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- Windows XP >> Quicklaunch Section of Toolbar GoneHi,
I'm running a new laptop with Windows XP Pro Service Pack 1.
Sometimes when I reboot the Quicklaunch section of the taskbar is
missing and the 'Show Quick Launch' button becomes unchecked. This
seems to happen with the toolbar in both locked and unlocked states.
My system does have the proper folder containing the Quick Launch
shortcuts.
Can someone help me?
Thanks,
-DBK
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- Windows XP >> XP Setup (HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!)Hello,
I successfully installed my Windows XP on a ECS K7S5a Pro
motherboard with Athlon 2.1 gig processor. I successfully
used the machine the first time I logged on to my Windows
XP PC. However, I shut down the machine properly, then
powered it up, and I noticed some weirdness (mouse would
not respond when I started up a game I played on the
initial logon mentioned above.
Things got really bad so I ended up uninstalling XP.
When I attempted to reinstall it from the CD, I booted
from the CD and the blue Windows Setup screen came up.
Then a couple different messages came up on the bottom line
telling me to press F2 and then another line said to press
F6. I did neither, and then the F6 message went away, and
I got one of two things:
1- Nothing at all happened (bluw screen with "Windows
Setp" title and no other messages (I waited for 20
minutes).
2-Error message displayed
"An unexpected error (0) occurred at
d:\xpclient\base\boot\setup\arcdisp.c"
I tried many things and got the exact same result:
0- Tried a different XP CD.
1- Purchased another motherboard of the same exact model
and processor type.
2- tried installing with a different AGP card installed.
3- Tried disconnecting the DVD and floppy drives.
4- reformatted hard drive using utilities that came with
hard drive as well as using fdisk.
5-Tried different hard drive
**NOTE**I installed windows 98 successfully, so then I
tried
removing windows 98, and installing XP, but got the
same results!!!!!!!
I do not know what to do, any help would be appreciated!!!
Thanks,
Bruce
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- Windows XP Basic >> Not Allowed to runasTo do my job I often need to open command prompt windows as a
different userid. Before upgrading to Windows XP I'd type in Start |
Run the command
runas /user:nw\userid cmd
and it would open the command prompt window. Now that I've been
upgraded to Win XP, when I try this I get the error:
C:\Documents and Settings\brian\>runas /user:nw\userid cmd
Enter the password for nw\userid:
Attempting to start cmd as user "nw\userid" ...
RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - cmd
1327: Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are
blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy
restriction has been enforced.
How do I disable this policy to do my job? I do have Administrator
privilege on this PC. Logging off and back on as the other userid is
not an acceptable solution. Wastes far too much time and company
money.
Brian Bygland
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- Windows XP >> notification areaI am having problems in the notification area of the taskbar, I have no arrows there and when I right click and use the properties dialogue box I click on the, hide when inactive arrow and I do not get any options come down, they all just stay on hide when inactive(which they are not doing) Help appreciated.
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- Windows XP >> Cannot format driveI am using Windows XP Home. I want to format a second internal drive. It
does not have an operating system, just data backup. I am getting the
following error message when I try to format:
Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs
that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the
contents of the drive. Then try formatting again.
I closed all programs and system tray icons. I could not close the icon for
Norton Ghost v.9--there was no choice to close/exit. There also was no
close/exit choice for the Norton Anti-Virus icon-just a choice to disable.
What should I do now? Thanks for any help.
Alice
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Slow start upI purchased a Sony Vaio last year with windows xp home
edition installed pre-installed. I purchased a windows
xp office (professional) package to load on to the PC.
Start up was fine and quite fast. Lately however, it
seems to have slowed down. Often it seems to pause
during set up and hang almost before it continues. What
could be causing this?
Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated.
Amy
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- Windows XP Perform Maintain >> Reformat & Clean Install WIN XP NTFS ~ How?I am accustomed to using FDISK and FORMAT to reformat a
hard drive in Windows 9x prior to doing a clean install.
What is the equivalent procedure for a HD that has the NTFS
version of Win XP installed on it? In other words, how do
you create a single new partition and format a drive for
Win XP NTFS?
I have not seen this discussed anywhere.
Thanks for any advice.
George
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- Windows XP Setup >> Laptop partition managementI need a step by step listing to repartition a factory NTFS formatted
XPPRO without having to reinstall from scratch and then reapply
patches, configuration, etc. My next step is to apply a boot manager
to the laptop while keeping XPpro happy.
I understand from another newsgroup thread that W2K onwards there are
at least a register key "HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup\SystemPartition" that need
to be adjusted. (see thread 4 at
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=MPG.191141cddf3a4f0d9896c0%40nntp&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3Dxp%2Bpartition%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dalt.*)
Concerns over Windows Product Activation exist because I have a habbit
of losing software keys. Other difficulties include:
1) the 20G harddisk is not very portable as it is in a laptop with
warranty;
2) I do not have a floppy on laptop. I have spent the money for a USB
floppy on
things like Partition Magic instead.
