I'll try to explain whats going on. When I turn on my computer my log in
comes up it just started that yesterday. I press okay then my computer comes
up but it does not have the taskbar, it just white, so I can't press start to
get to my control panel. I have to use the windows ...

I've never used powertoys before and have in fact just heard about them.
Before I even try something though(software-wise), I like to hear others'
experiences. So:
1. Any known bugs/difficulties using them?

Have lost Hibernate icon in "turn off computer" and have read some of the
N.G. advices that it would return by completely installing SP3.  After
installing SP3, hibernate icon did not return. Did I do something wrong?
Thanks for any helpful advice.

Is there a compression program that can compress files to a very small size?
I mean I need a program that can make a 100MB file --> 50MB or less if
possible. I tried WinRar, WinZip, and KGB Archiver. But they r not effective.
Thanks for help

    I am considering putting RAID 1 on the new machine I am building, with XP
Pro.
Reading the documentation on the Intel motherboard it seems one needs to do
the <F6> tinkering with the BIOS at the very beginning of the installation of

I have a text file that 8 numbers per row separated by a space with a
carriage return after the last number in the row. How can I insert a carriage
return after each number in the text file so I only have 1 number per row.
In other words I want to change:

I recovered some files recently from a drive I couldn't access after a recent
upgrade to XP SP3 and when I open the txt file, which I originally wrote in
Notepad, the text itself is, well, messed up.
Is there anyway to recover the text from these files?  A different setting?

my system crashed system with a blue screen.
I paid to have my data recovered.
I replaced my hard drive and started from scratch.
Now I can not install an old drawing program which I had running on the old

SO I think I know what I did to cause this problem (using a third party
defragger with a SATA HD without having a hotfix that I didn't know about
until I had the problem...see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941715/en)
but now every time I try to boot it just says "disk read ...

When trying to perform a defrag I get the following message: Disk
Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is sceduled to run on the volume (C:).
From previuos info Chkdsk is suppossed to start itself upon a re-boot. But it
does not. I downloaded a third party 30 day trial Disk ...

Windows XP Pro - SP 2
Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot
find the hardware device. (Code 41)
This is the code error that I get when I look at the properties of my newly

Money's tight and anyway, I've always been completely satisfied with my
Office 97 and the upgrade to Outlook 98 but I just have to get off this
Pentium II (running 98SE). So I purchased a 3G P4 (Asus) machine for a very
low price and have loaded my Office 97 onto XP Pro. (I've ...

XP Pro, SP2. Have disk. Retail version. Not OEM.
I have a exclaimation mark in my network adapters on the "Packet scheduler
miniport 4". It says "This device is not working properly because Windows
cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)".

hi gurus
can anyone here give a step by step on how to replace a corrupted
explore.exe file with a good one.
Thanks a bunch

I think you have overthought all your problems and have come to the
assuption that your customers are bad people.  So you have all these
security measures implemented that do nothing but screw up your operating
system and alienate your customers.  People aren't stealling your ...