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When you are connected by Remote Desktop to your other machine, you press CTRL-ALT-END. It brings up the Windows Task Manager on the remote machine, and you can use the Shutdown from the Menu to turn off the remote computer. Hope this is simpler for you..

One of the users on my machine installed ICQ while logged into her profile. It is set to start automatically. When I log it it starts under my profile too. I have used msconfig to disable it on startup and it is not in my startup folder, yet it still starts up.. Can anyone point me to where this...

On most Compaq machines you press F10 when you see the blinking cursor in the top right corner.. Then you can access your bios to set the boot preferences.. Hope this helps..

I'm working on a system (p4-1.6Gb NTFS) and after doing a Norton Liveupdate and rebooting, the system came back saying it could not start because PCI.SYS could not be found ot was corrupted.. I tried everything I know (not much ;)) to "repair" this.. (chkdsk etc. )I even expanded a new...

You can turn off the auto reboot in the properties of "My Computer>Advanced>Startup and Recovery. De-Select Automatically Restart. Of course, then it will likely give you a BSOD instead of rebooting, but you'll be able to get the error code of the crash. Jim

Dunno if this will help, but you may want to remove the cards from the system so that it boots with only the video.. then add 1 card at a time until the error shows up.. You may then be able to determine what is causing the problem. Sounds like it's loading a driver that it don't like... Jim

No, I don't think it's the screensaver. I run webshots as a screensaver, and even before it starts (set for 15 minutes), Xp will just log the current user out to the user login menu where there are 4 users to select from. Jim

Thanks.. I've looked in this area before but can find nothing that shows this time adjustment..

I'm running XP Pro Full version here. I have 3 user accounts set up. WHen a user is logged in, and if there is no activity for some time, XP goes back to the multi-User login screen. Does anyone know where to make the adjustment to increase the time it takes to do this, so I don't have to keep...