main folder to acitvate the respective photo galleries.  The idea is that I
can write the folder to CD and show the photo ...

Task bar became too wide all of a sudden. How can I narrow it to one line?
Thanks.

When boot up it takes an age to load profile.  When I power down it takes an
age to save user profile.
When I took this up with our support guy he pointed out that my user profile
was rather large (about 8Gb) and I needed to delete some zip files from the

I think my hosts file may have been altered by malicious means because
Winpatrol sprang up and said so.
There were a lot of entries on it which I deleted. But I want to make sure
my hosts file is back to the standard Windows default. How can I do this?

Are they the same?

can two different user have a different screen resolution on the sam
computer .Actually my brother usually play game and some of the gam
does not work in 1024*768 so he had to switch to 800*600 but it als
change my resolution so wanted to get some resolution on tha

All of a sudden, when I click on one of my folders, a window pops up wanting
me to sign in to Windows Live. The subfolder is "user name" under Documents
and Settings. I have never had this happen before until today. I must have
hit a button somewhere but I can't figure out where. ...

I have not solved my toolbar problem with any of the suggestions offered.  I
thought perhaps that I might use system restore to get back to yesterday's
settings.  I have now tried 3 dates and each time I get a message that the
system cannot be restored to that date.  No reason is ...

Ok, I'm currently running a Tyan based 933 P3 with 98 SE. I know this is a
glimpse into the stone age but bear with me. I'm thinking of upgrading to XP
Home and I'm wondering about application compatability. I've read some of the
info here and it seems that the app compatability ...