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2 issues. 1 any way to change from bytes to packet? 2 "repair finished" box doesn't always clear. Hangs with 'Cancel" button instead of 'Close' thanx

Hello, I do disk cleanup regularly, well anyway, sometimes, out of the blue, it will freeze, take like 10 min, then system error reports archives and such with say like 43GB each.... Now, if I delete these, it delete half the files and stuff on my system, wallpapers, programs, everything..... My HDD won't gain any space...I cleanuped up over 214MB and such off my thing, I didn't check the error reports in fear of loosing me files again.... This problem has been the result of the last FIVE system restores I've had to deal with....please can someone help me... Symptoms... I click run disk cleanup, it takes awhile, out of bad luck or something, maybe…

Hi, I've been using the 3rd party program OnTop to make any program I want stay on top of others by force, now I am looking for something to force any program I want to dock on the side of the screen the way AIM does. I want this mostyly for Photoshop and GIMP where the tools are always in a seprate window than the photos I'm editing thanks for the help, Dan

Hi, I've been using the 3rd party program OnTop to make any program I want stay on top of others by force, now I am looking for something to force any program I want to dock on the side of the screen the way AIM does. I want this mostyly for Photoshop and GIMP where the tools are always in a seprate window than the photos I'm editing thanks for the help, Dan

Is anyone able to use "firewire" connection for a MY BOOK drive with Vista? The specs say "Vista supported" but it seems to work only with USB. Upon calling WD tech they report no Vista firewire drivers are avialable from them but such can be download from Micro Soft.I am not able to locate on MS. Any help?

My husband keeps having trouble with the text pointer splitting. This is the small I beam type that is used when typing text. Each time he is just typing and suddenly there is about a ½" space between the 2 parts of the I beam. The problem shows up in Word, his browser and anyplace where he needs to enter text. He has tried to change settings in his Control Panel>Mouse>Pointer Options, but that won't fix it. The only thing that seems to work for him is to shut the computer down then reboot. A simple reboot doesn't solve the problem, it has to be shut down first. Any ideas what might cause this? Thank you PegM -- PegM_4

What is the name of the control Panel applet where I can access the applet for Software Explore that is installed by Microsoft defender? Example is Start, run, main.cpl thanks

What is the name of the control Panel applet where I can access the applet for Software Explore that is installed by Microsoft defender? Example is Start, run, main.cpl thanks

I'm afraid I shut off my PC after it refused to shut down after more than 3 hours. I suffered through a lot of corrupted files, but was finally able to get it to bootup and repair some of the damage that occurred. Now my only issues are; my D drive shows up in blue font in MY COMPUTER and the first two files on it are blue as well. Under properties of both C and D drives the defrag is not available. Under Device Manager D drive's properties DEVICE USAGE block is grayed out and can't be changed. Worst of all is that when I try to run the XP CD I get the message that the version of Windows on the PC is newer than the CD and all files will be erased. Another biggie …

Downloaded the link from an old PC Mag.com article for the "pcnineoneone" tweak (see below) but have not been able to get it to work. Can someone help? Control Your Desktop Icons 11.05.02 When you temporarily change your desktop to a lower resolution-while using Safe mode, for example-Windows can wreak havoc with your careful positioning of desktop icons. A free download, available at http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip, lets you save and later restore your icon layout. Download Layout.zip and unzip it to extract two files. Move Layout.dll to the Windows\System32 folder. Double-click on Layout.reg to add it to the Registry. If you now righ…

Downloaded the link from an old PC Mag.com article for the "pcnineoneone" tweak (see below) but have not been able to get it to work. Can someone help? Control Your Desktop Icons 11.05.02 When you temporarily change your desktop to a lower resolution-while using Safe mode, for example-Windows can wreak havoc with your careful positioning of desktop icons. A free download, available at http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip, lets you save and later restore your icon layout. Download Layout.zip and unzip it to extract two files. Move Layout.dll to the Windows\System32 folder. Double-click on Layout.reg to add it to the R…

I have a flash drive that I'm editing the MP3 tags using Windows Explorer(Windows XP Home edition w/SP2). Everything goes along well for awhile for a number of the files and then the popup window to edit the tag doesn't show anymore. Repeated attempts are to no avail. I then have to restart. But before Windows shuts down, the Edit tag window will appear but too late - shutdown and restart. Anyone have any ideas what's happening in Windows explorere.

I have a flash drive that I'm editing the MP3 tags using Windows Explorer(Windows XP Home edition w/SP2). Everything goes along well for awhile for a number of the files and then the popup window to edit the tag doesn't show anymore. Repeated attempts are to no avail. I then have to restart. But before Windows shuts down, the Edit tag window will appear but too late - shutdown and restart. Anyone have any ideas what's happening in Windows explorere.

Java does not work for only one Vista user acct. I found this out while trying to play POGO.com games. I got error msg [java not found or not working. Pogo had worked prior to today. Something has changed, but I can not figure it out. Every thing works ok if I logout and log in under another user acct. I have full administer rights under my user acct. I am running Vista Ultimate build 6000 windows IE7.0 Version: 7.0.6000.16473 Cipher Strength: 256-bit Update Version:0 Java Version 1.6.0 (build 1.6.0_01-b06) Enabled in java control for IE, IE7.0, and everywhere I have tried to find it. system information. OS Name Microsoft® Windows VistaT …

oi meu anjo...tudo bem? sua a postagem foi muito útil... -- Tvasconcelos "Carlos" escreveu: > Available language packs > CD 1: German, Japanese (448 MB ISO image) > http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/a/c/4acd4568-e929-44cd-96ef-54f24ad0565b/ARMMUIx1.iso > > CD 2: French, Spanish, Italian (554 MB ISO image) > http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/9/0/19079c17-80cd-401c-986d-24f6bd9bb43e/ARMMUIx2.iso > > CD 3: Korean, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional (561 MB ISO image) > http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/d/a/fdac56ee-928a-4d51-9d6d-c7c64e9f5bae/ARMMUIx3.iso > > CD 4: Swedish (161 MB ISO image)…

Hi, We have any users using laptop in our environment. We plan to use ADMT 3 in a further migration to migrate everything to a new domain but what about offline folders configured on laptop computers ? Is there a way tu ensure that offline folders are working correctly after users and laptop are migrated to new domain ? Thanks

Hi, We have any users using laptop in our environment. We plan to use ADMT 3 in a further migration to migrate everything to a new domain but what about offline folders configured on laptop computers ? Is there a way tu ensure that offline folders are working correctly after users and laptop are migrated to new domain ? Thanks

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