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I have searched for "batch file commands" with no success. Can anyone offer me a link to a list of these commands for use with XP.

I know this has been asked before, probably dozens of times. I know I must use search and I have done so. Unfortunately I have no idea what to search for. My question is this. How do I get explorer to open in a expanded form? i.e with drive C expanded.

My computer is an AJP (badged Mitac) 8575 2.4GHz Pentium P4 with 512 MB of memory and running XP Pro. It has an on-board 10/100 Ethernet card. The specification informs me that the computer also has "one Min-PCI slot and one antenna reserved for wireless LAN". Can anyone tell me what is a...

My laptop does not have a floppy but I can easily buy a USB Floppy Drive. Will I be able to boot the computer from a floppy drive run from a USB connector on the laptop? I have a P4 2.4GHz, 512MB laptop running XP Home.

I have one of these USB2 hard disk boxes, containing a 6GB hard disk and it works Ok, once it gets recognised. Why is it hard sometimes to get it recognised? and Why does the USB lead split at the computer end into two identical USB plugs?

My laptop does not have a floppy but I can easily buy a USB Floppy Drive. Will I be able to boot the computer from a floppy drive run from a USB connector on the laptop? I have a P4 2.4GHz, 512MB laptop running XP Home.

I have Nero 5.5 working on a P4 2.4GHz laptop running XP Home and it works OK - with one exception. I downloaded it from the Nero Website and when I try to use the Help Files they cannot be found. Any ideas how I can retrieve them? Also I would like to write a disk that can be used as a...

I wish to make a Bootable CDROM to use with Norton Ghost 2003 but I cannot find the file mscdex.exe. Can anyone help me find this file. I have looked on XP Home and Win98 CDROMS without success.

I can use Norton Ghost to save the necessary file to either a backup disk or CDRW. Unfortunately (fortunately!!) my laptop does not have a floppy. How can I create a startup CDRW for Ghost in place of the Floppy startup disk?

I have just bought a new Canon Printer and I see, on Ebay, that there are a large number of non-Canon compatible cartridges around. Has anyone got experience of their use and could recommend a manufacturer?

Earlier today my XP Home and IE started behaving ina strange way. If I am browsing a site, such as this forum, and i am given a link that interests me then I click on it. A window is opened that is about 15mm by 15mm. it does it all the time. How can I get the window to open at a...

I have just had the usual irretrievable crash and I have almost reloaded everything. So far no real problems but I have one annoying niggle. The system boots up as normal and gives me the normal desktop screen but on top of this screen there is always a window showing one of my folders...

I have found a user manual in pdf format and I can download it with no problem. The page size is about A5. When I print it on A4 without any resizing it prints bang in the middle of the paper. i cannot find any way of checking the Acrobat page size nor any way of setting the print position on...

I have a P4 2.4GHz 512MB laptop running Windows XP Home. I would like to use this laptop to talk to my SonyEricsson T68i mobile phone via the Infrared port. So far I have has no luck. When I look at the IRDA settings under Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device manager/Infrared Devices/IrDa...

I know this is dumb question, but then, lets face it, I am dumb. My Word is in a window and not full screen. The size of the window is too large for the screen and cannot access the top menus etc. This means that I (but not everyone else) cannot move the window downwards to give me access to...

I have windows XP Home and NTL broadband connection. I would like to send faxes from such programs as Word 97. I have a 56K modem which is recognised by the Device Manager and gives the corrected answers when "queried" under the diagnostic tag. I have set up the Faxing Services and have a...

When I try copying a group of files in My Documents I often come across the error message: Thumbs.db, a database file. This file has information attached to it that might be lost if you continue copying. The contents of the file will not be affected. Do you want to continue copying anyway...

I am about to start on my first webpage. I have written a very simple webpage, using Word, and I saved it as HTML. I tried to "see" it in IE6 but all i see is the script. I used View/Source to see the source of an existing webpage, saved it as txt and converted it to HTML using Word. I...

I have had Pro and now home editions running on my computers and about eight times I have foiund the computer to be running extremely slowly. ctrl/alt/delete takes about 5 minutes to respond and then I find that the system is continuously hogging about 98% of the cpu. In the past I have done...

I have a P4 2.4GHz laptop with a SIS 650 mobo. There are two 200 pin slots for DDR PC2100 memory. At present i have 256MB sticks in each slot. I would like to upgrade. Can replace just one of the 256MB sticks for a 512MB stick or must I replace both. What I am basically asking is this -...