I do have these additional resources (besides you experts on the net)
1) two firewire ports on the laptop, and an external harddisk case
with firewire interface.
2) A CD burner still usable from an existing desktop. The external
firewire
casing can take that CD burner.
I also have been lucky so far. Using Partition Magic 8 I was able to
create FAT data partitions from the previously single 20G NTFS
partition. This will allow the laptop data to be communicated to older
OS such as W98SE which will be added once the boot manager is up and
running.
I would like to learn from experiences from people in the two
newsgroups (microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment and
alt.os.windows.xp) who have already successfully done configuration
changes on XP beyond what I have already done. I am very much worried
by reading about XP's hard coded partition information within the
installation.
Thanks in advance for sharing your insights and apologise for
X-posting.
David
5th Jul 2003
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- Windows XP Network >> Cannot create a dial-up connectionI cannot make a dial up connection to my ISP. I checked my
windows XP configuration. I found there are several places
that seem misconfigured.
1. There is no dial up connection Icon in mt networking
place. I cannot create one
2. There is an advance menu item in the network connection
page, an option called dial up preference is there. When I
click this option, an error message appears, it reads:
error 711, remote access connection manager cannot be
loaded.
3. When I use the create a new connection wizard, I choose
connect internet, along the steps, I choose an option for
configure manually, then in the next step, I do not have
the options for selecting dial up with Modem and DSL. these
options are there but grey out, I cannot select them.
4. I found there are two services that are not started.
One is Remore Access connection manager, another one is
remote access auto connection manager. When I try to start
remote access connection manager, It gives me an error
reading, error 5, access is denied. I am the owner and main
user of my notebook.
My window version is windows XP professional, I did not
install SP1 yet.
Can anybody help me with this? It is very much appreciated.
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- Windows XP Support >> XPSP2 Registry Problem - CLSID clueI'm runing a Pentium 4 2.8G Desktop with 160G HD and 512M RAM.
The machine appears to be working fine, except that any tools that scan the
registry (AD-aware, MS Antispyware, Registry Mechanic, Regedit) cause the
machine to re-boot when a particular CLSID is read.
To try to diagnose this, I've been using Regedit and "Find CLSID". I can
cause a reboot by searching either HKey_Current_User or HKey_Classes_Root.
It always appears to be the same key, but which key remains a mystery,
because the machine reboots!
The machine has been virus scanned using McAfee and Norton AV tools in safe
and normal modes and all all identified Spyware using Adaware, SPybot S&D,
HiJack This removed - bearing in mind I can't do a deep registry scan
because of the re-boot problem.
Any help gratefully received.
Best Regards
Steve
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- Windows XP Hardware >> External USB DriveHello.
I setup an external USB drive as an extra storage area.
I changed the cable to one of the "Zip-Linq" retractable
cables, and the drive is not recognized. I tried re-
scanning hardware in device manager, and re-scanning
drives in drive management.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Windows XP Pro
Service Pack 1.
Pentium 4 3.2GHz
1GB RAM
Thanks
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Wesley
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 Posted: Tue Apr 10 17:27:37 CDT 2007 |
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Windows XP Hardware >> Windows hangs up almost immediately on install
I hope someone can help me with this... I'm attempting to switch my
Fedora machine over to XP MCE, and my system hangs up immediately on
the install process.
I'm running a AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Biostar 6100 mobo and a WD 160gb
SATA hdd.
I've got a new, licensed copy of XP MCE 2005, and the boot gives me
the option to boot from CD. I select that, then choose the OS I want
to install. I get the message "Windows is inspecting attached
hardware...", then the screen goes blank and the hdd light stays on
for as long as I'll let it. I keep giving up after 10 mins or so,
simply for fear of damaging the drive.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm thinking about throwing a
ATA-100 drive in the machine for now, and then putting the SATA drive
back in, as I'm guessing that the hang-up simply means that Windows
either isn't recognizing the drive properly, or doesn't like the fact
that I'm using the SATA channel as my only drive and don't have
anything on my EIDE connector.
I could really use the help, as I have no idea where to go from here.
Thanks, everyone.
Windows XP958
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10 17:27:37 CDT 2007 |
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Windows XP Hardware >> Windows hangs up almost immediately on install
<EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
news:EMail@HideDomain.com...
> I hope someone can help me with this... I'm attempting to switch my
> Fedora machine over to XP MCE, and my system hangs up immediately on
> the install process.
