I use many quick launch icons which lowers the amount of space for the task bar icons. When I had Windows 98, as I opened more applications, the size of the taskbar icons got progressively smaller so all of them fit on one line, without some of them being hidden as it now is with ...

       How can turn off the explanation box that pops up when I select an
item or file?

My Computer was very slow and I decided to re-install XP Pro and have done
it on top of the old configuration.
When finished, I noted that all dialup connections have been deleted.
I tried to re-create the deleted connections, in the " New Connection

My Computer was very slow and I decided to re-install XP Pro and have done
it on top of the old configuration.
When finished, I noted that all dialup connections have been deleted.
I tried to re-create the deleted connections, in the " New Connection

I was wondering if anybody has seen this particular problem. Using TweakUI I
can 'Prevent Applications from stealing focus'. However when I restart my
machine this has been disabled. I have manually changed the entry in the
registry to no avail. Also, using the .vbs script on

This is driving me nuts!
My new PC  has an onboard LAN which I am not using since I'm on dialup.  It
creates an x'd out icon in the system tray which I want to get rid of.
Here's the hitch . . . When I disable the LAN, the icon goes away but my ISP

Hi NG,
I'm trying to get rid of an annoying mouse wheel scroll behaviour only
showing up in some apps like Wordpad and Adobe Acrobat.
If I try to quickly scroll up or down, the window contents only move

I have just bought a Maxtor 160Gb hard drive. Using the beautiful
Maxblast3.exe I have formatted it to 7 partitions, the first one being
primary and using ntfs. FAT 32 is on all others.
XP won't install.  I made the mistake of starting to install and

If your on a site that has the menus written in Java, what is the simplest
way to allow your computer to see everything and make use of the Java menu
links?

Sorry for wrong customization !!!!!
My Computer was very slow and I decided to re-install XP Pro and have done
it on top of the old configuration.
When finished, I noted that all dialup connections have been deleted.

Windows X Pro SP2, single computer and single USB printer
I want to print from DOS occasionally. I've read that I need to
share the printer and then do a NET USE. So I logged in as
administrator, selected the printer, clicked Sharing, clicked hare

I have had problems with other codec packs.

I have an old dos program that starts with following bat-file:
 \GRAPHICS HPDEFAULT  \PRINTER.PRO /PRINTBOX:A22
 \program.EXE
The program comes up in full screen with black background and white text

I would like to set up a logon script for a PC running XP which logons to a
domain server.
Where should I put the logon script?
TIA

Do I really need to put "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00"
(without quotes) on first line of a reg file?
Recently I downloaded and ran a reg file which started with
"REGEDIT4" (without quotes).  My XP+SP1 system replied to say the