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The OS is XP Pro. There are two user accounts: me and she. The problem: when she tries to access a picture that was just sent to "my pictures" or one on her desk top the following message pops up. "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" and the system hangs. Process explorer shows that "my pictures is not responding. Looking at the details has: AppName explorer.exe ModVer 5.1.2600.3119 AppVer 6.0.2900.3156 Offset 0012a5b ModName kernel32.dll But if I log on to my account and go to "my computer" and approach the same file via "docs & settings" and onward to her "my pictures folder", then the jpg picture file opens with no di…

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im still using windows xp sp1, wish to upgrade to sp2. however, after sep 2006, no new upgrades are available. what do i do now?

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I have a user with XP Pro that is having trouble with a particular network application. This application is loaded on her desktop and connects to it's server to store and retrieve documents that are scanned into it's database. It was working fine until two days and she claims nothing was added or changed on her PC. What happens is that when you click on the icon to open the application the normal splash screen pops up, disappears but the actual application doesn't open afterwards. When I look into task manager it says the application and it's process are both running. I've tried re-installing the application client twice but that didn't work. I swi…

Hello there, I am getting the error 6161 on my W2K server print server, once in a while it does not print the jobs sent by the clients, or printing blank pages, I need to restart spooler. I updated my printer drivers recently. See error below "The document failed to print on printer Data type: NT EMF 1.008. Size of the spool file in bytes: 912716. Number of bytes printed: 0. Total number of pages in the document: 1. Number of pages printed: 0. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 119." I am using XeroxXpdPrint processor, data type raw. I use TCPIP printing with protocol Raw selected, not LPR. Usually printer is a Xerox machine but it also affects D…

Is there anyway to install applications when you change the location of one of your folders (My Documents, Pictures, Music, ETC) to a network drive? This error comes up whenever I try to install any application after moving these folder locations. When I move these folder locations back to their default location eveything works fine. I would like to keep these folders on the network, but by changing the location to a network drive this error happens. I am using Windows Vista 32 business edition on a Windows 2003 network. I have full control of the network drive (I am the administrator). The only thing I can figure out is that the drive is not mappe…

Hello all and thanks for the replies! When you click start and intend to shut down by default I get "sleep" instead of shut down. How to I change this to shut down instead of sleep? It's a HP Pavilion laptop if that makes a difference. Cheers, Marc B

I can't get the task manager turned off. Anyone know how I can do this?

I want know how to change the color of telnet client program. I tried to change the color by using the command <color f0>. But the color f0 command change only the cmd windows, that is dos prompt window. By the command <color f0>, the colsole color changed. But when I connected telnet server in the colsole, the color of it did not change. I tried another method to change telnet color, for example, <start telnet 192.168.2.1>, but only to fail. Is there anyone who knows how to change telnet client color when connected telnet server which supports IAC or ANSI. If there's any, let me know it. Anything is welcomed. If you use registr…

Home Premium - logged on as an Administrator, went to Disk Management, went to shrink partition, got Access Denied. No other message at all. Very helpful. Now what?

Hello Folks I got three computers and the time syn.works on two of them but not this one , it gets the error deal. Should i even fool with it? So far its keeps the right time. I have tried a lot of diff servers and get the same error (an error occurred while windows was synchroizing time with ....... When i try to ping time servers (a lot of them) i get the timed out deal. Have i got a port problem? I use windows fire wall. Thanks Much larry

corrupt:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE System hive error how to solve.? plz adivse..

I have a new Dell E1705 Notebook with Vista Home Premium, I have no wireless devices at all, unless you count the integrated WiFi. My screensaver will not work! I am unable to download the HID Non-User Input Data Filter because Windows Update does not offer it, I looked and it was not hidden or downloaded in the past. My notebook will go to sleep no problem but no screensaver. I would really like it to function correctly, please advise. -- Chris Rogers

I cannot install the update for the Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Junk E-Mail filter. It downloads, but does not install. Anybody has an idea what to do?

I GO TO MY WEB SITES AND THE PAGE IS IN A BOX NOT FULL SCREEN

We have about thirty tablet PCs that connect both via WiFi and Ethernet when docked. One of three identical tablets does not show up in Explorer in our domain under Microsoft Windows Network. Nor does it show up in the net view listing. If I enter \\computername in the address bar, it does appear in Explorer's left hand pane, but with its description, not just its computername. If I then navigate up one level so that the listing is in the right hand pane, this computername does not appear. I've rejoined this computer to our domain, to no effect. One IP address shows up in DNS, and both show up in DHCP and WINS, which seems odd, and I suspect may be where …

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When I, as administrator and sole user, attempt to change the user account picture, and click on "browse for more pictures", nothing happens. I was able to benefit from the thread by manually adding a pic into the default folder, but it shows up as a blank placeholder (a .jpg) Any further thoughts? "Keith Miller MVP" wrote: > C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures > > > -- > Good Luck, > > Keith > Microsoft MVP [Windows XP Shell/User] > > "Dianne" <dskag@comcastSHOES.net> wrote in message > news:09A9CE55-41CC-420F-A81E-030D7D9312EE@microsoft.com... > > I've searched the ng's f…

I had a Windows 2000 Adv Server PDC running (it was upgraded from an NT4 Adv Server PDC way back when), and recently added a Windows 2003 Server machine and got it to be the BDC. Now, before I could switch the PDC/BDC computers so the Win2K3 server would take charge of everything, the old PDC (the Win2000AdvServer lost it's disk and got wiped clean. No backup, no way to recover, no way to fix. Without giving any lectures on that aspect, I need to know HOW to FORCE the Win2K3 Server with it's AD to become the sole surviving in charge machine and have it authenticate everything. Right now, shares and permissions and user id's can't be updated, added, deleted because the…

Hi I recently had to test Microsoft Antigen 9 with SP1 against McAfee groupshield. Although Antigen and Groupshield were more or less the same although Antigen had 2 engines and not 1 i have a major difference. For my customer to move to Antigen they need to see that Antigen performes better. the problem is that a Manual scan is 5 times slower than groupshields manual scan. Testing in a lab with identical hardware and identical tests the Antigen machine took an hour and a half comparted to Groupshield that took only 22 minutes. Can someone help me with tweaking or configuring Antigen so that it competes with Groupshield?

Regarding Windows Service Pack Windows Vista Update KB936330 This update has been trying to install on my computer for weeks (about ten times) It appears to install, goes through the three installations and then at the very end (after 1 - 2 hours) says it didn't install properly and reverts all the changes. I accept the licensing term and have plenty of memory. I have Windows Vista Home Premium on a Gateway GT5414E and running a McAfee Security Suite package. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

With MSKLC, I created a German custom keyboard. Alt Gr a should type ä, Alt Gr o should type ö, Alt Gr u should type ü and Alt Gr s should type ß. They all worked fine with keyboard layout test. But when I want to use it in MSWord, only Alt Gr a works. The others do nothing, or strange things. What should I do, to make Alt Gr type the intended symbols? Thanks in advance, Gerhard

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I use USB memory sticks & I want to change the policy to 'optimize for quick removal' but these options are greyed out, how can I change this? Mike.