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8. Misc

• How tin I finish Windows Messenger from running?
• HELP! I don't accept Coffee VM? What do I do? How do I go it?
• How do I create a slipstream disk using XP and SP1?
• Why does my CD Bulldoze non autoplay OR why is my Autoplay Tab is missing?
• Is there a way to secure a binder and its contents in Windows XP?
• What is Compatability Mode and how do I utilize information technology?
• How do I Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or Fat Partition
• Is at that place a way to determine how long Windows XP has been up?
• Is in that location a guide to using Remote Assistance anyplace?
• How do I become at the command line in Windows XP while still in Windows?
• How practise I Disable Disk Operation Counters?
• How practise I Modify color for command prompt?
• Can I get a Automatic Time Synchronisation with a Internetserver?
• How practice you remove a Win9x partition from a dual-boot system?
• How do I install the Recovery Console?
• Can I change colors and fonts for Command Prompt without regedit?
• What can I expect in the hereafter?
• How do I view hidden devices in the Device Manager?
• When I run (some app) its output vanishes before I can read it
• How can I empathise the significant behind a BSOD?
• How does Windows XP manage multiple users and how practice I set them upwardly?
• How practice I find my system resource in XP?
• How do I Install NTBackup in Windows XP Dwelling house Edition?
• How do y'all prepare XP/Dell computers from losing time?
• What should I use, Organization Restore or GoBack?
• Where is Scandisk?
• Windows XP forgets my binder view settings. Is at that place a fix?
• How can I add a background motion-picture show to a folder?
• How can I cheque my Production Key within XP?
• Want to delete a file merely go an Access Denied error?
• Why is part of my Task Manager gone?
• Why is the System Idle Process using 99% of my CPU?
• How practice I interpret the Performance tab of Chore Manager?
• How do I interpret the Processes tab in Task Manager?
• Windows XP Search doesn't find text in certain files
• How practice I cheque if Win XP SP2 installed correctly?
• What are 'privileges' and 'permissions' ?
• How can I uninstall the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) from Windows XP?
• Disabling ctfmon.exe when Internet Explorer 7 is installed

How can I end Windows Messenger from running?

•This article describes how to prevent Windows Messenger from running. Past default, Windows XP Professional and Windows XP Home Edition install Windows Messenger, and the user interface does not provide a fashion to remove or to uninstall Windows Messenger.

Microsoft Knowledge Base of operations Article - 302089

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Microsoft has not made it easy to get rid of Messenger but there is a simple way to remove it forever. Here are the steps:

1. Click Beginning, Run.
2. Copy and paste the following into the Run box and click ok. A status bar volition pop up and after yous reboot your system it will be gone, for good!:

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If you simply want to stop Messenger from starting when you use certain MS web sites or programs, you can follow these steps.

Annotation: Any updates involving Messenger installed from Windows Update or elsewhere will reinstall Messenger. To stop that, see below.

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For those who wish to add additional Registry entries to prohibit Messenger from existence reinstalled, run the Batch file NOMSNGR.bat contained within this ZIP file.

If you lot wish to restore your original settings delight run WMRESET.BAT (also included in the ZIP) to remove the registry settings that prevent Windows Messenger from running. You lot will then need to manually reinstall Windows Messenger on your figurer.

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You may also wish to check the Add/Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel.

past slash
last modified: 2004-07-fifteen 16:21:51

Help! I don't take Coffee VM? What exercise I practice? How practice I go information technology?

Update 12/17: The latest build is at present 3809 and can be establish via Windows Update or past using the Windows Update Catalog (await for

810030: Microsoft VM Security Update

or

vm

under Critical Updates). Total instructions tin can be found below.

You can also download Java directly from the makers of Coffee, Sun Microsystems.