>
> I'm running a AMD Athlon 64 3000+, Biostar 6100 mobo and a WD 160gb
> SATA hdd.
>
> I've got a new, licensed copy of XP MCE 2005, and the boot gives me
> the option to boot from CD. I select that, then choose the OS I want
> to install. I get the message "Windows is inspecting attached
> hardware...", then the screen goes blank and the hdd light stays on
> for as long as I'll let it. I keep giving up after 10 mins or so,
> simply for fear of damaging the drive.
>
>
When the installation begins you should see the option to install drivers by
pressing F6
at that point you should install your SATA drivers
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- Windows XP >> System32 folder pop at logon?Hi everyone, I don't know what I did but my System32
folder pop at logon... I think it have something to do
with a spyware call "My fast access" that can't be
deleted with ad-aware 6 with the last update.... Or it's
with the installation of direct X... I don't know. If
someone can help me, it would be great :)
J-F
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- Windows XP Support >> reinstalling windows xp - home edition (dell inspiron 1000)hello - since i have not been able to repair several issues with my laptop -
i attempted to reinstall the xp operating cd from dell... the first screen
stops me - with an error message - "setup cannot continue because the version
of windows on your computer is newer thane the version on the cd (dell).. the
versions should be one in the same... is there a way around this problem?? is
the reason that the computer's version is newer related to new upgrades from
microsoft?? thank for any assistance...
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- Windows XP Security >> Prblm: Can't get Software Restrictions Policies to work as expectedDear subscribers
I have a problem to get Software Restriction Policies (SRP) to work as
expected. I'm administering a number of computers at a school and I use SRP
to prevent use of disallowed software. My problem is that I find SRP to
behave very peculiar; the way that I think would be the obvious way for it
to work doesn't at all give the expected result. Of course I may have
totally misunderstood things but in that case I hope for a clarification
here.
Our environment is:
- Windows 2000 Server with AD, US version
- Windows XP Pro, Swedish version
I've read a lot of postings in the Microsoft Usenet groups and it seems like
there might exist a bug in Windows XP that was fixed in sp2 that's
concerning Netware shares (Q815471). We don't have any such shares, at least
not as long as they aren't shared as such by default, so I'm not sure
whether this bug applies to us.
Now to a description of the problem; the problem is that the user can't run
applications that should be runable, i.e. the user gets a message stating
that the application was prevented to start due to software restrictions
policies.
Our default policy configuration is to disallow running of applications,
then we specify exactly which applications and in which paths applications
are allowed to run. Our policy list is as follows:
Name Type Security level
%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRoot%
Path Unlimited
%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRoot%\*.exe Path Unlimited
%HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRoot%\System32\*.exe Path Unlimited
*.js Path Not allowed
*.jse Path Not allowed
*.vbe Path Not allowed
*.vbs Path Not allowed
*.wsf Path Not allowed
*.wsh Path Not allowed
\\c0047\software$\* Path Unlimited
\\domain.se\SysVol\* Path Unlimited
C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Temp\* Path Unlimited
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop Path Unlimited
C:\Program Files\* Path Unlimited
C:\WINDOWS\* Path Unlimited
The polices are distributed using GPO in the Active Directory.
The strange thing is that some applications installed in "Program Files"
runs perfectly e.g. Office but other third party applications can't start
and I can't figure out why. There are some MS applications, e.g. Notepad,
that doesn't start either.
I've studied the document "Using Software Restriction Policies to Protect
Against Unauthorized Software"
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/rstrplcy.mspx
to configure SRP and in the Troubleshooting section it says that a denied
SRP should be logged in the system event log but this doesn't occur so I can
't get any information here, at least I can't find any log records. Do I
need to do anything special to enable this logging?
Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards, Ola Theander
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- Windows XP >> windows update errorI have over 80 updates that won't install.
I think many have already been installed.
I would like to cancel these out and start over.
How can I delete these so they won't try to install?
then I can do a new manual update.
thx
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- Windows XP >> EnablePrefetchIt seems like my XP`s Home ability to act upon the prefetch capability
does`nt work any longer. There is no shortcuts in the "Prefetch Folder"
anylonger?
I now the address for this key in the registry, which is:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters]
The first time I looked it up the dword value was 0. I then tried to
changed it to 1, but still that did`nt work, then 2 and 3 but nothing semm
to help enabling it again.
Anyone now the solutions for this matter?
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- Windows XP Hardware >> Graphics Card ProblemAny help would be very much appreciated with the following
My son has a 1.53g AMD Athlon pc running Win XP Home
The Bios program from the AMI web site shows the motherboard/chipset as follows
ID String = 62-0415-001131-00101111-071595-SiS730
Motherboard Manufacturer Code = 1131 ELITGROU
Chipset SiS730 Rev
Bios Date 04/15/0
When purchased I believe this PC had on-board graphics but a Hercules 3D Prophet (Kyros series) PCI graphics card was installed some time back and appears to function correctly
He has now purchased a GeForce FX5200 AGP card made by Sparkle that he would like to install and this is where the problem is....
