I've done a quick search over the microsoft website, and
cant find a solution to my problem.
I'm in china, and bought a laptop, and the windows xp
that came with my computer is set to chinese language,

Hello !   I would like to know how to ENABLE the tiny
icon that pops on my TASKBAR that shows when there is new
mail in OUTLOOK  EXPRESS.
Thanks very much.

how do i change my browser from reject cookies to accept
cookies?

In the old days of Win98, it was a simple matter of
restoring the registry at the command line, does XP have
something similar, and I don't mean system restore, since
you can not get to it from command line or recovery

I bought my computer used.  There are many drives, and the
C drive is out of space, I have removed any programs that
I knew I could, and still have too little space.  In fact,
though I have removed about 700 mg of space, I still don't

How can I make the date appear next to the time on the
taskbar on the bottom of the screen?

I had a Presario with Windows XP that displayed icons on
the desktop with the text in a blue rectangular
background, making the text easy to see.  I recently got
a new COMPAQ with Windows XP and the desktop icons are

Now when I mark some text for reading on a page, the
marked part goes away, wherever on the screen I click
now? What's wrong here?
I'm for instance reading some messageboard, marking some

Could someone walk me through the process of Unistalling
Windows XP from my Hard dive.  I want to install Windows
2000 instead.
Thank you!

Why did my search for ".wri" or "wordpad" not turn this
post up, when it existed; dated 11/12 10:15am?

I got my computer used, and the person had Windows XP put
on it & never used it.  They gave me the computer & I have
been told by many computer people that a P2 333 would run
better/faster with Windows 98 or 2000 and that I should

IN INTERNET EXPLORER OPTIONS UNDER "PROGRAMS", MY PROGRAM
USED TO EDIT HTML DOCUMENTS IS DEFAULTED TO NOTEPAD RATHER
THAN MICROSOFT WORD.DOC.  
HOW DO I CHANGE THIS PROGRAM.  I DO NOT WANT TO USE

I went to My computer, Tools, Folder Options, then
clicked file type,new
and enter .exe
AND FILE TYPE AS Application and to open with

Ok...ran into a problem I can't figure out.
When I open Windows Explorer, it appears in two windows
(default, which is fine with me).  Left side has the
directory tree, the right side shows the folders (when

How can I change icon size of tray icons and quick-launch icons ?
I DON'T want change resolution, dot-per-inch settings or title bar size.
If I set "small icons" in quick-launch I see very microscopic icons, if I
set "large icons" I see huge icons!