Windows XP Basics

Sharing Private Files with Account on Win7 Dual Boot?
Hi Folks: I added Win7/64 to my PC. The system has a drive with a Win XP partition, a new drive that has this win7/64 partition, and a drive I've been using for my personal files. I can see the drive with my personal files, and see all of the folders. But I can't access the contents of the fo... 2 Jun 2010 04:25

Mouse freezes and screen corrupted
Recently I have had a problem every 2 or 3 days where the mouse suddenly freezes and 2 or 3 seconds later the screen image gets corrupted and shows lots of coloured horizontal lines. Recovery is only possible by rebooting but I can access the computer over my network (read drives, open files etc) so Windows is... 3 Jun 2010 07:51

Serious Windows XP SP3 help wanted: how do I change appearance
i appreciate the help, but i've tried all that already. i got another answer from someone else on a different newsgroup though that i'm going to try out but thanks anyway "sandy58" wrote: On May 28, 2:35 am, dougjk <dou...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: i swear, this is a tough one. a while back whe... 28 May 2010 20:23

How Do I Backup My Files?
Since I have been trying to sort out backup apps I have been reading through the prior postings and came across this one you authored last year. Why do you not support the backup that comes with XP? Doesn't it do full, incremental, and differential backups?? It seems to me the only thing it does not do th... 5 Jun 2010 10:20

Please help with a strange happening
Also posted in microsoft.public.general Hi ! Please help with a strange happening Running Win XP Pro sp3 and all updates When I close down XP at night (or at any time), the computer closes all the programs and shuts down When I restart the computer again. It will boot OK Giving me the usual desktop ... 29 May 2010 12:29

help for possible virus
good day to all, last night, thursday, i started to get these pop up "warnings" from my alleged anti virus/anti spyware, so i figured it was the phony pop ups that wanted to me to click yes; i never did, but, anytime i tried to open my own security programs, explorer, or any folder, it would open briefly, the... 29 May 2010 10:17

Serious Windows XP SP3 help wanted: how do I change appearance bac
i swear, this is a tough one. a while back when this was still my parents computer (they got it back in '07 w/ Windows XP professional SP2 [now its XP pro SP3]). well just last year (sometime back in early or mid 2009) their appearance for Windows and buttons (under appearance tab in Display properties) went to... 28 May 2010 08:15

short-cut menu for items in Folder pane of
How do I change the presentation order of items in the Start menu? Somehow, Explorer is at the bottom of the list on one of my computers, and I want it in the same place on all my computers. ... 27 May 2010 01:42

Default action for double-click in Windows Explorer
Windows XP, sp 3, stand-alone machine. I must have changed some setting when I installed VideoLAN, which I use for watching videos. Now, when I double-click on a folder in the right side of Explorer, VideoLAN tries to open all the files in the directory. What I want to happen, instead, is that when I doubl... 27 May 2010 04:54

Help For Media Player
Can someone direct me please to the newsgroup that discusses Windows Media Player 11? I can't seem to find one...My query relates to knowing how to save a music file as it no longer has the "save as" feature on version 11.... ... 27 May 2010 11:31