Merely click here to go to the Sun Java Download Page and click Yes at the ActiveX Security Prompt.

i. Go to the Windows Update web site.
2. Click on "Windows Update Catalog".
3. Click on Find updates for "Microsoft Windows operating systems".
four. Select your Os from the listing.
v. Click "Advanced search options".
half dozen. In the text box, type in "VM" but without the quotes.
7. Click the push to search.
8. Click the "Critical Updates and Service Packs (1)" link.
nine. There y'all go, the Microsoft Coffee Virtual Auto.

Added vi/27/03:
Here is a straight link to the latest version (3810). Thanks go to NeO_JAW.

past trparky edited by MSeng
terminal modified: 2004-06-06 18:25:24

How do I create a slipstream deejay using XP and SP1?

A slipstream deejay using XP and SP1 is a disk that integrates XP and SP1 into one bootable installation deejay.

Links are provided to create a XP & SP1 slipstream disk using Roxio and Nero.

Using Roxio EasyCD Creator:

From tackteck.com.

Using Nero:

From tackteck.com.

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(Added 8/03):
For boosted information and customization on slipstreaming, come across this link every bit recommended by bcastner in this Microsoft Help Forum thread.

by blank name$$$ edited past MSeng
last modified: 2003-08-17 xi:28:02

Why does my CD Drive not autoplay OR why is my Autoplay Tab is missing?

Shell Hardware Detection must be set to Automatic in Administrative Tools / Services. If Trounce Hardware Detection is set to Manual or Disabled, the CD Drive Autoplay Tab volition exist missing and the CD Drive will not autoplay.

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by GolfBall$ edited by MSeng
last modified: 2002-03-24 12:37:12

Is there a manner to secure a folder and its contents in Windows XP?

These are Windows XP Professional instructions.

Yes, at that place is a mode, and it is built into the OS itself, simply you have to convert to NTFS to have advantage of it.

To convert over to NTFS, get to the command prompt (Start Menu -> Run -> cmd) and blazon in the following command.

convert ten: /fs:ntfs

ten existence the drive letter that you want to convert

Once you have converted over, open Windows Explorer, become to the Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab, and then uncheck Unproblematic File Sharing. Right-click on the folder, choose Backdrop, become to the Security tab, click the Advanced push. On the Permissions tab, you will observe a check mark by "Inherit from parent the permission entries that employ to child objects. Include these with entries explicitly defined here.", uncheck it. When yous uncheck information technology, a message box will come upwards with the heading "Security", click the Copy button. Click the OK button back at the Permissions window to go dorsum at the Folder Security settings.

Remove every user proper name including the Administrators group, except Organization and CREATOR Possessor. Click Add to add a user. In the "Select Users or Groups" window, click the Advanced button. A new window will appear, click the Notice Now button. Select the users that you desire take have access to the folder (yes, y'all tin select multiple users by using the Command key on the keyboard while clicking on the names). In one case you lot accept selected the users or groups that you want to allow access to, click the OK button. Click the OK push button once again in the "Select Users or Groups" window.

Make certain that you set Full Admission to the users or groups that yous want access to the folder. Also make sure that the SYSTEM user has Total Access.

Notation that if a user that has been denied access to a detail folder attempts to admission the binder, Windows volition come back with an "Admission Denied" error. The binder volition even so exist visible to the user without access but the user will be unable to view the folder contents, execute, view, or edit the files stored in the folder.

past trparky
last modified: 2002-03-21 fourteen:34:46

What is Compatability Way and how do I use it?

Compatibility Mode is a feature in Windows XP that allows Windows XP to run a program in a fashion not native to Windows XP.

For example.....You have a plan that will run perfectly on Windows 98, but it won't run on Windows XP. Yous can tell Windows XP to run that program in Windows 98/ME Compatibility Mode, thus finer hiding itself from the program in question and making the plan retrieve that it is running in Windows 98.

You can enable Compatibility Style for whatsoever program that you choose. Simply detect the EXE of the programme, correct-click on it, choose Properties, click the Compatibility tab, and set the preferences.

