Hi to all,
I have a comp (AMD Athlon 1500+ 1.34Ghz, 512 Mb RAM) with 2 partion
(C: - 48.8 GB and D: - 25.6 GB NTFS both) and Windows XP Professional
2000 with Service Pack2. "D" partion has nothig on it. I want to

I downloaded a jpeg file that has no properties.  The description and the
thumbnail are all that is present.  When I right click to delete the option
is not available.  There isn't anything to preview.  When I try to File,
Delete it does not go away.  I have downloaded a unlock ...

With XP Home Edition at log off on some occasions there is a brief wallpaper
display that is strange. Many horizontal lines of the same image. This is
very difficult to describe. Something like the Sunday funnies that has the
page that has images that if you get out of focus you ...

Unlike missing CD Drives....I have an extra CD Drive that just created it's
self.
I'm sure I can delete it (it's not in Device Manger....only in "My Computer").
Question: ¿Whats up with that? !!!!!

Running XP Pro.
Looking for the following:
1. What are the µSoft defaults?
2. Which Services can REALLY & TRUELY be disabled (for faster boot time)?

I am attempting to reinstall XP with a complete wipe of the disk first.
Early in the process, I mistakenly selected "dynamic update," where some
update files are first downloaded from MS.  However, dynamic update
disallows deleting old partitions, and I can find no way to tell ...

My computer had been running fine. I left it on overnight; in the
morning I noticed it had tried to reboot overnight and there was this
message displayed:
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on the bottom of my screen in the icons area to the right, my arrows to hide
icons are gone. how do i get them back? u know, the ones that look like this
<<or>>.

Will I see a performance increase going from 1g to 2g of RAM on a
machine used for general purpose computing ??  Also, is it true that XP
PRO doesn't like all four slots filled (4x512)  TIA for your help.

Is there a "nutshell way" to define a .lnk?
JimL
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My explorer keeps on crashing, the error message is 0x02de415b, 0x00000000.
any help would be greatly appreciated
Paul

I've just reinstalled after a wipe, XP - now
moving a window with the mouse or scrolling are very ugly, sluggish
and even a wavy effect appears, I've tried changing the config. and smooth
scrolling

when i click on an icon to show up on the screen, it does not appear on the
bottom where my start bar is.  how did this all of a sudden happen? when i
hit the restore down button it dissapears instead of going to the bottom of
the screen.  what did i do or change for this to ...

What would make OE6 show all messages as bold font in the upper pane,
whether they are read or unread?  They appear unread even when read.
TIA,
Pop`

In my C:\Documents and Settings\....\Local Settings folder I have found
file:
TempSpchapi.exe 828kB created 2/16/1999
Google search returns nothing for it but I am almost certain it is a