It used to work, but now it doesn't.
When I go to Start - All Programs, and right click, there
is a brief flash, but no window opens up so that I can
create a shortcut or lok at properties, etc.

i hav a domain environment ...recently i hav noticed tht my domain users
cannot shut down there p.c`s the shutdown option is just disappeard ...
there is only one option showing is tht of logoff.....
and wen i login the system wid the administrator password ...the shutdown

I needed to restart one of the background programs running on Windows XP
(it's not a service program) every few hours. Is Windows XP capable of
scheduling such application-restarting directly? Maybe via group policy? Or
what alternative programs should I use?

My diagnostic program (PC Doctor) has identified several registry values ias
questionable or wrong.  The value of each is:
ADMWPROX.DLL
The specific registry entries in question are:

I downloaded sp2 a few months ago.
I decided to double check to see if it was still there. However,
running my search produced no evidence. Is there another way I can
determine if I have it.

Hi.  I have a batch file that calls another batch file (ex: if
exist.temp.bat call temp).  On my XP SP2, I get "Extended Error 183".
Seems to still execute properly.  What is this error message and how do
I get rid of it?  Any advice is appreciated...Dennis

Got an anomaly…! In my Add/Remove Programs..
A Big black box appears as if its a program..!
(Put a few JPEGs on site.. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/willer/index.html )
And takes up 90% of the 'currently installed programs' box..!

I
Can someone help me,
I want to restore the windows XP system every time i boot the computer whit
a specific "System Restore" date, where can i find any aplication that use

Why can I delete some registry keys but not others? I cannot delete a
Delrina (WinfaxPro) Key for some reason but I can delete other keys.
Nothing, Delrina or Winfax related, is running in the background and I have
full permissions.

Is there anyway to bring down an sp2 machine to sp1? Possibly by
reinstalling from xp sp1 cd on top of a sp2 installation? Ideally I would
like to retain all apps during the process if possible.
Thanks

Running XP Pro, SP2 - my flash card reader fails to show up in Windows
Explorer, since XP fails to assign a drive letter to it. Whenever I
want to use the reader I have to go through the "My Computer-Manage-
Disk Management" routine to assign a new drive letter to it (it's

I have 2 monitors, A Sun Microsystem and a Dell P1110.  The Sun mon. is not
automatically detected by the OS (XP) but the P1110 is.  I configured both
monitors for a 75Hz refresh rate.  However, on reboot, the Sun always returns
to the 60 Hz default.  How do I make the 75Hz ...

I used regsvr32 to reregister some dll files but some of them gave me the
following error message - ****.dll was loaded, but the dllregisterserver
entry point was not found(**** covers all the dll files).
How can I fix this please?

Somehow I cannot delete an entry in my registry. I need to delete the
Delrina (WinFax Pro) key but when I do I get the following error message
"Cannot Delete Delrina: Error While Deleting Key".
I'm the only user and assume I have full Admin powers.

I can't say exactly when this happened, but noticed when I went to use the
calculator that it is missing from the All Programs List. Then I discovered
the Games Folder is empty, and MSPaint is also missing! I haven't had
occasion to use any of these lately, so hadn't really ...