Whoever installed windows XP on my machine must have
chosen France as the regional language instead of French
Canadian. When I get the login screen the defaut keyboard
is azerty even though I do not have it installed as a

A minor, but irritating point.
Using XP Plus,  I go to control panel/display/desktop to
choose a background (Red Moon Desert). Desired background
displays and all is well. But after an indeterminate

I have PSP and most of my graphic files are associated with it.
This gives all these different file types the same icon in Window
Explorer. I would like to give each file type their own icon, and
still have them remain associated with PSP. Is this possible?

My taskbar is acting stupid, it forgets what it looked
like before and restarts with a default look with the
quick launch toolbar (explorer, show desktop, and
outlook) and search toolbars. This is terribly annoying

I have a problem trying to open windows boxes in a full
screen size.  When I open a website, the sindow size IS
full screen.  When I go to the NEXT box, it ALWAYS opens
small.  How do I remedy this issue?

Is there a way to get regedit to open with all the keys collapsed, I
think that's the word. After using regedit the keys are always
expanded as they were when I last used it which makes it tedious to
get back to basics and find your way around.

I have a DSL connection in my business with a dynamic IP
address.  Occassional the address is reset and I have to
drive to my store to get the current one.  
Is there a way to write a script in Windows XP that will

Somehow when I last re-installed Windows XP Home, I named
the user folder as "Owner". I previous times it was
always my name. When I try to rename it, if firsts tells
me that the sharing will be unshared and when I choose OK

I need to reinstall Windows XP as there are some issues I
can't rectify. I have never done this before so I would
like some clear easy steps and tips on how to perform
this (also on how to reformat the hard drive) and any

Hi,
I am using Windows XP profesional. Automatic update is
not working in my PC though I hv made all required
setting in control pannel--->system-->Automatic update. I

Please if someone knows how to explain to me in simple english how to split an 80 GB HD into 2 40 GB harddrives it would be most helpful for the info thank you

My screen resolution is running at 16bit, all windows icons (desktop & start
menu & inside folders) display ok.
But, when i connect via remote desktop to this machine, all the
abovementioned icons change to 16 colours.

Desk-top shortcut icons (A,D) fail to find target after
installing latest XP critical updates-help?

if I purchase a lap top with windows 2000, how do I purge
it to run windows XP so that i can utilize the 2000 memory
space?

I want to change the shutdown and log off button icons in
the start menu... Turns out its not as easy as searching
for a shutdown.ico in the windows file... little help?