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Windows Software 5498

Icon in 256 colors

miku

Hi Guys, This suddenly happened to my computer today. All the icons lost colors and now clock ugly (256 colors). . . My computer is set up in 16bit colors and i have tried 32bit too. I have tried to check and uncheck the Show icon using all possible.

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Last reply by miku, 2001-03-23 22:27

Windows Software 5498

W2K IE Security Issue for Admins...

kazoo

Under Admin, IE Permissions are set for Domain Admins (Full) & Internet Users (Read/execute). There seems to be a back door for users to access the Internet(what a shock), does anyone know how to resolve this? As soon as they(users w/o internet authority) open the control panel, they click the down arrow and choose ...

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Last reply by kazoo, 2001-03-23 16:58

Windows Software 5498

Creative Play Center 2.5 or Media Player???

javajeff

Can anyone tell me the difference between Creative Play Center 2. 5 and Media Player 7? Thanks. .

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-03-23 06:34

Windows Software 5498

Win2K SP1 Setup probs

mchila

The following value in the. SIF file used by Setup is corrupted or missing: value 0 on the line in section with key SP1. cab. Setup cannot continue. Any body ever see this one? Can't seem to get around it.

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Last reply by mchila, 2001-03-23 02:17

Windows Software 5498

Easy cd creator 5 vs Nero 5.5

Cardinal

Nero 5. 5 looks pretty nifty. As far the features in the creation of an audio cd go. But it still uses much the same methods of creating a cd. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It still lacks alot in the creation of cd's with copy protection.

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Last reply by PsychoSword, 2001-03-22 10:12

Windows Software 5498

How to share an Internet connection in Win2K?

bolat

G'day guys, I have a bit of a hard one. I have a cable connection to the internet which goes from the cable modem to a NIC. I want another person to be able to dial into my box and be able to access the internet from my cable connection.

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Last reply by bolat, 2001-03-22 07:55

Windows Software 5498

Voice regonition program

Napalm

I need suggestions on a good/decent voice regonitoin program to use with win2k. What should I look in to? (Dragon Soft, IBM. . . ?) Thanks,.

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Last reply by Four and Twenty, 2001-03-22 07:31

Windows Software 5498

best DVD Player (soft)

T0NT0

whats the best win2000 soft DVD Player?? got a p2 450, 128meg ram and a tnt 16 meg. plus of course a DVD. what is the fastest best quality software dvd player. ??.

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-03-22 05:48

Windows Software 5498

WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?!

Brian Frank

Okay, my specs are below, heres my problem. Whenever I play a dvd, everythings okay,but if I put a cd in afterwords, BSOD with this stop message : 0x03E A thread tried to release a resource it did not own.

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Last reply by PsychoSword, 2001-03-21 23:22

Windows Software 5498

Batch Files

Anonymous

Anybody have any good websites that really go into detail about batch file writing? I only know some basic stuff, and I would like to learn a lot more. .

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Last reply by SimiaN, 2001-03-21 19:56

Windows Software 5498

Random INACCESIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

anak1

Just curious to see if anyone else has run into the same problem I have with SP2 RC 2. 52. I know it is beta, but Im curious if anyone else who is running it gets the inaccesible boot device randomly.

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Last reply by Cynan, 2001-03-21 10:29

Windows Software 5498

Office XP Trick

Four and Twenty

if you use this html you can view your hotmail inbox in a local inbox. you can change the folder parameter from //Hotmail/Inbox to say Inbox to view your local inbox. It is kind of a cool thing that i stumbled on i don't know how useful it really is except that you can have a html file that calls a specific locatio ...

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Last reply by Four and Twenty, 2001-03-20 23:17

Windows Software 5498

Easy CD Creator 5.0

Mysteure

I got EZ CD creator 5. 0 and I was not able to install it at all. Here is a description of what happen (note: it happen on 2 different machines, one PIII 700 all SCSI, the other ATHLON 1Ghz all IDE).

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Last reply by Mysteure, 2001-03-20 20:54

Windows Software 5498

Windows 2000 Transparent

R Smith

I know there is a registry edit that you can make any window or program transparent when inactive. There is also a program that does this neat little feature for you. . only in Win2000 does this work.

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Last reply by ThC 129, 2001-03-20 05:31

Windows Software 5498

Adding programs to Windows Address bar

m0bfigga

Look at the top of any folder or Explorer window on your screen. See that Address bar? It's not just for Web addresses, you know. You can also use it to issue commands and to navigate your hard disk.

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Last reply by m0bfigga, 2001-03-20 00:24

Windows Software 5498

Windows 2000 and Old Dos Programs

jhogan04

I just installed Windows 2000 on my computer and some DOS issues arose! I have a few old DOS programs that I'm trying to run. Two out the three seem to run fine. However, the one that won't run is looking for the following commands: Files=55 Buffers=40 I did a sysedit and put these in the config.

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Last reply by DosFreak, 2001-03-19 07:51

Windows Software 5498

O&O BlueCon to access Windows 2k without password

Wolf87

New utility to access all Windows 2000 partitions without any password: It also makes booting diskettes and CD. .

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Last reply by Wolf87, 2001-03-18 23:53

Windows Software 5498

Thumbnail View

RussellWild

Hello all: My Thumbnail view in Explorer has stopped working for some reason, not matter what folder I'm in. When I switch to thumbnail the thumbnails appear but on them is just an Internet Explorer (JPEG) icon.

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Last reply by pr-man, 2001-03-18 07:52

Windows Software 5498

Clueless!!!

Xavier211

When I installed Win2k Pro on my computer, I reformatted my entire hard drive first. Since I couldn't find my Office '97 CD, I installed a stand-alone copy of MS Word 2000. Word ran great until recently, when it began to exhibit extremely odd behavior.

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Last reply by Wolf87, 2001-03-18 02:05

Windows Software 5498

Is a pagefile required for each drive?

Cardinal

Hey guys. I have the one drive set up with two partitions, running a dual OS setup. ME/W2K and have set the pagefile to my w2k drive. The problem is, it worked fine for a while but recently when I booted I received a message saying my pagefile is too small.

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Last reply by Brian Frank, 2001-03-17 07:48