for somee reason i have windows running twice  at the same time . everything
is doubled . how do i fix it?

Using XP Pro w/SP2 and automatic updates turned on. My PC just started this
problem after automatic updates downloaded and installed severl updates just
a few days ago. When I shutdown the PC I have to watch and cut the power
when it starts to reboot. If I don't do this, I am ...

Hey :)
I'm trying to fix my dad's pc, and I'm having a real issue with the recycle
bin.
When the bin is right-clicked on the desktop, the only options are these:

For the past two days, we've been unable to get a start menu to show up on
the desktop. We've restarted, rebooted, searched, and have had no luck.
Please advise!

I have a new computer, but I want to clear the information off of this one
before donating it.  How do I do this?

The Start ->settings-> control panel cascades, i.e., the many CP control
sections, unfurl. Is there a way to make My Computer display its contents,
so that for example I cann get easily to the floppy drive?  The help files
don't recognize my search terms, so 'cascade' is not the ...

I am using Windows XP SP2.  I have set up two users.  One is used
frequently, the other rarely.
At start up (and after going dormant) I have to choose which account to
log-in as.  Is it possible to set this so that if I make no input within x

Hi, could somebody please help with what I am sure is a minor setting
problem.
I can't open a new window fron a link on a page. I can open a new default
page but say for example I have BBC news open I cant oppen a new item in a

Whenever I open my outlook express a logon box comes up with my user
and password prefilled and when I click ok it leaves, then pops up
again and again and when I try to read an email it will popup up and
take me back to my email list, or if I click tools to get accounts or

My XP's "auto hide the task bar" is always turned on.  But sometimes the
task bar is not automatically hidden.   Then the task bar blocks the bottom
part of the active window that may have buttons or horizontal scroll bars.
I normally need to close all the active windows to make ...

I have for a long time fought my Windows XP HE fully updated
on automatic clock syncronization.
Once upon a time I believe I can have seen W32Time occationally
successful  (as reported in EVENTVWR), but now I only have

Over the past week or two, I have noticed a lot of hard disk activitiy I did
not have before. I run XP and no changes other than updates have been made.
Several monitoring tools have not shown the problem but the Process Monitor
utility shows explorer.exe as the one doing all the ...

Hi !!
At the moment I have a 80g hard drive partitioned into 2    40/40 ( C + G )
C having the operating system on it
D only data

I have always had a possessed PC.  Visual Foxpro development environment
windows used to require clicking the close window twice.  I thought perhaps
I was moving the mouse too quickly over the X in the main window, but no.
Now it appears that any window requires 2, sometimes 3 ...

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