I like to use Microsoft clips as icons, but when I save them in the MY ICONS folder and try to use them as icons on the desktop, their background color is always black, even though I changed the color of the background in a photo editing program before saving them as bitmap files ...

since i installed some
fonts from a zip file, it
has changed the fonts
viewed on the sart up,

Does anyone know what I have to do to increase the
maximum download limit on Win XP home? It's currently set
at 2, which is irritating, cause I have to wait all the
time.

How can you take screenshots, say of a movie or a game?

Can any one tell me how to change folder options so that
when you open Windows Explorer, it opens in your
preferred foled, eg My Documents, instead of Desktop?

I can't get "user passwords2" to bring up the dialogue box. Can anyone
suggest
what might be the problem?
Thanx

Does anyone have any help or useful information on how to
multiboot windows 98 and windows XP? I have two hard
drives if it helps to install one system on each hardrive?

i wish to explore the possibility of removing a hard
drive (with windows xp) from one computer into another,
completely differant system. Is this possible? where can
I find instructions?

My folders keep reverting to the detail view.
I have the check box selected for remember each folders
view setting. But when I shut down and restart the folders
revert to the details view.

How do I stop applications from flashing their buttons on the toolbar,
and raising it up over the bottom part of the screen?  (Normally I have
it hidden.)  It's annoying when it covers up my work for some trite
thing that can wait.

A user running windows xp (sp1) and office xp (sp3) has multiple taskbars.  Over time more show up.  A result of this is that each time Word, Outlook etc are opened, at least two taskbar buttons show up.

My computer has two hard drives totally about 40 with the default drive C with about 7 GB and the second hard drive D with 30+GB.  I can files on D but all the programs seem to go through C even when I try to move them.  Is there anything I can do to make the larger drive the ...

Whenever I switch my computer on, I get the welcome screen asking me for my
password.
Leaving it blank and pressing enter clears this screen, but is there a way I
can bypass it, and go straight to my desktop on startup?

Periodically Windows XP (both Media Center Edition and
Professional on separate, non-networked
machines)"refreshes" the desktop, but with the belch
accompanying this task custom icon selections for MY

I recently did a non-destructive system recovery and had
to set up new accounts for everyone in my family, but an
old user folder won't delete (the account it used to be a
part of was password protected).  How can I get this