In TweakUI Autoplay, I have UNchecked drive Z, which is my optical
drive. Nevertheless, whenever I put a data CD in the drive, it
starts up trying to find an Autoplay file. I can suppress this by
pressing and holding the Shift key, but it's a nuisance.

I am having problems getting the wheel to scroll with several applications
and cannot find any setting within the apps to deal with this problem. I
have downloaded the lastest scrolling optical mouse drivers from MS and
tried resetting the application specific settings to no ...

I have 6 custom toolbars to the left of my screen.  Until recently, I was
able to drag the line at the boundary between two toolbars to resize each
toolbar.  Now when I try, although my cursor changes to a double arrow, the
toolbars won't resize.  I am able to move the set of ...

I have a old hard drive that was finished  but before putting it in
the garbage I decided to open it and observe the mechanism in
operation
It was installed on a USB external connection.

In certain folders of mine i wish i could put a picture in the backround
of that folder, if anyone has done this please pass along the knowledge.
for instance if you have my videos folder open and you wanted to put a
picture of your favorite movie in the backround, Thanks Stu

How do i set "wmp9" as my default  media player?  I just installed "WINAMP"
and it has taken over all media.  Thanks

In mac-land, there is a nifty little shortcut (ctrl+up arrow) that you can
use in the finder to go up to the containing folder of whatever directory
you are in.
Does windows explorer have any similar function?

I have a dual boot system with windows xp pro and linux (fedora).  To
switch from windows to linux I have to reboot, but if I want to have
internet access under linux I have to release the IP before rebooting.  I
have created a batch file with the lines

I need help getting my microphone to work.  I made sure volume and mute were
OK.  I don't have a speech recognition tab in the control panel/speech
section.  I went to Microsoft and tried what they said on how to install from
Word 2000, but I only have Office 97.  I tried to ...

On a Windows XP Pro PC, the Connections tab of Internet Options is not shown
up. The Toobar menu on taskbar menu is grayed out. I cannot set Quick Launch
and other settings. I checked Local Security Policy but not there. Anybody
has an idea? Thanks.

My friend tells me that any email I send her that is not entirely
lower case - she never gets.
I tried a test of a few combos of upper & lower case, and sure enough,
she only received the one that was entirely lower case.

I test adding programs to exceptions running from mapped network drives.
Here are the results.
1- Mapped network drive - T:\test.exe
2- UNC Path: \\192.168.2.5\share\test.exe

I acciedentally made each icon's text look classic, enclosed in a box
surrounded by a color.  Originally the text was white and had a shadow effect
that made it look cool.  How do I go back?

My son's XP Pro machine has several programs listed in the Add/Remove list
that he says he deleted.  Now when trying to uninstall again, I get an error
(I guess because the application is gone).  At any rate, what is the best
way to clean up the Add/Remove.  I would like to get rid ...

Is there any good way to set the default for win explorer to use a two-pane
"folders" view by default? I would find this much more useful than the blue
shortcut bar in most situations.
I am already running x-setup pro, but didn't see any setting for this in