I have my desktop shortcuts arranged into what I consider logical groupings.
Occasionally many of the shortcuts get moved around, disturbing my groupings
(and me as well). I think this happens when an application adds a shortcut to
the desktop programmatically -- as opposed to my ...

Ok, first off I hope this is the right place to post this, if not I am sorry.
I have a Windows XP machine on the domain because I need to add a specific
group in order to access our share. My question is how can I make it so when
I go to a users machine and try to access this ...

I just ran a scan using WinDirStat and found that my windows\installer is
holding 7.4 gigs of hard drive space.  62 of the files all have different
names but occupy the same amount of space (16.1 MB), were created at exactly
the same time and have the same "last accessed" ...

i am giving one of my computers away and would like to know if i can leave
the o/s
in it , its a retail version of windows xp home?
sure hope one of you fine folks can help this old man out.

I have Windows XP professional SP2 on my Dell D510 laptop and I often use
the provided defargment to defrag my hard disk. After defragmentation, it
shows a report with a list of files that are still fragmented and the number
of fragments. It shows some ridiculous numbers as ...

Situation is as follows:
XPPro SP2
40 gig hard drive been running nearly full for several months before I could
get around to offloading pictures.

When I right mouse on the desktop and select "Properties",
it takes over 3 minutes for the Display Properties to appear.
It is not a right mouse context issue, as the same thing happens
when I run "control desk.cpl" from a shell, and also when I

Is anyone else here using old KPF v2.1.5, Windows XP SP2, and with this
KB951748? If so, then are you seeing any problems like Windows Explorer
crashing randomly (e.g., ntdll.dll) when using Windows Explorer?
I uninstalled this KB update and restarted explorer.exe (it crashed

I have been setting up and configuring Roaming Profiles for the past couple
of months for all my users.  All has been going well so far.  Now I am
enabling my own and for some reason, it won't replicate to the server.
I first thougtht it might be a space issue because my Outlook ...

1.  I have a program that always starts when I reboot.  It is in the task bar
on the right.  How do I tell it NOT to start?
2.  When I get an attachment that is a .gif file, it won't open.  How do I
make the setting for Photoshop to open it automatically?

I'm on a Vista Home Premium PC - connecting to an XP Pro PC through Remote
Desktop Connection.  While on the remote session, I open the My Computer (on
the XP PC), and I can see all the drives on that PC plus all the drives on
my Vista PC.  I can copy files between these 2 PCs.  ...

XP Home SP3
I have a couple of entries in the Startup tab of Msconfig relating to
programmes that have unistalled long ago.  I also could not find them in
regedit.

i understand from area code rules help
that if i want to dial someone in another city using phone dialer by
creating a
rule i don't need to dial area code of that person everytime that i dial

I have a Compaq Presario c300 using Windows XP.  I can see the DVD
drive in BIOS and Device Manager.  However, when I place a DVD movie
or software CD in the drive, the Autoplay does not turn on, nor can I
see the DVD/CD files, or play the movie via My Computer. It simply

Hi, I have a major problem and am wondering if anyone can help inform m
on any of these things.  Thank you very much in advance!!
I have Windows XP the home version, on a Gateway desktop computer
probably at least 6 or 7 years old.  For a few weeks or more, it wa