All of a sudden my pc (Win XP Pro, fully patched up to date) has changed the
source of I/Net Explorer favorites.  It used to be My documents\favorites;
now it's C:\documents and settings\my_id\favorites.  Anyone any idea as to
what happened/how to return to the old location?

Probably simple:
If you had your Windows XP (Home) install CD and you had Windows XP-SP2 on
disk, what would you do to obtain the "exact" file name for the products on
each disk?

Any views please on using Windows Live OneCare?  I came
across the 'facility' while looking at the MS Defender NG General and with
all the very level headed expertise in the NGs etc, thought there might be
some thoughts ?

I am using Acronis True Image (v7.0) on an XP MCE system with a FAT32 drive;
when I try to make an incremental backup the following error is displayed:
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E00640068: Failed to create the scheduled task

I know this topic has been thrashed to death but please.............?
I have been involved in setting up a two computer network with one as server
& other feeding off it.
After getting everything up & running with clean installs of XP Pro, I

Does anyone know what pinging another computer means. I think that it is
connecting to another computer?

Have an application named MJPG 2.1 on my system - "rarely used". What is it?
If I uninstall it, will it effect my jpeg files?

I run Windows xp, servpk2, and IE7. After I down loaded "Adobe Reader
8.0" it placed an icon on my desktop which will not delete when I right
click on it with my mouse. I un installed the program but the icon is
still on my desktop and in the Start>All Programs menu, "Adobe Reader

My PC lost its video, the monitor shows nothing at all, but the PC seems
running normally, since I can not see the screen, I am not 100% sure,
but all the signs show normal.
The monitor is checked ok with another PC, and the video card in the

Which is a better method of stopping an update item in startup;
1.  Uncheck item in "Startup" through MSconfig
2.  Deleting the .EXE file
3.  Changing the value in the registry to stop updating

Was Vista built with XP software compatibility in mind, or is half my stuff
mostly not going to work? -Big part of my decision to move or not.

I have verizon email; although, Outlook 2003 (I think) should deliver 20MB -
My question is does anyone know if that can be confirmed? I went to
majorgeeks.com and downloaded a zipGenius 6 freeware program to compress my
files; although, the compression did the job and my video ...

I recently added a USB card with a PCI interface to one of my expansion
slots. It gives me 4 extra USB ports. I have plugged the keyboard and mouse
into one of these extra ports. Whenever I boot up the computer, before
loading Windows, it says Keyboard error, press F4 and then ...

I just got a computer with Win Xp and I don;t know the steps to
subscribe to newsgroups. I am using IE v. 7
Please help a newbie by giving step-by-step instructions
TIA ......Bob Williams