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Windows XP
MS Windows XP operating system that was released for PC computers in 2001
9,737 Questions
Can a file name in windows consist of only numbers?
I just created a file called "123" with no extension in Notepad, so it is possible.
However, some individual applications may balk.
How do you remove syskey password in Windows 7?
run syskey.exe , go update, click on system generated password and then click on startup pasword and do not enter words,(u use blank) after restart it will be disabled
FAT is the File Allocation Table. It provides the locations of the fragmented pieces of each file on your hard drive. This allows your PC's operating system to pull up complete files when you request them. In summary, it is a file location index necessary to locate files on your hard drive.
How do you remove osd lockout?
To resolve the issue you can hold the power button of the monitor until you get another message something similar to "OSD unlocked"....if the problem continues. Switch of the monitor and remove the power cable and connect it again.
How do you erase hard drive before give it away?
Please what ever you do, DO NOT simply do a format of your hard drive. Reason being, with the right software, anyone can retreive any / all data that is on the drive. People may think that after a format, everything is lost, but this is NOT the case.
Depending on the manufacturer of your hard drive, I would firstly go to the manufacturers web site, and download their own proprietary software, for zeroing the drive in question.
By zeroing the drive, the program writes multiple 0's across every sector of the drive, thus stopping everyone but data recovery companies from recovering any data on the drive.
If the program offers a quick or extended write, imo i would opt for the extended one every time. It does take around 2 hours to complete fully, but you know everything is gone, and its safe to donate. If you opt for the quick erase, it usually zeroes the first and last million sectors on the drive.
Alternatively, you can download a program called kill disk. Instead of opting for the manufacturers solution, this will work on any drive.
Hope this helps.
If you need any further assistance please don't hesitate to contact me.
be safe
Nige
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The 'f' key is in between the 'd' and 'g' key! Thats why I get medals! The 'f' key is in between the 'd' and 'g' key! Thats why I get medals!
How do you make an icon for deviantart?
You will need a program such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, or GIMP to make icons. They must be exactly 50 x 50 px, either a .PNG, .JPEG or .GIF file, and must be no bigger than 15KB.
To use it on deviantART, find the 'More' button on your page, next to Submit Art and Edit Page. On the drop-down menu, select Edit Settings, and click Identity on the left hand side. There you can upload your icon!
Windows Movie Maker or other video editing software application.
What are the steps required to alphabetize the list of favorites?
- Open your favorites list by clicking on the spelled-out word "Favorites" atop the MSIE browser. (You cannot do this alphabetizing by merely clicking on the Icon/Symbol for favorites.
- You need to have the spelled-out word "Favorites" visible to click on atop your browser. So if you don't have it visible, you may have to first go to View>Toolsbars>Customize and select "Show Text Labels" in order for the spelled- out word, "Favorites," to be made visible atop your MSIE browser. Once it is, THEN you can click on it to begin the following steps:)
Right-click on any site in the list. A menu opens. Left-click on "Sort by Name."
How do you install an OS on an external hard drive?
Drop the install disk for the OS you want to install into the CD drive and reboot the computer. It sometimes is not that simple. The previous answer only works if the BIOS has been set to read the CD-ROM drive before reading the hard drive. The boot routine in the BIOS (hardware chip) will boot from devices in the sequence that are set in the chip. Depending upon your computer, this sequence may be set to (1)floppy/hard drive (2)CD-ROM/hard drive (3)floppy/CD-ROM/hard drive, and so forth. You are responsible for setting this sequence if it is not satisfactory for your needs. Usually, as the machine is booting, for the first few seconds you will see a message on the screen such as, "Press to enter Setup" or "Press F5 to enter Setup" or some such message. Some less robust machines will give you no indication of what to do or when. If you have your computer hardware manual, it should tell you what key to use to enter Setup. If not, try rebooting BY TURNING THE MACHINE OFF AND THEN ON AGAIN and guessing at the the key by repeating it a single key 2 or 3 times a second during the boot process until the Setup menu comes up. The most popular keys that BIOS manufactuers use are , and , although I have seen some use the bar and the key. None will use the regular keyboard keys, such as letters, numbers or special characters. Once you are in Setup, different BIOS manufacturers have different panels to change their settings. Just follow the instructions. Some use the up-and-down arrows, some use the left-and-right arrows and some use the Tab key to move between fields. They will tell you on the screen. After you have made the changes to suit the sequence where you are booting from, MAKE SURE that you select the option at the end to SAVE your changes! Or you will have wasted your time. Conversely, if you think that you have screwed something up, just don't save it, and start over. At boot time, the computer will now look at the first device in the Setup table to see if the media on it has a boot record in front of it. This is called a bootable device. If it does, then it will boot from it. If it doesn't, then it will go to the next device in the table to try again. It will keep trying until it has exhausted all devices and then just stop with a beep-beep. If this happens, then you know that the BIOS is not set up correctly or yoy don't have bootable media in a drive in the Boot sequence. One word of caution, sometimes malicious hackers may have planted a worm on your hard drive. When you re-install the Operating System, MAKE SURE that you use the option to reformat your hard drive during the install. Some OS's will just do it; others will ask you so that your data can be saved. If you have data that needs restored, I recommend that you back it up to a floppy or other device before re-installing the OS and reload it later. Don't worry, viruses and worms cannot hide in data, only in executables. This might be more than you need if your boot sequence is already correct, but I have re-installed hundreds of OS's, and about a fourth of them have viruses or worms on them and another one fourth of them do not have correct boot sequences. You might be lucky on both counts. Good luck!
