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Hi all the all users box is checked. having used 60% CPU time everytime i switched it on for the last 2 days, its now decided to stop. it must have been doing a background defrag. Many thanks for the help everyone

As far as i can tell, there is no 3rd party defrag software installed, only windows defrag. If there was an App defraging, then shouldnt it appear in task manager as using CPU time and show read/writes to disk?

Hi all i have a fujitsu laptop with wind xp which is playing up. It is using around 50% CPU and the hard drive is constantly being accessed but task manager reports that no process is using any CPU time or accessing the HD. This happens in either safe mode or a normal boot. This machine has...

Although this does work with regard permissions, its not what im looking for. The reason i want to turn off simple file sharing is because in tring to use remote assistance with xp home machines on the internet. when i get the request and try to connect to the other computer, i get a...

Hi all im trying to turn off "simple file sharing" in windows xp home sp2. in xp pro, the setting is in folder options / view tab / and uncheck simple file sharing. i believe that in xp home the setting is in the same place but you just have to be in safe mode to access it? unfortunatley...

thanks for the messages. i have tried both methods. auto archive and manual archive. my inbox is set to archive all items older than 6 months. But it says it is archiving, creates all the archive folders and folder stucture in my inbox, but they are all empty. any ideas? dutch6

Hi all call me thick but i cant archive my inbox in outlook 2003 which is linked to exchange 2003. i have setup archiving in tools\options\other\auto archive to archive every 7 days. when i set off a manual archive for items older than 6 months, all folder etc it still doesnt archive. i do...

thanks for the reply s0121 unfortunatley this ram fragmentation is not the problem here. i cant logon to any user account at startup. there is only mcafee security suite, and office install. no games. antivirus gold virus has caused it but even though i believe i've got rid of it, there...

if you have a working XP CD and installed to a known working hard drive then you need Mulder and Scully! seriously though, if everything works with W98 but not Win xp and you have tried everything that you have then i can only think there is a piece of hardware that win xp doesnt like. I...

I will try a repair in stall of xp next. i think i have tried everything else i can think of, but if anyone else knew of something i could try without a install id rather try that. cheers

you need to view all hidden files. open explorer / tools / folder options / view tab under hidden files and folders, select "show hidden files and folder" then uncheck "hide protected operating system files" click ok go back to then profile in doc's and settings and there should be a whole...

First thing id do is try the CD in a different PC. This will see if the CD is faultly, which can happen with even new CD's. if the pc was running win98 then the hardware is likely to be old. have you checked that the hardware meets minimum specs? see link below, the same spec apply to home...

Hi all im using windows xp pro sp2 and get the following error message explorer failed to initialize properly (0xc00000005) i can get to the logon screen, select a user to logon to and then get the above message. It happens in both safe mode and a full boot, which means i cant get to a...

I have just bought championship manager 4 to run on a XP pro PC. There are users of the PC who only have limited accounts and the game needs administrator privledges to run, which i cant give these users. Is there a way of running the game under a limited user account without giving them any...

No it wont boot in safe mode