You lot can find more than detail on Compatibility Mode from this KB commodity:
How to Troubleshoot Program Compatibility Problems in Windows XP (Q285909)

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by trparky edited past MSeng
last modified: 2002-07-04 09:17:05

How practise I Create a Boot Disk for an NTFS or Fat Partitioning

Sometimes a boot disk is required to recover from various issues, such equally:•Corrupted boot sector.•Corrupted master kick record (MBR).•Virus infections.•Missing or decadent NTLDR or Ntdetect.com.•Incorrect Ntbootdd.sys driver.

You can find instructions for accomplishing this in all versions of XP from the Knowledge Base of operations Commodity: Creating a Boot Disk for an NTFS or FAT Sectionalisation (Q311073)

by MSeng
last modified: 2002-02-05 21:12:24

Is there a way to determine how long Windows XP has been upwardly?

Yes there is a way to find out how long Windows XP has been upwardly. In fact, this tip will work on Windows 2000 also.

At that place is a plan that Microsoft distributes to practice this very task. You tin can download it here.

Networked users (or those with an ethernet based broadband connection) tin can also become Uptime information past clicking on the Local Area Connexion status in your taskbar. Note - this is for NETWORK uptime and may not accurately reverberate actual organization uptime .

There is a Real-Time version of Microsoft'due south Uptime monitor using Microsoft Visual Basic .NET for the x86 platform created by one of our users. You can download that here.

by trparky
last modified: 2005-03-05 11:08:xiii

Is there a guide to using Remote Assistance anyplace?

by slash
last modified: 2004-eleven-17 14:39:43

How practise I get at the control line in Windows XP while however in Windows?

Basically, it is the same as accessing the command line in Windows 9x.

Just go to the Get-go Carte du jour, click Run, then type "control" or "cmd".

Note that "command" doesn't support long file names. It displays files and folders in 8.iii format. "cmd" has full long file name support.

by trparky
terminal modified: 2002-02-08 xx:29:12

How practise I Disable Deejay Performance Counters?

Win XP similar Win2000 is set to collect physical bulldoze data. Virtually don't need this as information technology consumes extra bulldoze transfer time. To disable the deejay operation counters: Go to->First->Programs->Command Prompt Now type in: diskperf -n then reboot. In that location is a space between the f and the dash (-).

by Skipdawg
last modified: 2002-02-eleven 09:31:45

How practice I Modify color for command prompt?

Edit the registry and add/update this (REG_DWORD) :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER /Software /Microsoft /Control Processor]
DefaultColor = 0A (Black background with green text)

Colour codes to utilize(HEX)
0 = blackness
i = blue
2 = green
3 = cyan
four = ruby
5 = magenta
6 = yellow/brown
7 = white
eight = grey
9 = vivid bluish
A = vivid green
B = vivid cyan
C = bright ruddy
D = brilliant magenta
E = bright yellow
F = bright white

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by Skipdawg
terminal modified: 2002-02-xi 09:42:56

Can I get a Automated Time Synchronisation with a Internetserver?

Yes!

Go to System Properties -> Appointment and Time -> Net Time -> actuate or deactivate "Automated Synchronisation with Internetserver.".

by Skipdawg
last modified: 2002-03-10 06:22:26

How do you remove a Win9x division from a dual-kicking system?

Normally the Win9x volition be the C: drive, which besides contains the files needed for booting. Then, you lot cannot but reformat this partitioning to remove Win9x. Instead, the post-obit procedure should work:

1. Delete the C:\Windows and C:\Program Files folders, forth with any other folders on the C: drive that you exercise non need anymore.
2. Catechumen the C: drive to NTFS if desired, using the convert program.
3. Edit C:\boot.ini to remove the Win9X reference.

Some reports also say yous tin can format the C: drive and kick from the Win XP CD, which will allow you to repair the boot files.

by ClmsnTgrFan edited by trparky
concluding modified: 2002-03-05 14:20:33

How do I install the Recovery Panel?

