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Using WinXP Home SP2 Thanks in advance for any help, Bill

Sorry to appear ignorant, but is spam only an issue for POP3 email clients and not for web-based email such as Gmail?

I've got a typesetting machine running Adobe Creative Suite 1 and PageMaker and I can not get any application to recognize CTL+SHIFT+I and italicize type. It's not the font. I've tried it with several fonts including the plain old Times New Roman that comes with Windows and it won't work. CTL+SHIFT+B works as do all the other shortcuts. I've been to the Adobe forums and we've tried a few things including deleting the old preferences file with no luck. Any ideas on what the problem could be? Thanks, Mike

After resuming after standby my system is painfully slow. CPU is hovering at 70-100%. I haven't put my system in standby for 3 months hoping it will go away but I'm getting tired of it. FYI XP home SP2 Norton 360 Adaware personal Im pretty sure my setup is stable and secure. Any ideas?

Hi, I'm running two HP Compaq nc6000s that I bought from work. Recently, I've been getting the following message on both: The system process 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe' terminated unexpectedly with status code -1. The system will now shut down and restart. After that, it pops up a window with the infamous 60 second countdown to shutdown. I heard it could be a virus, but I checked with the Norton Sasser tool: no go. Any ideas?

Is it possible to monitor the scheduled tasks? I would like to receive some kind of notification if a scheduled task does not complete successfully. Thanks.

Hi, I've noticed recently that my PC hangs when I'm writing a CD/DVD. What can cause that problem? Thanks

Not sure this is right forum, but here goes: Runnins IIS (personal web server) and trying to update Access 2003 database via perl script using the following: $DSN = "Test"; use Win32::ODBC; $db = new win32::ODBC($DSN); $db->sql("select * from SiteVisits where script_name = "counter" "); Error: [-1032] [] "[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] The Microsoft Jet database engine cannot open the file '(unknown)'. It is already opened exclusively by another user, or you need permission to view its data." As best I can determine tll files/databases have "full" permissions. Help!!! If this is not the correct forum please direct me to the correct on…

Can someone tell me what this is or means...very appreciated RASProfile ; Section Header {User} Country= City= Zip Code= State= PurchasePlace= AreaCode= 440 DialPrefix= CallWaiting= ForceAreaCode=0 ForcePulseDial=0 PhoneNumber= UseDDForLocal=0 UTC70=0 ;Section Header [PhoneBookEntries] Primary=1,Hillcrest,440,6991000,HPSDP.cfg,1,null Backup=1,TollFree,888,4137028,HPSDP.cfg,1,null National= -- Message posted via http://www.windowskb.com

I go to Control Panel / Add a New Task (Scheduler). I fill out all the apppropriate windows, including a password, and at the end I am informed: THE NEW TASK HAS BEEN CREATED, BUT IT MAY NOT RUN BECAUSE THE ACCOUNT INFORMATION COULD NOT BE SET.... THE SPECIFIC ERROR IS: 0x80070005. What am I doing wrong? How do I correct it?.......... Thank you........ -- DaveN

I have HP LaserJet 5L attached to LPT1: WinXP installs some built-in generic driver for this printer [not a good driver since it continually overruns the memory of the printer and often fails to print, just locks up] I downloaded a more appropriate driver for the HP5L, removed the first one, installed the better one, made it the default printer, and have NEVER had a problem printing using it. However,...WinXP in its benevolence keeps installing the old driver and apparaently adding that as another printer. How do I stop this? so far, I just keep deleting the extra one, but that's becoming a big nuisance. At least when the new on is added, the prefe…

How can I get background tasks to run? If I have a program which is running (perhaps creating an index from a lot of files or whatever) then it will only do its work if it is in the *foreground* and in the active window. As soon as the window goes from the foreground then its activity will drop to zero. This happens even if there is no foreground activity at all. For example if I open Windows Explorer or Notepad then all systen activity goes to almost zero. I observe see this in a utility's icon in the systen tray. How can I get background tasks to run?

I'm having the same problem and I do have a floppy drive...any suggestions? Thanks, Brian "nospam@cristalink.com" wrote: > Read about Automated System Recovery (ASR) in Windows or NTBackup > Help. It needs a floppy to recover your system after a complete > failure. You may want to consider buying an external USB floppy drive. > > -- > http://www.firestreamer.com - NTBACKUP to DVD and DV > > > "John Maulding" <JohnMaulding@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<A689723E-F583-4C4A-AE04-2A83D78331E3@microsoft.com>... > > I have an external ntfs drive with 80 gig of storage. I am trying to backup a >…

I have Windows XP SP2. The selections for the Firewall are grayed out so I cannot select disable. I have a router serving the firewall function. What can I do to disable the firewall? Thanks.

Can anyone tell me how to keep configuration 7 - Even - 1 with Hyperterminal?

Have a friend call me, had a problem with a blue screen in windows xp. Said something about check hd or something. I told her to write it down next time. When it starts up, it asks which version to use, and list two versions of xp. Wondering if this is the problem. How do I get rid of one or the other? or at least have it stop asking which one?> thanks, Bruce

I recently posted about a problem we were having with one specific account on a Windows XP SP2 computer. When logging into the account, the user would immediately be logged back out. This was due to a damaged registry file. Following the instructions on a knowledgebase article, I created a new account and moved all the files to the new account folder, except for three ntuser files. Now, when logging onto this account, none of the icons show up. The text below the icons is fine, but there is just a blank space where the icons should be. This occurs on the desktop, control panel... everywhere. Just prior to this, I had removed some desktop modification soft…

I just installed windows xp and I need to uninstall windows 2000 professional. Can anyone help me out on how I can do this?

In our Win2003/XP pro network, our users cannot log into each other's workstations with their own login credentials. If they try they get this error: The local policy of this system does not permit you to logon interactively. How can I overcome this? Thanks

Hi all, how can i extract a list of all the schedule tasks in my server 2000? i can see them when i open the short cut to the schedule tasks. but is there i way that i can extract the same info to maybe an excel sheet or text file? the only way i thought of is to print screen whatever is on the window. I am sure there is a smarter way. Would appreciate any advise.

To test an application I built a MS 2003 Server using a 2003 Server evaluation copy. Now that we have completed the testing the server and application is working fine. I would like to make this a production server now. I purchased a new copy of MS Server 2003 Enterprise and would like to use this license without having to rebuild the server. Is there a process to apply the new license I purchased to the existing evaluation copy? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

If you open up your Local Area Connection, then click on Properties, then select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click Properties, then click Advanced, then click on the Options tab and select TCP/IP filtering, and then click on Properties, there is a checkbox that says "Enable TCP/IP Filtering (All adapters)". What if I checked that box but left all 3 radio buttons set to "Permit All"? Is that the same as leaving the box unchecked?

I am using Windows XP Pro at this time and did a c/cleaner search which found quite a few duplicate files,and would like to know how to remove the duplicates without causing any problems.I am not a comp. whiz so any help in novice terms would be appreciated.Thanks -- survivor

Not sure where to post this, but since I installed Office 2007 on a users computer, they can no longer save files to their mapped drive to the server. They receive the error: Access denied, contact your administrator. If I grant the user 'modify' permissions, they are able to save, but I do not want to do this b/c they are then able to delete files which I do not want them to be able to do. Anyone come across this or can offer any help?

Hoping someone can help me as I am a computer novice. My son had a laptop witha GeForce GO 6800 nVidia graphics card but it has totally blown. He is looking at a desk top with 256MB ATI Radeon X1550 Graphics. Will this be any where near as good for playing games. Any help greatly appreciated