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How do you delete items on the context menu when you right click the Start Menu? I did find some information and was able to delete a couple of them in the Registry.(VERY CAREFULLY) But I know that some are apparently not able to be deleted such as Open, Explore and Search. But there are two left that I can't find any info on deleting them. They are: Add to 'Windows Media Player List and Play with Windows Media Player. I would appreciate any suggestions or help. Thanks.

Thought I'd try this again. I have an Update Problem. I’m running Windows XP SP2 Home Edition. When I went to the MS update site to check for updates yesterday it showed I need the KB931784 update, but it also showed that this update had 0 bytes, which I assume means there’s nothing inside the update. I have already downloaded this update 3 times and my computer is asking me to download it again. This problem started yesterday and it could have been caused by my cleaning the registry with a program called “Window Registry Repairâ€. I tried to restore the registry, which this registry repair program provides for, but because I don’t have REG…

Hello, If I restore the MBR from an Acronis Image, what would happen to the partition table because I re-arranged the partitions since I made the copy of the MBR. Will it be okay to restore the MBR despite the partitions changes ? TIA.

When I single click a photo in windows explorer, I can see the thumbnail of nthe photoand the info below the file listing. When I double click, I get a "class not registered" error. How do I fix it?

I've been scouring website after website on what seems to be an easy fix. Is there a way to force reauthentication when connecting to a server? We originally thought of seeing if there was a way to place a secondary password on a share but didn't know how that would affect the Mac clients in our company. The situation is this- Mac and Windows clients connect to an AD file server (2003) for both their personal shares and Dept. shares. Some department shares are quite sensitive and so we need those shares to ignore any previously created token and force the user to log in again. Is there some sort of policy that can be applied to the share? Does anyone …

I get a delay of up to a minute when right clicking on file names (not folders) in Windows Explorer before the pop up message is displayed. Disabling the 'Open With' option of the pop up through Registry resolves. Any thoughts on how to resolve?

After i perform windows update on my vista home premium 32bit, my computer can never restart anymore. i mean, it stucked at the windows loading screen. I formatted twice regarding this issue and i'm very sure this time that it is windows update that caused this problem. I unable to locate which file that caused this, as I downloaded all the updates in one go. Need help and please reply asap. Thank you

Hi, I have missed something here and would like some input please guys. I have RUPS for some users, created using the %username% variable. I have VSS running on the drive where the RUP share is however the VSS does not create RUP restore points ? I either get access denied (regardless of the ACL entry) or the restore point list is blank. This issue seems to be consistant with other networks and I have only just noticed it because I needed to restire some data for a user. Any thoughts or commenst would be great. Many Thanks. Johan

Downloaded the Microssoft 1.0 SMS sender for XP to send text messages form my Viasta PC to the phone via bluetooth. However SMS Sender reports: "for Windows XP and newer OS" Who van enlight me ?

tried sfc but result was ok Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations. same for same for the verifier.dll. I also get quite a number of event 10 ( I am using vista Ultimate 64 on Core 2 quad) Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity Date: 09-05-25 11:46:43P Event ID: 3002 Task Category: (1) Level: Error Keywords: User: MyPc1\Administrator Computer: MyPc1 Description: Code Integrity is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\drivers\tcpip.sys because the set of per-pag…

Anyone have any suggestions for an MSI Repackager. I want to start pushing applications out via GP and some of them are old exe setups and I want to be able to make them into MSIs. Also, how does it work if you assign an MSI that requires some input information? I need to find some information on creating transforms or whatever it is.

Hi all I am trying to resurrect an old laptop and started the setup process. Set it away formatting the hard drive and it appears "stuck" on 91%. Does this mean the HD is bad? Is there any milage in powering off and re-running the setup/format operation? TIA Phil

I just learned about the Task Scheduler and added one task. I've noticed however that often when I click on 'Task Scheduler (Local) on the left pane this error displays: 'An error has occurred for task Reminders - owner. Error message: The specific account name is not valid.' I see that task listed in the middle 'Task Status' pane, and it displays a 'last run succeeded' date, but I don't see any way to see what account name it uses. When I look in the 'Active Tasks' pane to find the task to change it, I don't see any task named 'Reminders'. Where would I find it and If I do find it, what account name should I use? Thanks very much.

