I recently ran Belarc Advisor and found that KB914440 needs to be Reinstalled.
If I click on details, a page in Widows Help appears where an 'Important
Note' makes reference to the registry (something I don't like to mess with.)
However, my main concern here is that, if I don't ...

What happened to my sheild icon? I think it's called the System Tray that it
appeared in.  And I could use it to open up my settings etc for Windows
Updates.

I ran a program to empty mru lists and it seems to have worked.
However the effect was that the most recently used list in the start menu
has dissapeared - it has not been re-populated when I later ran programs.
I guess that in the registry a 'default' entry or a full entry was ...

Recently I downloaded the latest version of AOL's instant messenger.  Now
whenever I turn on my computer a large AIM box obscures about 1/3 of my
screen.  I can't find an AIM option to stop that from happening; I assume
there is a WindowsXP option somewhere.  But where?

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Running Widows XP Pro, 1.2 GHz cpu, 768 mb memory, IE 7.0, AVG 7.5, Ad-aware
2007, SpywareBlaster and Spybot Search & Destroy security programs.
My machine appears to be OK, however it takes a very long time, maybe 30
seconds for Spybot S&D to open from my desktop. During that ...

Nero has an option to write / burn an .iso (image) file to a CD or DVD. Is
there any way to write this to the hard drive first? I'd like to add some
items to the collection before burning the CD.
Thanks for any help.

I use windows 2000 (could not find the correct group - sorry!)
How do I turn on the snap-to-grid in windows 2000?
Thanks
Guy

Who makes the best Text to Speech engine?  Second-best?  Third-best?  Thank
you.

I have done a clean install and am running good except that my dvd player is
not reading dvds. I have realplayer version 11 and windows media player 9 I
do not have any preinstall player lost it on the clean install. Have
downloaded nero 8 to see if my drivers and codecs are up ...

I copied a photo from an email and pasted it to my desktop. When I did this
all of my desktop icons are now highlighted. Any ideas on why this happened
and how I can correct it?

I am running XP MCE with latest fixes on my desktop PC.
On the front panel of the PC are a couple of USB connectors which I use
quite a bit.
Recently, (I can't recall when this started), whenever I plug a USB device

I am using XP Home and IE6. I hope that this question belongs in this
group and not in the ie6 group, because it seems to be a general
computer problem.
My contentie5 files keep growing. If left unchecked, I believe there

i am inquiring about microsoft wordpad, the standard word processor with
formatting, in windows xp. it executes as either WORDPAD.EXE or WRITE.EXE.
i have an RTF file that ive started, as a sort of logging or special
documentation area, that i continuously add data to over time. i ...

This is suri i got a problem with google desktop after installing i
had run the google desktop.exe, i got one error massage the massage is
WINDOWS CANNOT ACCESS THE SPECIFIED DEVICE,PATH,OR FILE. YOUR MAY NOT
HAVE THE APPROPRIATE PERMISSIONS TO ACCESS THE ITEM.