Ive researched disabling windows balloon tips, and have
failed to see results.
Please, I must disable balloon tips from my win xp
desktop, can you please help.  I've already edited my

Hello im having a problem with Win Xp when i create a folder and
resize the folder windows wont let me make the changes i make stay
if i make the files in the folder viewed by detail and sorted by type
the next time i open explorer the setting go back to the original

My husband and I have separate logon settings, but he
does not have Outlook Express in his quick launch (lower
left corner, by start button). How can I get icons into
this taskbar? I've tried a few things, would just like to

This happend so far:
bought a new PC with Windows XP Media Center Edition.
Installed Partition Magic 8.1
Copied the XP partition (lets call it PROD) to create a 'test'

We are using Nero StartSmart to copy music tracks and also have tried Windows Media Player 9 to do the same.  We have several user profiles set up and so save all our music to the "Shared Music" folder.  On winows explore this folder shows up under as a main folder under "My ...

In XP Pro, some users have small icons & others have
large ones. I cannot find the place to change this,
please help.

The auto hide feature in my notification area is no longer behaving the way
it had.  I went to Properties and have Hide inactive icons checked and
previously, an arrow would appear at the left hand side and hide the icons
that were not active.  This is not happening now.  I am using ...

How do I turn off the dial tone and other sounds my
telephone makes when it's connecting to the net.  

This is driving me insane and I will be infinitely grateful
to anyone who can help!
At some point, the ADD OR REMOVE PROGRAMS feature in my XP
Control Panel just stopped working.  The icon is there and

I just bought my machine and set up a menu for the
family.  I set up each user to have the same screen
saver.  I downloaded the 3D American Flag from Microsoft's
site.  The problem is that from the menu the computer

For some reason, now when I place a shortcut to an
internet address on my desktop, it will not open IE. I
know I probably did something but darned if I know what
that was.

I have a user that customized her fonts.  She does not
remember everything she changed.  Now, when viewing web
pages, some of the fonts on web pages are bigger and
bolded.  She is using Windows XP Pro - patched up to date.

When I try to change my home page in internet properties
it always returns to res://mshp.dll/index.html#2----
After setting it to another page then pressing appy then
OK, it is good untill I close my internet. Once I return

Can somebody explain to me how I can delete the list of
adresses which appear in the address box and show all the
previous web sites I have visisted.  Thanks

Windows keeps unchecking the "Show window contents while
dragging" box (control panel -> display -> appearance -->
effects). It's entirely cosmetic, yet still frustrating.
Is there any way to make Windows 'remember' the setting I