I have a laptop and a desktop. both running windows xp.
Both of them require me to click something before they will continue to
start up; that is to confirm I am the user or to log in with my name.
How can I change the settings to get the computer to go right through the

i have 2 gigs of ram installed but applications wont launch once 1 gig is
used up.
The performance monitor never shows more then 1 gig of memroy used up, yet
applications wont launch when its near the 1 gig of used memory. how to free

Hi anyone who would like to help me get up to some mischief,
I have an issue here at work which I would like to solve by changing
another user's desktop wallpaper, whose profile is stored on the
machine on which I work.

I lost sound on my XP Pro system. At least most sounds. AIM and MSMessenger
still worked, but nothing else.  I tried a number of registry fixes I found
via links in this newsgroup. But none corrected the problem.
I reinstalled Windows XP Pro with SP2 slipstreamed into the build.  ...

Hello Gurus,
I have a Dell Xp M1210 Laptop with 4GB Ram and I would like to optimum
utilize the 4GB and minimize or completely eliminate the Disk Access
for PAGE FILE / SWAPPING at the most. I tried to find the solution on

Why should the Print Screen key be disabled?  Can Coreldraw do that?
How do I reset it?
Thanks
Keith

I cannot find the newsgroup for IE7. Is there one?
However my problem at the moment is that using either IE6 or IE7 I am unable
to log into one of my websites.
The browser closes with beep sound.

If I do not use MSN messaging - can I safely uninstall this app which
has been on my system since year dot?
It is a large progeam (25.39MB) - and I am not sure if uninstalling it
will have side-effects on other Windows features?

I replaced the floppy drive with a new floppy drive and now it's not
recognizing any floppy disks that I put into it. When I go into Device
Manager it says the device is working properly. But, when I insert a disc it
says: " Please insert a disk into drive A ", and the disk is ...

When opening Internet Explorer, a "joke of the day" window is loaded and
displayed. I can't seem to disable this. Can anyone help? We have XP as an OS.

I've lost the sound icon from the taskbar and can't get the sound
icon in Control Panel to respond. It will highlight when I click
on it once but when I click twice I get a momentary hourglass
then nothing.

my windows  xp doesn't want to show the explorer and show me black screen
when i start him
i wonder if i can do sfc /scannow from the recovery console or from dos
because i tried to do repair with the win xp disc that i pressed r for repair

[apologies if I'm asking this question in thw wrong forum - point me to
the correct one and I'll go away]
I have Office XP Pro 2002 installed on Win XP Sp2
Until about 3 months ago, I had the "Word >> PDF" converter button (top

Print Screen key is disabled.
How can I enable it?
Thanks

each time i close or shut down my computer, the screen icons all align up to
the left and my tool bar on the left hand side disappears...thanks for any
help