OK, I have an annoyance here that I am dying to clear up.  When I go into a
program and then go to open a file the file list that pops up in the default
window has the files listed by "most recently created" by default.  This is
very annoying when you are living with an ...

I know windows has  short cut so that you dont have to type .com at the end.
Instead one can do something else but i can remember what that is. I looked
in the help section but cant find it or maybe i missed it there. If someone
has it, plez pass it on to me.. thanks in advance

Can someone please tell me where I can save onto another HDD all the
hotfixes and updates that I have downloaded and installed___I have noticed
that they all disappears when I do a repair (upgrade}_______thanks from OZ

I saw a reference to this tool - used in diagnosing startup probs, I think -
and didn't write down the correct name for it. What is, and where to find?

I am a very basic user and after rebuilding my computer I can't find word,
excel or PPT. can someone please help me.
Thanks Dan

 Can anyone tell me how to correct the Event Viewer System Error below?
Thanks,
ColTom2
Event Type: Error

I have been scanning the media player page for an answer to this problem to
no avail I am trying to burn a cd in mp11 but all I get on my burned disk is
a list of shortcuts to the files, anyone know what I'm doing wrong.
also when did windows discussion pages start to free ...

 I have never seen this warning before and now I have them all the time in
my Event Viewer:
"Warning Source: W32Time Event 10"
 What is it and causing this warning and how do I correct it?

When Windows XP Pro is installed successfully, it displays a tutorial screen
along with background music. What is the name( and or artists), responsible
for this music.
Needless to say, my 11 year old granddaughter(already a computer geek) asked

I'm a new XP user, and my problem is with icon
descriptions on my desktop.
I changed my wallpaper, and the backgrounds for my icon
descriptions stayed clear (so the descriptions "floated"

On my laptop (HP) anything that I delete from the desktop, never leaves the
screen until I right-click & press the refresh button. Anyone know if there
is a setting somewhere to correct this?   XP Home SP2

Our organization (<100 employees) is looking to upgrade all PCs that are not
XP pro to, well, XP Pro.
All of eth above PC OS'es are eligible for the upgrade and meet minimum
system requirements.

In a post below I wrote about trying to get the long date to show in the
systray instead of the short date.  Somehow, fiddling with regional settings
etc. ,  now the clock is gone and the option in start menu options to "show
clock" is greyed out.  Help!

I hope this is the sort of thing this group would be interested in.  I
use windows media player to play various wmv files.  For most of them,
the seek bar works fine allowing movement in either direction.
Bur for some movies, the seek bar does nothing.  The line that shows

This may be a hopeless cause, but here goes.
My daughter uses WinXP and she was having a lot of weird problems with her
computer. She thinks it started awhile back when she downloaded IE 7 but not
sure. She had heard of System Restore to revert back to a previous time and