My nephew got a computer for his birthday. We have the
three kids set up with a limited account, and two adults
as administrative accounts. When we tried to install some
games off of a CD using an administrative account, it is

How do I disable certain startup programs in XP?  

Every day I have to change to Windows XP style from the
classic view. I go to display prop. - appearance- to
windows xp default blue- large fonts, hit the apply key,
then the OK key and it changes OK. When I turn on my

I've just bought a Dell Inspiron1100, which is
preinstalled with XP Home Edition.  Since I need to
read/write Japanese, I'd like to replace this with my
current Japanese OS (ME, Upgrade from 98).  I consulted

My grandson is three years old and loves to play
his "Reader Rabbit" learning games on his mothers
computer. Papa has built him his own PC. Now for problem,
how to keep him out of places he doesn't belong. I set

I like the single-click feature, but have a slight
problem when I want to save an external file on my hard
drive.  For instance, when I'm saving an attachment from
an email, and do a "file save as", navigate to my

How do I add Print Prewiew & Page Set-up to Outlook
Express in the toobar?  I have Lexmark X73.

How do you disable tooltips ???

I'm using XP Home with all updates. Suddenly the default
view of folders (existing ones and newly created) has
changed to Music instead of Documents. What can I do to
return to the default behavior?

How can I clean off all the address in the Home Page
Address bar?

How do I enable the save long named files feature?
Thank you for your assistance in this mater.
switchead

I lost my desktop quick launch icon on the taskbar..how
do I get the desktop icon back onto the taskbar next to
the start button..thank you..please email

Hi to everybody,
recently I found that we can hide a peripheral by operating the registry.
For example:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explore

Any feedback would be appreciated.
My client has a Samsung laptop running Windows XP Home.  He has a slight
hardware conflict problem with it (basically he couldn't dial out because
the Comm port was 'aparently' already in use), and so earlier I attempted to

I seem to recall that there is a way to move an entire
directory to another logical drive & have the registry and
links follow it?