OK, Just received a new DELL Prec. 4300 w/WinXP. When I put in a CD, like a
install disk the CD rom drive just spins and will not launch the install
program, tried many. This is also true for USB drives that have
initialization programs built in like the cruze drives.

If I put in a movie dvd it launches fine. I have gone thru tweakui,
autofix, checking policies and making sure the drive wasn't set no to run.
and as usual DELL has no clue.

hi
I have windows xp installed. I get an error message:
Self-registration Error
The following files did not self-register or unregister:
1. C:\windows\system32\flash.ocx
Error accessing the OLE registry.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled Macromedia.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe flash player
Still no joy.

Windows XP Home includeing SP3
The Help is missing from the Sart Menu, is there any way of getting it back
on the Start Menu please?
Thank you,
Walter

Apologies in advance if I've selected the wrong subgroup...

After three unsuccessful attempts to install XP SP3 via Windows Update, I am
once again restored back to SP2 and posting to this group. I am receiving the
same error each time, it freezes up on the Windows...

I recently added an internal Western Digital 500 GB SATA2 Drive into a
fairly new computer(less than two months old Phenom 9600) I used the included
software to attempt to format and partition the drive into 4 sections. I
wanted to makle this my primary drive so I could take out the old 30 GB drive
I had laying around that was very slow. The software included was DATA
LIFEGUARD TOOLS and GOOGLE software. The partitions initailly were set up
backwards of how I wanted so I started over again and attempted to do it
opposite of the way I had previously. This time it worked like it should
have in the begining and set it up like I had told it to do, not how I
actually wanted it to be. I had it set it up as a boot partition so my main
drive was copied (taking several hours which surprised me 22GB would take
that long) After seeing that XP was copied to a FAT32 partition I thought it
wouldn't possibly load correctly and was meaning to change it. Before I got
the opportunity my power failed computer shutdown and rebooted but hung on
startup right before login screen. So I put in my Windows XP disk and
attempted a repair install. After running what appeared to be a regular
install I managed to get my main drive back up and running but the drive
letter was changed (from drive C: to drive E:) ; however, most of my
services are now not working as they are set to DRIVE C: . This is
completely frustrating as now I can't even use IE7 and attempting to do so ...

I installed some Microsoft updates recently and had the computer just the way
I wanted. After I shut off so the updates could install and then turned it
back on, once it came up, everything had changed. I could no longer go to the
classic view (even though I selected the option), all my program settings had
disappeared completely, including what files they had used. (Example, my
version of Quicken completely lost its file. Fortunately, I had it backed up.
My settings in Firefox and Internet Explorer had disappeared as well,
including the bookmarks and the page I had set for home.)

I want to be able to go to Classic Vie

I am a domain admin. a XP machine that is a domain member pc will not let me
add my account in the local administrators group. I have domain admin rights.
Any ideas?

I have XP sp2 and outlook Express, 6 after a simple resize of photos wants me
to add profiles and path to Mail in exchange wizard pop up box.
I do not have Office or Outlook.
OE6 is my mailhandler for OE5 and IE6;;I have checked; I can receive and
send email fine. no errors ;no exchange wizard.
Could this be a corrupted file ??
When Exchange wizard running taskmaster says its running from explorer?
Where is it and can I get rid easily;How Please?
thanks in anticipation

Help

I removed a virus from a client system and when I rebooted it now
bluescreens and tells me that basemhap32 is missing. I tried to run windows
setup from the cd to repair the installation but it will not run. It get
stuck after the screen which asked to press enter to continue r to repair...
When I press enter it tells me please wait.... and it doesn't do anything
else.

Please advise

Question about backing up data in XP, I shared all the document folders from
other XP computers, and make sure their VSS and MS VSS Provider services
started, I then mapped these shares on a XP computer. I ran NTBackup.exe on
this XP Pro SP2 machine daily, however when I checked the backup report next
day, some of the files didn't backup because it was in use by other
processes, e.g. outlook pst file.

I thought the VSS can help solve file locking problem, but it didn't work
for me. did I miss out anything? especially, I know if it is a
client-server environment, you can see "previson version" tab, but it's not
available in my situation. Can anyone help?