Step one: Put your Windows XP install CD into your CD-ROM drive.
Stride ii: Go to the Commencement Menu and select Run.
Pace 3: Type in the following command.
X:\i386\winnt32.exe /cmdcons
Ten being your CD-ROM drive letter.
Step four: Click Yes to the prompt to install.
Footstep 5: Restart the computer. The next fourth dimension you start your figurer, you will see a "Microsoft Windows Recovery Console" entry on the boot menu.

by trparky
final modified: 2002-03-xiv xiv:23:05

Can I alter colors and fonts for Command Prompt without regedit?

Certainly!

Right-click the championship bar of an open command window and click Properties. Set the colors, font, window size, etc. When yous Relieve, you'll be asked whether it applies just to this window or all windows opened using the aforementioned shortcut.

Alternatively, you can right-click the shortcut, click Properties, and practice the aforementioned thing.

by CyberSchnook$ edited by Skipdawg
last modified: 2002-03-24 20:51:34

What can I expect in the future?

The next step in product evolution is the introduction of "Freestyle" and "Mira" which essentially are steps to make computers be more portable while still having access to all of your information. These technologies are probable to be included in Windows Longhorn which volition ship 2004. Some slap-up info on this engineering science can be plant on WinSuperSite.

Microsoft is currently developing technology, codenamed Palladium in conjunction with the TCPA (Trusted Computing Platform Alliance).

An interesting FAQ on Palladium and TCPA can constitute here -- TCPA / Palladium Frequently Asked Questions.

by slash edited past MSeng
concluding modified: 2003-02-11 22:02:18

How do I view hidden devices in the Device Manager?

Device Manager tends to hide devices that may accept been in your system at once or another. This sometimes occurs afterward your accept installed a new sound carte, video carte du jour, or a new USB device.

There are ways to make Windows Device Manager show these hidden devices.

ready DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=one

You can either enter that at a command prompt, or add it to your environmental variables ( Start Card --> Control Panel --> System --> Advanced ). Click the Environment Variables push button. Under System Variables [user variables also works] click 'New', enter "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES" with the value of "one").

Subsequently doing the above, open Device Manager, click View in the ToolBar, then Show Hidden Devices.

You'll see a lot more than devices to work with and so before you did this tweak.

This helps when you want to uninstall a driver for a piece of hardware that is long gone.

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This can also be done via a Registry entry.

Open RegEdit and browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Director\Environment.

Brand a new String Value with a proper name of "DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES". Give it a value of "1".

by trparky edited past MSeng
last modified: 2003-02-11 22:04:45

When I run (some app) its output vanishes before I can read information technology

Depending on how you run a command-line program, its output console window may briefly be displayed, simply vanish earlier you've been able to read information technology.

This will happen if you blazon the command into the Run box on the Start menu, or double-click on the program's .exe file. Command-line programs are more often than not intended to be run from the command prompt.

First, you must open a command prompt. Type 'cmd' into the Run box, or choose 'Command Prompt' from Start -> Programs -> Accessories.

Then, in the command prompt's window, type the command you're interested in. The output from the command will get to the command prompt'south window, which will not vanish when the control terminates.

To close the command prompt window, blazon 'leave'.

by dave edited by MSeng
last modified: 2002-05-29 00:57:26

How can I empathise the significant behind a BSOD?

There are a few sites out in that location with swell information that assistance the user understand what the error in the BSOD really ways.

Bank check these out:
Microsoft MSDN Library
Inside the Blue Screen
Stop Letters
Event ID

past slash edited by MSeng
last modified: 2003-03-11 20:41:38

How does Windows XP manage multiple users and how do I set them up?

Windows XP (equally with Windows 2000 and NT) has NATIVE back up for multiple users. Each user account is 99% Independent from ALL the other user accounts. Business relationship A does Non interfere/mess with Account B. Therefore, when you create an account, it will have information technology's own settings (desktop shortcuts, My Documents folder, advent settings, etc...)

Only Computer wide settings are reflected in all accounts. Example: You change the figurer time, ALL of the accounts volition have the inverse time. You lot reconfigure a printer in the Hardware Managing director, ALL of the accounts will take the change. You install a program like Microsoft Give-and-take, ALL the accounts can utilise Microsoft Discussion (if you let them). These are system wide settings.

