My laptop has wireless capability but when I'm at home it is hooked up to
DSL. The baloon  that tells me what the status is of the wireless connection
keeps popping up as it changes ( I live in a spot that doesn't get a strong
connection ).

I've noticed something odd.
For ANY folder (NTFS, XP SP3) a right click / Properties shows a
partly coloured R/O box, suggesting the folder contains some R/O
files.

i have two users on my welcome screen, both with admin rights
both users are showing unread mail, but the wrong accounts - i have tried
tweakui  and checked out kb 304148 as suggested in other posts
disabled notifications for the time being - but i would like to resolve this

I did a check through previous post and a few people seem to have had
similar problems without specific details, so im going in for as much detail
as I have. I have a relatively new laptop (Nov 2007, not used much as
migrated from old machine which i hung onto). The machine hasnt ...

My machine is dual boot, with XP Pro on Partition 1 (C:) and XP x64 on
Partition 2 (D:)
I had a disk problem (raid drivers, blue screen crashes) on C:
I was able to backup D: partition using Paragon Drive Backup, but C: was not

I wasn't able to create a NTBTLOG.TXT file. I need to see what causes my
computer not being able to restart properly.
So, I went to msconfig and had a look at my boot.ini file.
question 1) the checkbox are greyed out. Meaning, I cannot check the

From a DOS batch script (under WinXP) I redirect some Echo output to a new textfile e.g.
Echo blah blah >myfile.txt
Echo .... >>myfile.txt
The resulting file is saved as Unicode style instead of ANSI.

I have a problem when attempting to install any program on my HP notebook PC.
The installation will initiate, and progress one  - three stages further,
when the whole installation process suddenly terminates itself. No error
message, or anything other notifications are given. It ...

In our office the admins tend to be crazy. They configured the ScreenSaver activation
after 8 (!) minutes of no mouse movement.
After screen saver activation I have to re-logon and re-type my password. This is very inconvenient.
Unfortunately I cannot change the screen saver ...

I have windows XP SP2. Recently I had to update from MSN Messenger 7.0 to the
new version of windows live messenger. I don't know whether it is a
coincidence or not, but every now and then I am unable to open some .pps
entensions. Would updating to windows live messenger cause ...

Quick question; do you have to have SP2 installed first before firing
in SP3 or can you if say installing a clean copy of XP go straight to
SP3?
Best regards

I have the Microsoft Optical Mouse Blue.  Has worked great.  Recently, it
takes at least 3 clicks to open web pages and email and pretty much anything
I do on the computer.  I changed the batteries so that is not the issue. Is
this a memory problem with my computer or something ...

Symantec destroyed Veritas Backup Exec Desktop
I am looking for a, corporate, desktop backup application for 'X' number of WinXP notebooks.
Requirements:
Has its own built-in scheduler

After playing with my UPS, I can see entries in the system log with a yellow
triangle, (where I've been switching the mains power off and on),
...is there any way to get these pop out in system tray, or appear on the
destop as they appear ?

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