On earlier versions of Windows, there were numerous pre
set sound schemes to choose from.  XP provides only the
basic Windows default and when I do a search on
Microsoft's site I get zero info.  I don't want to have

I purchased a lightly used IBM thinkpad with XP
professional.  It was represented as brand new, but had
actually been used a small amount.
I'm trying to eradicate all the original owners

I ve changed file type of folder by mistake. Now when I right click any
folder to open it, its not opening. Can you let me know how can I rectify
this problem
Kanwar

How do you change the default file associations. Meaning
when a new user logs into the machine, I want them to have
the associations I set, not the MS ones.
Changing them as administrator only seems to affect

The other icons and shortcuts e.g. itunes, msn messenger,
icq. and other then the MS default ones on the desktop
and those ones on the lower part of the START part, do
NOT response no matter how many times i double click.

Everytime I try to install something, a window pops up
saying the windows installer is not installed right. What
do I do?

my music folder changed to a picture and i installed
tweakUI and repaired the folder icon, but the picture is
still there. i also changed the folder options to see if
the picture was a hidden file but there wasn't any hidden

I have discovered this issue this morning after running
disk defragmenter over night. As usual I restart my pc
and login but then i see this blue verticle colume(the
ones similar to the those search, history colume on the

Each time I right click on Start or My Computer to
explore my PC, it will come out a while screen and took
acout 20-30 sec to show all my drive.
Any suggestion?

I have just upgraded a 98SE computer to XP.  It has Roxio
CD Creator 5.0 Platinum on it.  The program now
automatically starts when the computer boots.  How do I
turn this off, I want the screen to start in the desktop

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to set the amount of
time before my computer automatically logs off from a
particular logged on account.
I am running XP Pro with several log on accounts.

Is there any way specify which files windows considers "system files" so I
can make a certain kind of file always hidden? I know I can right click on a
file and make it hidden, but what if I wanted to, say, make all *.sfk files
hidden (a necessary file for my sound editing ...

Hello.
I have a computer that was used by another person for a
few weeks.  When they loaded in everything, his name was
used.  

   I purchased a battery for my Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop.  An important
notice came with it.  It states "Please note that this notebook computer
battery you purchased works perfectly with your laptop computer when the
corresponding BIOS versions are installed:

I'd like to backup the whole C: drive of my XP laptop including the OS.
It's possible I could image the drive to another XP machine, the question is
how would I then download the whole image in event of needing to reinstall
my laptop?