Yesterday when I turned on my comouter the background, toolbars, scrollbars,
etc changed color - they are now multicolor (blue, purple, green, and shades
of) when they used to be the default blue. Other applications (Word, Internet
Explorer, etc) have also changed. However ...

for some reason, i have like no sound on my computer. though the sounds
coming from media players, such as itunes and windows meida, work fine, the
sound for everything else on my computer doesn't seem to work, i can't even
hear the jingle thats supposed to play at the start up ...

As part of our standard build we change the registry to save IE
Favorites to the users personal drive, in our case "H:\.":
; These set each users' default save locations, H:\Favorites and H:\My
Documents.

I can't install programs because the register won't allow dll-files to be
registered. I am administrator so I have al rights. And I can't do format C:\
because there are a lot of stuff I need to backup whitch I can't. Please help
me to fix my register.

Hi: I have 5 partitions on a 200 Gig HD. All throughout the folders
everywhere, I have a thunbs.db file.
Is there any way to del all these files from a command line? I can get a
command line easily, but need a command...lol...many thanks...Mike

Whever I use explorer, or my computer, etc., and look at the contents of a
folder, or search by name, I see multiple listings of the same file.  This is
disconcerting.  When I try to do a group delete, since I may have the file
listed multiple times, it says it can't find the ...

just a tiny question - WinXP has the "shortcutting" link under right
mouse button SendTo menu. I added a shrotcut to the %Userprofile%/
SendTo directory pointing to Desktop but then it utilizes only
CopyFile function if i may call it that way... how do i get MoveFile

Following advice received via this NG I have set up an icon on the desktop
to run a  ScreenSaver that displays the photos in a directory.
How can I specify the order in which the photos are displayed?
When the slideshow is interrupted I want the user to be prompted for their

I broke my installation of Windows XP SP2 after messing around with a
new vga card and had to perform a repair install.  This mostly worked
OK, but my installations of SQL from VS2003.NET and the SQL component
of Outlook Business Contact manager both now seem to be broken.

I was asked to restore an emachine. I did.
How do I turn on the security tab in the property window of a folder or a
file?
I am using admin ID of administrator privilege. I just can't seem to get at

What I meant to ask in my earlier post was whether it is necessary to have
antivirus software running if one only uses web-based email?

Very puzzling.  Appreciate any help/ideas anyone may have.
I've been patching xp from ms. site for the last couple of weeks. Installed
19 or 20 patches.  Now, I cannot see the folders and files that Internet
Explorer (6 sp1, latest patches) uses for its cache.

Error message "The files for the recovery diskette could not be created.  The
operation was aborted."
This is at the beginning of the operation.  I understood that the prompt for
the recovery diskette is after the backup is completed.

Ive had a virus which made my run command and shutdown buttons not to show. i
believe i have deleted that virus but i still have no shutdown and run
command buttons and i do not know how to get them back.

Hi to all who can help....
When I turn on my PC the screen resolution is different nearly all the time.
The icons appear small on my desktop sometimes and the text on some web
pages is hard to read. Other times every thing is the way I have it set up.