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Yes and part of the problem is fixed. The icons are correctly displayed on the right in the Taskbar, BUT...The "autohide the taskbar" will NOT stay checked and the "Keep the taskbar on top of other windows" will not remain unchecked after boot ups. I can change these 2 settings after the...

Problems with quicklaunch tool bar & autohide after reinstalling XP. I had 5 buttons in the quicklauch toolbar prior to the reinstall. These were all in the lower right hand side of the quicklauch toolbar (right next to the system tray). Afte I reinstalled XP they're all on the far left and...

I found this for my problem: Restore Missing CD or DVD Drive Reports have filtered in that CD or DVD drives will suddenly cease to exist in XP systems. Most often this has been reported in conjunction with program installations and Windows upgrades, but it has also happened for no apparent...

I was installing some software last night and after a reboot at one point I noticed my 2 DVD drives wew no longer showing up in My Computer. I went through Device Manager and saw they are listed there, but with the yellow question mark showing their status. I tried to do an uninstall of the...

Something is really screwed up! Here's an example: I get an email with a link and when i click on the link a new browser opens up, but it hangs there, never opening the page. Hitting stop and refresh will force it to work. Another example: At Carmax.com you can sort the order of milege...

Wassup with bootmagic? I thought that was for multiple operating systems. Yes...it's legit and worked before. No i have not contacted them as I thought this forum might offer a simple answer to both issues.

A problem and a question: When I start to use partition magic 7.0 (8.0?) in XP the program lauches and then freezes my whole PC while in the splash screen. Nothing works or shows signs of life forcing me to hit the reset button. This is happened before and after a complete reformat and...

"warez'ers use that tactic all the time for "click on" counts... So how do you avoid wasting time with these? How can you find out which will be real?

I go to site with pics. Click on pic for what should be a new page with that pic. instead I end up at a new site with NEW pics to select. This process ends up as a repetative circle. In other words I think I'm going to one location for a particular thing (photo) and I end up elswhere. Is...

Here's the problem: I'll go to a web site with images, and when I click on the link for the sitewith the images I want I get a page with more images again (similiar to the one I was on). Repeat process. I never get to a page with the images I want. Any way to validate this linking without...

How did you find that? I did do a reistall of XP over my old XP last week, so i reinstalled Service Pak1 and I was able to active the firewall after rebooting. THANKS! I tried searching Technet with some of the terms listed in the symptoms, but I got nowhere. What's your secret?

Remote Access Connection Manager failed to start because it could not create buffers. Restart the computer. Access is denied. and this: Remote Access Connection Manager failed to start because the Point to Point Protocol failed to initialize. The request is not supported. IT ALL APPEARS TO...

and:Remote Access Connection Manager failed to start because it could not create buffers. Restart the computer. Access is denied. I am the only adm. and user acct on system. restarting fails to change this.

where do find or active this event viewer?

ijust noticed that when I go to the Internet Connection Firewall service (ICF) I get a similiar error when trying to start it. The error is a dependency group failed to start (error 1068). Looking at the dependencies the only one that cannot be manually started is the Remote Access Connection...

I checked these and it appears ok. Do I even need ICS if it's a sole computer?

using Windows HP home. When I go to the advance tab and click to enable my connection firewall I get the following message: "An error occurred while Internet Connection Sharing was being enabled. the Dependency Service or group failed to start". I am the only computer in the house on the...

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In my Documents and Settings folder I have the usual folders for Favorites, Desktop settings, etc... I also have a "UserData" folder that contains other folders with names that have 8 letters or numbers (it appears to be random generation). The files are empty. What is this UserDatafolder...

i need an icon My wife won't remember Alt-F4. What can be created through a short cut icon to shut down XP?