How to download the deriver for HP Deskjet F2280?
go here
http://www.siliconguide.com/drivers/device/630/
What is the shortcut key to view history in windows 7?
hi there,click on favorites bar on your left hand corner that will lead you to all the history pages or click tools on your right hand corner and then Internet option from here u can change all the settings and web page as u like..
Why does Windows XP shut down when the restart button is clicked?
The 'click the restart' button refers to clicking the 'start/turn off Computer' shown on the bottom-left of the screen in Windows operating systems (95, 98, NT, XP, Vista).
[Anyway, my PC is working fine now after I did a run of 'SPYBOT', an anti-spyware program. Be extremely careful about downloading free software because that's when my problem(s) started. "Spybot Search and Destroy" is quite credible, but it is more important to get it from the original website and not some other free program download websiste. Restart also means to shut down and start up again. so naturally, your computer would shut down and start up again If you press the physical power button on your CPU, computers do a "power off" of the hardware system. Normally you must hold that button for several seconds (3 to 5 is typical ) to shut down. Note that if your operating system (Windows) was still running at the time, you may lose some unsaved settings or documents. To restart, press the button again and it will restart. If you had not properly shut down the operating system (using the 'Start' button and selecting Shutdown) then there may be things the operating system must fix when it restarts. You will see some messages about the processes it is running to repair any damage. This is usually not a big problem as the system is designed to repair those things in such cases. Answer
SYMPTOMS
If you shut down your Windows XP-based computer, your computer may restart instead of shutting down. The computer may also restart unexpectedly while you are using the computer to perform certain tasks. An error message may appear on a blue screen when the computer restarts.
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CAUSE
This behavior may occur if Windows stops responding during a typical operation or during the shutdown process. By default, the computer is configured to automatically restart when Windows stops responding. To view this setting, follow these steps:
1. Click the Start button, right-click My Computer, click Properties, click the Advanced tab, and then click Settings under Startup and Recovery.
2. Under System Failure, view the Automatically restart check box. If the Automatically restart check box is selected, Windows automatically restarts if the computer stops unexpectedly.
RESOLUTION
If your computer constantly restarts while you are using it, or if you are trying to shut down the computer after it has stopped unexpectedly, click to clear the Automatically restart check box. If you clear this check box, you receive an error message when the computer stops responding. This error message may describe the cause of the problem. You can also review the system log in Event Viewer to view the critical stop error that occurs when the computer restarts. For additional information, you can got to Windows in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
Where can you download iChat for Windows?
>There is no version of iChat produced for Windows. However, you can use other instant >messenger clients such as Pidgin to chat, even with people using iChat.
You can use Jabber to connect to MS/Live Messenger or Yahoo Messenger
from iChat. In fact I got it working to connect to my FaceBook friends.
Where can one download a multimedia audio controller driver?
The computer manufacturer's website, the motherboard manufacturer's website, the audio chipset manufacturer's website or the sound card manufacturer's website.
How do you install software without administrator rights?
[quote]There is a reason why this isn't allowed. The company could be held liable for copyright infringement laws if they allowed 'pirated software' to be installed on company owned machines. Corporations have site licenses certain software applications.
