I have windows Xp Home here, I made an account for myself, an account for my
girl friend. I like my resolution at 1600X1200, but she finds it too small.
But when I change it on my user, it's change it for her user also, is there a
way for each user to have it specific screen ...

Hello to All -
Trying to help a friend with his Windows XP Pro SP2 computer that was
working just fine, but now there is no sound:
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Hi, when I right click a folder and go to search, or when I go to
start>search>for files or folders, the search window doesn't show up.
How can I fix it?
Thanks

Anyone know the benefits of the XP defragmenter program.
Seems to me that it doesn't do a full job.  The old defragmenter in Win98/ME
moved commonly used programs to the font of the disk and then completely
moved all movable data behind it without fragmentation, leaving only the

Is it possible to change the system date during the boot process ?
In windows98 you could set the date in autoexec using a set command.
eg set date=04-04-05
Is there anyway to acomplish the same thing in xp?

My laptop crashed and I got the following message
Windows could not start because the following file is
missing or corrupt:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTE­M

After installing Outlook 2003 under WINXP Profesional the Windows Search
tool is inactive and will not load when I click on it.
How can a re-enable Search?

My kids computer had 12 virus.
After Norton got em all, still many items would not work.
i.e. the sound card would not produce.
Later I checked services.msc and found ALL items have been disabled.

I am using ms internet control in my app. It works fine form all machines
except from a new one which has win xp sp2 installed. All machines are part
of a small business server 2003 domain so have the isa server firewall
client as well. Unfortunately I can't find a way to disable xp ...

Downloaded & installed Net1.1 since Paint.Net requires its presence. When
the computer was in an idle state yesterday and then mouse or keys used a
blue screen with my user name is present. Its necessary to click on my
account to get the regular desktop. Its like when its idle ...

Aset keyboard
It has been said that the most common letters were taken off the home
row of the first typewriter keyboard to slow down the typist and
prevent jamming.

I have created several folders on my desktop so that I can access the files
in them rapidly.  I changed the View to "Icons" and unckeck "Auto Arrange" in
the Arrange Icons by...   Then set up the icons in the order I like  ....
then  a few hours later (no reboot or shutdown) the ...

I have Windows Xp SP2 installed on a system that has 2GB of ram installed.
Virtual Memory seems to be fixed at 2046MB no matter how I try to configure
the intial memory and max memory of Virtual Memory via the Control Panel. I
have set memory to be configure by the system and it ...

Is there a way to have programs pinned to the start menu but have no
shortcuts to said programs on my desktop?  Where are program shortcuts kept?
Thank You

All,
Can someone offer advice for the following failure:
a) i can no longer boot from my original boot drive
b) i exchanged the drive cables and now boot from an alternate drive - i