Does anyone know of a tool that will extract the author information from a
list of files?  I have thousands of old files on a shared server from many
authors that have accumulated over the years and I need to sort them out.  
One thing that would really help me is if I could sort ...

People just don't want vista.. it stinks big time.. and as I have said.. you
will see that more people will still sell XP
until windows7 is out...
Vista is just too horrible, it's a joke of an OS, a worthless piece of

I have advised a number of people to hold off on installing SP3 for
obvious reasons.
One has actually encountered problems as he had automatic updates on and
SP3 was installed. I had him use Add/Remove Progs to remove SP3 and he

I've got a computer with a crash problem that happens occasionally (approx.
once a week). The minidump analysis is below. It seems to indicate a problem
with the parallel port. Since this is not being used I disabled it in
Windows. I want to know if there's any further action ...

What is a good Free virus program? I've had it with McAfee, it uses way to
many resources, and is getting too expensive for me...

I recently had a crash due to Norton Ghost. Re-installed winxp fresh
installation but now trying to install other programs and some of them want
to install to my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and settings\wrong
user\local settings\application data etc.

On a client maching running xp2 we are receiving dcom error every 5 minutes
error 1009
DCOM was unable to communcate with the computer XP37 using any of the
configured procols but XP37 is another clients machine running xp2 which are

Hi
Cold somebody please advise how to turn on and off particular features in
SP3 via Group Policy, and where to get the group policy settings files from
for the DC's

My problem is:
When I start my PC I get the option of selecting what mode of XPPro I want
to start in, Safe mode, Last known configuration, etc. Regardless of what
mode I chose I get the blue screen showing Windows XP is load. The after a

On setting up a third user on our XPHome laptop, an unnecessary 'please wait
while Windows installs...' message cycle begins whenever an Office programme
is clicked.  The process looks for the msi file on a network that does not
exist, but is not necessary in any case because if ...

Recently had an XP crash due to a bad Norton Ghost download. Have
re-installed a fresh copy of winxp on the same drive but trying to re-install
some of my other programs (notable adobe) the setup files keep trying to load
into my old user account e.g. C:\Documents and

what could the possible reasons be with a ps2 optical mouse suddenly not
working correctly.  It will work then all of a sudden start to jump around or
not respond.
I've tried a few mice resulting in the same problem.  Changed the surface that

In the past, if I had a windows problem that I could not figure out, I would
put in the windows disk and go over the top of the OS with a new install
(without formatting) and it always seemed to fix my problem. I tried this
today to fix a registry problem and I am getting the ...

i recently reformatted my computer and reinstalled windows xp onto it
Everything is working except for the sound. The computer will no
recognize that there are any devices plugged in.:confused: i have a clu
perhaps that the sound card was within the motherboard and i needed th

I know this must be very simple, but I cannot figure out how to make Outlook
start automatically on a reboot?