A real pet peeve of mine us calling screen display utilities
screen "savers".  They do absolutely nothing to "save" anything
about the screen.  They are the same as running any program
constantly - they're often unique and fun things, but you aren't

I am an old school PC user, since the days of old DOS. Back in the day, I
used to make batch files and put calls into the autoexec.bat file to run
them. Being the computer guru I am, I tried to show that to a friend of mine,
but it didn't work!

fairly new to computers. I have downloaded screen savers now how do I
transfer them over to my control panel and bring them up in screensavers?

Can I take my cab file of my hard dirve to give me some more sapce in my HD
and when I install more Hardware I put in the XP CD. And to do that what file
would I delete to reclam the memory.

In Win 2K it was possible to control the background color for the .default
account.  This is the data that is used when no one is logged in.  One can
also put in screen saver data, etc in the users\.default registry section.
For instance, the reg entry below sets the background ...

I deleted a desktop theme which had no uninstall. All cleaned up, but no
matter what I try, I'm stuck with cat figures for my folder icons! How do I
delete these critters and default to plain folder icons. My husbans's icons
defaulted on his logon: I'm the administrator, though.

I used to use Wave Events but XP has disabled the code it worked.
I want sounds for when I open all the various programs I use, eg when I
open and close Access.
Is there anything out there I can use?

"Cannot create key. Error writing to registry."
So, no programs cannot install extentions.  Seems problem with
authentication, but Im in the domain admin group. In addition, My Computer
Properties -> Advanced -> Performance Otions -> Virtual Memory -> Change

If my machine is idle for about ten minutes, WinXP-pro brings up the
USER window and requires me to enter my password before I can continue
working on the machine. I know I can eliminate this annoying feature by
eliminating the password, but that alternative has unacceptable ...

I recently upgraded my operating system from Windows 98 to Windows XP Home
Edition. One strange problem I've had since the upgrade is that I now can't
get any sound from my Roland SC8850 sound module through my PC monitors. I
hear all other system sounds ok & CDs & MP3s play fine ...

I am trying to create a CD that only has (1) service pack 2 of Windows
XP and all the patches since 8/8/04. I have the read the Microsoft
articles but they don't discuss adding these items together.
I extract all the Service pack 2 files into a directory call XP\i386.

is there a way to filter the document filetypes that get added to the My
Recent Documents list?
TIA
Nigel

Sometime after installing Lacie DVD recorder--noticed ramasst.ink in the
startup---what is it? does it have to be in the startup?
Patty

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Are there any resources for switches when starting Explorer window?