I use the built in cd burning feature of xp a lot.  However, if I use
another burning program such as Nero, the built in burner will not
work unless I reboot. XP recognizes the drive and copies from cd's but
will not burn.  Any fixes to get the two to co-exist?

I used to be able to right-click and select send to and
then choose my cd-burner and let windows burn cd's for me.
This is no longer the case. The option just is not there
any more. I was thinking about creating a shortcut to the

My C: drive has no 'unallocated space' so I cant seem to
creat a new partition.  The drive is no where near full.
please help!
Also how much space should I leave for my system/boot

As a company, we have created an internal Global Adress
list in outlook and we would like to set our e-mails up so
when an employee of the company sends another employee of
the company an e-mail (internal e-mail), Outlook is able

In our environment, we have a lot of kiosk style/public
PCs that are logged in as a unique, but generic, account
(usually corresponding to the local PC # assigned to it).
But users also have their own private individual domain

This is definitely not a major problem, but is there any
way of changing the colour of the taskbar?
Thank you
Carol NS

Can someone please tell me how to change the shell in XP?
I want it to be set to something other that "Explorer".
This is for XP Professional.
Thank You Very Much for your assistance!

Have added my brother as a guest account on my HP XP. He
has his own desktop and personlized IE6, but we cannot
get it set up so that we each have our own personal
favorites lists. Mine shows on his, and his on mine. I am

When you added enough programs under Win98, it would start to make the
toolbars less wide. In XP it seems you can chose to have tool bars
grouped, or get a scroll bar - but not the "less wide" option - is it
somehow possible to enable this?

It it possible to change the default action of the
Start/Shutdown to always display 'Shutdown' instead of the
last shutdown action taken (ie: Logoff or Restart)?

I have an external hardrive (F) and would like to backup
my C: drive to it. The backup utility that comes with
Windows XP Home doesn't allow me to do this, and Drive
Image 2002 doesn't work with XP. How can I do this backup?

 Being over 50 is a real bitch, CRS.
 Yesterday, while at work, I read somewhere and thought it
was here how to have XP recognize 1000 Folders and their
options versus 400 and it gave directions for changing the

when i custom set toolbars in ie the setting won't stay
if i reboot. i want no text on right, no links bar, small
icons, and move address bar. they keep reverting to a
default setting. how do i fix this?

I am trying to get cascading menus for Control Panel and Printers in my
Start Menu.   They cascade but the folders don't rename themselves to simply
"Control Panel" and "Printers" .  They stay "Control
Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" and

Adaptec has a USB Monitor that gives you statistics on all USB peripherals
that are connected to your system.  Unfortunately, it only works with
Adaptec devices.  All my devices are Belkin.  Does anyone know if a USB
Monitor is available for Belkin (or any manufacturer)?  ...