I visited my friend's computer today to fit a fax modem and it wanted
the Service pack 2 CD.  It was looking for a file in D:\i386.
Naturally it didn't find it because that folder is on the XP install
CD. My friend didn't have the install disk because like many one man

ok, i have windows xp (home edition) on this computer, and everytime i try to
go to change the desktop settings (right-clicking on the desktop and going to
'properties', going to the control panel, etc.) the desktop properties box
thing does not show up, at all. there are other ...

Good Morning:
I installed XP Plus and now the only 2 icons that I have with it that show
the theme icon is my recycle bin.  Where are the others for my computer, etc
and why are they not showing up under resources or anywhere else?

I had a glimpse of a system running XP Embedded NT & on the desktop in the
right handside the was a whole lot of info. The bits that caught my
attention were the IP address, hard drives & their letters, the free space &
used space. Is there anyway of tweaking XP Pro to have this ...

Hello newsgroup,
i often have the problem that after i inserted a game - cd in my drive the
icon in the my computer window doesn't change back. It's alway the icon of
the autoplay cd, even if there's another cd or none inserted. (F5 also

On my friend's XP system, if he inserts a picture in Wordpad, it always
appears thumbnail. He tried associating different applications with BMP
files but that doesn't help. What determines which application (ole server)
is in charge of displaying bitmap in Wordpad? Is there a way to ...

After doing a serach with Windows Explorer, I can right click on a
file and see an option near the top of the context menu which says
"Open Folder Containing".
If I take the option then I open a folder which contains the file.

I've just switched over to Firefox as my main browser.  Some sites don't like
it, though, and insist on IE.  Can I set up a link on my desktop that will
open a particular site in IE, even though my default browser is Firefox?

Today I left my computer on and when I got back it had rebooted.  When I
logged back in it said it had recently received an update which required an
automatic restart.  Any ideas what this update was?
I received some updates the other day but have restarted since then.

I was able to use the Resource Hacker utility to change the
icon and text on the Start button, but I would like also to
change the Start button font and font color. In what file are
they specified?

I have a client using a Dos based Accounting system.  I attempted to change
the layout and fonts settings for the window to make it easy for them to
read.  They are now having a problem viewing the bottom of the screen.
The command window even whenin full screen seems to disappear ...

WinXP SP2
When I create a shortcut to a folder by dragging it to the Desktop, and then
double click on that folder, I get a DOS command window.  What I would like
is for the folder to open.  I notice that when I right click on the folder

I'm about to buy a 64 bit ready PC and was wondering if it were possible to
have a separate hardrive that would run XP 32-bit? The reason being is that
some of the programs/hardware that are not supported by XP 64-bit I still
need to have available for use.  Also, even if this ...

can anyone tell me how to find a MAC address on an XP machine.
TIA

I have been moving files (pictures) from My Pictures. Up til now I have had
no problem right clicking on the pic file and scrolling down to Cd. All of a
sudden the CD is gone and all I have at the bottom id A Floppys to send my
files to; I need the CD dur to the size of some of ...