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I have kind of a strange request. Does anyone know of a command I can use to completely redraw/reset the entire Desktop and Taskbar in Windows XP?? I have an installation of XP that I cannot (for the next 6 months or so) get rid of--due to special programs that cannot be replaced at this time...

When I try to play quicktime movie clips that were saved to my harddrive the playback starts out ok (the beginning of the clip starts to play ok) but then a "green" screen pops over the playback. I figured this was some sort of protection quicktime put into their player to keep people from...

Just thought I would throw this out and see if any of the rest of you have any experience with this. After upgrading to SP2 (winXP Pro) I have been unable to sucessfully run the "Repair Install" option. (found previous version of WinXP....choose R to repair the installed version of Windows)...

Doing a clean reinstall of WinXP on a friends machine...do I need to update with SP1 before I upgrade with SP2?? or can I just apply SP2 and ignore SP1?? LOL....thought I would ask to see if anyone knew the answer, before I really screwed thing sup... Thanks.

How do I go about adding a program to the "pop up" windowsXP Pro dialog box after I insert a CD into a drive?? For example: When I put a video CD into my CDRom drive a dialog box opens asking: --------------------------------------- VIDEO CD (E:) Windows can perform the same action each...

I have had this in the past and I always solved it by doing a repair install of XP.... This time someone called me with the same problem and they only have a "stupid" Restore Disk...so.... Upon booting up Windows XP everything seems to progress but we end up with what looks like a normal...

Tim Sweeney, Head programmer at Epic Games and Creator of the Hugely Successful line of Unreal Gaming Engines Speaks out about the "footdragging" going on behind the new 64 bit processor scenes. The bottom line: "Either Move your Tail, or get the hell outta the way" (well, that is the gist...

This is a very strange one. This happened before and I fixed it with a reinstall of winXP but it just started again. After starting up windows XP (either startup or reboot, happens either way) I end up with a Totally blank computer screen. The backround shows up but there are NO desktop...

I need to be able to specify the computer to automatically shutdown at a pre-determined time. This is what I have tried already, but it did not work (or I did something wrong--do not know which. Created a shortcut points to shutdown.exe added to my scheduled tasks folder and told it to...

Can any kind soul enlighten me on the command (or shortcut command) that allows you to access the old version of Media player (The one that uses less resources??) I know I read it here somewhere, but after an hour of fruitlessly searching through the forums I have come up empty handed. Thanks

This assistant thing keeps trying to change the grammar in my note !! How do I get it to leave me alone ??? SCREENSHOT:

I accidently pushed the sleep button on my cheap keyboard and put WinXP Pro into standby mode. How do you Wake the computer up?? (other than reboot-- here I thought I was pretty xp savvy...I HAVE BEEN HUMBLED.:mad: Thanks

I just downloaded the soundblaster update from the front page. D/l ok and started to install, but the installer had a whole lotta ?????????? displayed in the dialog boxes during installation. I re-d/l and got the same thing. Appearently it is the correct program but something is strange...

Forgive me,I might have been halucinating, but wasn't there a post on the front page yesterday about a little program that that could check for corrupted data on burned cds?? I could have sworn I saw it, but when I went back later there was nothing there. Anybody???? Am I way beyond...

Well, It was predicted in these forums some time ago and I guess that it is GOING TO HAPPEN !! :mad: :mad: Now where did I put that Corp Key generator and Discover :D :D

My IE started showing those damn 'shortened dropdown menus' rather than the entire dropdown so that when I hit any of the dropdowns (file edit view favorites tools) I am shown only the first 5 or so options and to see the rest I have to wait with my curse over the bottom pointing arrows until...

..and when I right click on the start button and use properties->start menu customize->advanced-> x (box)- run command it STILL does not show up:mad: How do I find the entry in the registry that migt correct this and put my run button back??? or is there another solution?? Thank you

Currently I am limited to 800x600 resolution (that will change in the future). But NOW I have the following problem. When I look at the programs menu (the one that pops up from the start button) I cannot see the last column of listed programs --The right side column is cut off. I don't...

Note: The KGen referred to was discussed in another forum. I could not tell you how accurate it is because I have not used it for that purpose. Out of curiousity, more than anything, I started playing with it to see what all the fuss was about and I noticed several things... This program...

Got a million of em. To start: :rolleyes: I am PRETTY sure it is....Poe-Tay-Toe. :D