
Customization Tweaking

isochar
I have no text labels and small icons selected, yet the Address Bar still has Address in front of it. Anything I'm overlooking?.

Windows XP Professional vs. Home Edition
DrX
I think that Home Edition will run games much better because Professioanl is cluttered with all this crap for Enterprise networks that is worthless to home users and takes up valuable RAM and CPU resources.


Linux / NT Partition
TiNenfant
Hi all, I am running NT on a 10 GB HD. System on 2. 5 GB partition Data on 3 GB partition Free on the rest After installing Linux Mandrake 8. 0 on the free space, I was unable to see Data partition anymore Linux partitions / on 300 MB swap on 390 MB /usr on 3000 GB /home on the rest NT Disk Administrator can see th ...

How 2 get rid of diabled program warning?
whoisurdaddy
I was wondering how do you get rid of that annoying Warning message (by the clock area) telling you everytime you log in that some device or serivce is incompatible with Windows XP so Windows disabled it.

Colors a Little Screwy
Finity
ok, so i do a upgrade of XP from ME and everything is fine. but there is one problem - my gray doesnt seem to work. Now, every other color works perfectly. Infact, it looks amazing. But, say, i am on a personalized menu on the start menu, and i expand it, some of them are a darker gray then the others, so that you ...

Slow boot time
Winger300
When the WindowsXP boot screen appears, there is a really long delay, any ideas what i can do? Im using Nvidia dets 21. 81 Default Aureal Vortex drivers Default realtek Nic drivers Highpoint ata 100 controller drivers.

Speedup your Internet Connection & also increase securit
waddy
Top post , once again. . . . . thanks I really miss 3Dfiles forum for all your posts , 3Dfiles is gone completly now.

Crash with 2000
Lafilm
I get a kmode exception and a blue screen that says date stamp with numbers and win32k. sys and sometimes atidvag. dll I could use some help. .

3DMark Score
Marktait
Is 3161 good or not on this system - 1. 2Ghz AMDK7 Athlon Thunderbird 512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM ATX Gigabyte 71XE4 Motherboard 40GB Seagate ATA/100 5400RPM 16x 10x 40x LiteON ReWriter 40x Compaq CDDrive 36x Creative CDDrive 17 NEC Monitor 64MB Nvidia GeForce 2Mx Ambient 56k V.

Hiding desktop icons
bobafett32
Hey guys, another question. I know in the RC1 release of XP, if you had the new style active, then no desktop icons would show up. . . But I can't get this to happen in the final release any more. Any help?.

Beta DirectX expired
tkolman
Has anyone seen this message regarding DirectDraw? It shows a confirmation box with something like Beta DirectDraw expired you must click OK to move on. More importantly does anyong know how to get rid of this in W2K?.

Windows Media Player 8 (For XP)
philbarnes
Here is a link to Microsoft saying there will be a. mp3 addition to Media Player, is there anywhere I can get this now: Alternatively can you do this another way ?.

Auto-set Processor Affinity
repoman22
Hi there! I know that by using the taskmanager, Ctrl+alt+del, i can go to a process, set it's priority to realtime, high, etc, and the processor that I want it to run on. Is there a way to set this automatically? I'd love to just click on a game icon, and have it load the correct priorty level and affinity.

Fast User Switching
loengard
First, a little background. I have a computer that I put in my loft that is the most powerful of the bunch. I would like to share it with other members of my family, but I don't like logging out and closing all my programs just so those other people can use it.


installation problem
Sunridge
Greetings, I'm trying to install Winxp 2600 in my Bro's computer (clean installation) , during installation an error poped up saying Fatal Manifest parse error Controls. man. . . . . anyone encounter this before??? is there a solution to it?? specs P3-550 Abit BH6 mobo Pioneer DVD 3DFX Voodoo 3 - 2000 256 bm ram SB ...

windows xp services
robin
Concidering i am running the pro version on a dialup connection -no network or home network, which services should i allow to run? There are so many with obscure descriptions. thanks for your help. .

Pagefilesize for winXP2600 512Mb ram?
DremNeonBlack
What is a prefferable size of the swapfile with winXP2600 and 512Mb ram?

PCMCIA System Tray Icon
Aeiron
I'm running xp on a laptop and have a network pc card for dsl. Windows displays the icon in the system tray for safe removal of a pc card but I'd like to disable it. Can't figure out how. Win98se you just right click and go to properties, but with xp I have no such option.