The drivers for the Hercules card were removed using device manager, the pc shut down and the card removed from the PCI slot. The new AGP card was installed in the vacant AGP slot and the pc re-booted. On start up no new hardware was found as I assumed would be the case? Any attempt to load the drivers from the accompanying cd results in the msg - An unsupported operation was attempted. Clicking OK results in an error msg - MFC Application has encountered an error and needs to close etc. et
I have gone into the Bios/Set-up (Version 1.21.86) at the start-up screen and on the menu if I select PCI/Plug & Play Setup I can/have tried changing the Primary Graphics Adapter from PCI to Onboard AGP. I'm not sure if this is the correct thing to do but either way it makes no difference to the new AGP card
Any ideas on how/if I can get this new AGP card working would be a real bonus!
Regards DaveL
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- Windows XP Support >> how to hide taskbar buttoni want to run an application in windows xp professional and have n
button appear on the taskbar.
effectively the programme must run in the background and be accessabl
through the task manager or by using alt+tab to move to it.
it is a programme controlling a camera i want to use to monitor
room, without anyone who looks at the pc seeing that the application i
running.
any help would be gratefully received.
thank you,
joe
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- Windows XP >> Re-associate - Get Back ThereWin XP Pro
I have NO idea but my programs list shows everything, EVERYTHING as Empty
Start
All Programs
Any/All folders you arrow over them and it shows a sub folder as (Empty)
If I want to start a program I have to go thru My Computer, C:, Program Files
How can I re-associate/teach Windows to learn the paths so that they will
re-populate the paths?
And I have tried Restore Point but it does not re-associate the paths.
Thank you
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- Windows XP >> Printing via Remote Desktop to TCP/IP printerWhen I make a connection to an XP box I notice that only a local USB printer
shows up on the host. I have several TCP/IP printers on the remote pc that I
would like to print to but they don't show up in the printers list. I have
the drivers installed for them on the host. Is there something I'm missing?
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- Windows XP >> Unable to open IEWhen I attempt to open IE (vers 5.5) (have AOL 9.0 as Net
connection) the status (?) bar (at bottom left which tells
you if document is done or not) flickers
"toolbar2.i-lookup.com." Then after about 30 seconds the IE
window closes. This sounds like a spyware or virus problem
but I already ran Ad-aware and a virus check program on my
Sony VAIO and cleaned suspect files. Anyone know how I can
restore my IE access to normal?
Thanks!
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- Windows XP >> Software Not Genuine errorRecently, I have disjoined three computers form a labbing domain prior to
reinstalling the DC (2003SP1-ent.ed.). Initially there were RPC and
authentication errors after the installation. During the troubleshooting of
those problems, the three labbing machines were again joined, disjoined and
rejoined to the domain. However, on ALL three of the domain member machines,
I received a pop-up notifying me that the software was not genuine and that I
may have been a victim of counterfeit software! Two of the machines are OEM
installs and the third one is from a TechNet+ license. Also, the Win2003 DC
is from a TechNet+ license and it has been activated each time I installed it
for labbing purposes.
If I restore the machines (rstrui.exe) OR disjoin them from the domain yet
again, the non-genuine warning goes away and the machines' full functionality
is restored.
Because of this behaviour, is the error indicating an apparent problem with
the SERVER's license and not the member machines???
How can I investigate this further?
Thanks.
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- Windows XP Support >> remote assistancei'm trying to help a friend with remote assistance but everytime we try I get
a "disconnected.Try again" msg. Allow remote is checked in Remote properties
and it's in the firewall exeption. He runs xp home n french and me xp pro in
english. Can anyone help please?
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- Windows XP Network >> Network works, but no internetHere is the situation: We hooked up 9 new PCs with WIN XP PRO into and
existing network at a hospital. We used a Linksys 16-port Switch. There are
three existing PCs (all have Win XP Pro as well) on the network which brings
us to a total of 12 PC in all. The issue we are having is this. The 9 New
PCs, when hooked into the network and given the proper IP, gateway, DNS, etc.
will network and see one another and share data fine. However, They will not
access the internet and they will not see the other three existing PCs that
were previously on the network. They all have the same workgroup name, and
are on the same IP sequence, etc. Here's another thread for you. The three
existing PCs will see each other, access the internet, and seem to have no
problems. Now, we have tried different IP sets, Different Workgroups,
different switches, different Network cards, all with the same outcome. What
could we be overlooking here and what else can we try? Thanks for your time.
Dave
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