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Customization Tweaking 1790

Automautic XP login how to?

shassouneh

Dear All, Sorry if this is a repeat post. I was wondering, how can you set Windows XP Professional to automatically login with a specific user name and password like you can in Windows 2000 Professional? I've heard you can do it if you set your password to no password, but is there any way i can set it to automatic ...

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Last reply by shassouneh, 2002-03-10 10:55

Windows Hardware 9627

SMC II PCI drivers on win2k

ryoko

I'm trying to replace an older nic with an SMC II 10/100 pci. I looked on SMC's web site for a driver, and I tried adding it within windows. Neither place had the driver and the card was not autodetected.

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Last reply by ryoko, 2002-03-10 07:50

Windows Hardware 9627

Can't get XP Pro to install....help?

mike3169

Sorry I did nto know where else to post this. Ok we have new Copies of XP pro here at work. I am trying to load it on my machine. Don't laugh. SOYO K7VTA-Pro 1. 4 Athlon 256 mb PC133 Enermax 350watt PSU IBM 30gig DTLA Gainward GF2 MX400 64mb 556x Cdrom 16x10x40 Liteon CDRW 1.

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Last reply by EM, 2002-03-10 07:17

Windows Games 5469

Soldier Of Fortune Won't Play

Vulcan

hey. . i just installed win xp. my video card is nvidia's tnt 64, and i installed the latest 16. 30 driver. i installed Soldier Of Fortune and i tried to play the game. . . The Problem is that i get a black screen for a few seconds and than i'm thrown back to the desktop !!!!!! Please Help.

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Last reply by SneakX, 2002-03-10 07:02

Windows Software 5498

Will Windows Xp Work With This Machine??

NTGAMEMAN

here is my system specs: Motherboard:Tekram P6PRO-A+ VIA Apollo Pro133 ATX Bios date: 2000/3/29 V1. 04 from OS: Windows 2000 Professional sp2 + srp1 + 16 pre-sp3 fixes CPU: Pentium III 700E MMX SSE Memory: 1x128mb pc-100 1x256mb pc-133 384mb pc-100 sdram 168pin total Graphics Card: Visiontek Nvidia Geforce2 MX400 T.

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Last reply by SneakX, 2002-03-10 06:51

Windows Games 5469

Nox

onedeadguy

I can't get Nox to work on my pc, i am running a PII 355mhz with 384ram, I have a nvidia 32 mb video card, and a soundblaster awe64 sound card, i have it set up so i can set the shortcuts to work in 95/98 compatability mode but it just flashes my screen black then closes.

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Last reply by onedeadguy, 2002-03-10 03:53

Slack Space 1613

This is not good at all...

Toby

*WARNING* Save your work berfore following this link or it will be lost if you use XP. It will make you log off and will close all applications. . . Can't find any patch for this use of cmd. exe over at ms, hope they post one soon.

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Last reply by sapiens74, 2002-03-10 02:02

Windows Software 5498

Sound in DOS under VMware ?

CeRbErO

Hey. I just installed VMWare evaluation, just to be able to play Day of the Tentacle. But I have a problem. I have gotten the sound to work on the virtual machine, which runs Win98 SE, but in DOTT, it doesn't work.

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Last reply by Corinthian, 2002-03-09 22:14

Windows Hardware 9627

IBM MediaAccess Pro (USB) keyboard install problem

violent

ok, this is the 2nd black mediaaccess keyboard i bought first time i thought it was no good/broken 'cause the box had been opened but this time i figured i'd be safe. the manual says to install the software first, then plug the usb cable and the keyboard should be detected - but all i get is installation problem oc ...

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Last reply by violent, 2002-03-09 21:15

Windows Software 5498

Strangest thing ever

Imperium97

Hi folks, I could really use some help. I have a p4 1. 8 with a Shuttle AV40, 768MB pc2100 crucial DDR, Asus GF3, SBLive!, etc. I'm running XP pro and have been on this very same system since release and have never had a problem.

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Last reply by Imperium97, 2002-03-09 19:21

Windows Hardware 9627

Drive letters out of order in My Computer

videobruce

On a fresh install of 2k, after I installed SP2 from a burned CD, the drives are out of order in My Computer! In Explorer the left pane shows OK but the right pane is wrong too. In other words they disagree with each other! As follows: A,E,F,C,D,G,H (C/D is 1 HD, G/H is the other) Yes, that's right, E is first and ...

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Last reply by videobruce, 2002-03-09 17:41

Windows Networking 2246

Shared folder etc. not showing up.

mike3169

Hi all. A friend has 3 pc's in his home, all with XP pro. All with 10/100 NICs and on a 10/100 Linksys Switch. Here's the problem. We establish a Network by running the Network wizard on all 3 and setting one as the Host for Internet.

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Last reply by mike3169, 2002-03-09 17:05

Customization Tweaking 1790

Help! System runs horrible and I've tried everything

NaughtyNu

1 Ghz Athlon 512 megs SDRAM 133Mhz GF2 MX card SB Live 20 gig Maxtor/40 gig WD drive Windows XP Clean Install. . . still runs horrible. Just before the weekend my system (which ran very very nicely) started to run badly.

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Last reply by ChrisMOG, 2002-03-09 09:37

Windows Networking 2246

IIS problems - ok in ie, denied in NS

zaijian

I just loaded IIS on my win2k system so I could locally test out some asp web stuff. . . everything is working fine when I use IE, but when I use NS6, I get HTTP 401. 3 - Access denied by ACL on resource - all the permissions seem to be set right.

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Last reply by zaijian, 2002-03-09 06:59

Windows Hardware 9627

motherboard and windows xp

NTGAMEMAN

Tekram P6PRO-A+ VIA Apollo Pro133 ATX DOES THIS MOTHERBOARD WORK WITH WINDOWS XP HOME ??

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2002-03-09 06:27

Slack Space 1613

EXTRA EXTRA Whitehouse.org hacked

felix

I would suggest you check out as soon as you can before they fix it. Especially this link -.

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Last reply by sapiens74, 2002-03-09 03:46

Windows Software 5498

Windows Media Player + XP & Complete System Crash

kuphryn

Hi. I have a major problem playing *any* movie file in XP. This has never happened before, but it started happening about a week ago. I have no idea why. I remember installing PowerDVD 4. 0. Everything is download hill from there.

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Last reply by clutch, 2002-03-08 21:26

Windows Networking 2246

FTP Server

bytemangler

I'm trying to setup an FTP server using cable modem (insight) and win2K. Where's the good resource link you guys can direct me to? thanks.

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Last reply by clutch, 2002-03-08 21:18

Customization Tweaking 1790

Windows Explorer - Default Settings

PinkPanther

Hi everyone, Does anyone know how to make Windows Explorer (the file manager) open to a specific location without expanding the folder tree? By default it opens to My Documents and the tree is expanded.

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Last reply by Denver_80203, 2002-03-08 21:07

Customization Tweaking 1790

Forcing XP to fill RAM before using Swap File?

isochar

Supposedly this line in system. ini would work for Win2k: ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 However, I'm noticing that WinXP doesn't utilize all my RAM. Anyone know how to get around this?.

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Last reply by Gunner, 2002-03-08 21:03