When I'm writing a letter in the addressbar, right after
www. , say s, my computer soesn't seem to "remember" that
many recent page visits, with just one letter click as my
old computer used to?

I have Remember Folders Current View checked in Folder
Options Views, I have 3 main Icons on my desktop Apps,
Audio Apps, and Games within these folders I have all the
short cuts as Icons. Whenever I edit anything on my

How do I remove messenger from the IE Toolbar?  The
machine is XP Pro, member of a domain, I set the group
policy and even uninstalled messenger but it still shows
up and students can use it from the browser toolbar, even

THIS IS MY COSTUME

In the past couple of days, on two different Windows XP
Pro computers I use, I am starting to see duplicate items
showing up in my right click context menus.  Specifically
these duplicates appear when right clicking on shortcuts

I cannot find in Windows XP or Plus a large stand alone
calculator for my screen.   I had a geat one when I had
Windows 98 Plus.  But Windows 98 Plus will not work with
XP.  

I am using Win XP Pro and Stardock Icon Packager and I have changed a large
number of the system icons including 'my computer'.
When I restart all the icons in explorer and my computer revert to default
and I have to reapply the icon package.

I am getting abbreviated menus when I click on the item on
the toolbar.  There is a partial listing with a couple
chevrons at the bottom.  I could change this feature in
Windows, but I don't know how to get rid of it in OE 6.02.

I have followed the directions I was given and added a shortcut to one of my
graphics programs in the 'SendTo' subfolder of *every one* of the User
subfolders in the Documents and Settings folder. However, the shortcut does
not appear when I right click on a graphics file or any ...

In Windows 2000 there was an icon on the system tray that
if pressed, all open windows would be minimized.  Is
there an equivalent on Windows XP?

    W-Explorer is a nice directory lister, but it rarely does what I want
at first pop, though I have gotten other software to do what I really need.
    (My files go back 20 odd years, and I only deal daily with the more
recent. What I need to be the default display of a directory ...

When you're in Windows Explorer, I know you can change
the view to show details.  Is there a setting somewhere
that would make "Details" the default view?  If you're
doing some file maintenance, this would be very handy,

I have several icons in the sys tray set on always show
in the taskbar properties, customise section. One or two
of these lately keep changing back to hide when inactive,
and I have to keep going in and reseting it to my

I have XP Pro on a laptop, and I just installed a new
desktop.  On my laptop; when I DBLclick or rightclick a
folder, it executes Explore, which is my first selection
on the rightclick menu.  On my desktop, when I rightclick

When my system boots it comes up with a screen resolution
of 640 X 480 and color quality of 8 bit. I change the
resolution to 800 X 600 with color quality of 32 bit,
apply it and then OK. Everything works fine during that