Recent content by Sheri99

On my laptop running XP Home the following crashed Windows Explorer. I allowed the problem to be reported to Microsoft. But then Dr. Watson crashed. I also allowed that to be reported. 1. Started IE 6. Enabled Assessibility option to ignore colors specified on Web pages. Closed IE 6. 2. Ran...

I'm running IE 7 on XP Pro. I'll have to boot the laptop and see what happens with IE6 and XP Home. Regards, Sheri

I've identified the problem, I don't know if Microsoft is aware of it. In Internet Explorer's Internet Options I had enabled the Assessibility option to ignore colors on web pages. Once this option is disabled, the Windows desktop functions properly again (although I think it is still taking...

Something has happened which corrupts my desktop and icon functionality. If I go into Display Properties-Desktop, I can no longer preview an image centered or tiled. The Preview appears as a white box (no image, no background color). Stretched wallpaper previews properly. On the actual desktop...

Thanks for the replies. Nothing I found on the web solved the issue. Lt, the keys I wanted to batch update are REG_SZ. Sometimes the strings need to include CRLFs. I had read that you could update strings in hex via a .reg file, and that use of hex(1) would result in REG_SZ. That also didn't...

I'm using a program that stores strings (REG_SZ type) in the registry. These strings can and often do contain carriage returns and linefeeds. When the strings are viewed in regedit, the CRLF characters look like box characters, but the rest of the string looks normal. If I export these strings...

Its fixed! And the system is running faster than it ever has before. Windows device manager now thinks my drives are SCSI! I searched Google for "A7A266 dma" and found this site: http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/a7a266/ Under "Update!" was a link to an exe file called IDE4008.exe reputed...

I have just discovered that my new 200gb ultra dma hard disk is running in PIO mode even though it is set to use DMA mode if possible. Previously I thought it was referring to CDRom drive, but have verified its the hard disk. I tried switching back and forth between PIO and "use DMA if possible"...

Replacing the WMP folder doesn't help. The startup wav still hiccups as do other sounds in the control panel applet. Windows Media Player won't start, and I get a message that it needs to be reinstalled with an offer to connect to the Windows update site. I guess the next steip will be another...

Here's a shocker, I replaced the sound card and still have the problem. I haven't booted the old environment with the new sound card, maybe I'll put back the old one rather than risk a problem. The new card, btw, has a C-Media chip on it, the old one had an ESS chip on it. I removed the old...

Listened again to the dxdiag sound tests, and I think the only part that sounds bad is the beep that concludes each test (probably a Windows sound). In WMP (which is the default player for wav files), wav sounds sound bad, but mp3 sounds seem to sound ok. Sheri

I've already done all of those except trying to play the sames files in WMP. I did find that my old setup is running DirectX 9.0b whereas the new is running DirectX 9.0c. Wonder if that could cause the problem? Another (big) difference between the old and the new is, the new was installed with...

I guess the network card interrupt is not the problem. I say this because I unistalled the network card driver via device manager (but did not actually remove the card) and restarted the computer. Prior to detection notification, the startup wav still sounded distorted. Curiously, when I...

Changing sound card drivers doesn't help. The 321735 Microsoft article acknowledges a problem in XP affecting some computers, but suggests disabling Sounds. Since mine has worked on a different XP configuration, I'm not ready to give up yet. The inf download links aren't working in this...

I have done a clean install of Windows XP Pro on a new hard disk. When I start up Windows, the wav file that plays sounds distorted. If I switch boot up drives, my old Windows disk boots up and wavs play without distortion. (Also, other types of audio play ok in the new environment)...