Recently aquired a system running XP Sp2, so far so good, however one slight
niggle, there are some unwanted and some redundant (the programmes referred
to having been uninstalled) items left on the START button right click drop
down menu.

I'm went to the Ring 2 website and I'm trying to set one
of their images as my desktop background (Set as
Background) and I'm getting an "Invalid Argument" popup
error.  Any ideas?

i am running xp home i am trying to put my e-mail on the taskbar to use
quick launch it will not let me drag and drop it there any suggestions,
dorry

I had a message that used to appear at start up or log on that was a custom
message that i wrote which used to warn people about using my computer
without my permision or when I wasnt around. I re did my computer and its not
there anymore and I dont remember how to do it again ...

I have just done a clean install and placed my important programs on C:,
anything else that gets installed I would like to place in D:/program files
by default. In other words when my boy goes to install his junk and the setup
dialog for quake pops up I want it to automatically ...

no i don't mean ie desktop icon.
I mean the ie bar icons, they are so boring.
I hav a new set that i want to install, but don't know
how to go about it.

partypoker.com has blocked access to their site from my machine upstairs,
but i can log into their site from another computer using the same dial up
account. how can i unblock the other computer?

In Win2000 there's an brilliant function called "activate web content in
folders" under the "Tools" - "Folder option" menu in the File explorer(My
computer).I.e if you
have a folder with pics listed,you could klick one file and get a

Not sure if I'm in the right place for this question, but here it is.  I ahve
Windows XP.  When I hover the mouse over a file on my local hard drive I see
title, subject, comments, etc.  When I hover the mouse over the same file in
a network folder I see the type of file and its ...

the new powertoy alt-tab switcher has a bug. it creates duplicate icons for
all some windows on the preview screen.
i tried to uninstall it but it wont uninstall either..
any ideas?

There's a bug with Alt-Tab Replacement and MSVC - when MSVC is active and
Alt-Tab is used, a duplicate entry is created in the Alt-Tab Replacement
window, whereas the normal Alt-Tab window does not show this duplicate.
Has anyone found a way around this? How in the world did a ...

How can I change the font size in help?  It's particularly bad in Word's
taskpane, but  I have the same problem in the other tools.  
Thanks for any help you can give me.

I should have said every time I do a search after I open Explorer.
Sorry.
Every time I open Windows Explorer, it wants to access the internet.
Why?

Does anyone know how to prevent the Outlook Express shortcut from showing up
in the Start Menu on a Windows XP Professional workstation?  
Whenever a new user logs onto a Windows XP workstation either utilizing the
Default Profile or a Mandatory Profile on our server, the Outlook ...

My laptop is on standby when it is idle. When I want to use the computer
again I cann't becasue my cursor is not moving and the computer seems to be
frozen and I have to reboot it.
Please advise