When I switch an item from "Hide When Inactive"
to "Always Show" apply and close the Taskbar and Start
Menu Properties dialog, it reverts back to "Hide When
Inactive". Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?

I have a pentium 4 desktop machine with Windows XP Home
edition and 40GB hard drive. The machine comes with XP pre-
installed and only one partition formatted to be NTFS.
I would like to use Disk Management tool to create a new

I have gone to "services" and "disabled" messenger.
I have gone to profiles and disabled messenger. I have
rebooted. And Still msmsgs.exe keeps on trying to run
'discovery services' to my gateway.

All our icons on all the personal settings, have
disappeared.  What could cause this?  We have scanned our
computer for viruses and the tool said none was found?
Veronica

How do I prevent WXP screen saver from shuting off my
monitors and continuing showing my pictures as long as I
want (I have a large number of pictures but screen saver
stops after few minutes & shut down my monitors )

I recently took over a business with several older
computers (Dell).  I bought new computers with Windows XP
and sent the old ones out for refurbishment.  
Documentation and program discs were missing and an

I have by error installed twice Windows XP Home Edition
on my PC.
After the second installation I installed all upgrades
from Microsoft.

After installing the boot disks, I loaded the XP Home
Edition CD into the CD-Rom Drive and the disk was not
recognized.  How can I ensure that this disk can be read?
And will install XP as my operating system.

how do i remove an icon from my notification area?  not
just hide it but remove from the list found in
properties.  some web site put it on and i can't get rid
of it.

I recently installed Norton Internet Security on my
Windows XP box.  I was configuring rules, when I got an
application error in the Juno mail client.  After getting
this error (I don't recall off the top of my head what

  When I right clicked Start Button, and choose Properties, there's only 1
option, the Classic Start Menu. The other is missing, it just vanished. Can
someone help me out. Thanx in advance.
regards

help  the computer somehow has changed the screen
resolution   currently it's at high resolution and the
font and the icons are very small    when i lower the
resolution the icons etc are bigger BUT the screen

XP sorts files numericly in explorer.
For example file 99.txt comes before 100.txt
I want alphanumeric sortorder as it used to be in Win2000 and other OP:s.
Is that possible in XP?

When my mouse pointer comes to rest on an item, I get a
rectangular pop up ballon telling me about that item. I
wish to nuke this pop up balloon.Whoever shows me how
gets to push the nuke button!

I'm looking for a word processer for windows xp. I would like to test run a
few first. Anyone have any suggestions as to which might be the best?