Microsoft Windows Forum

Hi, Just a basic thing, if there is a web page saved on to your desktop using Active Desktop (WinXP Pro), how can you get weblinks to remain within the Active Desktop and not open up your web browser as a seperate window? We have our company intranet setup as a web page that fills the desktop (for ease of access and a standard corporate...

I have a Sony Vaio FS920. My OS is Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2 Recently (starting 2 months ago), my computer has been freezing up and turning one solid color. The first time it was white, second black, third white and fourth Pink. The first time it froze what when i was just surfing the internet. The second i had left...

I got a very good pendrive. Without knowing me my pen drive was spreading virus ravon.exe file is running as soon as i plug my pendrive in any system. Then it started giving nose from floppy drive. How i can clear my pen drive virus? One more thing now that virus has subsided in my system, it has made my system slow. What i should do to...

Hi everyone. I am new to this site, and so far I found it great! Kicks the pants off similar services, that's for sure.... Ok, so my question is this: My FILEMON (by SYSINTERNALS) refuses to capture file events. I am not a Windows professional, so what I have to say next is pure conjecture. Could it be that my kernel level debugging is...

I've tried many of the downloadable options. Does this board even have a sensor on it? I just got hmonitor; will try that next. I have tried SpeedFan and version 5 something of what looked like the most popular (can't pull the name off the top of my head), but there was no Dell GX support there. I'm running XP Pro SP2.

Hi! Windows 2003 Sp2. I have an IIS and FTP. From another PC I can use ftp and web resources deployed in IIS of my server. Form my server i can ping another ftp, websites but can`t get in, nor ftp, http, mail servers nothing. Can`t understand what`s problem. When I typed telnet someip 80 i recieved a session. In session when I type ST...

hi all. new guy on site not sure what to do so ill ask away. got problem on dell3100. at start up get massage floppy disc failure press f1 to continue or f2 forset up. pressed f1 got full sytem but no sound when try to play music or sound massage comes back no sound devices. can anyone please help

I would like use wmi filter to apply Group policy to only members of certain active directory workstations group. I have some basic script which list all members of group, but I do not know how to transport it to wmi filter : On Error Resume Next Set objGroup = GetObject _ ("LDAP://cn=Accountants,ou=Accounting,dc=fabrikam,dc=com")...

Hey guys, I have an annoying problem. I have a Dell D620 with 1.2 gig of ram and a core duo processor running Windows XP Pro. Not powerful, but does work very well. My problem is that some applications open very very very slowly. Actually, it's more like 70% open slowly. Even JCreator takes forever. I've tried defraging it, I've tried...

Hi my daughters PC keeps rebooting, when it first loads, tried to Boot into safe mode, which I can not access, tried Windows Repair can't get in to give her password, tried making it a slave on my PC, to try and access her files she desperately needs but no luck, a friend said HDD is corrupt ( Windows start up code) I have managed to get into her...

I am new to this forum, and hope that someone will be able to help me. How can I change the icon of an application? For instance, if I have AOL open, is there a way I can change the icon to a Word icon or some other icon instead? Thank you in advance for your help. Terez

Hello, I am trying to run all SQL scripts (with no params) in the same folder as the batch file is. I have not done much with batch files before but I think I have gotten close. It seems to work if I hard code the FILENAME.sql but will of course only work for the file I hard coded. What I need is to get the present file name from the loop and put...

hi I downloaded sp2,directx 9 and media player 10 from the web..After i try to install,i saw a message saying that windows need to check for a validity first..Unfortunately,windows detected that i hae ungenuine windows therefore i was unable to continue the installation..I've heard that there is a way i can install the software silently..Can you...

Hi, Does anyone know what thing or product to use to make a vedio clip, and the vedio clip content should show exactually what is going on on my Windows desktop? Thinking to set my camera right in front of my PC monitor, but the result does not look good. Just wonder any software can do this type of job.

I can only see background image and nothing else. If open task manager through key combination, I see that explorer process takes a lot of resources and when I try to log off, I can't--I have to END explorer process first. So, it looks like explorer is stuck with something and prevents normal Windows operations. What could it be?? What can I do?

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how would u restrict a user by attaching a file/source code to net with out using ftp.

in dhcp client what is internal process to find dhcp server what are protocols need and what is packets released to find the server???

Hi, First of all, I am relatively new to scripting and have a task that I think is ideal to learn with and will be useful, at least to me. I have about 20 laptops running Windows XP SP2 and are fully patched that I need to deploy Office 2003 SP2 to. These machines are in a number of locations around the States, and I need to build a CD with...

in dhcp client what is internal process to find dhcp server what are protocols need and what is packets released to find the server???

When my computer is starting up everything starts to be loaded then both the mouse and keyboard freeze stoppping the loading of the rest of the programs i then have to do a manual disconnect and re load but the same thing happens. I hope something can be done. I have done both a destructive and non destructive restore but none seem to work. Any...

i need serious help to get my macromedia back and java script

Hello, I have a laptop. the laptop screen light is null, I mean my screen had no light to can see. I bring a lampa, it little help me to bright the screen and then see but not well. Is that a Virus, or spyware or worms.....

my mouse is moving in random direction . so please help me to solve this problem.thanks in advance.

I've got several flash drives, but I'm having issues with one of them. I'm using Windows XP. I connect it, then get that message that "new hardware is found", but when I go to the drive, I get a message telling me to "connect a device"...yet, I can still "safely remove" it. Basically, it's seeings the stick but not letting me open it. I've...