When Windows Explorer (XP2, SP2) tries to show a folder containing many
large MS Word files or many other files (such as images, icons, etc),
it takes forever to open/render. The effect is one of the machine
hanging (in fact, the Windows Explorer process shows as "Not

Where are the Themes for the desktop settings in XP Home SP 2 supposed
to be kept?  I have made a couple of themes, and the dialog box
defaults to my documents as where to save them.  I want to save them
with the rest of the themes and have them all in the same place and

Dear All,
 There is an anomaly which the desktop icons re arrange themselves when
refresh (F5) or reboot. Rearrange icon option is off.
 Any remedy?

Uh oh.  I've got done formatting a new laptop and installing XP Home
SP 2 and some software.  I'm finding some little files called
.DS_Store in a few folders.  I didn't make them and I don't know where
they came from.  

I have WinXP SP2 on my PC.  A couple of days ago I noticed that when I booted
my PC, I did not see the expansion arrow next to the time and date on the
task (the system tray?).  When I go into task bar properties I see the "hide
inactive icons" option is greyed out along with the ...

I WAS HAVING A PROBLEM WITH MY COMPUTER,THEN I DECIDE TO RESTORE IT BUT
BY MYSTAKE I INSTALED TWICE THE MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP IN MY COMPUTER,
NOW I WANT DELET ONE THOSE.WHAT I HAVE TO DO?.HELP.

I'm sure this has been asked before but...
I'm a novice home user and recently bought a 160 Gig HDD. I want to use it
as my C drive without the problem of re-installing everything. How do I do
this. Obviously I am getting errors as some system files do not copy (as they

When I right click the start button in the lower left corner of Windows XP
Pro I get many unwanted entries. How do I remove these entries from appearing
when I right click the button?
Thanks for your help

I was trying to move some files and re-name some folders, when I discovered
that all my folders have suddenly become read-only.  I've just moved in at
KU, and their networking policies require a download of an anti-virus program
called "Sophos."  Is this the culprit, or is it ...

I had to delete a virus scanner that was in my registry because I kept
getting an error message from it when it scanned.....when I did,  it took out
other registry programs I was using (parental lock)  ..... My question is how
do I go in and put back the programs I want without ...

This is the closest newsgroup I could find for what I need.
I am looking for a way to specify the timeout for an NT service.  Specifically, there are a couple of services that sometimes hang
on startup (COM+ Event System, Task Scheduler) and this causes a massively long bootup (5+ ...

I'm pulling my hairs out. I have an external 3 speaker system which works
perfectly on my desktop PC. However, when I hook it to one of my two laptops,
NO WAY will it work ! The sound continues to come from the lousy laptop
built-in speakers ! And I looked and looked at the sound ...

I am using GlarySofts free startup manager called Quick Startup. It seems to
do a good job for what it was designed for. I check it every now and then
just to make sure there isn't something running that wasn't before. About a
month ago it showed a task enabled that I had never ...

When I try to delete unused profiles from documents and settings, I get an
error that the profile is sharing Downloads with other profiles, and if I
delete the profile, I'll delete the Downloads folder.
I have several profiles that are left over from various reasons that aren't

When I go to Printers and Other Hardware screen you are supposed to see Mouse
and Keyboard. On my computer, you don't see these. The only way to get to
them is through Classic View. I also keep getting an error message when using
this screen. My computer is Dell Dimension 8400 ...