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Customization Tweaking

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ipconfig frontend

Corinthian

Anyone know of a good windows frontend for ipconfig ? All I want is an easy to use tool that displays my current IP fast. .

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Last reply by Xiven, 2002-02-06 04:04

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Physical Memory Management

thymios

Hi everyone, i have a friend that his computer runs on a quite slow hard drive. The celeron-500 on his machine is enough running DivX movies. The problem is that when he runs a playback program(any player including WMP and MicroDVD), in order to watch a movie, some physical and some virtual memory is allocated to t ...

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Last reply by Four and Twenty, 2002-02-05 21:00

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Messenger like it should have been in the first place

rgodart

You don't want msn messenger to load when you load windows xp, or start outlook express, or log into hotmail? Then go get those registry keys: I made them cuz i cannot uninstall msn messenger as i use it from time to time, but i hate when it's got a mind of it's own.

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Last reply by rgodart, 2002-02-03 01:44

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Explorer checking drive A:

Thunder

Could someone remind me how to keep explorer from checking A: everytime I open it? Just started a couple days ago and I know there's a fix but can't recall it. .

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Last reply by Thunder, 2002-02-01 04:49

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nt stack dump on login

CrazyKillerMan

Stop 0x0000001E KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED address fbed2226 has base at fbec5000 - tcpip. sys Ok. . . is there anyway this can be fixed? I installed a modem in this NT machine and upon reboot. I removed the modem, same error.

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Last reply by CrazyKillerMan, 2002-02-01 02:44

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XP Home Sharing Win98 Drives

danl

Has anyone here had any experience with trying to get a Home Version of XP to map a shared drive on the net from a Win98 system. My XP Pro system sees the Win98 system fine and maps the drive. The XP Home version can't seem to see it.

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Last reply by CrazyKillerMan, 2002-01-31 04:04

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Disk Cleanup slow with NTFS/W2K

Snuf

I have noticed that the Disk Cleanup utility is extremely slow when using NTFS compared to FAT32 on Windows 2000 Pro. It seems to hang or take a long time when searching for old files to compress. Is this normal for NTFS? Is there a way to disable searching for old files to compress, I don't compress them anyway.

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2002-01-30 19:33

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password protect screensaver

Masterfinn

Hey, For some reason I can't find anywere in XP to set the screen saver password. Now im not an idiot and I have looked in every single place in the display properties and i cant seem to find it, or anywere else on my computer for that matter.

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Last reply by CounterCW, 2002-01-30 07:36

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out of memory message in dos

mabuhay

When I go to the dos prompt on our NT server, I get out of memory message when I try to view or edit simple text files (such as bat files). Performance monitor spikes to 60-70% usage just to open command line.

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Last reply by mabuhay, 2002-01-29 23:26

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Lost XP

Thunder

Was duel booting 98 & Xp. Never used 98 so decided to scratch it and just go with XP. In the meantime I flashed my bios with the latest one which was supposed to allow XP to be installed without pressing F7 during setup.

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Last reply by Thunder, 2002-01-29 18:58

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After Printing, I can't Scan Canon FB-620P & HP 722C

Country-Goat

I have Windows XP and I am using the same scanner and printer I used on my old computer that had Win. 98, here is my problem: When I try to use the scanner AFTER I did some printing, I get an error something like this: LPT-1 in being used by another device.

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Last reply by Country-Goat, 2002-01-29 02:49

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Want look of win98/95 in Windows Exploror using XP/Home

Country-Goat

I have Windows XP that came on my Compaq, what I can't seem to do is get the look of Windows 98/95 when using Windows Explorer. What I want to see is all my drives: C:, A:, D:,and removable F:, plus My Documents which contains my photos, and downloads, etc.

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Last reply by Country-Goat, 2002-01-29 02:24

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cd with integrated uxtheme.dll

rgodart

The file uxtheme. dll is in the i386 dir on the windows xp cd but as uxtheme. dl_. I would like to replace it with a tweaked uxtheme. dll file. How do i make a dl_ file out o f dll? Is it possible to just replace it on the cd or will windows have problems installing? + how do ii make the cd bootable again after mod ...

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2002-01-28 13:28

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playing yahoo games

ociclop

Hey, I would like to know if anyone has any solutions for this problem? I have an evalution copy of win xp, the problem comes when I go to play on yahoo games. The problem is, when I go to Yahoo I can login fine and even choose a room, but when it time for the applet to start I it says page done with some errors an ...

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Last reply by Ge0ph, 2002-01-28 02:37

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Lockups?!?

markjs

I have a computer with XP on it that has been fine for several weeks, then seemingly with no cause it began to lockup when idle or in basic windows tasks. It is fine playing games for hours, but try and run notepad and it locks solid! I have cut all startup programs and scanned for viruses and all to no avail, and ...

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Last reply by EddiE314, 2002-01-27 09:01

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Win2K shutdown

jleinen

Windows 2000 will not shutdown. I have an atx case with Abit BE6 m/b with latest bios update. Just a tnt2ultra installed. Win2K will not completely shutdown. It will write to the disk then give me a its safe to shut down screen.

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Last reply by JP-, 2002-01-26 18:36

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CD AutoPlay gone away

Wolfenstein

I've had XP Pro installed for about a week and all of a sudden my CD's no longer autoplay. Both Music and software CD's provoke zero response. I don't know if it's something I've done or just a bug. Any ideas?.

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Last reply by Wolfenstein, 2002-01-26 11:17

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disabeling ACPI?

diis

Can anyone give me some directions on how to disable ACPI steering in Windows 2000? I did it once a long time ago, and I completely forgot how I did it. .

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Last reply by jleinen, 2002-01-26 07:34

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Win XP top tricks, tweaks and settings

e2Genesis

Hey guys, its been about 4 months now that winxp is out and giving time to mature and all, just wondering if you could all share your experiences with it and all the suggestions and neat things you can do with it, so that we can all get this beastly OS running top notch, thanx

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Last reply by igs2, 2002-01-26 01:14

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File sharing and security option -> Why am I not able to

smoetje

Hello I have a problem, I 'd like to make some folders in my system personal, but when I go to the sharing and security option while right clicking on the map I want to protect, I am not able to make this map personal :-( (the option remains gray, i cannot click it) And the map I want to protect is on a NTFS-volume ...

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Last reply by igs2, 2002-01-26 01:02