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Just installed .NET Server RC1

whoisit
Now what can I do with it? On a side note, this release seems to be ready for sale. I mean all necessary functions are there. So what's the hold up?.
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Please help me to upgrade my Windos XP laptop

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Just got a Toshiba Laptop with Windows XP Home edition on it. I would like to upgrade the OS to Windows XP Professional Upgrade CD (in order to keep all my current settings) Please kindly give me a quick tutorial and let me know what steps I have to thorugh, in order to install the Windows XP Professional Upgrade o ...
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Windows Messenger keeps signing in

bobbinbrisco
i'm using 4. 6. 0078 and whenever i log into WinXp, Messenger tries to sign in, and then tells me i have an incorrect password. what i need to do to is to cancel it from signing in, then sign in manually (i.
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Can you set ACLs per application rather than per user/group?

Curley_Boy
Just wondering since I use the Contig. exe util to clean up the bits that diskeeper misses and 'System Volume Information' has only SYSTEM access rights an i have to change this every time I defrag. Would be quicker if I could just give contig the access rights it needs for just that folder.
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Lost web view in Explorer running 2k

videobruce
I have lost the default web view in explorer open windows. When I open a folder or drive the left pane ins't there. The whole width is the directory. I can change it back, but I have to go through the 'customize this folder' wizard and create a html template to do it and it is only for that view.
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An unepected error occured (536854784) at............

Mr.Guvernment
Hey all well, my pci. sys problem did not work even after trying a few things a friend said, so now i am trying to repair using the XP CD or even a fresh install. SO! - i put in my Xp cd - boot up form CD, Xp asks if i want to install any 3rd part scsi or raid driver shit F6, then ask to hit F2 to do that other rep ...
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MS potentially could do anything to "DO" XP, stop

tylau
MS could potentially at her discretion do anything to the DO version of the corp. XP, just looking at recently what it does when you hit that start menu item called 'windows update' 1. It invoke the program called wupdmgr.
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Turn off speech recognition!!

bobbinbrisco
this is getting very annoying. i dont know if this is a virus or anything but whenever i try to type anything the words like can can appear any where the inputing of text is concerned (URLs, Word). i think it might be due to voice recognition software, i recently installed it in office xp, but turned it off (untick ...
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HELP Needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

embj
I just installed Partition Magic Pro 7. 0 and partitioned my 2 HD's. The HD that Windows XP is on I partitioned it into 2. The 2nd HD I partitioned it into 4. These are all logical partitions. Anyway that worked out fine.
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Minimise outlook xp to the system tray

Four and Twenty
Open Regedit. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10. 0\Outlook\Preferences Add a new DWORD value and name it MinToTray Set it equal to 1. Restart Outlook, it should now minimize to the tray.
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WMP9 error trying to stream

CheekyMonkey
I don't know if this is a WMP 9 issue or SP1 or what. But, since I installed them I get an error every time I try to stream media using WMP. The error is: Visual C++ Program: C:/. . /. . /Windows Media Player/wmplayer.
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SiS chipset drivers

aze
Hi all! sys: p4 1. 8 // mb asus p4s333 // chipset sis 648 // win2k I'm looking for some driver to enable AGP Texture acceleration on dxdiag. I heard say there are intel and via drivers to improve system performance.
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XP SP1 question

Azreal
After installing SP1 it shows an icon in my task bar when I hover over it it says it is now safe to remove this item and it list my usb items. Any idea how to remove that icon. .
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SP1 Problem

Azreal
I installed SP1 last night and now my machine blue screens on boot. Stop: c000021a {fatel system Error} Session Manager Initilization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000263 yous system has been shut down.
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problem with Iexplorer

el_vago32
my problem is that my pc takes a loooooot of time to start the internet explorer when i clik it, but the the performance on all other applications is very, very good, it just happens with the internet explorer.
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