You could submit your request in writing to the IT people - best guess is that they will deny your request.
or you could try to get it in .zip (compressed folder) i have done this many times it works great.[/quote]
What his person is trying to say is... they completely avoided the question and offered no solution. Well... to answer your question... there are many ways too install programs on a computer without admin. You can make files zip by right clicking and "save link as" when you do that you can put ".zip" at the end of it so you can unzip the program. You can also use another operating system to be able to install programs. You can also restart the computer, keep hitting F8 until you see a screenw ith a bunch of different options... now select "safe mode" and login... you can create an account via: control panel> users or user accounts. there you can create a user and alter user settings. However there are some systems that have a very good control over what is done to the computers. for a strong system i would suggest a Linux boot drive (preferably usb). Hope this helped in your big adventures :P
How can I delete a file that won't delete?
Go to the YouTube video I am linking to below. Or search for "file won't delete" in the search there, more than one way to do it.
First of all, I've tried deleting it by dragging it to the recycling bin, which doesn't work. I've tried Shift+Del on it, and it doesn't work. I've even booted my computer in safe mode with command prompt and tried deleting it with the command prompt, and it doesn't work.
Every time I try deleting or even moving it, it just shows the load window, but doesn't have the bar moving... It stays like this.
I've tried leaving it on over night, and nothing is different.
I'm on Windows Vista. Help!
Is it possible that a computer was remotely accessed?
It's not only possible but if one of many features which is widely used.
If it is a computer in a corporate network, il can be easily and legally accessed by your system administrator at any time. You won't even notice it. There are many products for remote access such as VNC, Radmin, LogMeIn, Remote Office Manager, TeamViewer and so on.
How do you change your password on a Dell computer?
Bios password- enter bios, security.
Windows password, the type or brand of computer has nothing to do with windows
passwords, xp or vista, does not know what kind it is and is the same on every computer.
Go to start, control panel, user accounts, passwords.
Two examples of good passwords are what?
Good passwords are random with numbers and letters. You want a great password add symbols (*&?><) to a password that is alpha numeric. Examples * dktn9+1 * qkdit>4~
How do you make a start-up disk for Windows 2000?
There are six Windows XP Setup boot floppy disks. You must have the files and the drivers that these disks contain to access the CD-ROM drive and to start the Setup process. Create the Setup disks When you download the Setup disks, the download contains only one large program file. When you run the downloaded file, it extracts the files. You receive the following prompt: This program creates the Setup boot disks for Microsoft Windows XP. To create these disks, you need to provide 6 blank, formatted, high-density disks.
Please specify the floppy drive to copy the images to:
Type the drive letter for the floppy disk drive (this is typically drive A). After you type the floppy disk drive letter, you receive the following prompt: Insert one of these disks into drive drive letter:. This disk will become the Windows XP Setup Boot Disk.
Press any key when you are ready.
When you press a key, the downloaded file starts to extract and copy the files. Continue to insert the blank disks as you are prompted to do so until all six disks are created. If the process is interrupted, you must run the downloaded program file again to create all six disks.
Make sure to label each disk appropriately with the number that is specified by the program. You must use the disks in the correct order during the Setup process. Use the Setup disks After you create all six disks, insert the first disk in the floppy disk drive, and then restart the computer. The computer must be configured to boot from the floppy disk drive. You may have to modify the BIOS settings on your computer to do this.
Download the Setup disk program file
Windows XP original release
For information about the Setup boot disk versions that are available for download, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=E8FE6868-6E4F-471C-B455-BD5AFEE126D8
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=55820EDB-5039-4955-BCB7-4FED408EA73F
Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Note Windows XP CD-ROMs that include SP1 have the text "Includes Service Pack 1" on the CD-ROM.
For information about the Setup boot disk versions that are available for download, visit the following Microsoft Web sites:
Windows XP Home Edition SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=FBE5E4FC-695F-43E5-AF05-719F45C382A4
Windows XP Professional SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=83F53BE9-28FA-40E8-8EC2-631504EF5E26
Error 1068 the dependency service or group failed to start sql server?
This error is caused by one or more Windows services being disabled. To fix it, you will need to go to Start > Run, and enter "services.msc" (without quotes). Here, you will see a list of services, their description, and whether or not they are running. The most common services that give people this error message are the "Help and Support Service" (for launching Help), Windows Image Acquisition Service (for cameras and scanners), and the Print Spooler service (for printers). Some programs and drivers, such as for Lexmark printers, may also have services that need turned on. Right-click the service you need, select "Properties", and use the drop box to change its starup type from "Disabled" to "Automatic." You can also start the service here, or you can reboot your computer.
