Hmmm, if we can get paramedics, or better yet, Gregg House out to Redmond
today, I wonder if that could prevent the assisted suicide of Win XP Pro
expected today?

I've just been using google to download some material from the internet.
All of a sudden what is downloaded is the same thing no matter what the
request is.  Can't fugure out what is going on.
I am continuing to download a sales pitch for a specific type of software.

Does anyone know what "recipe" is used to determine the list of
installed software components in the "Add or Remove Programs" applet,
with "Show Updates" un-ticked ?
It is obviously looking at the keys under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft

I have four partition, the first is the original XP installation, on
the second partition I copied a fresh install from another drive using
Acronis.
Now, when I try to boot to the second partition (XP bootmanager), it

Just out of curiosity, where is the list of applications that appear on the
start button kept?  Is it a file?  Is it a specific folder?  Some of the
applications are above the line and some are below the line.  Is that 2
separate folders or something else?  It doesn't seem to be ...

Has anyone encountered a change in the color of the taskbar, it has always
been blue and now is a shade of gray.  I have checked the task bar and start
menu properties dialoge box to see if someone change settings and I do not
see any option to change the taskbar color in general ...

after every reboot display property and themes change?
I want to know how to set them permanently like they used to be two
weeks ago? it changes from classic to win xp small text and Icons.

I have a shared print driver from a Windows 2000 Server. This workstation is
XP professional and has the shared print driver on this workstation. The
local workstation print folder continously shows that this shared print
driver has a number "1" in residing in the print que. I ...

Every time I close Outlook Express, I get the following message: "to free up
disk space, outlook express can compact messages."
I have read about this and I understand it does not diminish the integrity
of my messages.

I have an odd problem with Windows XP / windows explorer. When I transfer
images from my digital camera to my pc the thumbnails are fine. Sometimes
when I transfer the next batch of photos, the thumbnails for the previous
photos are still there and the new thumbnails are not. To ...

i was wondering if i can connect another computer to this one and restore my
computer from disc using the other computer.
i had a virus that ate into my system deeply no amount of scanning Etc would
remove it or detect it.

My computer will not connet to the internet when the computer finish updating
the "software ditribution service 3.0".  I have tried using system restore to
return back to original setting and the internet connection is working fine
in the original setting. However, the computer ...

I have set up a computer using a video card that supports dual monitors.  I
can see that because when I go into Display settings I can see both 1 and 2
and can select either.  What I am getting is not a true dual monitor but the
same screen on both monitor 1 and 2.  I tried going ...

When i plus a usb device into my laptop, it automatically open Photoshop.
Can someone tell me how to un-associate these
Thanks
A

I have two desktops running Windows XP on our home LAN and a laptop running
Windows XP connected to our WLAN.
I have mapped a network drive on the laptop to my NAS, where most of our
media files are stored. When connected, everything works fine.