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This is really frustrating. I start a long file download ... say 30 minutes to an hour, and I accidentally tap the Esc (escape) key and the "File Download" dialog disappears without warning! I might be 55 minutes into a 1 hr. download, and then, bingo ... it's gone! I would expect a courtesy "Do you really want to cancel the download? [Cancel] [Continue]" at that point. I'm wondering if perhaps there is a checkbox hidden on some tab of some Control Panel dialog in Windows XP that can be set to avoid this problem. Anyone aware of such, or any other workaround??? Many thanks, <<Henry>>

win xp home sp2 alienware notebook. EI 7 I use alta vista as my home page but, when I search in the address bar of the browser I get directed to ask.com it used to be MSN. How can I change it back? or is it in the registry? Greg

win xp home sp2 alienware notebook. EI 7 I use alta vista as my home page but, when I search in the address bar of the browser I get directed to ask.com it used to be MSN. How can I change it back? or is it in the registry? Greg

"tta1989" wrote: > This is the solution that worked for me. I used information posted in 2 > different topics for this problem. > > This was one - But I had to change a couple things. I listed step-by-step > instructions below. > "All you need to do is go into your windows\system32 folder and find the file > xpsp3res.dll file and add a .bak at the end of it. Now try running windows > update and it should update fine and add a new xpsp3res.dll file to your > windows\system32 folder." > > Follow this exactly and it should get you up and going. - Execute this in > order. > 1.) do as listed above - Go to the win…

Trying to upgrade from Win98 SE to WinXP Home. While the computer is prepairing to install the new OS I get an error message that it can't find the file "ftdisk.sys" on the CD. I get the option to retry but I get the same results. The CD is not running when it's attempting to copy the file. The CD ROM does work. Any help would be appriciated. Rick J.

Trying to upgrade from Win98 SE to WinXP Home. While the computer is prepairing to install the new OS I get an error message that it can't find the file "ftdisk.sys" on the CD. I get the option to retry but I get the same results. The CD is not running when it's attempting to copy the file. The CD ROM does work. Any help would be appriciated. Rick J.

I have 5 win2k3 32bit enterprise dual core servers with 2GB of ram but on my one test win2k3 64bit enterprise quad core with 4GB of ram server I have notice that my four 32bit Apps using 600MB each randomly fail every day while the 32bit servers run them stable for months does any one have any idea how to get these 32bit aps to run better on the win2k3 64bit Enterprise server, I know it must be the RAM I tried the 32bit server with 4GB of ram and PAE and they are nothing but a waste of time as they crash the apps hourly (two high memory usage apps will try to use the same memory location and crash constantlly - microsoft hides this information really …

I've got 5 computers networked on a server all work great except one of the computers (wireless-linksys-N series) that when you go and start the program it will open the program but the data fields sitting on the server are not there(can't see the server drive). If I first go to my computer and double click on the mapped drive where the data resides (y)on the server it comes up without problems. then I close the my computer and start the program and the data is now there..It seems that the server is sleeping but the other programs (word etc..) start fine. I've checked and have all settings on do not shutdown (only the monitor) any ideas? all other computers o…

Hi, I have an issue when trying to play a 30 minute MPEG, I believe its MPEG1 because not all MPEGs have this issue. When trying to play a 30 minute video clip, any player shows its only 20 seconds long and it will only play those 20 seconds of video, but the audio will continue to play. I've tried reinstalling/updating drivers, reinstalled DirectX 9.0 and it doesn't seem to work. The only thing that works is I can convert it to AVI format and this solves the issue. I have a P4 3.0 Ghz with 1.5gig of Ram and an ATI Radeon 9250 video card My second PC plays them correctly. Anyone ever seen this issue? Thanks Dave

Hi, I have an issue when trying to play a 30 minute MPEG, I believe its MPEG1 because not all MPEGs have this issue. When trying to play a 30 minute video clip, any player shows its only 20 seconds long and it will only play those 20 seconds of video, but the audio will continue to play. I've tried reinstalling/updating drivers, reinstalled DirectX 9.0 and it doesn't seem to work. The only thing that works is I can convert it to AVI format and this solves the issue. I have a P4 3.0 Ghz with 1.5gig of Ram and an ATI Radeon 9250 video card My second PC plays them correctly. Anyone ever seen this issue? Thanks Dave

Hi, I have WindowsXP MCE, all latest updates from Microsoft. Yesterday I connected to my computer using RDP from work, when I got back I found that my Media Center has a black screen, nevertheless the MC application itself is visible when I launch it using a green button on remote. In case of all other application I can see only black screen and lonely mouse cursor. During computer restart the screen become blank momentary after Windows boot screen, that mean I cannot see login dialog box. The remote access application are working without any problem, I still can access the computer by RDP or VNC. Any ideas? Thank you in advance, Leonid

Hi, I have WindowsXP MCE, all latest updates from Microsoft. Yesterday I connected to my computer using RDP from work, when I got back I found that my Media Center has a black screen, nevertheless the MC application itself is visible when I launch it using a green button on remote. In case of all other application I can see only black screen and lonely mouse cursor. During computer restart the screen become blank momentary after Windows boot screen, that mean I cannot see login dialog box. The remote access application are working without any problem, I still can access the computer by RDP or VNC. Any ideas? Thank you in advance, Leonid

