Well I reinstalled XP SP2 then after working for awhile i noticed my sound
was not functioning. The icon was not showing up on the toolbar currently
running programs( which it usually does ). Then went into ADD\Romove programs
to uninstall.

I have an XP workstation that is running some server software.  Can someone
tell me how I can set the Power to automatically restart after a power outage
- as soon as the power is returned????
I know this can be done... I just am not finding how!  I did try the start

Hey All, I've been trying to help my mom with her PC. She has an older HP
with windows XP with SP2 she inherited from my brother and I wanted to open
up the task manager (ctrl-alt-del) and see what services were running and
look at performance variables.

I am on Winxp SP2 and all of a sudden my explorer.exe is freezing. If I go
to my task manager and end the explorer.exe process i can run programs and
such from the file-->NewTask(run) option. All my software works fine withouth
the explorer.exe running.  

Please Help!!
I told my brother that I could clean up his computer by rebooting his
computer with a startup disk and it should alleviate all his problems.  
However, he was running XP home but had the XP home edition "upgrade" CD

when I look at Startup in MSconfig, I notice that there five entries that
are not necessary so I tried to delete them.
I de-ticked the box for each of them and clicked apply. I then re-started
and the usual screen came up telling me that I was using a modified Startup.  

I have the need at times to change the "Status" of a number of different
"windows services", as well as setting the "Startup Type" for some of them.
Currently, I have to go through and set each one of them manually.  Is there
any way I can set up different "profiles" (for lack of a ...

After installing XP SP2 I am no longer able to use the terminal services
manager to monitor connected users and remote control using the Term Serv
manager that was installed from the 2003 Server Admin pak. This wass a great
remote management utility for XP clients that is no ...

 I have a problem, repeatable, getting System Restore to work when
removable drives (in this case software based drives that are mounted
as needed). are used.
 What happens is this. Even though the drives are tagged as DISABLED

Ok this is about my cpu it gets very loud and fast but i no the cause its
'system idol process' when i open the task manager it says its taking up 92
cpu can you help me stop this?
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Somewhere in a config file there is a reference to font color for
desktop icon labels. Any one know where it is? As i change desktop
images, some are more suited to light and some to dark colors, so...
Surely there's someone out there that has gone this deeply into playing

How to force startup script to run before user can log on?
(like it was on W2K)
Thanks.
Rija

I ran Checkdisk/fix errors and it changed all my favorite Icons (and my
favorite wavs).  How do I get them back?  This is the first time it did
this.  Is there any way to stop it from happening again?
FS~

I posted in the VS.NET newsgroup but I'll give it a try here as well since I
now found out that my problem is not limited to Visual Studio - that's just
where I noticed it first.
I have Windows XP Pro.

I was working yesterday with graphics in a document. I needed to edit
an image embedded in a Word doc, and was having trouble with Word image
editing tools, so I decided to work with it in Photoshop. I tried to
copy and paste it into Photoshop, but Photoshop wouldn't let me. So I