I am running Windows XP Pro I have a two monitor installation arrangement configured to be independant screens to which I can drag window to one or the other. I can open two separate instances of Excel 2003 Via Start | Run | and entering "excel" for each instance of excel I would want to compare. I have google to find out if this is the correct and only way to run two instances of an application but the results are vague. Question 1 Can anyone adive me how the method above works? Question 2 What other methods can be used to achieve two instances of an application running.

Do I really need a router? I am presently on a dial-up 56K connection, an average homeuser with a desktop computer. My OS is WinXP SP2. I work with LUA, use the in-build firewall and Seconfig XP. I am going to subscribe to a high-speed internet service and the ISP will also supply a 'Hatary HW-AA 101 wireless ADSL2+ router'. The router comes with a Quick Installation Guide and a Starter Kit CD-ROM. ISP connection number, username and initial password will be provided by the ISP which have to be added during installation. The program will then setup the ADSL2+ router and make connection to the Internet automatically. According to Wikipedia, a router would be ne…

I posted this on the SSB group, but I thought I'd try here also. I've read a few how-to docs on installing Remote Installation Service (RIS) on Windows Server 2003; they all seem to say go to Add/Remove Programs> Windows Components and select "Remote Installation Service". I looked on my server, however, and the option isn't listed there at all. I'm sure the server is Windows Server 2003 SP1, is there any reason why the feature would be absent?

Hi, I am managing a server that has had the administrator group denied access through terminal services to the server via remote desktop, I would like to restore it but cannot find the road to success. Can anybody enlighten me? thanks. -lumpjaw

I was wondering if there is a place in the registry or if there is a DOS command that would allow me to re-active a folder's (and its subfolders) inherited rights flag? I was setting up manual rights to files and folders and forgot to re-activate one of Adobe's folder and sub-folders. If I could simply re-activate it via a registry entry or DOS command, I would be able to re-activate these rights on multiple workatations deployed in our department! Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Recently my win2000Pro connection is slower than my roommates Win98SE and his WinXP laptop. They are all connected to my wired Router. (Ethernet connection with Cat-6 cable) I even tried a direct connection from my Comcast modem to my PC with no improvement in performance. Using numion.com I get around 2.6Mbps dl and around 2.7Mbps upload. The other two computers get around 7Mbps dl and around 2.7Mbps upload. Using speedtest.net, I get around 12Mbps dl and around 2.6Mbps upload. (PowerBoost effect) The other two computers get around 20Mbps dl with around a 2.6Mbps upload. (PowerBoost, obviously) Several weeks ago, all results were about the same. Perhap…

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I finally found it once I knew it did not relate to the update. I did a complete uninstall of firefox and reinstall - it worked, though I don't know why. Thanks Sheena

Background... Booted XP Pro with camcorder attached. Got the BSOD, ctl-alt-del. Copied ntldr and ntdetect from install CD, pressed R. I can still access Web with DSL, and home networking still works. Computer still shows me Logged On as usual. I was/am the Admin. All Admin Tools were gone, but I downloaded a zip file that contained them. Also gone is Outlook Express, Programs, Documents, photos, everything except my program for Palm Install on the desktop and my Word documents. (Very happy about that.) Unable to use Sys. Restore, no dates available, Volume Info was zero. I have gone into regedit and I can see ALL of my programs, and My Favorites, I just…

I am new with computers. I copied a movie onto a dvd-r that I bought new and it copyed the movie on to the disk. But when I try playing it on my samsung new dvd player it doesn't play it. The dvd player says it played all typed and I did close out the movie burner to try to fix this problem, but it still didn't work. Please help! -- RUPAL

I received a message from MSN regarding discontinuation of Encarta with MSN Premium account. I'm trying to find out what it does on the e-mail account. I tried contacting Verizon, since I have Verizon with MSN, no luck. I tried to find a way to contact MSN about it, no luck there either. Anyone out there know where I can go to find out what this program does on MSN Premium, and if it will be replaced by something else (if it has to do with spellcheck.) -- Ferret Mom