Ekstreme

Really missing the ability to open any folder with right-click or double click from Start Menu. Nothing happens at all. Now have to open Windows Explorer and locate folder to view its contents. Anyone know a fix for this? Google is all out of answer.

I suspected this was shell related, but is there a tool or something I can get to check/repair this? How is the best way to approach it?

Hiyas, I'm not getting this exact same error between to XP SP1 machines. Has anyone ever found a work around to this problem?

I have a windows 2003 server setup which runs NAT and ISA 2000 as web proxy. Whenever I try to copy files across to the 2003 Server machine it will start and then freeze for a while. Often it will come up with a warning that the network path was not found. But sometimes it will kick itself in the pants and keep going The strange thing is, that all other traffic unrelated to windows network works perectly. I usually just keep re-trying the files untill they all work. What I have tried: * Removing QOS * Removing Load Balancing * Setting the server to be a file server * Unbinding Client for MS network and file/print sharing from all other cards * Setting the internal card to higher priority than all other cards * Setting Windows networking as the highest priority service in the provider order *Tried other NICS *Ruled out possible cabling/switch issues Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA

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I've got a pal who's XP pro system was, for a short time, part of a domain. It is no longer connected to this domain, and is now just part of a workgroup. Since the system was connected to the domain, the login screen with all the pretty icons has dissapeared. The user logo image is also missing from the start menu. Does anyone know how I can get these back? TIA

Hiya all, I've just had to do a fresh install of XP. I went off to my online banking website, it asked me to install Virtual Machine, so I said OK, no probs. Next thing I know, I'm sitting on MS's site with a message saying MS no longer provide VM support for XP!!! I installed the latest Java from the Sun website, but that makes no diff at all. Any suggestions please?

I've also added an extra download link to try and help anyone else who comes across the prob as I did. You can also find the file here. It won't be going anywhere anytime soon.

thanks a BUNCH!! that did the trick! Gawd knows what goes through the brains of MS sometimes

Maybe I missed something, but everything on that page I have mentioned above that I already tried. Could you point me to somethign more specific? Thanks

Have you set gateway and Primary DNS server to the IP of the machine running ICS?

Hiya On of one my machines, the connection properties for my LAN shows activity in Bytes (Netgear NIC), while on another machine, it shows activity in packets (Intel NIC). Is there any way to change this on either of them? I'd honestly prefer to see bytes rather than packets. TIA

G'day all. I did some slot swapping and now have devices showing such as this: Realtek RTL8029(AS) PCI Ethernet Adapter #2 How do I find and remove #1? I also have some devices removed that I want to remove properly. In the case of the nic, I get errors when assigning IPs saying that another nic already ahs that IP address. I have tried show all in device manager and safe mode but I cannot see the hidden devices. TIA Ekstreme

All the card have already been removed. This won't help

Hiya all I've been having a real shitty problem with XP. Everytime I put a CD in my drive, it just spins and spins for ages. I have to eject it and close the draw, then it works fine. This used to happen sometimes on 2k, but it would BSOD if I'd open the door. I've tried a few different drive, but it does it to them all. Seems to be on IDE CD-Roms only though. Tried disabling Autoplay, but still no go Any suggestions greatly appreciated

I'm just using the default winXP drivers

As the topic suggests, I'm after a 2nd Hand NetComm Roadster II 56 Ultra (Dual) Serial Modem. I'm in Darwin, so please, aussies only TIA

hehe yeah just a tad. Although, the sun is out at the moment, probably not for long though

Hiya all, I disabled 8+3 dos filenames, and have since realised that my damn scanner needs it activated to work. I know how to re-enable it, but how do I make windows go back and set names for all files on the system in this format? It doesn't seem to do it unless you re-create the file. Thanks

Suddenly my Epson Stylus Color 400 has been doing some strange things. For some reason, every time I print, say one A4 page, it prints that page over 20 pages!! The first page will have about 10 lines on it, then the rest will be split over another 20 or so pages, sometimes not even an entire printed line on each. I've done a system restore AND a complete reinstall in case of corrupt drivers, but still, it messes up. Has anyone ever heard of this, or know how to fix it??

Hell guys, it looks like I've found the problem. While doing what Cynan suggested, I looked under my desk and realised that I didn't have my scanner plugged in, which of course, is between my system and my printer. I used the power point for a lan the other day This normally shouldn't cause any drama's BUT I also have a dongle installed for 3D studio max. I guess that this was corrupting the data or something to that effect. Ohh well, it appears to be printing fine now, so thanks anyhows guys. Now my only XP battle, is Nero.... but that is another story

THanks Clutch, I was hoping not to hear a reply like this The printer is, however, almost 6 years old, so it's really no surprise, but I was hoping to have it last until I'm at least employed again. Next printer will probably be the Epson Photo 810

Hiya all. I've seen similar problems around, but no solutions. When using Nero 5.5.5.1 burning large files seems to work perfectly, but when I try to copy the files back off the discs, I get a CRC error at the last 10-15 seconds of the copy process. If I switch back to Nero 5.0 everything workrs great. I've tried the wnaspi32.dll update form the Nero site, but it makes no difference at all. Please, does anyone have a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance

You were pretty darn close. I tried it, but it didn't work. HOWEVER! I set the power management to be "Always On" and what do you know??! FULL SPEED!! thanks man, I knew it would be a simple fix

I've started receiving the following warnings in my system event log and I're really appreciate any help in trying to resolve it: Type: Warning Source: Disk Category: None Event ID: 34 Description: The driver disabled the write cache on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1. Data: Bytes 0000: 0f 00 04 00 01 00 62 00 ......b. 0008: 00 00 00 00 22 00 04 80 ....".. 0010: 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 c0 .......À 0018: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ 0028: 00 00 00 00 .... Words 0000: 0004000f 00620001 00000000 80040022 0010: 00000001 c0000010 00000000 00000000 0020: 00000000 00000000 00000000 Type: Error Source: Service Control Manager Category: None Event ID:7000 Description: The OMSCAN service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. Thanks all