I do not have any customisation programs installed on my Windows XP pro and
as an Idiot I installed one of the downloaded themes and selected it as the
theme in windows. Part of the theme changed such as the cursor and
colours(maybe). The next thing I did was to select my old - ...

If I upgrade from Home to Pro, will I lose whatever
programs and files I currently have?

How do I hide the "turn off computer" button in the Start
Menu? I don't want that option there, I only want the
users to choose "Log off."
Thanks

I have changed my default home page to www.msn.com a
number of times but each time I shut down and reboot I
default back to a "Your Best Search" homepage.  How do I
get the msn default to stick?

A while ago I posted to this newsgroup (apr 12 - see
below), with an issue where my taskbar resizing wouldn't
be saved.  I had a couple of responses, unfortunately none
of them worked.  I've done some more investigating, and

When I load certain weather map images, upon completion of download the image shrinks to about 50% full size. Hitting the expand window button works but is an annoying middle step.
Is there a way to turn off this feature so the window/image remains at full size?

I have XP Home on a P4 box with 768MB of RAM and have moved the page file to
its own partition on a secondary HD (drive G:\). The page file partition is
1GB and I've currently set the initial size to 500MB and the maximum size to
989MB (i.e., the maximum free space the partition ...

I have WinXp home with admin privileges.
Why is it that when I right-click Start > Open > Programs,
I see less programs than when I left-click Start >
Programs?

How can I selectively remove icons from the Quick Launch
area on the task bar?
Regards,
Alan

Does anyone know how to remove the arrows that show up on
the icon when you make a shortcut on your desktop.  On the
older version of tweak xp that was an option.  Thanks

When I access folder options, and click on the view tab,
there is no option for advances settings, which there is
meant to be.  I am just enquiring as to why this is not
there and if you could help me get it back..

On my welcome screen it tells me i have an email that i
dont have. How do i turn this off so it wont show me that
anymore?

Is it possible to change the default option that takes
place when a CD is put in the drive?  How do I do it?
Thanks

First, I apologize for my previously canceled post.  I somehow spaced when
typing the subject and wrote "disk cache" instead of "virtual memory."  I
actually know the difference...honest! :-)
My circumstances and my question:

my screen resolution is the lowest possible and it's not
responding when I plug in the changes.  The slider bar
won't even move!  When I turn on my computer, Windows
asks if I want to adjust the screen resolutions quality