On my XP Pro PC I use PowerToys TweakUI and I have enabled 'Log on
automatically at system startup'. Occasionally when I reboot I still
get the logon screen. And the TweakUI setting has become unchecked.
Anyone have any idea why that might happen please? Never happened in

I'm having issues with my computer.  The text always seems to be blurred.  I
have a high resolution setting, 1600X1024.  My video card is a 512 MB, 128
bits, GeForce 8600GTS (which is a very good card).  Reading news on the
Internet, emails using outlook and even pop up dialogs ...

Recently, I installed some software on my XP system.  Several shortcuts were
added to my start menu.  Some of them had a different background color which
is cool, but I would like to be able to set the background colors myself a
little differently.  I have not found a way to ...

I have forgotten how to make disappear for good all files and documents
recently open that appear at start – Documents  -  my Documents – My
Pictures…. Here below it always show the last documents opened…  there is a
way to alter something in order not to ever see again any ...

I'd like to use Paint as a very basic photo editor since it starts up with a
blank canvas that I can paste a image into.
Is there a tweak that will allow me to set it to default "Save As" to a
different location than "MY Pictures" and change the default file type from

Is there a way to allow a standard user access to the Sound applet in the
Control Panel?

My applications insist on opening Save As > My Pictures (and Save As >
My Videos) in Thumbnail view. As these folders contain scores of
subfolders I want to browse quickly, that's not appropriate for me. Is
it possible to change this behaviour please? IOW, open these 'special'

XP Pro SP3
Hi, the logoff dialog now appears to be using dialog 1071 in shell32.dll,
which uses the smaller 98 style logoff, not the newer XP one, 1089.
How do I reset it to what it should be in XP (dialog 1089 in shell32.dll)?

It's about a power supply. I know it has nothing in commun with the actual forum.
I simply don't know a better forum. None has the trade of this one.
So thanks in advance for your tolerance.
I want to use a power supply and a peripheral both independant of my actual pc.

I have created a custom user profile (named test) in the Windows XP SP2
shared PC.How to configure such that all user will use the same user
profile.
That mean,

This is probably impossible, but since my new computer has Office 2007,
there is no longer the office bar available.  I would like to sort of clone
the quick launch bar in the taskbar to have a second one.  Is this at all
possible?

Hi everyone, i got a pc with Windows xp professional SP2 installed.
I wish install mac osx on it, because i saw it to my friend.
What's the easyest way?
I'll have performance problem? ( Core2quad Q600 2.4 ghz, 2gb ram)

I'm new to the group but have read many articles/posts on customizing
the Windows XP default profile and the issues/complications involved.
I have had a lot of trouble with how user's 'my documents' and related
folders display in the "Files Stored on this Computer" section of 'My

I have recently had my PC's software cleaned up of viruses, however,
every so often I get an error message which states there has been a
runtime error.
What does this mean?  Do I still have viruses.

I should really post this to vista.customize, but there isn't such a
group so I post it here, answers for either xp or vista will do.
I have just created 2 users, one for my girlfriend and one for myself.
To switch from one to the other (leaving the first session open,