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if you have an on board video card on your motherboard that you are not using, you may have to disable that in the BIOS. It may be sending the boot screens to that video card until it boots windows itself then detects your monitor on the second video card. Check that

If this does not work, I would update to SP2 and then install wmp10.

Download and install Powertoys for windows xp from the MS website, once you install that use the Tweak UI utility and look under Templates, uncheck anything you do not want to show in that menu and click OK.

it has been that way for a while now, maybe a month or so

Tisk Tisk, so true so true, that is the first thing I do when I get any computer.

the computer will not go to standby mode if there is some activity going on. So no, if you force it to go to standby mode it will stop network activity and the download will stop.

I use ChoiceMail and it works great in my case. It has the ability to get mail from different accounts and bring them all into one outlook profile. It even does hotmail too.

Right click on the contact folders and then go to the Outlook Address Book tab and check to see if Show this folder as an email address book is checked. If it is not then check it and restart outlook. If it is checked then uncheck it restart outlook and then go back and check it again, this has worked for me in the past.

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make sure you are not using the autologon feature in a tweaking program like the one in XP Powertoys for example.

if you get this free tool called ICON Snat 3.61 and it will show you all the library files that contain icons on each of your folders you select on.

Well if you have 10 computers that are the same, you can switch some parts around to try and figure out which part is causing the problem. First switch out the power supply with a different computer. If it is the power supply you will start getting that error on the machine that you switched it with and the computer you took it out of should now work ok. Then repeat the step with the motherboard if needed. Sounds like a lot of work, but it would help you isolate what the problem is. Then once you figured out which one is the problem replace that part.

if you have full version of outlook, open it and let it import the mail settings from your outlook express and also import you mail. Then use Outlook. Once you have all your mail there, you could always go back to OE and delete your old mail account, and then create a new account profile and see if it works that way.

No not possible, but you could create a BAT file to open more than one program at a time.

I like VMWare

Roxio Ver 7.5 should be able to do this for you.

stick with the bios from dell or you will hose your system.

you should read a book called Hacking Exposed it goes in great detail what can be done.

when you select print, does it not let you change the size of the paper to Letter.

you can rename the stinger.exe file to stinger.com and it should run like that.

they new where he lived before he called them.

as some viruses have a tendency to check your system to see if all critical updates are installed and if one of them is not installed you are vulnerable and you may get hit with that virus as soon as you connect to the internet. It is a good idea to have a firewall and antivirus up to date before connecting onto the internet.

it all really depends on the format the movies are in. Were those movies ripped, just copied over or what. It also depends on your home dvd player. For example, I have three dvd players at my home. One player will play the movies fine but only with DVD+ disk, the other playes both, and the last one will only play them if they are DVD-. My daughter has a dvd player too, but none of the movies plays on her dvd player, it is an older model. I am going to buy her a new one for her birthday so she can watch all my movies.

I think your quickest fix will be to backup his profile so that you can get a copy of his favorites, documents, etc. and then just delete that profile and create a new one for the account that has the problem. It could take you a long time to figure that out, I think creating a new profile would be the quickest.

Roxio EZ CD Creator 7.5 will do spanning to multiple cd's automatically for you, if this is what you are talking about.