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    XP doesn't want to show login screen

    When powering on an IBM x40 my boss finds that he seems to lock up. After the whole windows xp loading screen it goes blank and the mouse cursor appears. After that nothing happens. He closes the laptop and opens it back up getting it to go into stand by. After hitting the Fun + F4 to bring...
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    "Turn off computer" won't turn off computer

    I am having some trouble with WinXP Home. The only way I can get it to shutdown is to "Switch Users" and then in the screen with the users, use "Turn of computer". I had "trojan horse", but I thought I had that all fixed. The symptoms are all gone but this one. Is this a virus or worm? All...
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    XP Pro Setup

    It was the RAM. Thanks for the help.
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    XP Pro Setup

    When I run the Windows XP Pro setup and have the drive format itself. WHen it is almost complete it stops and will not load the Pro_seg4.swf file. If skiped it won't copy a few other files and after a reboot XP won't start up at all. Does anyone know exactly what is going on with this...
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    Modem Trouble

    I am having some difficulty with my computer. My modem doesn't want to work right. I will check the ring tone, dial, and start to connect. A soon as it gets to the longer tones it hangs on the very first one. I have done the McAfee check, Norton check, and Winsock fix. I have installed a...
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    taskbar "ghosts"

    I am having a problem with two computers. One is an IBM X40 Ultraportable laptop. The other is a 400MHz Celeron tower. Each of these is having a very similar problem with the XP Pro taskbar. When they startup they are getting what I call "ghost" programs running in the taskbar. The tower is...
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    2 HDD, keep CD > D:

    I have installed a second hard drive to increase my storage space. I want (have) to keep the cd drive d: for software purposes. I tried to re-letter the second hard drive (without software) with just Win98 without sucess. Any suggestions?
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    POST Screen not there...

    I am trying to find out what version of BIOS I am running on a Shuttle PC. I can't seem to get the POST screen to come up. In BIOS the Quick Power ON Self Test option is enabled. So I disabled it. No effect on POST Screen. Any suggestions appriciated.
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    My drive letter names are missing... Need them back.

    I had downloaded TweakUI and been looking through the options and had turned the drive letters off. I rebooted and hadn't worked with TweakUi since. When I needed to get the drive letters back, I had forgoten how I had made them disappear in the first place. Thanks for the help.
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    My drive letter names are missing... Need them back.

    I am having some trouble finding the information on how to get my mapped drives and my local drive letters back. I have the location of the mapped network drives and the type of local drives (or name) but I can't seem to get the letters back. Any help would be, um, helpful.

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