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  1. OrangeBattery

    Show which files that have already been backed up

    Is there a program that will allow me to see which files I have made a backup of and the ones I have not? I have lots of photos and videos I take with my camera and place them all in one main folder so i can get to them all easily. When it comes to backing them up I can never remember which ones...
  2. OrangeBattery

    Unmountable boot drive

    I have recently installed windows xp pro onto a pc purchased in 2001. Xp ran fine and was set up to dual boot with windows millenium which had come with the system along with a number of pre installed software which is still needed. Everything was running fine until I installed a second hard...
  3. OrangeBattery

    Xp will not connect to another xp computer

    Thanks, I will give it a go
  4. OrangeBattery

    Xp will not connect to another xp computer

    I hope someone can help me out here. My dad has a computer with windows xp and so do I. I have a broadband internet connection from a usb cable modem. We would both like to share this connection and right now wanted to do it as cheaply as possible as we intend to get a wireless connection...
  5. OrangeBattery

    Pc is slowing down

    My pc is slow, its a 1.5ghz pentium 4 with 384mb rdram, when I have my pc running with all the programs that I want I have about 240mb ram free yet everything feels slow. If I have 2 internet explorer pages open and I reduce one to the taskbar and then maximize it again it takes about 5 seconds...
  6. OrangeBattery

    Im recieving 4 worm emails each day

    Would it be possible for the person who has become infected to be sending them even if they only used web based email to send me messages?
  7. OrangeBattery

    Im recieving 4 worm emails each day

    Since last thursday I have been getting 4 emails each day that are worms. its the same subject heading each time, offering me latest network security patch, latest ms security patch, and 2 which claim to be returned messages. I have not opened any and have done a scan of my system with an up to...
  8. OrangeBattery

    Pc beeps on startup

    sometimes when I turn my pc on it makes a lot of beeping which sounds like the noise on a supermarket checkout, it almost sounds like I am playing an old atari game or something, if I press reset on the pc the noise goes and everything starts fine. It mostly happens when I am restoring my pc...
  9. OrangeBattery

    help ive been sending messages without knowing I think?

    Just logged into hotmail and got this message: Hi. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. Undeliverable to nrdgqscuqn@freemail.com Message follows: It was a 144k message, am I sending spam for someone else...
  10. OrangeBattery

    Problems switching user - black screen on logging back in

    I waited for about a minute, I have a 1.5ghz pentium 4 and 512mb memory on a 120gb 7200rpm drive, all defragemted.
  11. OrangeBattery

    Problems switching user - black screen on logging back in

    I have 2 users on xp home (sp1). When I switch user I can go from my adminitstators account into the other limited account, however when I log off from the limited account my screen goes black and I can't do anything.
  12. OrangeBattery

    files accessed slow through my computer and not shortcuts

    Problem solved with that registry edit, thankyou so much, I would never have thought of that in a million years, my pc is back working the way I wanted, you have saved me going through a whole load of other things, I was even planning on going back to windows 98 to see if it was a hard drive...
  13. OrangeBattery

    files accessed slow through my computer and not shortcuts

    I have been doing little tests and stuff to try and work out what is happening, still no closer Im afraid. I have no media files in the folders which are taking so long to open, its just a couple of program installers like winamp and zone alarm and Im keeping them there until I write another...
  14. OrangeBattery

    files accessed slow through my computer and not shortcuts

    I think I will start to bug them aswell now
  15. OrangeBattery

    is there another way instead of moving files holding shift

    Thanks for taking the time to reply, I was actually hopeing that there might have been a way to alter the registry or something so files are auto moved when I drag them onto another partition instead of just copied. I tried the script, its works great.
  16. OrangeBattery

    is there another way instead of moving files holding shift

    I have a few partitions on my drive, Im about to do a big cleanup and want to move some files to different partitions, right now my only option is to hold down the shift key as I move them to aviod only making a copy, or to use the move icon in the explorer toolbar which is inconvenient as I am...
  17. OrangeBattery

    files accessed slow through my computer and not shortcuts

    Thanks for taking the time to give such a detailed description to your answer, it really has helped a lot
  18. OrangeBattery

    files accessed slow through my computer and not shortcuts

    Very strange problem here, appologies if I'm missing the obvious. I wrote yesterday about this problem but have found something extra out. I was having a delay when opening some folders on my hard drive, it would take about 4 seconds to open some, a few even took about 15 seconds to open, when...
  19. OrangeBattery

    Should my pc be this slow

    I got a new 120gb 7200rpm hard drive last week, I installed windows xp home(came with sp1) onto it and then added all my other programs such as winamp, microsoft works,zone alarm pro, spybot etc. I now have a clean system ready for use, I find though that some folders are so slow to open, I...
  20. OrangeBattery

    Some folders take 5 seconds to open

    I partitioned my 80gb harddrive into 3 so I could organise my data a little better, I have xp on the first partition, music and videos on the second and documents and downloaded programs on the third. Normally if I click a folder it will be highlighted in blue, fast click again (therefore a...

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