Hi Group,
I recently formatted my laptop and now have 2 partitions. One with XP Home
(which I thought I could use) and XP Pro on the other partition.
2 Questions:

How can I get Windows XP Pro to use English (Australian)
as the default language? I have just discovered that, for
some unknown reason, it has changed to English (United
States) despite previously using Australian. I cannot

I recently reinstalled windows after yahoo messenger
totally freaked out, and now my shutdown menu is really
ugly, it has a dropdown menu instead of the nice looking
buttons that it used to have.  Please email me if you know

first subfolder in documents and settings has the user's
name specified during Windows XP installation,
can I change it without reinstalling the system?
if yes, how?

The number of emails shown in the Welcome Screen for my
account is not correct. This is because a friend used my
account to check his Hotmail account. Now his account is
included in the email accounts associated to my XP user

How does one prevent a recently used application from
appearing on the Start Menu?  (Win XP)

I normally run under a clean boot but about every 3 or 4 days "dumprep 0 -k" is added to the msconfig startup.  It's command is "\system32\dumprep 0 -k".  The location is "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run".  Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of ...

i get this torch every time i am looking for a file or folder how do i disable it !

Can anyone help,
I was wondering if there is any quick way to find out more about the
processes in task manager.  My computer has 44 on the go - 4 of which are
SVCHOST.EXE.

My son installed an inappropriate screen saver. I am not
currently using it. How can I DELETE it from my system?
Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

After installing XP, the icon captions have a transparent
background by default.  I changed the desktop background
color and now can't get the caption backgrounds back to
being transparent.  Is there a way?

HOW CAN I CHANGE OR SET UP A ON OFF KEY LIKE PRESSING
THE"F12" KEY TO CHANGE THEENTER KEY TO THE = KEY ON MY
NUMERICAK KEY PAD ONLY?

I am unable to make any changes to any of the display
features. I recently upgraded to XP and now it says that
the administrator has blocked this features (or something
to that affect). I am the only user and have

How do I disable the automatic filling of search terms in Explorer and forms for name address, etc?
your help is much appreciated

Hi,
In the past when I would put in a CD to my drive the
program would automatically start.  I did not have to
click on an icon or use the run command to open the