A "hotbar " appears just under my address bar. If I right
click it I get an option to close hotbar. If I close it,
it then goes away however it reappears every time I
reopen my Micrisoft internet explorer. Can anyone tell me

On a Win XP Pro Multiboot PC, I originally loaded XP on a
separate SCSI drive.  I later Ghosted that SCSI partition
to the 3rd partition of my (Now bigger) primary IDE drive.
I manually edited the multiboot options so XP boots from

I need to protect some folders in Win XP in case anybody
sits in my place. It is possible to assign a password to
a folder? How can I be sure that only myself can get
access to a particular folder? I'm not talking about

How do I get it so that the icons on my desktop don't
show a blue background?
My laptop (Cel 600mHz 128Mb RAM) does it fine, but my PC
(Cel 600 mHz 320Mb RAM) doesn't...

Is there a way to extend the taskbar to the second
display in a dual display setup?
Thanks in advance

I just finished installing Windows XP on my computer and
when it starts up, only the top 1/4 of the task bar at
the bottom of the screen is visible.  How do I correct
this so that I can see the whole task bar?  Thanks.

Here's a weird one.
Every once in awhile, the Internet Explorer icon disappears from my start
bar (quick launch toolbar), until I restart my computer.
Any guesses as to why this happens?

When I right click the desktop-it comes up with the "display properties" page with no tabs.  If I click on another theme-and then apply-it brings up the tabs.  How do I fix this so when I right click the desktop-it comes up with the "themes" page and the rest of the tabs?  This ...

i have recently changed my setting to allow me to enter a password on
startup/log on
but for some reason it seems to be having problems and has 'system had a
serious error' every morning.

I can't get my Shared Documents to move to a different
location.  I've tried using TweakUI.  Is there a way to do
it?  I think I might have to disable simple file sharing or
something, but I don't want to make my computer more

Dear friends,
I need help. My problem is that for some reason when I right-click on my taskbar I can see 44 !!!! language bars in it and the result is that there is not space in the taskbar to show seperately the opened applications which are all grouped together. How did this ...

The "Hide unused taskbar icons" does not work.Does
anybody know which regestry key to tweak? This isn't
serious, just annoying.
Thanks in advance,

I am still having problems since I redone my computer
last.  The Icons that I change for My Computer, Recycle
Bin and Network Neighborhood still will not stay after I
change them.  I also noticed that If I rename my computer

I have been running my Windows XP with the classic start
menu setup, because that's what I've always been used to.
I thought I'd better get up to date and try out all of
XPs options so I chaged the start menu back to the

I thought I posted this question already but don't see it
now. Is there anyway to have the date and time on the
task bar and not just the time or hovering the mouse over
the time to get the date? Thank you. Jeff J