Hi, I have WindowsXP MCE, all latest updates from Microsoft. Yesterday I connected to my computer using RDP from work, when I got back I found that my Media Center has a black screen, nevertheless the MC application itself is visible when I launch it using a green button on remote. In case of all other application I can see only black screen and lonely mouse cursor. During computer restart the screen become blank momentary after Windows boot screen, that mean I cannot see login dialog box. The remote access application are working without any problem, I still can access the computer by RDP or VNC. Any ideas? Thank you in advance, Leonid

Hey, im working over Windows XP Tablet Edition. I have a network card that was working properly but it suddenly uninstalled, not by me. I dont use the wired network cause i have wireless but when I tried to work on a wired network i realized that my card drivers were missing so i tried to install them but i get the Access Denied error always, it seems to copy the driver files but it fail, Im in an Admin account (in fact, the only account). Any suggestions? -- Oscar Narvaez . Software Development Ing.

I HAVEN'Tdone one thing to my program just installed it and here I am listening to you.I have been access denied and parameter wrong so many times today ,last night and yesterday.Everyone thinks they can help and I have tried everyones suggestions to NO avail.So YOU tell me when you can't change from one person back into the administrator because it only exists inside the UAC and there are guards standing at the gates with shields in their hands blocking my way WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I THINK OF THE UAC? I need entry to the UAC and the parameters may change.I'd rather have my 95 or ME back.vista ultimate SUCKS THE BIG ONE. -- bettyboopsblue "Jimmy B…

I HAVEN'Tdone one thing to my program just installed it and here I am listening to you.I have been access denied and parameter wrong so many times today ,last night and yesterday.Everyone thinks they can help and I have tried everyones suggestions to NO avail.So YOU tell me when you can't change from one person back into the administrator because it only exists inside the UAC and there are guards standing at the gates with shields in their hands blocking my way WHAT THE HECK SHOULD I THINK OF THE UAC? I need entry to the UAC and the parameters may change.I'd rather have my 95 or ME back.vista ultimate SUCKS THE BIG ONE. -- bettyboopsblue "Jimmy B…

XRite has finally released drivers and an updated version of iMatch for the Vista x64 platform. At long last I will be able to put the copy of Vista x64 onto my computer (this has been sitting on my shelf since last February).

The guis' in My Network Places (under XP Pro SP 2) have disappared does anybody have a way to restore them?.....Thanx in advance

The guis' in My Network Places (under XP Pro SP 2) have disappared does anybody have a way to restore them?.....Thanx in advance

Hi, An office PC running XP Professional had KB938829 installed and after rebooting got a blue screen stop:C0000221 with checksum error on gdi32.dll CHKDSK found nothing wrong when the system was booted from another partition, so I overwrote the c:/windows/system32/gdi32.dll dated 19.6.2007 with one from another update from August and the stop went away. Reloaded KB938829 again and the blue screen stop came back. The 19.6.2007 gdi32.dll was back. Repeated the fix and the problem went away again - it seems like this is a bad fix at least for one HP system, and a google search brings up 2 other similar cases from the last 24 hours - unfortunately writte…

Hi, When I try and open certain programs, the MSI Installer insists on reinstalling my Microsoft Word 2000. Event ID 1001. This has been going on since I had a bit of problems with my machine. I had to use the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility to remove a program that would not uninstall, and it did a job on my machine. I was able to put it back together 99.9% except for this little glitch. I checked the registry to see if the permissions for installer were set correctly, and I think I might have found the problem. In the MS support page Titled: "Windows Installer-related event IDs are logged in the Application log when you start an Office program" it explains h…

Suppose you had problems which disappeared after some time. Situation 1 I boot partition G, which has Wxp, and eventually I try, repeatedly, to run an app, which has run many times before, but it just starts-up then the desktop appears. I shutdown then boot partition F where I work for a while then shutdown F and boot G. I then try to run the app and discover that it runs just fine. Situation 2 I try to boot partition H, which has Vista and has booted many times before, but the boot process only reaches the Microsoft "moving indicator". I tryed booting in safe mode. I tryed booting using last known good configuration. But the results were failure. I then …

Suppose you had problems which disappeared after some time. Situation 1 I boot partition G, which has Wxp, and eventually I try, repeatedly, to run an app, which has run many times before, but it just starts-up then the desktop appears. I shutdown then boot partition F where I work for a while then shutdown F and boot G. I then try to run the app and discover that it runs just fine. Situation 2 I try to boot partition H, which has Vista and has booted many times before, but the boot process only reaches the Microsoft "moving indicator". I tryed booting in safe mode. I tryed booting using last known good configuration. But the results were failure. I…

I discover yesterday that KB 932555 showed up as to be applied, but the history review shows it was applied in April. I applied KB 921896 August 14, and today it shows again, as to be applied? What's happenning? Can we rely on Windows Update Thanks,

I am experiencing a weird problem with RDP... when I minimize a session from the Connection Bar, it insists upon maximizing on its own about every five minutes forcing me to reminimize. Anyone know what could be causing this (no other application behaves this way)?