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Back and foward tool buttons are grayed out in Xps3
I recently did a system restore point on my windows xp Sp3 machine since I had some issue. The computer is clean from any virus. I noticed that in in folder of the tool bar, the back or fowad button does not work. The buttons of the foward and back are grayed out and do not function. I have to use the up arrow... 18 May 2010 11:29

Task Manager Matlab error XP PRO SP3
Hello, I have scheduled some Matlab Jobs on Windows Task Manager. Sometimes this job doesn't start (without return any error) and i have to start them manually. I'm using Windows XP PRO SP3. How can i resolve this error? Thanks in advance Cheers ... 21 May 2010 06:14

Knowledgebase
What happened to Microsoft Knowledgebase ?? When I search on the page that now comes up when I use my old Knowledgebase bookmark all I get are pages from discussion groups. I do not want to have to sift through long discussions about what the answer to my problem might be, I just want the answer in the form o... 18 May 2010 17:02

Problem copying some files from virtual PC
I am running MS Virtual PC v5.3.582.27 on a Windows XP Pro SP3 system. On the virtual PC, I am running a second instance of Windows XP Pro SP3. I use this to test new software installations, because if something goes wrong the consequences are minimal. I use file sharing between these two systems, and frequent... 17 May 2010 15:48

Virtual McAfee?
I have a laptop which came with the McAfee anti-virus trial version. I of course immediately uninstalled the overpriced POS, and installed AVG on it. Eventually I had a problem with AVG during a version upgrade, and so I had to uninstall AVG as well. I left the machine without an anti-virus, and to my surprise ... 18 May 2010 09:16

BATCH programming: Getting dirname without trailing backslash
Suppose I have a variable FILE which contains the full path to a file. To store the name of the directory where this file is stored, I use in my batch file the following assignment: for %%F in ("%FILE%") do set DIR=%%~dpF This works, but %DIR% contains the directory name with a trailing backslash added. Is th... 18 May 2010 13:41

Caught in an Endless Boot-up Loop
If you are only concerned with recovering your documents then I suggest restart your system in safe mode. To do this, you need to press F8 key but timing is very important. However, as soon as your system restarts, I suggest start pressing F8 key until you come to rather awkward looking screen with large characte... 16 May 2010 23:26

Win XP Computer Extremely Slow
I'm posting from my laptop. My wife's desktop is running Win XP SP3 and recently started running excruciatingly slow. I've been busy and not able to look at it until this weekend. I've been reading some of the posts in this forum which seem similar. I've noticed that when viewing the Processes tab in Task Manag... 18 May 2010 18:09

Run, cmd not working
After many hours chasing this for a customer, I finally found an answer to the IE, cmd, search functions not working. thanks to MPAK at msfn.org forum: This was the second time that I have seen this, and people often end up being advised to re-install to correct - How bizarre Windows can be! I hope some other fol... 16 May 2010 19:03

Problem with encoding date - but works on Win98
Hi all My problem is an older programme, Next from SCM for Windor 60 to exact. Probably that doesnt tell you much. Originally it works on Win98, and can be reinstalled and work on Win98. ´ On Win XP however, it will work the first time, but after that it will give this error: Invalid argument to date enco... 18 May 2010 13:41