Open up My Computer, double click your main hard drive (usually Local Deejay C), then double click "Documents and Settings". In this binder, are more subfolders of all the user accounts on your computer.

For example, if you have the following user accounts: Mom, Dad and The Kids, you will see the post-obit folders,
"C:\Documents and Settings\Mom"
"C:\Documents and Settings\Dad"
"C:\Documents and Settings\The Kids"

And inside those folders will exist each accounts settings and files. For case, Mom'due south "My Documents" is located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mom\My Documents" and her Favorites are located in "C:\Documents and Settings\Mom\Favorites". Same with Dad, Dad'southward "My Documents" are in "C:\Documents and Settings\Dad\My Documents" and so on.

This is how Windows XP manages user accounts, a folder for each user. Each users settings (settings from the Registry and whatnot) also reside in the user'due south respectable folder.

Now, if y'all install a program in Mom'south account, you lot can log into The Kids and use it. You don't accept to install the aforementioned program in each user account. Once it's installed on your figurer, it's installed and all user accounts can employ it. When you install a plan, it's unremarkably installed to the directory of "C:\Program Files\(Program name)", Non the folder that contains the user accounts.

At present, to create a new user account, go to the Control Console either through the start menu or My Calculator, click "User Accounts" > Click "Create a new account". Type in the name of the account, this is what is seen on the login screen, and in the folder "C:\Documents and Settings\". Adjacent,you lot have to choose what TYPE of user account you want it to exist. You can cull between "Administrator" or "Limited". Information technology'due south very unproblematic, an "Ambassador" business relationship has complete admission to the computer, whereas a "Limited" business relationship cannot install programs, alter organization wide settings, or make any changes outside of their own account. If "The Kids" accept a habit of installing software you don't like, proceed messing up the network carte, or like to delete files they shouldn't be deleting, brand them be a "Limited" user business relationship. Yet, some programs Require Administrator access to them, and if they do, you have to let them be an "Administrator" account or you tin right click on a programme shortcut, choose properties, then nether the Shortcut Tab click the advanced push button. Y'all and then want to click the push that says to "run with different credentials." This will pop upwards a box (similar to the 2k style login screen) that allows a user with different privileges to run a program.

Now, equally far every bit your shortcuts and the others getting mixed upward, they wont. The merely shortcuts that mix are the "All Programs" shortcuts to programs. For example, go to First > All Programs. Y'all'll see a list of all installed programs. Now, when you lot install a programme in Dad's business relationship and because when a program installs, ALL user accounts can admission it, you run across the shortcut to the program in all of the user accounts.

So if you install Program A and DO NOT want to let The Kids have access to information technology, here's what you do.

Go back to "C:\Documents and Settings\". Now, go to the "All Users" folder. Inside this folder are things that all user accounts volition see very simply. Now go into "Start carte du jour" and into "Programs". This is where the shortcuts to all your "All Programs" are stored. Simply move Programme A from hither, to your own user accounts folder. Then in essence, you MOVED the shortcut "Program A" from "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start menu\Programs" to "C:\Documents and Settings\Dad\Start card\Programs" and if Mom needs information technology, COPY it to "C:\Documents and Settings\Mom\Start menu\Programs".

This does not necessarily stop the kids from using the program though, they can explore the hard drive and notice the programme and execute it that way.

by Ctrl Alt Del edited by Kramer
last modified: 2009-04-08 twenty:39:05

How do I observe my system resources in XP?

This question is usually asked by people who are used to Win9x. In those operating systems, the "percentage of free arrangement resources" is a disquisitional affair to know.

It actually arises because of an architectural limitation in Win9x: two system retentiveness areas are extremely limited (64KB each) due to the 16-bit heritage of the OS.

This doesn't apply to NT4/2000/XP as it did in 9x. Retentiveness heaps are essentially unlimited. There is no need or do good in having some "pct used" figure, and at that place is no such number displayed.

