I recently purchased a new lcd flat screen....According to
the manual it says to set the resolution at 1280 x 1024,,
However if you do this the screen print is so small you
need a magnifying glass to read any thing,,I have set

can i put a password in to the computer so that it can
not be started with out it.

Does anyone out there know of any OS or Browser  packs
that I can use so I can read (and maybe write) in other
languages (preferable Japanese) for an English based
Windows PC? I can't use any Office or Media Player units.

i just bought this computer and assigned 3 different
users for it.  how do I get programs that i download on
my user login to be available to all users of this
computer?

Somehow I changed the wallpaper in the background of the
log-on screen when you boot your computer up in XP Pro.  
I know how to change the background after I log in (under
my own personal desktop), but how can I get to

Can anyone tell me how to do this?

I keep enabling the sound icon in the system tray but
after rebooting it disappears and I have to go re-enable
after each re-boot under the sound properties.

This should be easy, but I couldn't find the way how to do it.
I would like to change default users TEMP and TMP environment
variables from
"%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp" to something like "c:\TEMP" for

I started running XP Homne edition.
When I am logged on to the computer and running any
aplications like MS word, MS Excel and do not have the
browser opened, I get popups as if I had the browser

My Internet Explorer "E" and my "Control Panel" Icons are
not showing up properly.  They show up as a whte box with
the task manager looking thing in them.  The links still
work, but the icon picture itself is gone.  Is there

Hi,  With ME I could just drag an icon to the taskbar to
create a shortcut there.  How do I create a shortcut on
the taskbar with XP?

how do I change the order of the context menu items that shows when I right
click a programbutton at the taskbar?

How do I add an item to task bar? (bottom right corner) I
dropped it in but it doesn't come back after reboot. Have
put the file in every startup folder I could find! I know
how to remove something...and the file is not on that

I have set my toolbar in my folders for a week now because
everytime I restart my computer, it goes back to the way
it was when I got the computer. Why is this happening? Why
won't it save my settings? It also does it with Internet

I have set up my XP with two users.  The first works fine
with all icons and taskbar being displayed on desktop.  
The other logs on but there are no icons and no taskbar
displayed on the desktop.