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Thanks for your reply Wolluf - Yes - I have turned off the active desktop - rebooted - and then turned it back on - same result. Should have mentioned this in the initial post - sorry for that. Think the problem can only be repaired with a registry edit.

Hi! I have a laptop computer running Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Pro - How do I remove the XP Home from the laptop without re-installing everything? Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any educated advice.

Hi - I'm running a laptop with ME and when the computer goes through the startup you can briefly see the wallpaper that should be running on the desktop. When the computer finishes booting up the wallpaper is replaced with the gray screen that says "click here to restore active desktop". System...

Hi! I have a computer with ME installed on it and am having problems preventing teenagers using MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. [I apologize if this is the wrong forum but as I am using Millenium this was the only forum that seemed appropriate.] I have tried using the zonealarm firewall...

This would be a nice solution if it worked - but it doesn't. When you try to run defrag.exe from a boot disk it gives the message "degrag requires windows to run". Thanks anyway.

Hi! I have a computer with a BX chipset and 2 harddrives - the old drive is a 5 gig and it defragments ok - the new drive (which had to have ez drive installed so the bios would recognize the drive) is a 20 gig drive. When I go to defragment the 20 Gig drive,in either normal mode or in safe...

I am working on a WinMe computer for a friend. The computer was taken to a computer store and fresh installed with WinMe. The install looks OK - but every once in a while a blue screen comes up and gives the following message: kebugcheckex called by c 0029e58 error code is 44 parameters...

Hi! I'm installing WinXPHome on a computer (pentium 400) with Win98 loaded on it. I boot from the upgrade CD and the install begins. It goes through a couple of screens and comes up with an error message that says - it cannot mount the boot volume. I've run scandisk on the drive and it's OK...

I have a harddrive with either Linux or Unix on it (I don't have much experience with either Linux or Unix) and need to remove the partition on this drive, re-partition the drive and format it so I can install Win98 on the drive. As expected fdisk sees the partition as non-dos. I have had...

Hi! My windowsxp home edition crashed after a year of use. I get a message that the windows\system32\config\system is not working or us unusable. Booted from the CD and went to the repair console - ran chdsk - it fixed some things but the system still won't start. Is there anything else I can...

Thank You All for your helpful suggestions and special thanks to cdogg - absolutely great article - Best Wishes Xexth

Hi! I have 2 laptop computers, 1 with win98 and the other with winxp home. I want to transfer some of the data from the win98 computer to the winxp computer. What is the easiest way to do this? Can I use a parallel cable and, if so, what program is used to set to the transfer? Please help...

Hi again! Yes, you are correct, thegrey, the drives were not properly raid-ed. Removed both partitions and reformatted both drives. This time I set up the BIOS with the CDROM as the first boot device - the 2nd and 3d boot devices as ATA100 Raid. Just installed win2000 on the first drive and...

Hi! I have a computer with an Abit KT7 mainboard with onboard ide raid. Have 2 maxtor 60 gig hdd's and want to set up a raid 1 (disk mirroring) with the drives. Am installing Win2000 with an NTFS file system. I followed instructions and setup the raid in the BIOS - choosing drive, raid type...

I never set up my computers this way. I always put the harddrives on one cable and the cdrw and the cdrom on the other cable (secondary ide). I also put the CDRW as the master and the cdrom as the slave. Works better that way (also recommended by some manufacturers). From what I understand...

Hi! I'm wondering if there is a way to interface the harddrive from a laptop computer with my PC. I don't want to link the PC and the laptop - just the drives from laptops. Thanks for your help in advance. %-

If it proves that there is nothing wrong with your drives you might try going into the BIOS under power management settings. Look for how the machine shuts off - some BIOS (by deault) are set to instant off- see if there is another setting that allows a delay- usually 4 seconds. This may fix...

Thanks Smitty! Replaced file from CD - file in restore must have been corrupted. This worked just fine. Thanks again.

My windows Me computer keeps giving me an error message -- regenv32.exe has caused a page fault in regenv32.exe. What I would like to find out is what regenv32.exe does. This will allow me to track down this error. I have tried replacing the file but the message and error persist. Went to...

vlier - checked my post this morning and realized I forgot something important - on the win98/me computer - after installing ipx/xps goto properties and enable netbios over ipx/xps - won't work without this. Sorry I forgot to mention this last evening - working late - the grey cells get tired...