You tin find out useful system data well-nigh resources (in the general sense, not the specific Win9x sense) from the Performance tab in Task Manager. Striking ctrl+alt+del (or ctrl+shift+esc for a straight route in Classic manner) to open upwards the Chore Manager.

by dave edited by slash
last modified: 2002-06-xvi 17:13:24

How exercise I Install NTBackup in Windows XP Domicile Edition?

Past default NTBackup is not installed in WinXP HE, but information technology is still available. To install it :

1) Insert the XP home CD-ROM
two) Go to the binder VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP
iii) Double-click the ntbackup.msi file
four) Your done.

* For more data see MS KB Q302894

by Skipdawg
concluding modified: 2002-06-xviii 08:36:29

How do you fix XP/Dell computers from losing fourth dimension?

If your Windows XP based Dell computer is losing fourth dimension while the computer is turned on, you can try the post-obit commands to set it:
ane. Click on Showtime, Run, CMD which will open a command line window.
two. Blazon 'Net stop w32time' then press Enter
3. Type 'w32tm /unregister' then press Enter
4. Type 'w32tm /unregister' then printing Enter
v. Blazon 'w32tm /register' then press Enter
half dozen. Type 'Internet start w32time' so printing Enter
vii. Close the control line window

past jaykaykay edited by slash
last modified: 2002-06-30 22:09:42

What should I use, Organisation Restore or GoBack?

The two are similar programs merely GoBack goes much further than Organisation Restore.

System Restore just backs up your registry and other cardinal files while GoBack backs up your entire organisation.

For most people Arrangement Restore is plenty merely if y'all tend to install a lot of software and make a lot of changes to your system, GoBack may be best.

Both applications run in the groundwork just GoBack can noticeably tedious downwards your system while System Restore is more transparent in the day to mean solar day operations.

by slash edited by trparky
final modified: 2002-08-30 12:06:05

Where is Scandisk?

In XP (and 2k for that matter) it's called "chkdsk" and it tin still be accessed by right-clicking a drive in My Computer and choosing the Tools tab.

If you lot employ the NTFS file system, information technology is not necessary to use chkdisk since it is a journaling file system and keeps rails of everything that happens to the drive.

past redxii edited by slash
final modified: 2002-08-12 xviii:15:04

Windows XP forgets my binder view settings. Is there a set up?

By default, Windows XP will recollect the view settings for the 400 virtually recently used folders. Later on that, XP will brainstorm overwriting the data of the oldest binder, and its view setting volition be lost. The data is stored in the registry by 2 keys:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Beat
and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam

These keys can be modified to make XP call back more than folder settings. There are 3 different ways available to make this change:

• Manually change the registry entries.


1. Open up Windows Explorer and go to Tools--Folder Options--View--Advanced Settings. Ensure that "Call up each binder's view settings" is checked.


2. Open up Regedit and go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Crush. Right-click on "Trounce", then follow to New--Cardinal--DWORD Value. Name this item "BagMRU Size" (without quotation marks, just with a space betwixt BagMRU and Size). Double-click BagMRU Size, give it a Decimal value of 2000, then click OK.


3. Now go to HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam. Create another BagMRU Size DWORD Value for "ShellNoRoam". Once again, requite it a Decimal value of 2000, then click OK.


4. You volition accept 2 "BagMRU Size" values equal to 0x000007d0 (2000).


5. Close the registry and reboot. Windows XP will now call back 2000 folder view settings instead of 400.
   


• Download and install TweakUI 2.0 for Windows XP (found here), then go to Explorer-->Customizations and ready the value appropriately.


• Go to Kellys Korner, scroll downward to the Folder Views - Keep Settings (Pete) section, download and execute the reg file provided.

nine/04
Service Pack 2 adds the necessary DWORD values to the keys referenced above. Thaks to Fat City for confirming this in a Microsoft Help forum thread.

by bluebottle$ edited by MSeng
final modified: 2007-12-29 18:38:46

How tin I add together a background picture to a binder?

