<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[TechForum]]></title><link>http://www.techplex.net/</link><description><![CDATA[Forum: windows-xp-general]]></description><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:00:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:00:38 GMT</pubDate><item><title><![CDATA[runtime error]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989200-runtime-error.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I can't get xp to load. I'm getting a runtime error message. 
program:\??\c:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe. This problem started after 
updating to service pack 3. Does anybody know how to fix this?
]]></description><author>bigfish</author><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:35:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[running out of space.........I "guess"?]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989194-running-out-of-space-i-guess.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I have a 120 GB drive with two partitions; C is 14 GB and has 155 mb left 
according to disk management.  D is the rest of the Hard drive and has 80 GB 
left free.  Sony Vaio media computer, running XP Home SP3 on a P4 at 2.66mhz 
(prob TMI). 
Anyway, a while back I moved all photos, etc to the D drive to save space on 
C drive.  But, things keep "growing" (sorta like having rabbits I guess) and 
now the C drive is very full and methinks I should run defrag and all that, 
but it won't run due to insufficient space.
I have gone through windows explorer to see if there are any other files to 
move, but don't find any data files I haven't already moved.  I run Quicken, 
and assume that data is on the C drive and it may be big, but no other stuff 
jumps out.  Simple HP printer files, M/S updates and patches seem pretty big, 
but once installed can they be blown away? and that is about it.
So, I "guess" I need to enlarge the C drive?  If so, what is the recommended 
way?
In reading these posts I see that  there are a few opinions, but I'm 
assuming I need to get partition magic or backup both drives (image copy? on 
a new HD (pretty cheap)) and reinstall from the Sony disks and when doing 
so...make the C drive 20 or 25 GB.
What say ye experts?
Thanks for the advice.......novice techie
]]></description><author>riogrande</author><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:11:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[PC hunged while starting]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989030-pc-hunged-while-starting.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Hi,
Whenever I start my PC it got stuck at the motherboard information, no 
window logo loading. I have to restart it at least 20-30 times to load the 
window XP (SP2). Once my PC is on I have no problem, no hang up or other 
problem. Do I need to format my PC. If I format, I want to save my documents 
on the hard drive. I have not Hard drive back up. How do I go about it?
]]></description><author>Joe problem</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:25:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two computers and one Monitor?]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989028-two-computers-and-one-monitor.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I am running Windows XP Sp3 with a 22" ws monitor

I am buying a new computer but would like to keep the old one (8 years old) 
for experimentation and as an internal web server. The new computer will be 
running xp (eventually windows 7) for general purpose computing. Nothing 
fancy.

Is there any way I can hook  up my system so that I can use one monitor for 
both computers. How can I switch back and forth? Change the cables at the 
monitor? That's pretty awkward.

Thanks for any input
-- 
Walter
www.rationality.net
-]]></description><author>Walter R.</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:57:31 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[XP Pro Upgrade]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989020-xp-pro-upgrade.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I upgrade from Home to Professional Edition, using the retail upgrade 
installation disks.  Everything is fine, except I still have the XP 
Home-style shutdown screen, not the dialog box usually appearing in XP Pro.   
How can I change this?

Thank you
]]></description><author>cager</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:59:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Date not set at startup]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989019-date-not-set-at-startup.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Hello,
When I start up my XP Pro, it says the system date is not set so I have to 
f2 to set it or f1 to set it thru the calendar/control panel once windows has 
come on. It starts up with the date set to 2004 (when I bought my pc). I have 
no idea what has caused this.
After I have set the date manually every day, it's working ok but as soon as 
I turn it off, the same error occurs.
So please can I pick your brains as to how to remedy this situation & why it 
may have occured.
Thanks in advance.
]]></description><author>Henrietta</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:54:02 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[icon in xp3]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989010-icon-in-xp3.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Is there a supply of extra icons located in a file somewhere. If not, how do 
I create one. The standard icons are kind of bland for my taste.]]></description><author>Brunetto Latini</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:56:07 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Installation Problem]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989005-installation-problem.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid I made a rather foolish mistake last night and I'm not sure how 
to fix it.

I was installing XP Pro (slipstreamed with SP2) on a computer that has two 
hard drives. The computer is a used one that my friend got surplus from his 
company; the hard drives were apparently scrubbed before they gave it to 
him. It is a Dell Dimension 670.

Anyway, I ran the XP install CD and formatted the first drive, then 
proceeded to install Windows on that drive. After the reboot and the rest of 
the installation, all was well on the computer. I could see the desktop, 
play Spider Solitaire, etc. The only thing left to do was format the second 
hard drive.

That's where I made a mistake. I couldn't remember how to format the second 
drive from the XP desktop - I think now that I should have gone into Control 
Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and formatted 
from there, right? - so I tried a different approach. I rebooted from the 
install CD, chose the second hard drive and formatted. Unfortunately, after 
formatting for NTFS (quick), it went ahead and started copying files to this 
new partition. I realized it was installing Windows on this partition too 
but couldn't find any way to stop it. (I would have expected an Exit or 
Cancel option.) I could have powered off the computer but was afraid that 
would make things worse. I optimistically assumed that Windows would just 
boot up anyway, ignore the second partition containing Windows, and then let 
me wipe that second drive and reformat it. But that isn't what happened. The 
PC won't boot at all. I've tried it with and without the install CD in the 
computer but I just get a blank screen - not even the BIOS screen appears - 
and nothing else happens, unless you count fan noise.

How do I get myself out of this mess? I'm afraid Windows installs are not 
something I do very often. I don't know what to Google on - what is this 
situation called? - so I hope someone here can help me remove the Windows 
from the second hard drive.



