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Hi... I've one quick problem and one quick question - both to do with display settings in XP Pro on two different machines. 1) On my home PC when I log on the contrast / brightness settings are to my liking, but when everything has loaded it defaults to a far brighter screen, a bit washed out...

Hi.. I've started to get the following Windows Error message when I try to print from MS Word 2000. I then upgraded to MS Office 2003 and it's still the same. I'm using XP Pro with Service Pack 2. Here's the error: AppName: winword.exe AppVer: 11.0.5604.0 ModName: ntdll.dll ModVer...

Hey... I'm thinking of wiping my PC's hard drive back to factory condition (with Windows XP Pro pre-installed) and then reinstall my existing data from a back up - but I want to check a couple of things before I proceed. 1) If I do a complete back up to an external drive as an 'image', when I...

Hey... Accoring to my newly expired subscriptions to Norton Internet Security 2006, it's 'alarms' on both my desktop PC and laptop flash saying I have the Torjan.Peacomm infection - but I am puzzzed. Thing is I have updated my virus scanner (as much as Norton will allow now it has expired) and...

Hey... I've a dual Dell flat screen monitor set up on my Dell desktop and am having problems with Windows XP remembering my colour setting profile on the main monitor (number 1). It loads it fine on the second monitor (identified as monitor 2)... The only way I can get XP to kick itself into...

Hey... When trying to start up my Windows XP Home (SP1) it failed to boot up - saying, on a blue screen: "Application failed to start because Shell32.DLL is not found". I tried to do a repair of the installation by using the Windows Recovery Consoul - it got to around 70% and it froze. At...

Hey... I've a hassle with Windows Messenger v4.7. Although I have it switched off in the program's options, made sure it doesn't start up automatically using MSCONFIG etc, and it doesn't show up in my system tray - people can still message me! And the program's supposedly closed down! Help...

Hey... My System Restore feature isn't registering any installs or changes to my XP Pro system... If I open the programe, it shows the current day saying: "System Checkpoint" with the time I've just opened the program, that's it. Any history has been wiped... Any ideas please...? Is this a...

Hey... I'm wirelessly trying to access files on my main PC from my laptop. But in Network I can not see my main PC. (All settings had been fine and worked between the two at the start, somehow it's 'lost' its settings). I've gone to Network on my main PC and can see my laptop - however when I...

Hey... I'm having hassles with XP not loading my prefered colour settings... I've just installed a new flat screen DVI monitor - I've set up my colour / sontrast etc setting in XP (via Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advance) and hit apply, then ok. But when I restart my computer...

Hey... I've got a hard drive full of MP3 albums, complete with album artwork showing up on the small buff Windows folder. I did this when ripping the music in through Windows Media Player 10. Here's the problem now I've come to back these all up on to a new external hard drive. Selecting all...

Hey... All of a sudden when I highlight a paragraph in MS Word 2003 to, say, make it bold or change the font, it changes the WHOLE document! Word calls it 'Automatically Update Style' when I go to Edit > Undo to undo the changes Word has made. This has recently begun - have you any ideas I...

Hey... How do I stop Norton Internet Security 2006 (Anti-Virus 2006) from scanning for viruses each time I open a Word document / Excel document etc...? I'm using Office 2003. It use to be easy to find the tick box option in prevous versions of Norton but I'm stumped on this one! Many...

Hey... Where can I find out about setting up a home network so I can see the hard drives / folders etc on my other PCs and share printers? I'm using Windows XP SP2 on all my machines and have so far successfully set up a full wireless network at home. My two laptops and two desktop machines...

Hey... Can you recommend a decent program that can pop up reminders on screen to do an action...? I want them, to say pop up every hour, between 5am and 6pm Monday to Friday telling me I should email a check sheet documents to my clients. If I can ad my own text in to say what it should be...

Hey... All of a sudden a 'Thumbs' image icon has appeared anywhere where there may be picture files saved. (Desktop, folders etc.) I haven't changed any settings to show 'hidden' files and not sure if I should delete this or not. It's not a full bright coloured icon, just slightly faded as if...

Hey... Is there a way of switching off in Internet Explorer the 'clicking' sound when clicking on links or when IE automatically refeshes a page? I'm using the latest version of IE. Thanks for your help in advance!

Hey... I have the annoying 'red shield' cursor popping up in my system tray all the time telling me that my secutity is at risk - after I managed to get rid of it months ago! That was when I updated to XP SP2 months ago, updated my anti-virus (AVG), and my Norton Internet Security, plus in the...

Hey... Is there a way to download AOL to my POP3 account in Outlook 2003? I was using eNetBot until it AOL tweaked its settings and it made eNetBot redundent. Email2Pop's trial wouldn't work for me. Any ideas? I see AOL are beta testing a long overdue re-design of their webmail interface...

Hey, I've a problem copying the contents of my CDs (documents and my own audio / video files) to store them on to DVD - and I suspect it's Windows Media Player 10! I can transfer them fine, but when I go to the audio or video thumbnail, what is a XX kb or XX MB sized file on the original disc...