Does anyone know how to change or restore the background in windows explorer?
If you dont know what I mean, heres what Im referring to.
when you open the My Pictures folder.... behind all your fle and folders,
its white and theres an "illustrated" photo in the background.. When you ...

XP Home Edition on Acer notebook. I fiddled arount with the screen resolution
and the video card settings in order to get my computer to show on TV as
secondary monitor (not so easy or logical, but it works). I then put
everything back the way it was (only one monitor, 1024X768, ...

In trying to get rid of spyware files, I accidentally deleted the I.E. dialer
in the "dialer file" located in the "program files" folder as well as a
couple of other unidentified files in the "downloaded program files" in the
"Windows" folder. Now I can only access the web by ...

I just started working at our Computer Sales department at my work. I know
Windows XP pretty well, but while working there I came across a problem no
one really knows how to fix.
The computer monitors keep shutting off every 20 minutes because of the

I have two hard disks partitioned into multiple partitions on each.  I used
to put my swap file on the D: drive for better performance.  If I try to do
it now I get some message stating that if I remove it from the C: drive some
logging might not be able to be performed or some ...

First of all, let me apologize.  This has probably been asked a thousand
times and there's probably a KB article on it somewhere, though I wasn't able
to find it.
How do you set up the default settings on an XP system to ensure that all

Using gpedit  "Software Installation Subnode" does NOT exist for either
computer confguration or user configuration.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Operating system is XPPro.

Two HDDs, one with XP and other with Linux.
I appear to have overwritten the boot stuff on the XP with Linux code.
How can I recover?
Dirk

this is what I am seeing in the directory:
$MSI31Uninstall_KB89380$ is a hiden file in my C:\windows folder.
There are several other files like this.  When I opened the file it
looked like it was a de-install of my SP2 which I did not do.

I'm sick and tired of n+1 update agents starting and going to systray at
Windows startup! Even so, not all programs are up-to-date.
Windows needs an update utility that works like yum (apt) in Linux.
Microsoft would supply the utility, and all new installed programs write

I need help. when i start my computer it halts at the 1st screen and i have a
CMOS checksum error come up and when i click delete to get in to repair the
problem i have to reset my time and date. it comes up as all 0's. this is
really starting to be a pain in the butt.   HELP

Win XP Home w/SP2:
After no problems for quite some time, my USB-connected HP 1220c printer
suddenly stopped working - even from the DOS prompt. Device Manager shows
only LPT2 in [Ports], so I ran HP System Diagnostics, which digs a little

i've looked thru a bunch of help and kb articles and can't really find a
solid answer to this question. if i have 80G and 40G HDs, could i convert
them to striped dynamic disks/volumes and use the extra 40G as say, a
different volume? it looks to me so far that if i striped these ...

By drag and drop, I added a copy of the IE history folder into the
startmenu. It shows its content in the cascading style like all folders
of the startmenu. Now, in order to match my priorities, "Today" should
appear in the first line, "3 weeks" in the lowest line. This can be

I recently purchased a new system (spec below) since that time I have
received periodic crashes. Innitially I thought my RAM was to blame so
ran memtest but as far as that program is concerned everything is fine.
I then thought I perhaps had a dodgy processor, but that doesn't ...