Strange, but true. When I change visual styles (not themes) with
StyleXP, it changes some of my icons, such as the recycle bin.
Something tells me it shouldn`t do that with visual styles. But
anyway, I don`t want to know how to get my icons back, I can figure

a first post from a newbie, I want to log into winxp as "Administrator",  
but I'm unable to work out how to do this. In win2k this was no problem  
but in winxp it seems to be a big problem, any help would be much  
appreciated.

My icon names on my desktop are white and when I use a
light color backgroud picture on my desktop it is hard to
read them. Any ideas?

If I install AOL (ugh) on my girlfriends Windows XP PC where she is
the administrator, will it carry on down to her childrens accounts for
use? Or can a shortcut be placed to it?
OR Must I install it in each of her 3 kids accounts in XP?

Hey everybody.  I have a new font that I want to install.  
I used the help function in Windows, which told me to open
the "Fonts" folder from the control panel, then
select "File->install new font"

Hi- I am using a program that requires voice modem- I was
unaware that I did not even have this feature until now-
WHere can I go download this program (hopefully free) or
do I have to buy it somehow-DOnt know much about these

I have a Maxtor OneTouch 300GB USB2.0/IEEE1394 HD. Every
time I plug it in, Windows wants to scan the whole disk
for files to do its AutoRun/AutoPlay thing. Any way I can
turn this off?

When I tried to install win xp on my USB flash drive, it
could recognize the partion (NTFS format) which is on the
USB flash drive but when I press enter to choose the
partition to put win xp on it comes up with the following

Hi, My question is as follow. I use Matlab  6.5 Rel 13 under Win XP, and I have quite good PC (1.5GB RAM), but under the Task Maanager I can see that Matlab uses only 50% of the hole RAM. Is it possible to change the amount of RAM used by Matlab (or any other software) and if so ...

How do I configure my computer so yahoo is my default
email?  i want to email a word doc and it goes to the
microsoft email that I don't have configured, I rather it
go to yahoo since I use that for all my regular email.

My computer has been working without problems for some
time. I recently installed BT Broadband Basic and since
then when I select a wallpaper it disappears about 30
seconds after logging on leaving a black background.

In user accounts, I can select a picture, but no picture
really appears. It acts like it is changing, but no
picture shows up on the start menu when you click on
start. It just shows my name at top and no picture? I am

How can you configure pulldown menus, like the ones in IE to show ALL menu
selections? I don't like just getting the items I use the most to show up
and then have to click on the little chevron or double-v's at the bottom to
get more choices to show up. There HAS to be a fix for it.

Is there anyway to assure that when explorer (or a flash
drive) opens it defaults to showing the details view?
Thanks in advance.
Ciao

I wish to click on start -> all programs -> and see all
of the programs I have installed on my computers appear.  
Is there anyway in the world to do this?  Your help is
much appreciated.