When I turn on PC,taskbar is blue,as I
determined;but,after some minutes it becomes shortly
black and then olive-green,and it stays in that
colour.Before it happends,I can hear short sound from

How does one get rid of the colored background under icon
texts?  I have two computers, both run XP, and one of them
has that annoying background and the other does not.  How
do I shake this?

I lost the OCR A EXTENDED font when moving from WIN98 to
XP Pro.  How can I get it back?

Am trying to print a DOS window using the Print Scrn Key
and it will not work.  Previously used WIN98 and it worked
fine, but now with XP Pro it does not work. Any
suggestions?

Hello there: I've just made myself an xp boot disk with sp1 included. I was
wondering what happens if I use this disk to reinstall one day - will it
accept the same product key as before? Will there be any issues with
activating the install?

In XP Professional, how do I make the full list of
programs show immediately when I
select "Start>Programs>"?  I get the short version ans
either have to wait or click a bar at the bottom of the

I recently upgraded to Windows XP Professional and I would
like my system to automatically boot each morning as it
did under Windows 2000.  Is this still an option and if
so, how is it done?

I have a downloaded picture for wallpaper on my desktop.  I want to add text to the picture. Any idea on how to do it?

The language toolbar apears on start up even though I
turn it off each time. Why does it continue to reset
itself as a default toolbar ?

Is there a way to change the minimum power % for alarms?  
For the lower power notification I can not go under 10%.  
Also, the critical power alarm will not go below 2%.  I
have an old battry that runs at the low % for a long

Is there a registry entry that will stop the popup
reminders like "new updates are now available" or "take a
tour of windows xp"  I would like  to disable these
reminders without changing any other funtions.

I live in France, and have just bought an HP Pavilion
t546. The problem is that all command texts are printed
in French throughout the entire system. Is there any way
I can change the French texts into English?

Question about the ability to see fonts in Windows XP (My OS). I have many
different fonts installed, but it seems as though alot of them appear to be
just you basic run of the mill fonts. I even purchased a CD with a couple
thousand fonts and some of those appear as regular fonts ...

I live in France, and have just bought an HP Pavilion
t546. The problem is that all command texts are printed
in French throughout the entire system. Is there any way
I can change the French texts into English?

I just installed Windows XP, which I have had before, and
now the top corners of the screen are distorted, and it
distorts everything that comes near them.
I have already tried changing to resolution, and the only