On certain software I have the screen that appears (this is not a
browser window but rather a standard windows interface -not sure how to
properly refer to it) does not show all the text nor all the buttons.
In particular, the text seems to run off the window and buttons that

I have a problem in the Win Explorer---> Tools ----> Folder Options.
In the tab File Types, Registered file types: have 4 buttons ,
             "New", "Delete" , "Change" and "Advanced".
This Extension= ".DAT", File Type= "DAT File" has no  "Advanced"  button but

after "playing around" with the accessibility wizard, the top part of all my
windows (where the close, restore/maximize and minimize window buttons are)
turnd very thin. hoe do i change that back to the normal view?
OS: Win XP home, SP2

I entered a web site that had a .32 virus and a trojans that attacted my pc,
controlling the way it operates now, i have gotten rid of them but my task
mananger dont work now, i tried to restart it in the admin, services area..
but nothing.. what can i do ???

Due to a bad fan motor that burned out, my harddrive overheated. I didn't realize at the time what was causing it to act up. So every time it quit on me I would reboot and lose more information on my drive. It finally wouldn't boot at all and I tried to reformat it. It would heat ...

Is it available a language of menus and dialogs Windows XP in other language
to change? For example from German to Polish?
Have I to download something?

I don't know if I'm in the correct group for an answer to this one, but
perhaps someone can help.
I administer a number of XP Pro machines, and have fitted a USB2 hub to each
so that users may plug in their own memory sticks.

I am unable to run a net use command in a logon script.  I've looked at the
path and it does include %SystemRoot%\system32.
If I go to a command prompt and change to C:\windows\system32 directory, I
can run the the net command.

Windows XP Pro SP2 on a Windows Server 2003 Std domain with Active Directory.
When I set up a new computer I log in as domain admin to add "Domain Users"
to the administrator group on the Windows XP client to make them a local
admin. Does this actually restrict administrative ...

I have been asked by a user if he can make Explorer display file sizes in MB
instead of KB. Not sure yet why this is desired, but I can't find any info on
this.
Anyone know if this is possible?

Hi, this is our story.
A few months ago we only worked with local-users. This means that the the
path to the profile was:
c:\documents&Settings\MyUsername\

To start the computer in safe mode
You should print these instructions before continuing. They will not be
available after you shut your computer down in step 2.
Click Start, click Shut Down, and then, in the drop-down list, click Shut

I have, over time, installed many USB serial devices on my machine. I did not
properly remove these devices, and no longer have access to some of them. Now
when I plug in a new device it gets assigned COM14 (etc). Is there any way to
re-set the comm port database so lower ports ...

Since a recent reinstallation of XP home i'm unable to access "All Programs"
in the start menue. Can anyone provide a suggestion as to how I can fix this?

I used Partition Magic to copy my XP Pro boot partition to another disk
because my original boot disk C: was sounding dodgy.  
The disk failed a few days later, but I was unable to boot from the disk
with the copied partition because I had forgotten that on an NTFS partition I