There are obviously some problems deep within my registry as certain
function aren't performing correctly. Examples already mentioned on this
board..  the Start-run-cmd screen appears at every reboot, albeit briefly.
My McAfee viruscan will not enable for more than 1 minute stating

according to article 190355 you should be able to create
the show desktop icon in XP besides right-clicking the
toolbar, and found that i have all the folders except
after application data. Please help.

I'd be grateful for some help - when i right click on the
desktop and select "properties" I get the normal window
but it does not display the screensaver tab. Also, when I
try to change the theme, it says that the theme cannot be

I am having att comcast broadband internet connection at home(Gateway
computer with Windows XP OS.).
I have been noticing for quite some time that there are some applications
which pop up with

How do i make sure that my desktop shortcuts remain where
i put them? Every time i restart windows they all get
rearranged back to a default position.
I have unchecked auto arrange and align to grid and tried

Every time I reboot I get (apart from the usual stuff) a brief glimpse of
the type of screen one gets when entering Start-Run-CMD.   Why would that
be?  There is one item in startup labelled "HotKeysCmds"
c:\windows\sytem32\hkcmd.exe which I'm not familiar with.  Could that be it

I have just installed Win XP and I have 3 Partitions.  I would like to store
all, if not most, of the user information to D:\ drive and all Apps and
system go to C:\ drive.  I would like the "Documents and Settings" folder to
be located in D:\ drive.  How can I configure XP to do ...

Everytime I start up windows the search assistant and quick launch toolbars always appear on the main windows toolbar.  Also, everytime I start up there are several new folders added to my internet favourites list and no matter how much I delete them or take away the toolbars ...

How can I make wallpaper position permanant? tile or center or stretch, so
that when I change the wallpaper, I won't have to go into display settings.
Running win xp pro.

Does anyone know why I do not have a Desktop tap in
display properties? There's Themes, Screen Saver,
Appearance and Settings, but no Desktop.  I have no way
to change my background.  I'm the only user with admin

I have all my photos and music on another drive and do
not wish to move it all to c: drive
I am running xp and wish to change the path to another
area but can not seem to get into this area and change a

I hope someone can help me. Very recently I jimmied up my
Open file folder command so that when I double click on a
file folder, a window pops up. It has a black background
and the file path says it is C:WINDOWS\system\ykrp.com

Hi, I recently enabled the "recent documents" feature (of Windows 95/98) in
Windows XP but it's not functioning correctly.  Although recently accessed
text files, webpages, pictures, and movie files are all displayed, for some
reason mp3 files are not.  Does anyone know how I can ...

Now shortcuts put in the startup folder don't start. how to correct it?  :'( Maybe It's because last time I tried to move the
<user name>\Start Menu\Programs\Startup   folder to All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup   folder  and got a error warning saying I can't do that.

Does anybody know how to customize the XP taskbar clock
as follows:
- after install you get either hh:mm or HH:mm
- you can change this using Regional Settings