Does anyone know the order in which (system) environment variables are
loaded upon user log in?
I have an installation program which sets one system environment variable:
GTK_BASEPATH=C:\GTK

I had these very weird experiences with Norton: at some point in time my
video files became choppy (not fluent). Everything else seemed to be fine.
After months of frustration spent with the video card guys on the phone one
of them told me to uninstall Norton and then play a ...

Hi,
I had a firewall alert on 2 files: rbSolnUpdate.exe and
rbSolnUpdateENU.2.5.0.exe. I haven't been able to find out anything on these
files. They were located in the ...\Local Settings\Temp folder. Now they are

1. My Vodafone/Huawei E220 USB modem is not shown in control panel under
"phones & modems" However, its detected as a DVD/CDRom and USB mass storage
device and the files can be seen in Explorer. When plugging into the USB
port, its unable to find the software for "Other Devices - ...

I'd love to see a mini-icon in the box on the lower-right of my XP
screen that blinked when the disk was busy.  If there was more than
one disk, there would be an icon for each disk.
Some bells and whistles are obvious; red for write activity, green for

The search window has the little dog digging for your file. But the
"scratching" sound it continues to make after a search is very irritating. I
have to close the search window in order to stop it. It could be worse, I
went years not knowing what the sound was. At least now I can ...

i am using XP mediacentre with dell. on the task bar I have a lot of sizing
handles which i can't remove. anyone knows why?
i would expect to have only two of them to separate quick launch, middle
section (programs running) and the notication area.

My PC: desktop running Windows XP Home SP2, fully  updated.  I use WMP
11, RealPlayer 10.5, and QuickTime 7.3.
   I have several videos saved on my computer, in one folder.  They are in
.wmv, .flv, MPEG or QuickTime format.

I've just found this   xx@~~local~~[2].txt  in the cookies folder.
Seen them before. Where do they come from?
JSP

Recently on  an XP PC I have had the problem of applications - especially
Office - taking a considerable time to start up when a dadt fill is clicked.
If the print spooler is stopped the probelm goes away but comes back as soon
as the service is restarted to print something.   ...

Is there anything the will open any file that WinXP recognizes, and allow me
to paste an image over part of it?
I'm working with a law firm, and they have to put a page number on every
document they receive. The page numbers continue from one document to

Just a quickie as I am off to work.
When I am on the internet, I use internet explorer, it is taking ages to
load web site to start with and also taking ages to change to new pages.
I t also take a long time to go back a page

I've just started setting up a new computer (so this might be first question
of many...)
When Windows XP first booted it assigned the computer to the default
workgroup called "Workgroup". Now I've assigned it to the workgroup for my

For a long time, Windows Explorer crashes my PC from time to time, which is
running XP SP2.  This can happen on start-up and needs Ctrl-Alt-Del to Task
Manager, then Restart, at which point a message comes up that Windows
Explorer is not responding.  This happens when Windows ...

Is there any way to customize the right-click menu that pops up when
clicking on an empty area of the desktop? I know that some programs
which add items to this menu, so it must be customisable. I'd like to
be able to add a list of frequently used programs here instead of