I just installed SP3 for XP this morning. After installing the SP I have
been trying all day to get OE to stop with the pop-up messages. I had read a
post from someone else that mentioned to reset the Compact Check Count if
your system crashed during compaction. Oddly enough this ...

I used a third party software and deleted it. However some of the icons such
as my documents, turn off  menu (stand by, restart etc) did not restore to
default. It was suppose to. I used tweak xp to repair icon. It didnt work. I
think somehow the default icon were deleted. Is ...

I know how to pull a substring out of a variable, but I don't know how
to get a substring out of a variable in a for loop.
When I try the folluwing command...
  for %G in (Input_Files\*) do echo %G:~12%

hi i am at the end of my tether,i deleted flash player accidentaly,cannot get
it back on,i keep getting a message another installation is running ,cancel i
know what it is but not experienced eough to find it ,would like remote help
if anybody willing to put upwith me,i dont even ...

When I install XP, do I have to install all the windows updates
individually?
Thanks.

I'm confused as to what exactly should appear in this host file. All I do
know is that the line "localhost 127.0.0.1" is legitimate. However, I'm
using Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5, and it has added hundreds of what are
clearly phoney domains to this list (there are so many the hosts ...

I have a conundrum.  I installed WinXP home on a 160GB drive on a Dell
Optiplex PC. After setting up all of the programs and setitngs, I
moved it to a Compaq Presario PC. It is the only drive on the primary
controller. When the system gets past the POST it gets stuck at a

Although I have burned many DVDs in the past, several days ago I developed a
problem. When I look at my drive with Windows Explorer, it shows up as a
DVD-RW drive. But when I put in a disk, it becomes a CD drive, and gives a
message that there is no disk in the drive. If I put in ...

Because WP Service Pack 3 is so large, and I am on dial-up, I downloaded it
at the local library which has broadband.  I brought it home on a CD and went
to install it.  It refused to unload the files and crashed my computer.  What
is going on here.  I suspect, knowing Microsoft, ...

I'm running out of PCs to post messages with. It seems like I get a few
weeks of messages with each PC. I'm finally down to my laptop and yesterday
after I installed 4 updates I wasn't able to post here anymore. I did a total
wipe out of my hard drive and now it's like factory ...

I'm missing a couple of .dll files on my computer..Is this the right place
to ask the question how to get them back?

How can I make XP see an external USB drive as an internal hard drive.
There is an article posted at
http://www.msfn.org/board/A-Multiple-Partition-USB-Stick-with-Mult-t69211.html#e
ntry474505
that claims to show how its done, but it has a link to a driver that no

I would like to create an account for my wife who is a normal user.  In the
new computer, there is no password Administrator account.  I changed it to
password protected and tried to create a new account for my wife.  It said I
must create an account with administrator right ...

How may I remove all traces of Windows Indexing? I've tried everything
I can think of but it still interferes and causes my computer to
stumble along. I get a repeating message in Outlook saying that an
error has occurred and I need to send a report to MS...Send...Don't

Again, as in my previous post, I am having a problem in my son's
account on a computer running XP Home SP2 and IE7. My administrator account,
the main account, has no problems whatsoever. His limited account, and if
changed to an administrator account, suffers a "scripting error" ...