I recently bought a Dell 2400 without a monitor. I use an older Compaq
monitor. I cannot change the display setting. I go to display
properties/settings/ advanced/ monitor. The properties button is blanked out.
What can I do?

Here is my setup... I have two computers a desktop running XP Home and
a laptop running XP Pro. I have an external USB drive hooked to the
desktop. My problem is this I have shared a folder that is on the USB
drive and all seems fine. When I type in the computer name from the

Can you please tell me how to reset XP so that it can open multipage TIF
files sent as attachements to emails.  It was opening with Paint Shop Pro 7
but that has suddenly stopped working and now I cannot successfully open them
at all.

Hi there, when I right click an item on my desktop, the Send To option is not
there?
How do I get it back to show up when I right click?
Kind Regards

About a year ago I found a brilliant article explaining how to restore XP to
it's original settings from the recovery console command prompt.
I've lost it.
Can anyone point me to that or any simila paper/article?

I have two (legit) copies of XP Pro and am about to install the second one
on a separate partition.  I'll use the second installation for testing
stuff.
Having never done this before do I have to reinstall all the software I have

We have a few users that say that their default printer has changed
automatically and the text size in IE has also been changed from normal to
large. Is this possible and what circumstances can cause this? My personal
experience tells me that in most cases the only error is ...

Is there a way to, once you lock your computer in Windows[1] to have a black
screen show up immediately, or have the screensaver immediately run?
The only method to this currently seems to be by reducing the length until
the screensaver kicks in to 1 minute... but I found that to be ...

looking at http://www.petri.co.il/pagefile_optimization.htm
and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q197379/#appliesto
I thought maybe I would increase my pagefile size. However, I saw it was set

Ok here is my configuration,
I have one 2003 Server running on my network and 3 workstations. This
is a home network using for keeping my networking skills up to date
because I am no longer active in the networking field.

Excuse me but the bain of my last 10 years has been MY color schemes on UR
operating system.
However, I have just upgraded to XP from W2000, run the old .reg file with
my Windows Color Schemes, but they are nowhere to be found in Display

I have multiple RealArcade keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT that are controlled by a
deleted owner and preventing a clean reinstall.  I am unable to reset
permissions for the keys.  I presume I have to do something like "Unload
Hive" for the deled user ID.  If so, how do I figure out ...

I want to change the name machine and work group name of windows xp from
command line.
What is the command to do this ?
Thanks.

Frequently when I try to access any newsgroup or website I get the error
message "No connection currentrly avaialble etc.,etc., " and a Try Again
button.
The Try Again button always works.  Not too much of a problem maybe but it

I'm using XP Home SP 1.  I checked the disk before defragmenting -- it
shows the following highly-fragmented folder:  
    \$Extend\$0bjld:$0:$INDEX_ALLOCATION
I'm concerned.  I've never seen this before.  And anything that says