I tried asking this question in the Hardware room but didn't receive any
help or answer to the question. Maybe I'll have more luck here. :-)
I have a little question/problem. I have the above mentioned Mainboard. I am
using the AMD Barton 2500+ CPU. The MB is supposed to be capable ...

I have recently installed Windows XP on my brand new system (ASUS P4P8X SE).
In Device Manager, I successfully configured the SoundMAX integrated digital
audio device and it tells me NO CONFLICT ...
But I have no sound coming out of my speakers.  I have uninstalled the

XP Home, Administrator privilege account.
Is there a way to block all software installs in an account with
administrator privileges?  I realize the Limited Account feature will do
this, but one piece of necessary software requires an Administrator

When dragging files around in a folder, it seems you cannot place the
file where you want.
It seems to 'snap' into a pre determined position.
Sometimes I want to delete a bunch of files in a particuliar folder,

How can you hide a drive letter from the map network drive dialog

I am trying to sort out a system, but it is running incredibly slowly.
Looking at Task Manager, it seems LSASS.EXE and an instance of SVCHOST
between them are using 100% of processor resources, all the time (I have
left the machine on for about 36 hours).

Two extra icons (look like the icon of a file with no extension) appear in my
control panel.
1. I can NOT open them
2. I can create shortcuts for them

As one of many others we are having problems assigning drive letters to usb
drives. We want our users, not being administrators, to acccess their usb
drives on a certain drive letter.
Well, enough information about this problem is documented on the Internet. I

i acedently disabled all the acounts exept the support one and now i cant log
on my computer

I would like to have the window that opens/pops up when I do "file/open" in
an application open at maximum screen size so I don't have to drag the
corner to get a larger size or scroll around it to find the file or folder
I'm looking for.  If not full screen, then I'd go with a  ...

I recently upgraded from ME to XP.  Since the upgrade, I have not been able
to play any sound whatsoever: CD, MP3, video...I initially thought that the
soundcard was bad so went out, purchased a new one, installed it...still no
sound.  XP recognizes that there is new hardware but ...

My system seems unable to find my NIC and thus the local area
connection icon is not displayed. The NIC is part of my mother board.
I called the manufacturer who had me run a diagnostic that confirmed
the NIC isn't being seen. A tech is scheduled to come and replace the

I have connected to multiple workstations on my network.  When I try to map
using the MAP NETWORK DRIVE in Windows Explorer, I have the history list
there.  Some pcs are no longer on my network.
How can I clean this list to not show the history list when I try to map a

I have configured the powermanagement of my Windows XP clients (XP
Prof. SP1 and SP2). I have setup the computers to enter standby after
1 h and hibernate after 2 h. The clients successfully wake up on LAN
traffic.

For some reason that I won't detail here the icon from my application
doesn't behave nice when it is hidden because it is inactive on a Win XP
(this feature, of hidden an icon when inactive is only on XP).
So I would like programaticaly to set just for my application the