thats a good one but not the one im thinking of, it was
writen on the wall. try again Kelly.

If I move my mouse in a straight line from the start button to (say) Control
Panel the program list instantly obscures it. There used to be a short delay
which prevented this, but I can't find out how to restore it.
TIA

Can anybody give me guidance in converting a audio CD
file to a wav file so I can change my window startup and
shut down sounds?

My applications disappear behind the start button when
minimized. The only way to get them back is to alt+tab to
them. I've checked all of the settings in properties of
the taskbar but nothing works. One other thing, when I

XP
IE 6.0.2
When I use the right mouse button on a link in IE, and select "open in new
window", the link is still opened in the original window.  Any ideas on how

When I boot up windows xp "My Computer" starts
automatically rather than showing the Desktop.
This has only started happenintg in last few days (only
had the new comp 2 weeks)and I have done nothing to cause

We find that on starting our p.c a file called system 32
appears on the desktop. How can we stop this happening.
It si not possible to find it in our scheduled tasks.
please help.

Hi all. At one time I'm sure I figured this out but for the life of me I can't find a way now
I'm using XP Home and I recently reinstalled and need to reset all my personal setting. I want my "connect" button to take me to my homepage via IE but it keeps using AOL as the browser ...

Is there any way to reduce the size of the icons in the Quick Launch area
of the taskbar without affecting the size of other icons?
Peter

THERE ARE MANY POSTS ON THIS SUBJECT BUT EVERY ONE I'VE READ MAKES
INCORRECT ASSUMPTIONS AND HEADS DOWN THE WRONG PATH OR ELSE JUST
ADDRESSES THE SYMPTOMS WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM.  THIS IS GOING
TO BE LONG AND DETAILED BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING I KNOW

Oh boy! I am having a bad day! I have deleted the wrong
username! While I was trying to create a logon disclaimer
screen..something went wrong and it created a replica of
the user on the computer, with the same name, but not

How do I delete ALL restore points without switching them off. The reason I ask is because I seem to have  worm NACHI.B on one of the restore points.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;330193&Product=winxp
Anyone else find it really annoying how XP sorts computer
names in the neighborhood?

I have a repetitive job that requires copying a set of
files from one directory to another, overwriting the
older/changed files. The "this file exists, overwrite?"
prompt is a huge annoyance and really slows down the

Due to divorce, my name is now different from the name
that Outlook is licensed to.  I want to correct the name
to reflect my new name.  How do I do that?