I can't seem to get the logon welcome screen back. When I started my computer
today. Instead I get the black background and have to enter my user name and
password screen. In users accounts I have "use the welcome screen" and "fast
user switching" checked. Restoring the system to ...

I have a DVD/CD drive as my 'D' drive.  But it is identified in Explorer as
'250 ZIP and has a ZIP Drive icon.  It knows it is a DVD/CD drive (I checked
in device manager) and it will read/play/etc DVDs and CDs.  I want to change
the icon and description to a CD drive icon and ...

Greetings to all...  Hope everyone is having a happy holiday season....
So here's my dilemma:
I just bought a new Dell Inspiron laptop (yay!) and am busy installing all
my software on it.  Today, I installed a whole bunch of stuff, after which I

Somewhere in my travels through XP setup, I swear that I saw a 'switch' to
set, so that sub-menus, etc. either pop right up as you hover over an item,
or fade in and fade out.  I can't find this now.  Was I on drugs?  I'd rather
have things pop on and off than suffer through a ...

I've disabled the Indexing Service in the Services pane, yet I notice that
the C drive (properties) has "Enable Indexing of this Disk" with a check
mark in the box.
If I uncheck it, I then am asked if I want this change in properties to

I am attempting to do a clean boot to install software (Logitech
keyboard and mouse)  on my Win XP machine (VPR Matrix).  This is
recommended by Logitech for problematic installs.
Using the system config utility, I check selective startup and then

How do I get my wife's PC to find the scanner shared on my PC? I have the
network set up, I have the printer connected to my computer and the scanner
(sharing), My wife has the wireless laptop. She can print fine but the
scanner program ..."can't find scanner" I have the drivers ...

I would like to do a clean install of WinXp Professional Upgrade edition.  
I just need to know whether my win98SE upgrade disk will be accepted as  
qualifying. I have winXP Pro upgrade on here at present which was  
installed over the top using the 98SE upgrade disk as a qualifier ...

in 'Display Properties' when I choose the 'Desktop' tab, and scroll through
the images I can only see the Bitmap files in the little window, no Jpeg
files show, just the background color. (But if I click apply, it does show
on the desktop)

I have the following configuration: A 60Gb hard drive partitioned as c:15Gb
FAT and D:45Gb NTFS. There is also a DVD drive on E and CD on F.
I want to upgrade the hard drives. What I was going to do was add another
hard drive, move the D drive to the new drive and make it the new ...

I received a Failure Audit error that says IPSec Services failed to get the
complete list of network interfaces on the machine.  It says that I need to
run IPSec monitor snap-in to further diagnose the problem.  How do I perform
this?  

I have a Micron Transport 3000 Laptop that has a primary drive and a swappable
expansion bay drive of identical size. I'd like to enable mirroring so that
I have a
redundant copy at all times. I've made disk 0 dynamic and disk 1 is dynamic

This seems like it should be relatively simple, but I'm having a hard time....
I have Windows XP with a 40GB hd, and I have an old computer with Win98 and
a 60GB hd with Fat32 format. I want to add my 60GB hd to my newer XP
computer, and keep the old files that are on it.