For some reason, MS took out the ability to put pictures in the background of your folders in XP. Beneath are the steps required to get your selected picture show dorsum in there...

1. Open the folder you want a background on.
2. Make certain you can come across ALL files. To do so: Go Get-go > Control Panel > Folder Options > View tab, under "Hidden files and folders" check "Evidence hidden files and folders" AND UNCHECK "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)".
3. Check to see if that binder has a file chosen "desktop.ini". If the binder does Not have that file, yous need Windows to create it for you lot... Correct click in an empty expanse of the folder > Properties > Customize tab > Click "Customize" push > select the normal folder icon, Apply, OK (doing this creates the file). Note - you can delete this choosing of the binder icon later. All you desire is the file, non the folder icon.
4. Open desktop.ini and add the following lines of code:

   [ExtShellFolderViews]
   {BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}={BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}
   [{BE098140-A513-11D0-A3A4-00C04FD706EC}]
   IconArea_Image=C:\My Folder Background.jpg

   If y'all had to perform the second office of number three (Yous had to select an icon for the folder so Windows would create the file), y'all tin can delete the following code, which was used to change the binder icon:

   [.ShellClassInfo]
   IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
   IconIndex=(some number)

   This lets the folder accept the default icon back, but the desktop.ini file which you want still remains, and now only contains the lawmaking for a background image.

5. Finally, edit the terminal line of code (IconArea_Image=C:\My Binder Groundwork.jpg) to the path of your pic, save the file and close information technology. Refresh the folder and it should accept the new background.

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past Ctrl Alt Del edited by MSeng
last modified: 2002-xi-23 10:51:42

How can I bank check my Product Fundamental within XP?

There are 2 programs that can you lot can use to view the installation CD key used during the installation of Windows XP.

There is one that can only read the Windows XP Installation Central and then there is one that can read both the Windows XP and the Office XP installation key.

As a bonus feature to the Magical Jelly Bean'southward Windows XP/Office XP Key Installation Viewer, you tin can also change the installation keys.

Windows XP Installation Key Viewer
Magical Jelly Bean's Windows XP/Function XP Central Installation Viewer

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by redxii edited by trparky
last modified: 2003-01-23 15:forty:54

Want to delete a file but get an Access Denied error?

Kickoff make sure it is non a system file. Afterwards y'all have determined it to not be a system file follow these steps:

•Close all open applications.•Open a control prompt and navigate to the directory with the offending files.•Then open up the Task Manager and click on the Processes tab. select "explorer.exe" under Prototype Name. Click "Stop Process".•This volition leave but the command prompt and the chore director running.•At present at the Command Prompt, its time to delete the file(south) using the DEL command. Case -- from the c:\movies directory blazon del movie.avi •Now the files are deleted, go to the task managing director and click on the Applications tab. Click the "New Chore" push. in the dialog, blazon explorer.exe and click OK.

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Added 12/21/02 -- ref: this MS Help forum post:
As alot of you lot know XP volition sometimes hang onto a file causing you to go into the command prompt and impale explorer to delete the file. Well if you want a permanent set read on:

1. open up upward regedit.exe and head to the following central
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler

ii. Delete the default value and close regedit.

This should go along you from having to go through the long process of having to close everything and use the control prompt to delete the file.

Feedback received on this FAQ entry:

• Information technology did not work. I still could not delete the .role file.

  2013-09-06 16:14:02

• hello could you please aid me. i have someone remoting my computer. and i have no admission to anything. i have intranet and kerbos similar i am on a domain, only i should not be. delight could you assist me. thank you then much joviroo@yahoo.com thank you

  2010-08-fifteen 12:sixteen:32

by Kaotic edited by MSeng
last modified: 2003-05-26 09:28:ten

Why is part of my Task Manager gone?

This behavior may occur if Chore Manager is running in Tiny Footprint mode. If you lot double-click the empty infinite in the border effectually the tabs, Job Director switches to this way.

