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When I try to hide the icons in the taskbar tray, I can't make changes. I pull up the list of icons, click on the down arrow to the right of the desired action and the drop down list of actions doesn't drop down. Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

Hi, I have a home network with 3 computers (2 with vista, one with XP) and one xbox, all connected through a router (netgear, all wired except one vista machine that is wireless). Until yesterday, everything worked ok. I then reinstalled vista on one of my machines, and since then, both of my vista machines are incapable of stable internet browsing. The simptoms are : 1. I can get to google or any google site (like gmail) - no problem. 2. 95% of other sites, IE just loads and loads the page ("waiting for ....") and nothing happens. The header of the IE window does sometimes change to the title of the web site, which means I am getting some data back, but the…

Hello, Is there a way to "Load Driver" from a Script / Batch File / Command Line / WMI / API ? If yes: how ? Per example: Load a Driver for Intel SATA RAID. With diskpart.exe i saw that i can RESCAN the disks, also using a script, but What about Load a Driver ? Thankse

I installed Windows XP Professional and after everything loaded I couldn't get the computer to recognize my keyboard or mouse. The computer recognizes them during initial start up but once windows starts it's as if they're disconnected. Any ideas?

I installed Windows XP Professional and after everything loaded I couldn't get the computer to recognize my keyboard or mouse. The computer recognizes them during initial start up but once windows starts it's as if they're disconnected. Any ideas?

It's out and its Vista 64Bit ready (sorry no XP support). After months of battling different internet security tools on my 64 Bit Visat O/S it's nice to get back to a simple product that just does its thing in the background.

I was trying to repair my printer spool under service windows control and I did something I shouldn't have. Now when I log on. I do not see my normal user name I only have ADMINISTRATOR I want to get back to my normal user name. Can anyone help me please I am using xp pro. thank you in advance for your help. -souperbee

Hello, I get the above message when windows starts in my laptop. Can anybody tell me how can i solve that please? Thanks -- JC Sotos

I resently installed Vista 64Bit O.S. The install went smothly and every thing works well. Then I recived three separat updates. Two went off with out a hitch. The third one installed all but the update for the Windows Media Format 11 SDK ( KB9293990). After about seven attempts by the auto updater I tracked the update down through the knowledge base and manualy downloaded and installed it on to my computer. This manual update went of without a hitch. The one thing I noticed when installing the update was differance in the lenth of the names for the update, it was much shorter than the auto updater called out. If anyone else has this problem they may have…

I am not getting updates for my computer from Microsoft Windows Update website and I cannot start the Background Intelligence Transfer service ---it gives me the error that the file cannot be found. Also, I have Adobe Design Premium and my AcroPro.msi file is missing. also every time I try to OPEN ANY KIND OF FILE OR FOLDER OF ANY KIND by right clicking I get a message from windows installer that "the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable." "Click OK to try again, or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package "AcroPro.msi" in the box below. Then it say Use source: D:\DOCUME~1\Jannie\LOCALS~1\Temp\Ad…

Today I was installing Windows XP Home on a friends computer at work and had so many issues with updates that I don't even know where to start. The biggest of my problems was the inability to download and install SP2. During the verification of download process it somehow fails. The following is the error message I got: "Error Code: 0x8007005 Error_Access_Denied" I'm not sure what the heck that means. From what I've been hearing I'm not the only one having problems getting updates from Microsoft. Other errors I had today include: "Update: KB901214" - This just failed to download Install of KB924191 failed. KB832483 - Failed download security update for …

Running Vista Prem, have Brother MFC-665CW connected on wireless LAN. Everything works fine except when I try to scan from printer/scanner. Will not allow connection to PC unless I turn off Windows Firewall. Have already tried to allow every printer related program through the exceptions tab but still will not allow to connect. Any ideas on what I have to allow through the exceptions to be able to make it work with the firewall on? Thanks.

