when i start the computer, way too many programs are
running. i confirm that by using the task manager.
how do i set the machine so that only the programs i want
running are running?

please tell me?

1. Everytime I click on something, whether it is in a
folder or on the Internet, it makes this really
annoying "click" sound.  If I make my music louder, the
click sound gets louder.  I just want to turn off that

My home PC runs W2K Pro, which very politely asks me if I want to hit F8 for
boot options and waits 10 seconds for my reply before contiuning to load the
OS.  My work PC runs Windows XP Home Edition, which isn't nearly as well
behaved.  Is there any way to get XP to prompt for the ...

In 98 I had an option to remove the option of when creating a shortcut it
wouldn't say the word 'shortcut'.  For the life of me I can't find that
option in XP.  I have TweakUI but I can only find removing the arrow not the
word.  Does anyone know where I can find this option in XP?

How do I add programs to right click menu's?
I mean something like having 'Programs' entry that would expand
(like 'New') and contain links to programs.

How do I remove hot bar from IE? Iwant to customise my IE Skins using IE5
tool but hotbar keeps overriding IE 5 and removing the option --
gabby

With the new service pack coming out soon, how do I turn
off my automatic updates. I will be out of town for a few
days, and do not want this installed while I am gone. The
computer is off-line when I am out of town, but I never

I don't have any Thumbnails folder names any more in My Pitcures folder!!!
How can I get them back?
Stef@n

Is there anyway to change to colors of the XP style
toolbars besides the basic blue, silver and green.  I
don't like any of the colors, but I do like the style.  Is
there some way to edit the colors?  Or to download new

For some reason, Word 2003 is not showing up as an
available program when I right click on an .HTM or .HTML
file.  When I had Office XP, this was not an issue.  Now
that I've upgraded to Office 2003, it doesn't show up at

Is it possible to change the Windows XP Welcome logon screen with your own
custom bitmap?

I work at Tinker AFB and my boss is wanting all 1600
computers to show are shop metrics (shop metrices are
charts on how the shop is performing) on each computer
screensaver. All 1600 computers are on a network and we

running windows xp pro in workgroup and it will not show
the users what is going on and how do you fix?
thanks

I installed a Kernel based linux on my computer (lba linux)
It has a dual boot program, and i have two partitions on my computer
One for windows XP Pro
the other for Linux