Hi,

I'm cross posting since I just discovered this group and think its a
more relevant place to ask:

I am so used to the "copy on select" and "paste on middle mouse"
feature on Linux that I use.

Any way to emulate these in WinXP?

Any settings / tools / hacks greatly appreciated!

-Rahul

Can anyone tell me how I can lock down a users individual Desktop so that
they can;t change there desktop background or add any new programs. I have an
XP SP2 PC.

Hi,

This may be the wrong group for this but its puzzling to say the
least.

I am trying to change an icon for an application which when running
minimises itself to the system tray. The current icon is your standard
8bit 256 Colour ico file.
I have duplicated this and everything looks fine, until windows
actually loads it in the system tray. The icon looks all distorted and
looks like you can see the individual pixcels.

Windows is set to show 32bit colour.
None of the other icons are affected.
The caption button is set to 18

Any help would be appreciated as this is driving me mad and i can't
let something like this beat me.

Thanks

Hi,
is it possible to download Czech MUI Language Pack for XP Pro? I have
someone from Czech office, who needs laptop reinstalled, we are in the middle
of the move, and I have no idea where that CD might be...

Many thanks,

Chris

I have an WD 320g external hard drive that I use for storage of all of my
files--pictures, videos, music, documents, etc. Recently I noticed a problem
with maintaining the folder views that I have had set for years. My
"pictures" folder had lost its filmstrip view all of a sudden. Well, I have
since fixed that issue, but have noticed that very recently, the settings
keep changing in a couple of my folders. Most specifically, my "pictures"
folder and the main view into my F drive itself. (I don't know quite what to
call it, but it's when I choose "my computer" and then double-click on MyBook
F drive--the main window that comes up and lists all of the folders contained
within my F drive.) Anyway, what would happen is that every time I changed
the view on that main window, the views in "my pictures" would change as
well. For instance, I want the main view to be "tiles" and the "my pictures"
to be "filmstrip" but whenever I change one the other automatically changed.
The one thing I noticed is that my F drive main window had a camera watermark
down in the corner, signifying that it was set as a picture-type folder, but
I did not set it that way. I went into the folder options and clicked the
button to "reset all folders" and now when I double-click and open my F
drive, the main page has a music note in the bottom signifying music files I
guess. My question is this, how do I set my F drive to be just a normal
all-types-of-files drive, like my C drive is? I never set it to be specific ...

When I click an icon to start a program, then later close the program
the icon name has always remained highlighted until I use another
icon. For the past few days this no longer happens. The last used icon
is no longer highlighted. Why is this? XP Home sp2

In Xp there was a way to add 5 locations that were called common places.
These were places that you went to all of the time and they would appear in
all drop down menus when trying to open a file from any program. Is this
possible with Vista?

My system recently developed a very nasty habit, namely that when I
press the button to sleep or hibernate, it takes "forever" (i.e. up to 3
minutes!) until the system finally indeed goes asleep, or hiberates,
resp.

What is even more annoying is, that it apparently buffers multiple
requests, i.e. if I "dare" to press sleep/hibernate again during that
time, then - when I woke it up again - it will almost immediately
sleep/hibernate again and this as often as I pressed the key. I recently
had to wake it up 4 times, since I apparently pressed "hibernate" that
often until if finally reacted. I find this whole behavior most
infuriating!

First: what could cause the system to take that long to react to a
sleep/hibernate request? Ist there some "force"-option or some timeout
that one can reduce, such that no app or driver is ever allowed to block
a system's sleep/hibernation sequence for more than, say, 5 seconds at
most?

And second: can one somehow tweak the system to NOT buffer additional
sleep/hibernation requests while it already is in the sequence?

Michael

When I right-click on a drive or directory and select "Search..." it
always takes up to a minute (usually about 1/2 min.) until the search
dialog finally shows up. I find this extremely annoying! Why is this
taking so long? What is the system doing during that time?

Is there some option, tweak or something that one could try to reduce
this time?

Michael

for some reason, the transition effects keep enabling automatically
i think in the last hour it has done it 4 times
i turn it off, then maybe 10 minutes later i notice the way the windows move
that it's enable again and sure enough it is
i disable it and maybe 10-15 min later it's enabled again
very annoying...can't figure out what could be causing it