Whenever the standard windows file dialog box opens, called from any program
whatsoever, the entries appear in reverser order; i.e., files first, in
reverse alphabetical order, followed by the sub-folders
How do I get back to normal

I get strange noises from my speakers when no programmes are running, as
well as when watching video/listening to music. It sounds like a frog/
electronic raspberry blowing. It lasts about 1 second and occurs about every
15 sacs.

I currently develop a Windows service which must perform video/audio
proccessing in realtime (with directshow and a specific board).
All work fine, but sometimes it's seem that my task is not schedule so
my processing time of 1 frame is too high and as a consequence, a

Every time I boot up the new hardware wizard starts, telling me about no
driver for a device I never use and can't get a driver for. How do I kill
this thing?
Many thanks.

this was all the room i had on the subject line sorry about the no spaces

   I was looking for my recycling bin and I found that on the top left of
my desktop, there are quite a lot of icons piling up one on top of the
other.  What would cause this?  My recycling bin seems to be in that.  How
can I separate them?

For several days I have had some trouble rebooting. Sometimes it works and
other times (many more times) it fails. I get the start screen and that's
all. I have tried system restore, but, again, I get no consistent results.

Is anyone aware of a defrag app' that can "clear" the free-space on a XP
Pro boot drive, i.e. set the free space areas to hex zero, without
screwing up the regular files and OS on the disk?
Reason I need such an app' is because I am running out of disk storage

My updates are slowing my laptop down evrey time I switch it on, does anyone
know how I can fix this problem. I don't get error messages, it just uses all
my system resources indeffinetly until my laptop crashes.
Can anyone please help?

My name is Eden and I'm having difficulty changing user account pictures. I
posted a message similar to this about a week ago but since I haven't
received a response I decided to re-post.
I recently upgraded from Windows 98 SE to Windows XP Home Edition and I am

Is there any way to find out through XP the speed of my internet connection?
Seems I remember something from far back in the dark ages of the internet
(the DOS period) that you could hover over some icon and find out how fast
the connection speed was.  Thanks for your input.

I can get back to the welcome screen.  I can click a user to switch
to.  It sits there for a bit, then just jumps me back to the user tht
was logged in.
I checked the regedit for allowmultipletssusers (Or whatever it is)

The open open windows no longer show up on the Task Bar. To find what is open
or switch between windows, I need to open the Windows Task Manager. How do I
fix this problem.

I have a USB device (cell phone) that is showing up fine in Device Manager,
however, it and the computer are not communicating.  You know... when you
plug in a USB device & get the little yellow pop-up bubble at the bottom...
Anyway, I decided to uninstall & reinstall the device ...

I am trying to install AA6 on win xp (SP2, all up to date...).  There is one
user acct, as admin (as per user mngr) with guest disabled.
When installing, about 1/2 way through err pops up:
Err 1303 installer has insufficient privileges to access directory