In Win XP, Occasionnaly my Taskbar disappears and when I minimize all my
windows I notice all the desktop icons have disappeared though my wall
paper remains. Afterwhich I dont know how to access/expore my programs
(via Start Program) otherthan those windows which were already ...

I've just installed XP on a seperate drive and succesfully reconnected to my
small network but I called the computer "FredXP" instead of "Fred" (on
Win98SE) and now my other computers can't access it - how do I change it (or
should I?) back to "Fred"?

i used the book and i think i got it to work. let me know if it worked
wes

When I install a new program I am required to log in as an administrator. Later when loggin as a regular user I am not able to use the program or some features of the program. How can I make the programs installed available to all users without giving them administrative ...

I copied my entire "My Documents"  folder from my old Win 98 computer onto a
burnable CD, which my new XP-Pro computer can read, but not modify. I was
going to copy the whole directory onto my new XP-Pro computer. Things went
well until XP hit a file with an invalid or too long file ...

Hell
I need someone's assistance, and PLEASE keep in mind that this is the user sites for NEW users, and that I am a newbie to computers
Okay .... I have been trying to save programs to the CD burner ( for CD-RWW ) to TRY to figure out how to backup programs, save them, which I ...

Hello helpful people
 I recently switched from XP Pro to XP Home (never mind, its a long story, viruses etc. forced my to format my harddrive and start from scratch) and now I can't get access to my external hard drive (Which is full of good stuff, you know).  The drive won't ...

I am buying a Dell w/ Windows XP only.  I own Office 97.
Are they compatible.

I just installed the xp upgrade.  The install shuts down the computer and on restart my machine freezes.  I reset the computer and cancel the install during the booy up.  I've checked my hardware (well within specs), turned off Norton, but nothing works.  Thank goodness that I ...

OK! I kno I can copy this game I'm borrowing from a friend, but I just can't figure out how?  If you kno, PLEASE HELP!!!

how do I make new user ?

Any ideas how to get the owner of the file in windows XP.
I tried using dir /q but I cannot get the owner... the
output gives me a dot(...) but in windows 2000 I can see
the owner of the file. See samples.

I would like to know how I can put all my programs on a cd ( including
games).  Reason is, I am going to get my xp taken in and don't want to lose
these programs.  I also don't want to have 10 cd's.  I have Nero.
There has to be someone who does this kind of stuff on a regular basis ...

I upgraded my windows 2000 pro system to windows xp home.  I keep one partition on my disk for the os and another for my data so when I upgrade I do not loose it.  However, it appears that the ntfs security in windows xp home is some sort of "user friendly" version, which is fine ...

Trying to load the Win XP Pro upgrade on to a freshly formatted hard drive.
My Win 98SE was really screwed up, so I decided to upgrade to Win XP Pro.
So I bought the upgrade CD, while I was at the store my friend decided to be
"helpful"