My Dell Dimension with XP suddenly was giving messages when I booted up that
it couldn't find progams associated with several  *.lnk files.  I tried to
run a scandisk, and later to run Norton Systemworks from the CD, and it
couldn't start .exe programs.  So I reinstalled Windows. ...

A friend received a used laptop with xp pro with an admin account and a
guest account on it.  Both accounts are password protected, and she has only
the password for the guest account.  She is limited with what she can do
with it.

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Is there any way I can entice my XP machine to shut itself off after a set
period of time -- say an hour or a half hour regardless of activity or lack
there of?   If there is no way to have XP itself do it,  perhaps a third
party utility or script could do the job?   Instead of ...

I want to be able to copy files between 'C' drives on two systems on a
LAN, both running XPSP2 with all the updates.
I have turned on sharing on both C drives, but this does not seem to
be enough, I still cannot access a whole range of subfolders.

Then open 3D Application or apply settings Catalyst Control Center in Win Xp
SP2 32 bit (same as SP3 RC) I have reboot:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x10000050
(0xe1aa4304, 0x00000000, 0xbf8af5d9, 0x00000001). A dump was saved in:

Windows Update keeps directing me to update for Macs whereas I have a pc and
have never had difficulty before. Any ideas please?

My browser is Opera.  When I posted to the official user forum asking how to
set the ctrl+o and ctrl+s windows to the size and position they were the last
time I used it even after a system restart, an expert told me "I assume
you're using Microsoft Windows. Unfortunately, the ...

I need a text editor (actually just a viewer) that identifies the line the
cursor is on.
Can I turn on line numbers or a status line that shows line numbers in
anything that comes with XP?

II have Dell Dimension 4700 Windows XP SP2....when I switch on my computer
instead of starting normally it goes through the procedure at lighning speed
but stops before it gets to the sign in password screen. I just get a black
screen. I then have to turn off manually by pressing ...

When i create shoctcuts on my desktop, they work for as long as I dont
reboot.  Once I reboot and log back in again,a ny shortcuts created are
removed.
Any idea's as to why/how this is happening?

My PC running XP goes into hibernation even though I turned it off through
control panel/poweroptions/hiberation, can anyone shine some light on this???

From time to time, I get an error message that says there is a problem with
vbscript, with a code of 800a03ee (I have to click "OK" to get rid of the
message in order to do anything else, so I can't say exactly what the message
is now).

Incredibly, almost a year after I posted the message below to this
group, the problem has returned.  (It went away without any deliberate
action on my part.  My PC clock suddently started GAINING 15 minutes
an hour.  It's almost certainly software related - among other things,