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thanks wolluf, I kind of thought that might be the case but wanted to check before I tried to play around with it and resolve it. Regards Jodi

Hi All A friend of mine has a pc which someone has been messing around with. He can't get the 256 colour option back onto the screen, it is only allowing 16bit or 2 colours in the option list. Can anyone tell me how to get this back? Regards Jodi

thanks heaps smah, did not know that, have only dealt with win xp in a network environment where the little box comes up and gives you the option to log in as a user names. Regards Jodi

thanks heaps, problem solved!

We have just created a user on a win xp local machine and then added a password to the administrator to increase the security on the machine. Upon logging out and logging back in it does not give us the access to log in as the administrator anymore, is there a way to reverse what we have done...

Hi everyone, I have a laptop that is running windows XP Pro. By mistake the show desktop icon was deleted. Can anyone shed any light on how to get it back? Regards Jodi

just for everyones information, the computer was reformatted, f disked, and then had windows reloaded. The problem was still there, so I got a new hard drive. The problem was still there after that so the next thing I tried was replacing the kernel32 file with one from another computer. It...

Where do I get proper DOS disks? I am not familiar with DOS that much. I have tried everything in this thread so far and though I get different results each time at the end of the day I still can't install windows. If anyone can provide any more ideas etc please let me know. Regards Jodi

I tried this, it looked like it was working, but I have discovered that it is still an issue. The user of the computer may not have spend as much time on the computer to see that the problem was still there, I am not sure. I wonder if anyone has any further suggestions? Regards Jodi

Tried that one, checked the directory to make sure it created the win98 directory and it was there, but it returned an error message of bad command or file name when I typed the next bit in. thanks for your help here I really do appreciate it!

I have tried that under all of the drives now and it is returning an error message of Bad command or file name Regards jodi

does it matter what drive I am in when I type this, and once I have done this what do I do next?

ok, have unplugged burner and that has failed, have changed data cable from burner to cd and that has failed, not sure how to save windows files to hdd, dos language very very rusty! if someone can tell me how to do this probably step by step would be best I would really appreciate it. Regards...

thanks for your help, I will give it a try and let you know how I get on. Regards Jodi

Just a question on that though, wouldn't dos register an error when booting up????

Yes I got that thought, it is trying to read from the E drive, and as mentioned before on one occasion I did actually get to the first screen of loading windows, but then the screen froze. On the first start up screen when it goes through the hardware of the computer it does recognise the cd...

I have tried using a different boot disk obtained from another win 98 machine. It is now getting through this screen, and I have even seen the start of windows setting up, but then it froze and did not go any further. I did not change the drive letter though as i am not sure how to go about...

Hi everyone I am having trouble with a couple of computers that are running Windows XP. The screen is not always refreshing fully, it seems to leave a small window of black or if a word document has been open a small window of the document that was last on the screen. Closing all applications...

I too have had this exact same problem, and I have since formatted my computer. I have posted a message today, and I need further assistance on this as since formatting I can not reinstall any of windows. I notice the fdisk was mentioned in the topics above, can some one please refresh my...

Thanks for the reply Yes I have tried changing the boot sequence both using only the cd rom and changing the sequence to cdrom a: etc. none of this seems to work, and I also got an error message when I changed the boot sequence saying invalid system disk. I really don't know what else to...