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    new CPU/Mobo/RAM, but Win7 won't boot from old HDD??

    Upgraded old custom-built system to new Athlon X4 630 and Biostar Mobo AMD3, with new DDR2 1066 ram (4MB). Kept PATA WD 160 HD with existing Win7 32 bit boot. Old power supply is 20-pin, for new 24-pin connector, but GPU is on-board (not PCI) for now. Starts fine, POSTs OK, but Win7 starts and...
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    Welcome screen log-in cursor disappears

    When changing users, the log-in cursor for a user disappears often. Re-booting solves the problem. Anybody have an idea of why this happens?
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    Disappearing down arrow Word and Adobe Reader

    With WXP Home, in Word 2007 and Adobe Reader 8, the scrolling down arrow on the bottom right frequently disappears. I have to exit the programs and re-enter before it comes back. No hardware changes since it started happening, but both Word and Adobe are new in the last 3 months. Any ideas why...
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    Update XP but ActiveX not enabling

    On my niece's XP Pro desktop that was overrun last night by spies, viruses, etc... I clean and re-clean with MS AntiSpyware, AVG, Spybot S&D, AdAware. Pretty soon everything seems to work right. But I want to update her XP Pro and IE. I use IE6 to go to Microsoft website and I'm told her...
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    Task Mgr blocked?

    On a Gateway with XP Home, my son who is User with admin privileges, can not bring up Task Mgr, he gets a msg that says the Administrator has blocked access to it. But I can access TM from my user profile where I have admin privileges too. Where/what is making the distinction? Any ideas?
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    Remove XP Update files?

    In my Windows XP directory, I have many sub-directories of this general type, all seeming to have been carrying an update of XP: c:/windows/$NtUninstallQ81xxxxx/*.* Is there a way they will be deleted by themselves during some future update, or is there a switch I can pull to delete them...
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    Task Manager disabled

    Help. Somehow, somewhen, I must have had a choice to disable access to Task Manager. When I want to do a regedit, for example, I get the msg "Task Manager has been disabled by the Administrator". As that is me, I'd like to get access again. How? Please. Thanks. Gary
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    New window that opens is Blank

    Since installing IE 6 sp1 with my XP system, I am getting multiple instances where if I try to open a link within a web page, the second window that opens up is blank. Nothing else happens. I have to close the new window, sometimes 2, to get back to the original window/page. Can anybody...

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