Is there a program that runs each time the computer boots that puts
the icons on the desktop.  I seem to have lost my icons and have to
control alt delete to get them back.
Mary Bates

Is there a way to add shortcuts to the sidebar on the left-hand side of the
Open File dialog box? By default, I see My Recent Documents, Desktop, My
Documents, My Computer, and My Network to the left of the current directory.
How would I add, say, Program Files to that set of ...

Hi all,,
We have domain & workgroup environment. Printer is installed on domain
environment pc. Now I have to install this shared printer on workgroup pc. I
have done this. But each time I restart the workgroup pc, I have to connect

I've got a Toshiba laptop with XP Pro/MCE2006 on it.  Just recently it's
been running slow.  I've got 1 gig of memory.  Sometimes I have Photoshop,
Word, an OCR program and WMP open at the same time, switching between them.
It used to handle that okay, but now it's slow.  The ...

I'm trying to move my entire Documents and Settings folder to a different
drive (the current Windows drive is running out of space).
I've found and read KB314843, and understand the issue of needing to log on
as user2 in order to copy the profile of user1.

I want to chnage power option, when no one logged onto system. Can I do? How?
I am using Windows XP Professional SP2.

did syst restore, and lost all my office 2003 programs. get error message
1706 when i try to open one.  
bought computer from a tech pro  who delivered it installed with xp.
cannot find the disc he gave me then, and  he is on vacation.

the instruction at "0x7c918fea" referenced memory at "0x00000071" the memory
could not be written

I have a serious problem with my PC.
I had to format my disk and reinstall Windows XP (with SP2), but I can not
get to in web because Windows thinks that my network card is of Asound, but
its of Realtek.

Windows XP SP2
Whenever I try to run XP Setup to add and remove components I get the
following error:
"Setup was unable to open information file hide-4. Contact your system

Ahoy, if I open WE for some housekeeping the directory tree in the
left hand pane shows two My Computers and two Desktops. One is normal
and contains the true tree and contents and the other is in lower case
and just makes some kind of temporary folders for my pictures, music,

I have Outlook 2003 and when I start it up I get an error message that says
"MANAGED MAPI Service Catastrophic failure"
Could not initialize CLR Unknown error.
This thing will pop up like ten times. I hit ok everytime and eventually it

Every time I boot my machine, I get this error box window titled RAMASST with
a message that starts out "The windows xp standard cd-r/rw writing function
is active" and continues asking if I want to deactivate it.
(Note: I recently turn this feature on so that I could record a ...

Sometimes you cannot remove program from Add/Remove Programs in Control
Panel. Microsoft has an untility that can be used to do this job. I used it
before but I forgot the name and where it can be downloaded. Anyone knows it?
Thanks.

Well I dont know what happened but I turn on my computer today, and all the
system files that are usually hidden (like the desktop.ini, album art jpeg,
thumbs data base files), they all unhide. Its not that they were hidden but I
chose to view "hidden files" but they actually ...