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No Icons/No Start Menu Desktop reoccurs after format & Windows ...
This lap top is an old Toshiba and obviously not worth the bother. I can't believe doing this is going to wipe out everything on the computer. You will boot from the Windows XP Home CD. You will wipe everything off the computer and install normally. When it asks for qualifying media - insert your Windows 95 CD.

VISTA (does not boot) get a BLUE SCREEN
What you actually see is dependent on which language settings you have enabled. I gather it also works in unicode with much longer character codes. Having run a HP computer for 10 years now ( with pre-plumbed OS ) the printed info which used to be available is simply not available to me.

Problem installing downloaded programs on Vista
What you are doing here is changing the default shell (that is having problems) from the Windows Explorer to the old Windows Program Manager shell. The computer is back up and running again after reformatting, but I am wanting to prevent it happening again. Can anyone suggest something I've missed?

Slow printing after adding new user to workstations
For example, the settings for Internet Explorer are stored in HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftInternet Explorer (computer specific settings) as well as If your windows computer is relatively new, less than 6 months old, and you are not a very active user cleaning the registry would not give you much of a result.

Control of WIN95 Screen Setup with student use
Richard G. Harper rghar...@email.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Glad to hear that it all worked out well for you. I am needing to back up my settings first to something external to the PC (Ie my network server share) and then blow the computer away and do a clean install.

Title story: "A Brother's Memories Part 1" Author: INCEST MAN ...
I won't freeze up my computer or anything? There is very little need to change from the Windows defaults to a custom setting. Back in the old days of expensive hard drives, it was possible to save some disk space by controlling this yourself, but today the value of what you can save is insignificant.

MS Update kills MS IE7
I have 'enabled' it in windows 'add programs'. Have printer/scanner that plays nice w/sp (an old lexmark 5150 - no OCR) Does XP FAX componet work? Some stand-alone fax machines can be connected to your computer to allow print-to-fax. -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of

Trying again. --got it!
Pat Glenn wrote: I have recently purchased a new computer and received an OEM copy of windows XP. When I did my setting up, rather than install the new disk, I installed XP using the old disk (another OEM XP disk) from my former computer. I figured that I could just keep the new licence around in case I needed it

Sudden VPN connection problem
OWA on RWW using dyndns and all of the router settings for port forwarding 3. all functions "in front" of the SBS (home network, voip, etc. Problem 4: someone took a domain member computer out of the domain etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. I've managed to get several pieces back on line: The home network seems fine.

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However, would that not set me back to xp with sp2 only...ie no updates? "Colin Barnhorst" wrote: Good luck! Get that XP SP2 cd made before you go any further. Restart the computer and keep tapping F8 while it is booting to get to the WAO menu. The solution to being stuck with an old XP cd is to make an

Faxes are Stretched
Mark jmhonz...@nospam.insightbb.com microsoft public windows vista security http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944533 You could go here, download each component/hotfix of it downloads fine and then i start the computer, it gets about 66% and then it configures errors an sets back to old setting, what is going on?

HELP!! Cannot Find Domain When Logging on to Windows Server 20
Now it all started coming back to me. DOS and even old Windows 3.1 required MSCDX or something -- there were all kinds of arcane files needed -- oh yeah, I got back to the computer, opened the box and set about installing it. Gads, this thing comes on *13* floppies. I spent the next hour feeding floppies into

How to read harddrive that was once too big for mobo.
Styx S...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general So Acer Support tells me that to get into the recovery section I do hit Alt-F10 right Does that mean that if/when I use the hidden partition to reset everything back to the factory settings, I would only lose what I have on the c drive?

Setting up XP FAX
BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP. 2. During Windows can i switch to Linux and vice versa Technically, yes. practically no. :-) Okay, here's how you would do it...seriously, it's how I've resorted to They can be had relatively inexpensively, either one of the Walmart specials or an old computer someone is ready to chuck.

Startup repair not working
After selecting the Safe Mode with Command Prompt, it went directly into the Blue Screen stating: A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to Insert the Windows installation disc and restart your computer. 2. Choose your language settings, then click "next." 3. Click "Repair your computer.

ImgBurn v.2.4.0.0
Do you know how to get it back? Maybe it's something in the system config startup tab? Been so long?, "Since I played with 98, but if memory serves me correctly?!?!?!,...., click 'Start,' go up In fact, I still have my old original Windows 95 HP Vectra machine, which I'm still using as a foot rest as we speak.

Q 400Gb HDD with Windows 98/ME
Knuth's done it the old fashioned, slow, error-prone way too - back in the 1970s, so he used an actual typewriter. TeX ignores scribbles in the margin, but has a set of commands to replace them. These are commands put in to handle the material put in by computer programmers who "THINK" they know how the user

Can I run Outlook Exp on my Vista
Pat Glenn pgl...@telus.net alt windows-xp I have recently purchased a new computer and received an OEM copy of windows XP. When I did my setting up, rather than install the new disk, I installed XP using the old disk (another OEM XP disk) from my former computer. I figured that I could just keep the new licence

Virtual memory
With it turned off by setting the value to non-zero (1) then setup worked. I installed IE4 and it crashed and I had another helluva time getting my computer back. The friendly DOS aliases are handy if you're still running any old Windows or DOS apps that don't know about long filenames.

fax problems with Windows XP Pro and Outlook 2007 database
I've posted the following before, but here's the instructions I use for setting up my C84 without CUPS, so you can see how this kind of thing works. Back in the late 90's you generally had 3 kinds of printers: ascii/PCL, Windows-only printers, Postscript/PCL. It was pretty easy to tell people to avoid