Hey everyone,
I'm having a problem reformatting my hard disk. 40gb. When i right click it
tells me to close all the programes using it. i close whatever i can and it
won't format. When i put in the windows xp Home cd and start up the pc it

I have done something to my XP that causes messages topop up about these
three programs.
The message talks about an error in Winsock and that these files need to
access the internet.

I have been looking for a way to have the same desktop background (locked)
for every user that logs in.  How can this be done?  It needs to work for
users that have never logged into the system before.
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I have Windows XP Pro loaded on 3 different partitions. The reason being is
I have 3 kids and I want them to each have their own partition. Each
partition has a drive letter and a name.
However on boot up, Windows only lists 3 choice all named Windows XP Pro.

Recently The XP Home pc at my house started acting up; It would not
allow the other pc's to see it.  The Printer is installed on this
machine.  After some investigation, I noticed that "Computer Browser"
was not started.  Soon after I noticed that the "Workstation" service

Using Windows XP Pro with SP2.  Began receiving error message under RUNDLL
window stating the module NvQTwk could not be found on startup of my profile.
When I take the RUNDLL out of the startup no error occurs.  What is the
problem and how can I fix it?

Every time I boot or reboot my computer, I get this message:
"You have used the System Configuration Utility to make changes to the way
Windows starts.  
The System Configuration Utility is currently in Diagnostic or Selective

Community: somebody with
-a VOICE modem in his PC
-a cell telephon or a second phone line
can help me making a simple test. Thanks a lot!

I am experiencing 3 problems.  I don't know if they are related, or separate
issues.  Help on any of theem would be appreciated.
1) Add remove programs does not list any installed programs.  It just shows
the message  "wait while programs are located".  If I look in the registry

My company has finally decided to startinstalling XP Pro into our mostly
Windows 2000 environment. Everything seems fine except that it takes at least
10 minutes to open our main software (which employs an Access database on the
local server). On Win2k computers it takes about 20 ...

I would like to restrict access to certain programs for some users. Is there
an easy way to do this?

hi to all.
is there something in windows XP or to download from Microsoft that can
record the screen and everything I do including the mouse pinter? I need to
do something like the presentations that we can see in the Microsoft courses

We have several Windows XP workstations in a workgroup configuration.  They
have a persistent connection to a mapped drive on a domain-member server.  
The users are trying to log in to a local account on that server.
Because the workstation password is different than the ...

Since my SP2 update to WinXP, when I use a URL to grab up a ZIP file I'm not
prompted to "Open" or "Save" the file but instead the file downloads
automatically and opens. How can I set this to be avoided -- I want the
choice to simply "Save" and not open the file right away.

Help! Next to an installation of another operating system in a partition of
my hd, I was no more able to access to windows.
Now I only want to recover my files and save them on my external hard drive.
In order to do this I erased the other operating system and reinstall there