When i select for xp pro version to shut down it only
goes to a screen that syas it is now safe to shut down
your computer. How can I make it so that it will just
shut off? without my having to press the power button on

I would like to remove the color framing the text in the
icons so that the background is visible through it, but
so far I have not succeeded. The closest I've come to is
just having white, which isn't satisfactory. Any ideas?

I reinstalled XP the other day and now the media player is all in
Spanish. Also when right clicking on media files their are several
entries also in Spanish.
We don't understand Spanish so would like to get rid of it but don't

Can anyone help me please ? When I hover my mouse over an mp3 file, it
used to show the Author, Album title, File Size and Bitrate. Now it
shows Comments instead of bit rate !! How can I change my settings so
that the bit rate is shown in the pop up window ? I cant remember

I have Windows XP Home edition...Does anyone know how to display on the
welcome screen if I have any emails. ie the screen that shows the computer
users
I assume it needs configured to say its my holtmail or BT address somewhere

Hi, I will be helping to customize XP for some friends of mine.  They have
a German XP installation/CD.  She would like her login to use German as the
default language, and he would like his login to use English.  Is this
possible to do?  I don't see a way to do it other than having ...

Hi, I'm thinking of adding another hardrive to my PC but not sure what type
to get. Is it EIDE I have to get? (The same plug/socket as my CD-Rom
Drives).
I saw this one on Ebuyer "Seagate ST3120026A 120gb 7200rpm 8mb Cache

i had to reinstall windows xp professional on my dell 2400 i did that but now my display settings are really huge i tried to change my settings and it wont let me i also see that my monitor type says it is in dafault and the proporities is light grey and i cant do nothing about ...

I run XP Pro in a notebook that has no diskette driver.
When trying to make an Automated System Recovery Wizard, I noticed that
this application requires an 3.5 diskette for keeping some details.
Otherwise the program does not work.

I have a massive music collection and wish to have a warning for my family
(so they don't rename any songs) appear everytime someone clicks on
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\iTunes.ink"
I want the shortcut that opens 2 items:

  How can I assign an automatic login to a user in Win XP without prompting him for the username or password.
Thanks

I find the "minimize all windows" option is not in the
right-clicked taskbar context menu.
Is there a way to add back this very useful function?
Thanks.

I am setting up a kiosk style operation where I want the
Kiosk software to start everytime the computer starts up,
with XP, it always goes to a log on screen. Is there
anyway to by-pass the log on so that the program starts on

Hi,
I was just going through Taskbar properties and noticed
under "Hide Inactive Icons customization" that it has
been accumulating all the software taskbar icons I had

My problem is, whenever i goto Properties of my computer,
appearance, and try to change WINDOWS AND BUTTONS, the
only available choice is Windows Classic Style. The other
windows xp style is not there and i don't know why. if