In Event Viewer I have this message:
'DCOM got error "The service cannot be started, either because it is
disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. "
attempting to start the service ImapiService with arguments "-Service"

Is there any way to shut off the option to "Single click to open an
item" without affecting the Desktop tab? I've found that if I set the
"use classic shell' option via the registry or GPO it also removes the
"desktop" tab from the display properties. We need this system to be

When a user prints to a (networked) printer on Windows XP SP2, they get a
little balloon popping up and telling them "The document was sent to the
printer" near the system tray. Some users find this annoying.
The only solution I could find with a search was actually disabling it ...

The part on my start menu that displays recently used programs is blank. It
appears as if it has just been cleared but nothing comes back and I have
never cleared it.

I'm trying to restore DMA to one of my HDs. At this page
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspx
I read:
"For repeated DMA errors. Windows XP will turn off DMA mode for a

My folder icons changed to default on my desktop, and everywhere else
where on my xp.  I didn't do anything, the only thing I can think of is
that they turned this way after I had a fullscreen winamp screen
visualization like the visuilzation you see with windows media player.

I can turn off my monitor if I do so in a near time period, ie 5 min.  I am
not sure if I can also go on standby power in this short time period.  If I
set the time for a longer period (1 hour) I can do neither.  The screen saver
comes on, and at or near the end ot the time set, ...

My sister got a new computer with Windows XP home pre-installed.
For some reason the shadow of her Desktop Icon Labels is "sharp" and
black. What I mean by "sharp" i that it isn't blury. On other Win XP
machines the shadow of the desktop icon labels is a gray blur around

Is there a way to make it a default view that "Dimensions" are always
shown in a column when I click on Details view?
Every now and again I have to re-right-click on the columns and put a
check mark next to Dimensions.

I'm having a frustrating problem defragmenting J:, one of my two 177GB
partitions. This is an Athlon 1800 512MB XP Home PC with 3 HDs:
2x200GB and 1x60GB. The other similar size partition, D:, defrags OK.
I normally leave Diskeeper to defrag 3 of my 5 partitions, C:, D: and

I recently downloaded a cool program that gave me all sorts of different
cursors,screensavers etc. I was able to use it for a day or two-it was part
of my tool bar-then it just disappeared. There are files in my computer for
it but I can't figure out how to "reactivate" the ...

I appreciate any help in advance.
I have two users on my computer, and I personally do not want the number of
unread mail messages showing underneath my user.  Is there a way to turn this
feature off?

I appreciate any help in advance.
I have 2 users on my computer.  The screen that is shown when you can choose
which user you want to log on too, shows the number of unread mail messages
belonging to the users.  Is there a way to get rid of this??

I use a third party hotkey utility.
I would like to set one of its hotkeys to open the Recycle Bin.
Is there a Recycle Bin object or file in XP's folders which I can ask
my hotkey utility to open?

I have an "Autorun.inf " in the root directory of a USB Flash Drive, the
statements in the file read as:
[autorun]
open=Xyz.exe