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Please help with this silly XP problem

DremNeonBlack
Recently, out of the blue, this problem occured. (LINKS don't seem to work by clicking, please cut and paste into the address field) In this menu, when I left-click User Accounts, I get this error: Does anyone know which program opens it? It's a silly problem but I still want it sorted.
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Got cought in a reboot loop!

drehkopf
Now i'm shocked 8) i did not disable autoreboot in winxp. ok, that was my failure. . but now i need to get out of this reboot loop! no boot-options work, and i've no idea how to get this bsod message.
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Problems with Messenger

Sawzaw
Hello, I'm using Windows messenger with XP and keep getting disconnected after a few minutes. MSN has been no help they keep sending me to their help pages that I have already read 3 or 4 times. There are no error messages or warnings and I am still connected to the internet just booted from Messenger.
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Opera crashes at print preview

bobbinbrisco
I am using Opera 6. 0 and whenever i do Print Preview my whole system just restarts. This also happened when I had Opera 5. 12. Does anyone have similar problems or know of a solution?.
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MS IIS: FTP Server

iks
Hi there! How do I set a custom FTP username and password for my FTP server? I mean I don't wanna use one of my Windows logon usernames for FTP logon. . . I don't want to enable Guest account (because then anyone can log on my machine).
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Problems w/ an MPEG player

SnapperOne
I have been using the MPEG player that came with my Plextor 12/10/32a CD-RW for almost a year without a problem. All of a sudden, a problem. After downloading and successfully running an MPEG file using the Plextor player, when I try to download a 2nd file, while the player controller comes up on screen, the files ...
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CD Burning Software for WinXP

Jedi Master
Hope this helps a few of you. I spent several days test driving different CD burning software for use under WinXP. I purchased EZCD 5 when it first came out. For Win9x systems, it's fine. But, as most of us know, under Win2000 or WinXP, it can cause stability problems.
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Distorted output from PS->PDF

miku
Hi Guys, After converting a PS to PDF using Adobe Distiller 5, the PDF file output is no longer as good as can be seen in Ghostscript. Although there is no mistake or error, the problem is hardviewing.
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Office XP SP1

TomAL
I cant find anywhere (i probably havnt looked hard enough) how to integrate the office xp sp1 onto a cd, can someone help? Thanks Tom
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Problem with Win 2000. The bar that has File, View, Edit an

stingbandel
Hi, I didn't do anything yesterday and today when I just turned on my computer, and click the my computer icon, suddenly the bar that has the File, Edit, View and etc is gone. Does anybody know what's wrong with it? Please help me out cause I just reinstall Win 2000 last week so I don't want to reinstall it.
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Ghost XP?

mike3169
Here's what I want to do. I have a few 20gig IBM drives. I have a KR7A-R baord with Highpoint RAID controller. I HAD raid setup on it previosly, but after some stupid mis-haps on my part, I ended up reformatting and going to one Standard drive.
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Visual Style doesn't apply

miku
Hi Guys, I can't seem to get other visual styles downloaded off the internet to work. When I apply them, they just turn the screen black and then i have to somehow revert back to the default Luna Visual Style.
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Bugging about certificate

Galilee
Hi The last days Hotmail and Messenger has started to bug me about some. net passport certificate being to old or expired. I get this window everytime I enter Hotmail or messenger: Is there a way to remove this? Either get a new certificate or just stop bugging me about them.
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System Recovered from Serious Error

rjakubo
Every time I reboot my computer, windows XP gives me a message that says that my system has just recovered from a serious error. It does this whether or not my system crashes. below is the code that the error contains.
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motorola

lingf99
Do you know which one to choose? For my installation of the Motorola Modem Chipsets SM56 under windows XP environment, should I download the NT driver or other driver? As i cannot find the xp drive in this website Thanks for your advise! Ling
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Document Folder - Restricting

PinkPanther
Hello everyone, Does anyone know if it is possible to prevent applications from creating folders in the default documents location? I am very picky about what I have in the documents drive (for me it is a dedicated partition) and I hate it when programs start adding directories in there, especially the ones with th ...
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Printing in IE6

illusionist
I have checked back to the last 100 days of posting and have not seen this question posted so if it has sorry but here it is. My dad asked me why he can no longer highlight text on a web page and print just the highlighted area.
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Outlook Express & Systray

shovmyfist
is there anyway to minmize Outlook Express to the Systray (like you can do for regualar Outlook xp)? any third party software to do this??
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Restoring original files from XP CD...

iks
Hello there! How can I restore original WindowsXP files from the CD? For example, I am using my own LOGONUI. EXE and things like that but now I would like to restore the original one. . . Some months ago I remember that it was posted a simple console command to do this, but I can't find this news message again.
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password shooters

compuman145
Hey peeps, Does anyone know where to find a program that will find the passsword behind the asterix. Compuman145.
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