certain system links wont work in the start menu:
When clicking on My Pictures, i should see the contents of My Pictures
When clicking on My Videos, i should see the contents of My Videos
When clicking on My Music, i should see the contents of My Music

I was able to create a service  from .exe file only with the bare min. Could
not use any option what soever
eg
sc create mysvcname binpath= mysvcpathname.exe

WinXP Home/SP2
Suddenly, neither of my previously reliable CF card readers will read a
compact flash card containing image data - I get a message stating that the
card is not formatted.  The readers work fine on my notebook machine, and

I shut down my computer normally and when restarting I get an error, "windows
cannot load locally stored profile:  insufficient security rights or corrupt
local profile.  Changes you make to this profile will be lost when you log
off."  It looks like my profile is still intact in ...

I was looking to create a Windows XP CD and found a place on the
internet that told me to copy the I386 folder onto a CD and that would
make the CD essentially a Windows XP CD.
Is this true?  If not, what can I do to make a Windows XP disk based

We are in an AD domain here at work, and there is no GPO setup that I
can see.  All the computers are unable to change their IE Security
settings.  We can do custom settings, but as far as high, medium,
medium-low, low, we can't change it.  But the real problem lies with my

I'm running Windows XP, latest service packs, fixes, etc.  Whenever I insert
a USB device in the machine and then take it back out (using the menu to stop
it or not), I get the blue screen of death.  Have searched the Knowledge Base
and google to no avail.  Can anyone tell me the ...

I recently used the Windows XP Recovery console to repair a problem with
Windows.  Once we got everything back to "normal," the computer stopped
recognizing our modem, and in the Device Manager, it said that the Microsoft
System Management BIOS drivers were missing or corrupted.  ...

can one use the Instsrv.exe from the w2k3 server resource kit on XP Pro SP1
or SP2 safely?

I am running Win XP home and wanted to remove some software from teh pc.
After going into add/remove software, some of the programs are missing the
remove buttons. Anybody knwo what this is?

For the last week or so I have ben unable to connect to my ISP's SMTP
server. I can connect to the POP3 server with no problem but it seems
to time out trying to connect to the SMTP server. I have tried this
with two different ISP's: one a DSL and the other a dialup (I have the

My computer has a black screen in safe mode and in regular start up
i was unzipping a program i down loaded from protools website, the computer
mid way had a fatal error
and the the problem started

I have 4 systems that need a interim solution for roaming profile. The
systems are Windows XP Pro and they log onto an NT4 domain. I really want to
install 2003 but that's not my decision.
I am trying to see if I can change the SET parameters to make windows goto

there is old legacy win32 application  that work great on an XP A serving
other XP if the administrator login. then other client PC in the network can
connect with the legacy client..
I tired schedule to run on start-up by admin but other pC can not connect to

what ID is used to run items listed under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run?  the user
who logs in?