My taskbar sits at the bottom of the screen. I can widen it (by
dragging the handle) to twice or to four times its basic size, but not to
three times. Does anyone know how to get the taskbar to be three times its
minimum size? (Windows XP Pro-SP2)

Hello,
I am trying to customise my default profile using registry hacks. So far I
have been quite successful in finding all of the ones that I want, however,
the only one that I can't get to work is turning on or off the quick launch

I would like to restrict one user (my son) to use one specific application
which is used to frequently. I found some instructions on internet (see
below) of how to use regedit to do this.
I don't understand how I set which user (or group) to be restricted and

Say,
Any suggestions for this? I am trying to remove AOL from my computer ...
never use it and it takes up good hard drive space ... I try to remove it
through "Control Panel" > "Add/Remove Programs" ... I click on it, and then

my computer is having major problems when opening S3CURITY programmes. it
seems to me that i have a V1RUS and it will not let my type in or use
programmes that contain certain words (such as the ones in capitals). This
means that i cannot open V1RUS SCANN3RS such as a famous ...

I have a computer running XP Home, I want to set it to use offline files and
in order to do that as you probably know, you first have to go to the Tools
menu under my computer, click on Folder options and then on the window that
appears click on the Offine Files tab and click ...

My sound scheme in Windows XP Pro used to play; now, it doesn't.  I don't
recall changing anything, but, I must have tweaked something accidentally.  
Please help me troubleshoot.  Thanks!

xp sp2 home
heres a customisation im trying to undo!
the desktop on my machine has disappeared.  in explorer i can view the
contents of the desktop but there is nothing on teh desktop.  if i right

I have a question.  One of my users installed Windows XP on their machine
and didn't use correct key code for our license.  Is there a way to install
different key code on Windows XP without re-installing Windows?  I need this
user to use another key code so that it complies with ...

some bugger has played with my PC. If i put my cursor onto s scrollbar and
hold down the left mouse button to scroll up and down the cursor locks itself
to the scroll bar and i have to left click again to release it. How do I turn
this off ? "It's doin me ed in" PLEASE HELP ME

The shortcuts I have to Windows Explorer open on "My Documents",
and in a window whose place (on the screen) and size are not as
I would like (even after setting to my liking, Windows sometimes
insists coming back to some sort of defaults which I don't

In the lab I administer, we give all clients full administrative access to  
our systems.  DeepFreeze takes care of the rest.
Anyway, this makes it hard prevent clients from accidentally deleting some  
things, like the desktop logoff icon, which runs a local script.  Is there  

I want to change the so-called share names that I use to share my two
machines.  
I originally created 'machine 1' for entire c directory on one machine
and 'machine 2' likewise for the other.  I did that by right clicking

how do make myself a computer administrator?  

we have an application that utilizes fiber channel for high speed access.
Rumor has it that XP does not support standard HBA cards.  Is this true?