On my Win 98 machine, I have created two icons on my
desktop to start the Shutdown and Restart procedures.  I
would like to create similar icons under Win XP, but don't
know how.

I removed items from the start menu (above All Programs) now I can't get
Windows to place any programs in this section. I was able to go back to
the classic start menu and drag a couple of programs to the Programs
menu and switch back to the new start menu but these two are

When running Webshots on a Widescreen laptop (1280x800)
the "Strecht" setting allways changes back to "Center"
each time Webshots changes the wallpaper.  That leaves a
blue stripe on each side of the screen.

I've just upgraded from WIN98se to XP home edition.  I
keep setting the taskbar to my preference, quick launch
enabled, language bar disabled, taskbar locked to the
left of the screen with large icons etc.  But every time

When I select a picture I want to use for my wallpaper and that picture is
narrow Windowsxp sets the position property to tiled.
How or can I have Windowsxp set all wallpaper position to center by
default?

I have a large number of audio books on tape.  A few are on CD but most are
on cassette.  Is there any way to use XP to copy the information from
cassettes to CDs?  There is no piracy intended here -- I purchased all of
the audio books, and the copies would be for my own use.  My ...

How can I move shared music/pictures to another drive? I'm using Windows XP
Media Center Edition. Please don't respond unless you have actually
sucessfully moved Shared documents and Shared Music/Pictures/Video. Let's
see if we can finally get a correct answer to this question, ...

I would like to set windows explorer so that it ALWAYS
views in a list with details, and displays a list of
folders to the side, as opposed to icons.
I edit the settings in tools, folder options, but every

My registery editor does not stay remain on the screen
for more than 10 seconds and therefore i am unable to
edit or use it in any way. help

ok, here is my odd ?,   can i keep a web page  (from
moving  up and down) that auto. refreshes itselfs.  I
watch baseball games at yahoo,cbsportline, to keep track
of scores, but each site is set to refresh every 30/60

I would like to set windows explorer so that it ALWAYS
views in a list with details, and displays a list of
folders to the side, as opposed to icons.
I edit the settings in tools, folder options, but every

OS: WinXP Pro
Intel Celeron 700GHz
RAM: 128MB
HDD: Samsung 80GB

In my pc when WinXP Pro starts up i have three(3) starup screens. the
first one is a logo with a animated bar ,the second is a WinXP logo with
teh word "WinXP Pro is starting up", the last one only display a word
"Welcome" without logo. But in the WinXP Pro PC of my friend the ...

I've posted this a few times in the OE section of these
newsgroups, but I am told it is an XP problem, not OE, so
here it goes.
I just want my XP Pro logon (Welcome) screen to display

Is there a way or a program that will allow automatic scandisk and defrag?
I had my ME system scheduled to perform these tasks every night.
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