Desktop settings change.
When I boot up, my desktop settings have changed. This only happens when I
have used Internet explorer the previous time.
Desktop Properties - appearance - windows and buttons, there are usually two

I have recently got my new compaq pc with XP home
installed. I use AOL broadband and have set up another
user on my pc (for my girlfreind). when i have the
computer on i normally have AOL running as well, when my

Fun the Autorun fix that Rick posted for me but it didn't work.  It did find
a problem which it said it had fixed when I looked in the log.  Now every
time I put a music CD in a box comes up asking what I want to do It has Play
with Media Player already selected with the box ticked ...

it was necessary to add a second, larger harddrive to my system.  everything seems to be working again except outlook express.  no email and the outlook express folder is empty.  can anyone help me get my email back up?
thanks

.....and everything else BELOW  Local Disk C: in windows XP-Home to find
My Documents in these programs to print the folder's contents?   There
appears to be so selection for My Documents in either program.
FS

I have windows xp home edition....i then installed windows
xp professional and now,when i start my computer it gives
me 2 choices to pick from home edition or professional.For
some reason i have 2 partitions on my computer.I thought

Anyone know how I can get XP to install properly?
I have the XP Ungrade edition. I'm currently running ME.
When I try to install XP, at the end of the "Preparing
Installation" phase, the screen goes blank, then the

i want to register my xp pro.  the register screen popped
up but I was unable to register because while installing,
xp dropped me from my network and I had to restart the
computer to get back on, and now I have no idea where to

I am a new user to Windows XP, and i have problems with
opening any .exe file.
It says "Windows cannot open this file"
It then ask me if i want to use the web service to find

On my PC "My Documents"  are right under Desktop.
Under "My Documents" I see My Computer.
Under that comes Local Disk C:
How do I get ABOVE the C: in this program to reach the files in My

In my System Info, I'm showing:
Total Physical Memory    384.00MB
Total Available Memory  186.04MB
Why the approx 200MB difference?

This is in answer to an earlier thread on the same subject.
There are several common situations where it useful to be able to
share a scanner on a network, such as:
1) A scanner is connected to a computer where someone is working who

i had xp home, then installed pro.  Why in windows update is it updating with all the same security issues or others as home already did?  is it necessary to continue?  Thanks for the help

The log on scren shows how many new messages each user has on hot. It is not
accorrect and we don't want it to show. I don't know haw it even came up.
???

I just purchased a new computer (finally) that of course comes with Windows XP.  My old Dell came with Windows 98, and also with Works Suite 99.  My new computer has a newer version of Works installed, minus Word.  I attempted to cherry-pick Word 97 via custom installation from ...