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I found out that I could disable the Plug and Play service under Administrative Tools / Services. This solved the problem, but as far as I've understood disabling it is not really recommended. Nobody else has a clue what else I can do? Solution: I just had to put the original Windows XP CD in the CD drive and everything was copied properly

Hello I used nLite to make my own WinXP CD, and I removed the printer drivers, because I have downloaded drivers from Lexmark (Z22, USB). I installed these drivers, and the printer works fine. But every time I start up WinXP, it looks for the drivers that came with XP, but does not find them of course, since I deleted them with nLite. This is very annoying. So, why does WinXP look for the drivers even though I installed Lexmark's? And more importantly, is there a way to stop WinXP from keep looking for the drivers? B.R.

Point is some websites require WMP for videoplayback ...

Nobody has a clue?

Is there a way to install the core media player then (without having to reinstall Windows)?

I used nLite to install WinXP and if I remember correctly I chose to leave out WMP. But now I want to install it again, because it's needed for playing video in many webpages. I downloaded WMP10 and installed it, but it's not working properly. Here's an image of what it looks like on the following page: http://www.vg.no/video/videoplayer/player.hbs?id=2060 Anybody know how to fix it? BR

I have a 160 GB Lacie external harddisk (firewire) that was first used on a Mac. I then connected it to my PC and everything worked fine. When I restarted WinXP for the first time after this, it began with the "Checking file system" process of the Lacie disk during startup. It then for some reason started renaming every file whose name was longer than 8 characters / had spaces in them, etc. (it said something about "non-valid long filenames"). Unfortunately I didn't press the PC's reset-button before many files had been renamed, so now many filenames are f***ed up (the files themselves are intact). Windows does this disk check thing everytime during startup if the Lacie disk is on (so I have to remember turning it off everytime before restart). - Why did WinXP rename those files and can I get their original names back? - Is it possible to turn off the disk check during startup? Any help appreciated! B.R.

That did not work. Still get a black screen with mouse cursor only. I guess I'll have to reinstall ...

Scanned for viruses with NOD32 - no viruses found. Removed ad- and spyware with Ad-Aware. I guess this could not be the cause...

My wireless network went down, so I had to reset the router and everything to get it going again. After I configured it I got a bluescreen of death saying the cause of the problem was the file ar5211.sys (which is the driver file for the wireless PCI card). I restarted, but immediatly after getting into Windows XP (SP2), I got the bluescreen again. I tried restarting once more, but the same thing happened (bluescreen). Then, when restarting, I got the message "A disk read error occurred - Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to restart" right after the "Verifying DMA pool" message. I could not get into Windows XP anymore. I reinstalled Windows on another partition, keeping the original installation intact on drive C. After reinstallation the disk read error message disappeared. I found out that the file ntoskrnl.exe was missing from the \system32 directory. I copied it into there, and tried booting into the original, faulty XP installation. I only ended up booting into a black screen with only the mouse cursor present. Does anybody have any idea what happened? Seems like the wireless equipment somehow f***ed up Windows? Do you think there is a chance I could get the original XP installation up & going again? (I'm tired of reinstallations.) Thanks! PS. If you were wondering... Router: Topcom Skyracer Pro WBR 654. PCI card: Topcom Skyracer Pro PCI 150

Thanks (to all who have replied)!

I've been using my new mouse for some hours now, and it seems to work fine. I guess my old one was defunct (although it's only two months old). Luckily there's a one year warranty so I'll get my money back.

I bought new, non-rechargable batteries today, but the mouse is still the same. Actually I bought a new mouse as well, the A4 Tech RP-680. I'm gonna test it now. If something happens with this one, I will NEVER buy A4 Tech again!

I don't think it's the batteries, they're rechargable. Maybe it's just a crappy mouse, I don't know.

Well, sorry for that. I just thought it was strange the problem increased after reinstallation ...

No, that's not it, either. I've tried different speeds. I've also tried setting different values for sample rate and input buffer length, without success.

It's not connected to an USB port, but to the mouse port (PS/2). So I guess the tweak you're talking about would not affect the mouse. Sorry for posting in the wrong forum.

A couple of days ago I reinstalled Windows XP Pro using nLite (I removed many unwanted things). I have an optical, wireless A4Tech mouse, model RP-649UP (RFWOP-49). It now behaves erratically, to be specific: When I single click, I get a double click. It happens randomly, and is a great cause of irritation. This did happen sometimes before the reinstallation as well, but not nearly as often as now. Could it be something in Windows causing this? Or is it a hardware (mouse) problem? B.R.

I'm afraid those files have a green color. I guess there's no hope left. I still can't believe there's no solution to this, but as I said earlier those files weren't of any big importance to me anyway, so I guess there's no point in spending more time on this issue. Well, thanks for your time! By the way, I've tried both the programs Advanced EFS Data Recovery and EFS Key - without any luck.

I think you are right about the files obviously being encrypted. Exactly how they became so, I don't know. I did not do it intentionally, at least. Thanks for answering anyway (sorry if I sounded a bit rude in the last post). B.R.

So you're saying that there exists no program that can crack (or whatever you want to call it) the encryption? I mean, people crack all kinds of programs and hack into government servers and everything, but EFS is rock solid and impossible to decrypt? It kind of sounds like bulls*** to me, but then again I don't know everything about this system. And all I did was setting the hidden attribute to the folder and files. How could I know they became encrypted then? What if these files were some very important files? Luckily, they were not in my case. It would be nice to get them back, but my life won't be ruined if I don't. At least I've learnt something from this experience ... B.R.

Hello. On my previous Windows XP installation I had a folder (on another partition) with the 'hidden' attribute and all files within the folder was also hidden. For several reasons I had to reinstall WinXP (while keeping the files on the second partition). Now my problem was that I could not access this specific folder. I resolved this by following the instructions on this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810881 Now I can see the files in the folder, but I cannot open or copy them! If I try to uncheck the box "Encrypt contents to secure data" in Properties (General - Advanced) of the files I only get the message "An error occurred applying attributes to the file ... Access is denied." I never encrypted the files in the first place (I only gave them the 'hidden' attribute). How can I make the files work again? I tried to read a little about EFS (Encrypting File System) and from what I understand it seems like I'm in deep s***. But there must be a workaround. There always is a workaround! Can anybody help? B.R.