Hi      I am not able to see my usb drives or external hard drives,
i once had to put a different drive letter for the drive, but can not
remember or find how to do this.
ie change from e drive to q

A few months ago I bought a Lenovo computer with Vista installed. My
intention was to try Vista and see if I liked it - I don't! I know that the
machine can run XP, but the Lenovo web site has nothing useful except video
and audio drivers.

Hello all, (actualy I have 572359^32 questions, but thats 2to much for one
topic :)
1. Is pressing "shift" + "delete" the same thing as when you empty the
recycle bin?

I am trying to help one of my wife's foreign students, who borrowed a
Vista Home Premium CD from a friend to upgrade her HP notebook that came
with XP Media Center Edition.
AFAICT, the upgrade was successful, but of course she cannot use the

Whenever I come to open an attachment from an email it always opens in
wordpad rather than word processor so all the documents are distorted and
have symbols instead of text
How can I rectify this?

I have several Word files to which access is denied. I cannot open,
move, or delete. If opening impossible, how can I delete these files?
Please help!!
Thanks

Iam using windows XP professional v5.1.
Iam trying to enable the remote desktop connection.
Iam able to communicate from another PC on the local LAN. That means my set
up is o.k. But Iam not able to communicate from remote location say from my

How can I change the file system on an external drive? I have saved files to
it from my laptop as NTFS but when I connect it to my desktop the properties
window says the file system is RAW, so it will not read from or write to the
drive. Any suggestions please?

I have another question today.
As I already said, I have 2 computers, this site and many others from
Newsgroups (Windows, Outlook, etc...) are in my favorites in my laptop. So I
can access them whenever I want.

can somebody please help me.
on trying to install a new mouse
logitech v200 cordless OPTICAL notebook mouse,my computer detects new
hardware to be installed & it comes up with that I need a driver called

Just installed a secondary drive and it is fine.  Computer booting up from it
but I need it to boot from my orinal (Maxtor).  When I click on the c drive
in my computer on the fresh install (c drive being the drive i wish to boot
from) I am informed that it is not formatted and ...

Has anyone bumped into a hang in shutdown where ecdinvisiblewindow is not
responding?
What is it - and how can I fix it?
Thanks

Can the WinXP fax feature be used with DSL?

According to what I've read form Microsoft; when I'm in "my computer" while
in the C root, I should be able to go to the file menue and select: new and
then compressed folder to create a new compressed folder, which I can not do.
Yet, if I right click on a folder I'm able to ...

I posted my question in another forum, I got no answer, so maybe it was not
the right one. So I am going to try here, I hope I will be more lucky :)
I know how to share a document in My Documents, but I am trying to share
pictures and documents stored in another folder in Photoshop ...