20 Most Recent Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition for PC - Page 3 Questions & Answers

Try to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player Active X and Plug in and then reinstall it as there could be traces of previous versions in the computer which are interfering and making it difficult for the browsers to properly display videos on your computer. You can do this from the computer user settings and manipulating the "Add/Remove" programs list.
-- Try to use Flash Player 9 is your Flash Player 10 is not working fine. You can simply download it from the Adobe web site.
-- Update the drivers, the link is given below which would ask you to download the file through internet and run it on your computer.
-- The problem behind the Shockwave Flash crash could be your sound drivers. Follow these steps:
1) Open Device Manager 2) Look for the sound-card device 3) Note down the name for that device 4) Just uninstall the it. 5) After uninstalling restart your machine. 6) Your Windows 7 or Windows Vista would automatically download and reinstall the sound driver. You can also do it manually through approaching the sound card company's web site.
-- Fix your Windows Registry which is a highly recommended thing you should do to find a quick and reliable fix for common PC errors and crashes.use registry cleaner reg in out

for the attachments on email, you can either drag the attachment going to the flash drive or save all the pictures first on your computer and copy it to the flash drive.

Sounds like a virus/malware.
Scan with Malwarebytes in safe mode (F8 on boot up)
I would also switch your system restore off while you virus scan, lots of nasties can hide there.
Its up to you if you turn it back on later.
If you dont have any Antivirus ( but i think you probably will have :) )
Try AVG9 FREE or Microsoft Security Essentials

This will work if the computer hesitates while windows "refreshes" all of the Desktop Icons. This is because the ShellIconCache file has reached it's limit of 500 entries. To stop this, run Regedit and open the key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer and create a new string value. Name it MaxCachedIcons and then set the value to 2000

Regards,
Yateesh Varma
Bangalore.

Disable toolbar,

The normal procedure to disable a toolbar is:

1. Click the browser view menu.
2. Select toolbars.
3. Uncheck the toolbar name.

This will hide it from view, however some adware programs remain active and keeps monitering your internet activity even though their toolbar is disabled.

Uninstall toolbars,

Use windows add remove programs utility.

1. Click the start menu.
2. Click control panel.
3. Double click the add remove programs option.
4. Locate the name of the toolbar in the list and follow the prompts to remove it completely.

Regards,
Yateesh Varma
India, Bangalore.

First off, have you installed any new hardware or software/drivers recently?

Random memory dumps are caused by out-dated or incorrect drivers, or malfunctioning hardware.

In most cases you can reference an error message by going into your event logs using

start, run
type
eventvwr.msc
Click on system or application

Dr Watson is a program in windows xp that is used to diagnose these error messages. Look at this link

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/drwatson_overview.mspx?mfr=true

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If you wan to format your laptop you need to follow this steps.

1. Turn on your laptop an press delete key to change the BIOS settings. Make your CD/DVD drive in to first boot. Press F10 and Enter to save the settings.
2. Load the windows CD and press enter to boot from CD/DVD
   

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Letters are limited but you can always use the letter for other drive without removing/disabling/getting rid of other disks. You can manage your disks by accessing the disk management utility. Right-click My Computer and click Manage (Disk Management) or open up Run dialog box (START menu->Run) and type in "diskmgmt.msc"

Next you can remove the drive letter from the drive which you are not using at currently by right clicking the partition and click on "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and click remove. Finally assign the letter to the desired disk/partition. It will appear on My Computer now.

The person who typed that key when they installed Windows chose a password. So, there are BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of passwords that they could have chosen.

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Hi, try the following sequence.Insert your XP disk and reboot, during bootup press your ESC button or Del on some PCs, you will be in BIOS, from here you can change you primary boot drive, select CD rom, save changes and reboot. Press return when request to boot from CD appears, wait for the sequence to finish installing, select the section of the drive you wish to change, select delete, confirm and then reformat your hard drive. PC will reboot afterwards and start installing XP. Be aware this will remove everything from your hard drive, so back up first. Hope this helps

Go to this site and download the key finder for your OS at http://pcsupport.about.com/od/productkeysactivation/tp/topkeyfinder.htm

Hope it helps.

Documents and Settings/ur user name/My Documents

you cant , download to your cpu, then make an attachment. you cant go direct from any cd or dvd to anything but your hard drive.

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