-- 
Rhino
---
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it 
so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to 
make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." - C.A.R. 
Hoare]]></description><author>Rhino</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:55:15 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I.E. 7 close all open windows]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989003-i-e-7-close-all-open-windows.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Is there a key board short cut to close IE in one move, with several windows 
open.  I have found several suggestions on the internet, but none actually 
work.  Say if 6 windows are open, I would like one short cut to close all and 
shut down IE  Thank you
-- 
Bill 43
]]></description><author>Bill 43</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:51:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Test - Please ignore.]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1989000-test-please-igno.htm</link><description><![CDATA[For some reason, I can't post to this newsgroup from my new computer. I'm 
trying it from the old computer to see if it works better here....

Please ignore this post. Sorry for wasting your time.

-- 
Rhino]]></description><author>Rhino</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:32:58 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alternative way of highlighting to the end of a paragraph?]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988996-alternative-way-of-highlighting-to-the-end-of-a-paragraph.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Hello,

I wanted to automatically (for an AutoHotkey program) highlight text from 
the cursor position to the end of the paragraph (cell) and then in the next 
step delete the text.

The problem is that the Windows hotkey for highlighting text from the cursor 
position to the end of the paragraph (CTRL-SHIFT-DOWNARROW) is already 
assigned in the program I want to do this in.

Is there an alternative way of automatically highlighting text from the 
cursor position to the end of the paragraph? Is there a way of changing the 
Windows hotkey that does that?

Thanks in advance for any insight or information!
]]></description><author>Michael</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:45:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mpeg Layer 3 for Sound Recorder?]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988985-mpeg-layer-3-for-sound-corder.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I use Windows Sound Recorder to add short messages to my email and on my old 
machine one of the compression options was MPEG Layer-3.  I do not have that 
option on my new computer so I downloaded and ran l3codecx.exe.   The 
Fraunhofer MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder, but it still does not show up as an 
option in Sound Recorder.  Can someone what I have to do to get this to work. 
 Thanks.  

PS:  Where does the l3codecx.exe install to?  Can I get the needed file from 
my old computer and put it on my new computer?

]]></description><author>Mike950</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:04:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changing thumbnails?]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988982-changing-thumbnails.htm</link><description><![CDATA[In most of my video applications, when I view their proprietary files in
an Explorer folder set to Thumbnail view I just see identical icons. So
I get no clue about their content apart from the filename, which is
often of no help.  I've not yet found any program that offers the ideal
facility I'd like: r-click an 'icon-type' thumbnail and assign an image
of my choice.  So I'm wondering if any of the experts here know of some
hack in XP itself that will let me achieve this please?  -- Terry, East
Grinstead, UK  Why have my line ends and new paras been lost in this
post please?


-- 
terrypin]]></description><author>terrypin</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:25:42 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Windows 7 Newsgroups]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988960-windows-7-newsgroups.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Where can I find the Microsoft Windows 7 newsgroups, if there are any, that 
is.

Thank you
-- 
Walter
www.rationality.net
-]]></description><author>Walter R.</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:00:23 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re: drwtsn32.exe errors  0x0001295d]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988959-drwtsn32-exe-errors-0x0001295d.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Why would it matter where the page file is???


]]></description><author>Virgilijus</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:05:01 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys missing or corrupt.]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988958-system32-drivers-ntfs-sys-missing-or-corrupt.htm</link><description><![CDATA[(Windows XP Home SP3)

I have a refurbished Toshiba NB100 netbook computer and occasionally I 
get the error that windows could not start because 
"System32\Drivers\Ntfs.sys is missing or corrupt". I have searched the 
newsgroups and googled for a solution to this but, although there are 
lots of instances and solutions posted, they all need the installation 
CD. I did not get any CD'c with the computer, in any case, the netbook 
does not have a CD/DVD drive!
I do have two Win XP discs for two other computers. Does anyone know how 
I can correct this error without the original installation CD?
Thanks for any answers...

DD
]]></description><author>DD</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:59:50 +1000</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Re: Microsoft Visual C++ Library]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988957-microsoft-visual-c-library.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Thank you very much Andrew. Hardware and graphics are my specialty, not 
really software development. That was a very helpfull and detailed answer. I 
had hide my ip installed and of course I uninstalled it and I am pretty sure 
that the error will not come back.





news:uGovWVT9JHA.4168@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...]]></description><author>Eric S</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:46:31 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Default program for DVD video]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988956-default-program-for-dvd-video.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I changed the default to Play Asus DVD. All this did is move Play below Play 
AsusDVD. How do I remove Copy with Disc copier as the default? I notice the 
menu changes when the DVD is removed also.

Thanks,
J.]]></description><author>Jason</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:31:56 +1200</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AgCoreService]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988954-agcoservice.htm</link><description><![CDATA[I see agCoreService is for Windows Vista SP2. So why is it wanting to 
connect to the internet on a XP Pro SP2 computer?

Thanks,
J.]]></description><author>Jason</author><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:24:28 +1200</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Upgrade from XP OEM to Windows 7]]></title><link>http://techplex.net/windows-xp-general/1988952-upgrade-from-xp-oem-to-windows-7.htm</link><description><![CDATA[Is it possible to purchase the Windows 7 upgrade for a computer with a 
Windows XP OEM license?  I realize that the computer must be formated and 
Windows re-installed, just wondering if XP OEM is a valid upgrade path to 
version 7.

Also can I upgrade from XP Professional to Windows 7 Home, or is 7 Pro. 
required?

Ryan
]]></description><author>Ryan Tryssenaar</author><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:11:01 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>