Is there a way to stop the obnoxious "Windows cannot open this file" dialog
from popping up when selecting and unknown extension and cause Windows to
always choose a program from the list?    I NEVER EVER want to attempt to
surf the web to find a program to open a file and I ...

Cleaned out some apps in the startup list us MSConfig, and now my laptop no
longer boots.  I checked each app on www.sysinfo.org, and everything seemed
to be optional or not required, but I must have missed something.
The only message I'm getting, after an incredibly long delay, ...

I have a couple of programs that won't work and I think it is because of the
ODBC drivers.  (photoshop elements is one - when trying to open photos and
organize).
I have reinstalled XP SP2 patch. I have tried to download the drivers (v2.8)

This problem makes me so frustrated. On my Windows XP (SP2) machine, in
Control Panel -> Region and Language Options -> Advanced, the "Code
page conversion tables" list and "Language for non-Unicode programs"
list are both completely EMPTY!

I know I need (ish) to run these
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Running WinXP SP2 on a Gigabyte K8NS Pro, AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Rebuilt machine to add SATA Raid 1 as the C drive.
After loading everything, the Maxtor 6B100P0 (Location 0 on the Primary ATA
Channel) which had been my data drive shows up in the Device Manager and in

I have a member of staff who deletes all Internet History before going home
every evening.  I have several times set History to 110 days, but everytime
I check, after the employee has gone home, it has been reset to 0 days, and
all history for that day deleted.  How can I stop ...

I accidentally run into a adware program today.
While it is running and trying to set up a lot sub adware programs, I
immediately recognized it was a adware so I shutdown the Windows XP sp2
immediately.

Running XP with SP2.
I cannot get the Safe Mode/ Command Prompt etc menu up when I press F8 at
start up. I can however press DEL which gets me into BIOS or F11 which gives
me the 'boot from' options.

I have a XP Pro machine which developed a serious problem.  I was having
problems with Windows that I thought I might fix with a new boot partition.  
However, when I tried to rearrange my partitions to make room, PartitionMagic
errored out as it was finishing the changes to my ...

Type of Machine: AMD 64 3700+, 1g ram
Flavor of Windows: Windows XP Home Ed. SP 2
Problem: I installed a Microsoft Powertoy "CmdHere"  that adds an option
to open a command prompt at a folder when you open the context menu and

My system was running very slowly and the screens were paging in sections.
This lead me to look at the processes running in the Task Manager. There I
found "searchindexer.exe" taking up 135K of my 700K ram. Once I ended this
service (thinking is was malicious) the system returned ...

So... 1 of the 3 computers is broken i try getting rid of some none
need startup programs with msconfig and so i did somthing wrong and
computer now wont connect to my wireless network is stuck in classic
mode and does wired thing so me thinking im amazing at website why not

does anyone know how to add an environment variable to an xp machine either
thru a command line or script?
thanks.

Does "settings" include all of the registry settings so that one can this
actually do an install??  So if I use FAST to move all of the files for a
program and also the settings for it, would that effectively accomplish an
install?