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Customization Tweaking

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Making Slipstreamed WinXP CD - A Few Queries

philbarnes

I am just about to re-install windows on my computer, and read that if you slipstream Service Pack 1 into WinXP, the performance is better than if you install one after the other. So, having done this, I have a few more queries: 1) I run a RAID system which normally means needing to put in a floppy disk with the dr ...

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Last reply by philbarnes, 2003-02-22 14:34

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svchost.exe problems

Avalanche

So I noticed that I was having too much going on on my cpu yet again, during idle. I thought I had fixed it with getting rid of McAfee, which did help, but the problem started to come back. I swapped around all sorts of drivers and software, nothing was making any difference.

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Last reply by Avalanche, 2003-02-19 01:11

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Screen Adjustments for Nvidia based cards

Tomay

I'm running XP's on an old monitor. The problem is that the screen is too far right. And I can't adjust it. Is there a program to adjust this. I have a Nvidia Geforce MX. ATI has this controls built in with the driver they're called Adjustments and you can change the screen size and position there.

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Last reply by Four and Twenty, 2003-02-12 15:43

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New File System for Longhorn/Blackcomb?

Brian Frank

I was inquiring over at another message board about if MS has another file system in place to replace NTFS with sometime in the future. I heard that this might be in Longhorn and Blackcomb. I figured I should hit this place up to find out if that was the case or not or if it's not a sure thing.

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Last reply by DS3Circuit, 2003-02-09 22:55

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Recover information

el_vago32

ok, i can't believe this has happened to me, cause everyday i'm working with client's workstations and sometimes their HD's are that damaged that we can't recover the information. . . . well that's not the point, the issue is that my 40 gb HD has just blowed up and it's making that typical sound it makes when the i ...

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Last reply by el_vago32, 2003-02-08 18:34

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Default settings for Rdr and Parallel services on NT4?

Curley_Boy

Can anyone tell me the default startup settings for the Rdr & Parallel services in the 'Devices' Panel for NT4 Wks? Thx

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Last reply by Curley_Boy, 2003-02-06 01:39

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Sysprep 2.0 and sysprep.inf

lawson23

Minisetup is not reading the INF file created with setupmgr. exe. I have a dir located at c:\sysprep and inside this dir is the sysprep. exe and the sysprep. inf. Any suggestions to why it is not reading the inf file? Sysprep.

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Last reply by lawson23, 2003-02-05 17:12

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Taskbar Problem

Djviper

Hi, Since a few days i have the strange problem with my taskbar. When i startup XP than my taskbar is twice as big, toolbars adress and Links are on, when i put them out and than after a while restart my system again they are back.

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Last reply by Djviper, 2003-02-05 16:17

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Group Policy's

lawson23

I want to change my group policy for the local machine but don't want the policy change to apply to all users only certain users or even a group. Is this possible without using Active Directory. .

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Last reply by lawson23, 2003-02-04 15:55

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sidewinder force feedback wheel (game port)

thegreendevil

i have the same problems of playboy but in my case doesn't works the brakes in GP4 and colin mcrae rally 2. i have already setted and calibrate the wheel in control panel sidewinder (auto detect) and works right but in the games.

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Last reply by thegreendevil, 2003-02-03 01:42

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User names and passwords in XP

wilsher3

Can anyone help me? I have windows xp home and Internet Explorer 6. 0. Explorer will not retain the user names or passwords after visiting a site I keep trying different setting but I can't seem to figure this one out.

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Last reply by duhmez, 2003-01-30 22:46

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PreFetch Directory gone, how do i RE-enable PreFetch

Cyn

Well the other day I wanted to look at my prefetch directory and see if any programs had a profile there that I didn't want optimized, since there's a limit as to how many programs have prefetch data stored for them.

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Last reply by turbotony, 2003-01-28 22:14

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Folder Costumization problem

DragonSoull

Recentelly I moved my music folder to an spare drive. The problems appered wen i want to use it for other stuff but i can't remove the music folder options and, since it's a drive there's no costumization tab.

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Last reply by Champion_R, 2003-01-28 13:38

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SP3 And Webview

Sodapop

Please help me figure out why my custom webviews no longer work with 2k sp3. They worked with sp2 but it seems sp3 killed them. Also I can no longer disable the media preview when I click a video or audio file in a folder.

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Last reply by DS3Circuit, 2003-01-28 02:23

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Disable reporting a specific error message

Phalanx-Imawano

Is there a way to disable a specific message, as to a specific device? Here's the scenario. After upgrading one of my hard disks (added a Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 80GB in place of a Seagate 30GB) I decided to set up a partition dedicated to the Windows Swapfile (Windows XP Pro).

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Last reply by Phalanx-Imawano, 2003-01-25 18:32

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Changing the Start Button

Chernobyl

Quick Quiz. How do you change the Image and size of the Start button in Windows 2000/XP? It seems to have slipped my mind. . . . You now how it is. . . Too much new important stuff to remember like where is my keys??? What time is Enterprise on next??? And the prize for the best answer.

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Last reply by adamvjackson, 2003-01-24 11:00

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Preventing ANY error reporting

PinkPanther

hello all, I have disbaled error reporting in the My System properties and I have also disabled the error reporting service from loading up at all. However, whenever Outlook XP crashes, I STILL get the error reporting pop-up (the one with debug, send , and don't send options) - does anyone know what setting I am mi ...

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Last reply by akiss, 2003-01-23 17:00

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XP Processes Help

ScottEslick

I know for Win 98 there was a program called End it all, to stop everything that wasn't needed, is there anything like that for XP Pro or at least a list of things that need to run, I need all the extra resources I can get for gaming til all my stuff gets here for my new machine.

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Last reply by adamvjackson, 2003-01-20 01:09

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S.M.A.R.T. technology for HD

el_vago32

does someone know about that???. . . ya' i suposse that it's for increasing the transfer speed on the HD, but dunno nothing else and i need some info about it. thx.

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Last reply by el_vago32, 2003-01-19 07:44

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Disable warning dialog when moving start menu shortcuts?

videobruce

Running Win2k w/sp3; when you move a start menu shortcut by drag and drop with administartor rights a warning dialog box comes up stating that it will affect all users. How do you get rid of that annoying box?.

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Last reply by videobruce, 2003-01-18 20:20