I have XP running on a 2.8GHZ computer with1 GB of ram and 3 hard drives - a
30GB, 80GB and 200GB.  The 200GB is the most recent and is the main drive as
I and a system crash, had to re-install XP.  XP has never recognized more
than 127GB of the drive.

If I do image backups and daily incrementals using Ghost,   Is there a
reason I should keep the XP System restore feature on?  I do a baseline once
a month and then daily incrementals with Ghost 9.
Turns out,  if I have the XP Restore on, then Ghost wont do incrementals,

Hi, I've been having this problem with my computer for a while where
everytime I take out a disc or put in a new disc into my optical drives, the
information is still showing up as my old one. For Example, if there was no
disc in the drive and I put in a data disc that has a ...

Can someone post some good links on instructions for reformatting the hard
drive. Thanks.
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(Apologies for the double post. I just found this newsgroup after posting to
the help and support group. Seems like the better place to be.)
No way to distinguish shortcuts from .exe files (except Type=Shortcut), so I
found and implemented a registry edit to always display the " ...

I used to know how to change this but haven't had to in such along time I
can't remmber exactly how to do it .... errrrrrrrr
anyone out there with a moment or two, if you wouldn't mind could you send
me a link or the edit I need to use ??

I am tring to completly start again from stratch, with having to put new
users in and eveything.
please let me know, i have been searching on help and support.
i have got a Packard Bell Windows XP, i have tried everything, my dad used

When the rest of my family signs onto Windows XP they are unable to see some
programs in the Start All Programs and or Windows Explorer.  It's like for
them the programs do not exsist.
Tom

Suddenly, without any action on my part, (as far as I know), the taskbar in
my XP-pro (SP2) grew to the double of its previous, "normal" width, and
even though
the "Lock taskbar" option is off, the task bar refuses to be manually

My Neice won a talent contest in Washington, and when I click onto the
video I can only hear her and I can not see her.
I turned off my popup blocker and my firewall and I still could not get
her.

I'm trying to get Russian charachters to display in programs I use but they
either come up as ?????? or Êàê àyêíåòñÿ, òàê è îòõpþêíåòñÿ.  I have the
Cyrillic alphabet enabled in the "Regional and Language Settings" but I still
can't see the characters in programs like installers ...

is it possible to set it ?
i tried http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
but it doesn't work
any other choices ?

I wonder how I can remove a program from getting started each time I start
windows.
The problem is that some programs don't give you an option to choose so they
start every time anyway.

Not sure if this is the best group to ask this question....but I'm trying to
run a batch file that would delete files from a given directory, but I'm not
having any success. Here is the text in the file
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When I right click on a file such as a jpg, I am offered the option of
opening it in whatever program the file type is associated with.  In
this case, the jpg would normally open with ACDSee.
But, sometimes I know I want to edit the file and I would like to open