I have an error message "Task Manager has been disabled by administrator".
When I boot up I get up to login and there is no administrator login. So I
put in my password and it takes me to the main back ground but nothing on it
and I can't right or left click anywhere nothing ...

I discovered a problem whilst checking some of my pref settings...
I went to 'user accounts' in the control panel & it failed on me...?
I got the error message "Wrong number of arguments or invalid property
assignment" instead...

I have a Dell workstation that has been running a DOS program for
several years now. The program requires EMS, and we had it configured and
working fine. All of a sudden, the EMS has become flaky, meaning that if I
go to a DOS prompt and type "mem" no EMS is shown. If we reseat the ...

I would like to temporary disable plug and play hardware scanning in Windows
XP. This because I'm deleting hardware with devcon, but windows automatically
rescans for new hardware immediately.
Does anyone have a solution?

To get the drive letters in "My Computer" to show before the label, in
PowerToys Tweakui I need to check "Never Show drive Letters". Weird.

Is it possible to uninstall and reinstall just Service Pack 2 without
uninstalling and reinstalling Windows XP?

Issue : System File validation cache (System Catalog) becoming
overrun/corrupted.
After having discussed a Windows Media Player 11 install issue on Microsoft
Discussion Groups\Media Player General with Zach from Windows Media

Ok this has probably been asked before so apologies if it has..
How do you "force" USB keys to use a specific drive letter (eg K:)
Regards
Craig Wilson

Hi. When exploring internet with internet explorer, it saves recent web
pages in history folder in c:\documents and settings\"user name"\history but
i want internet explorer to save recent web pages in d:\history folder. I
looked registry to change the way that history folder ...

I have difficulties with my @ and others symbols and accents that seem to be  
all
mixed up when I use the habitual keys. I think maybe it has something to do
with

After installing Norton Security 2006, I am not getting any buttons of my
open windows in the Taskbar. I checked the Taskbar properties and everything
seems to be good. If I remove QuickLaunch then the complete Taskbar gets
minimized.

It seems that unless the users are logged in as Administrator (either XP
or W2k), Update will not function properly.
I've even given users Administrative privileges, but it still does not work.
I'd like them to get their updates automatically, but not give them

by default when opening up a search window in Windows Explorer of XP Pro
in the lower left part you can find a little useless dog. Each user can
disable it by rightclicking and choosing "Turn off the animated
character", but is there a way to centrally make it disappear for all

I was wondering if there was a way to set a maximum folder size in windows xp.
Example: Max folder size: 300 MB in total (for all users) (if folder is
full, no one can put any more in it)
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I recently had to use system restore. However I then tried to go  back to my
restoration point by clicking this option. I  now only have a wallpaper
screen . I can access all files and programmes through task manager. How do I
get past the blank screen