Addicition to Ubuntu is an insideous and dangerous disease that plagues the fringes of our society, threatening more and more every day to spill over the fringe and flood the common man with free stuff. But the vigilant and upright citizens of the world can rest assured the warning signs are easy to spot once you know what to look for. Ubuntu addicts exhibit many strange habits for working professional such as: Owning computers for ten or more years with out complaining of the computer "slowing down"! Expanding IT operations at staggering rates with little to no capital or credit! Carrying around hand labelled "live CD's" that they claim aren't pir…

I have downloaded both the Japanese and English voice recognition programs. However, the microphone icon telling me I can go ahead and start the voice recognition only appears when my language bar is set to English. Why won't it appear in Japanese? How can I fix this?

Friend of mine is having a wierd problem with his CD drive. 1. If he puts a game CD or DVD in, the game starts. 2. If he puts a movie DVD, the movie plays. 3. If he inserts a music (Bought, not made) CD or a picture (made) CD in and when he explores the disk, it brings up blank explorer window. Also, the drive lable never changes from "DVD-RAM Drive (D:)". 4. If he inserts his Recovery Disk in, it comes up blank, also. He has already replaced his drive, and it is doing the same thing. I've tried everything I know (updating drivers, un-installing drivers, etc) with no luck. He really doesn't want to re-install windows. Any other suggestions out ther…

Friend of mine is having a wierd problem with his CD drive. 1. If he puts a game CD or DVD in, the game starts. 2. If he puts a movie DVD, the movie plays. 3. If he inserts a music (Bought, not made) CD or a picture (made) CD in and when he explores the disk, it brings up blank explorer window. Also, the drive lable never changes from "DVD-RAM Drive (D:)". 4. If he inserts his Recovery Disk in, it comes up blank, also. He has already replaced his drive, and it is doing the same thing. I've tried everything I know (updating drivers, un-installing drivers, etc) with no luck. He really doesn't want to re-install windows. Any other suggestions out…

Is it possible to configure Windows Search so that it searches Palm data?

When loading sidewinder precision pro on my new XP computer, software 3.0 contains incompatable drivers. Going into control panel then game controller and selecting the sidewinder autodetect option, the popup "your gameport or gameport drivers are not properly configured. Please contact the device manager" appears. I understand that software 4.0 is needed but do not know how to get it. Suggestions? Thanks. Ash

When loading sidewinder precision pro on my new XP computer, software 3.0 contains incompatable drivers. Going into control panel then game controller and selecting the sidewinder autodetect option, the popup "your gameport or gameport drivers are not properly configured. Please contact the device manager" appears. I understand that software 4.0 is needed but do not know how to get it. Suggestions? Thanks. Ash

After having let Windows XP Home 2002 SP2 do its automatic updates, I am no longer able to have my laptop enter into hibernation mode. I get the following message: The service 'Microsoft .NET Framework v1.1.4322 Update' is preventing the machine from entering hibernation. Try stopping this service and try again. How do I solve it? Or if not, what can I stop in the Windows Task Manager?

Should this item be shown as a separate entry in the Control Panel Add/Remove section when installed? ".NET 1.1 service pack 1"

I have a batch file which is a simple xcopy of files from a workstation running xp pro to an nt server on our domain. Every time the batch file is run, the file copy fails with "access denied". If the user on the same workstation simply uses explorer and highlights and drags the files to the server, it works just file. I have given the user full rights to the folder she is copying to but I am assuming I am missing something in giving her rights to copy by using a batch file. Any way to solve this apparently simple problem. The user on the xp workstation is logged in as a user on our nt domain. I would like the batch file to work as I am not sure I would t…

Sometimes when I start up XP I got the pop up box with the box title: "InstallShield Updat Service Agent" Saying: InstallShield Update Service Agent has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry to the inconvenience. It happens sometimes but not always. How do I know which program is going to get itself update?

Sometimes when I start up XP I got the pop up box with the box title: "InstallShield Updat Service Agent" Saying: InstallShield Update Service Agent has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry to the inconvenience. It happens sometimes but not always. How do I know which program is going to get itself update?

I have been unable to find any downloads in my ms xp sp1 and sp2 so t5hat i can read english from german or any other language. Is there any downloads from microsoft for this ?