RESOLUTION
To switch Task Manager to its typical display mode, double-click the grey border of the window.

Normal Job Manager:

Tiny Footprint Fashion:

Feedback received on this FAQ entry:

• Thank you very much. Kriengsak from THAILAND

  2011-05-19 09:25:41

by SurfTheSky edited by slash
concluding modified: 2003-03-23 09:05:06

Why is the System Idle Process using 99% of my CPU?

From Microsoft -- the definition of System Idle Process:
This process is a single thread running on each processor, which has the sole task of bookkeeping for processor time when the system isn't processing other threads. In Task Manager, look this process to account for the majority of processor time.

The system idle process uses all the CPU time that is not used by anything else. CPU fourth dimension is like any other fourth dimension; you can't non use it. If you practise zip, you're nevertheless using time: y'all are using fourth dimension to do nothing.

If the arrangement idle procedure is using 99% of the CPU, so your CPU is busy only 1% of the time. That's expert, bully.

by dave edited by MSeng
concluding modified: 2003-06-05 21:29:22

How practice I interpret the Performance tab of Task Managing director?

Firstly, let'due south talk about the numbers. They are in iv groups, labelled Totals, Commit Accuse, Physical Retention, and Kernel Memory.

Totals: tells you how many handles, processes, and threads there are allocated in the OS. The numbers are simple counters, but the words are quite tricky to explain, considering they're basic programming concepts, and basic concepts are always tricky (try explaining the verb 'to be' some time).

Handles: the kernel supplies programs with 'objects' such every bit files, shared-memory sections, registry keys, and so on. A program uniformly manipulates an object by means of a handle, which is a temporary connectedness to the object. A handle is not the object; for instance, if a file is opened for 17 dissimilar uses at the same time, it will accept 17 different handles continued to information technology.

Processes: a process is an case of a program in execution. If yous're running Explorer 3 times, and then there will be 3 processes running. Encounter the departure? The program is the affair that persists - the program y'all had yesterday is the program you have today (unless you did something!). Processes come up and go.

Threads: what actually runs in a process. Each process is fabricated up of 1 or more threads, at the decision of the developer. The threads execute in a more than-or-less contained mode. If yous had enough processors, they could all really execute at the same instant. Otherwise, they but appear to be all running at the aforementioned time.

None of these numbers have 'proper' values. Mostly, if they start increasing without limit, then it's time to doubtable that something is going incorrect. A program can cause a 'handle leak' by declining to close files, for example (though if you kill the process, all its handles volition and so exist closed past the OS; this isn't DOS).

Commit accuse: this measures the amount of 'committed virtual retentiveness' (come across the VM FAQ for background) in the system. This is all memory requested past processes that is not backed past some named file (for instance, the program instructions are stored in the program.exe file and thus are not counted in the commit charge). One way to await at this is that the system has a sure budget for virtual memory, and each program request is charged confronting that budget.

The Total commit accuse is the current in-use value; the Limit is the sum of the pagefile sizes and the physical memory that'southward bachelor in principle for programs (i.eastward., not counting all the permanently-resident parts).

The Peak is simply the highest value recorded since boot.

Concrete retention: this is easy. The full is the amount of retention that the Bone detected, and the available amount is pretty much what you'd expect. The so-called organisation cache size is actually the size of the system 'working fix' (i.e., the amount of physical retentivity used by the Organization process, pid 4, which is a process wired in to the kernel and which executes threads on behalf of the kernel and device drivers). The system file cache temporarily holds contents of files, to speed system performance, and is probably the largest consumer of memory in the Organization process, though, so it'southward a reasonable approximation.

Kernel memory: tells you how much memory is in utilise by the kernel and device drivers. I believe (but I could be wrong here) the numbers hither are virtual memory counts. For non-paged memory, in that location's no difference: the virtual memory is ever resident in physical retention. For paged memory, the size is virtual; the physical memory occupancy could be less.

Now, the graphs and meters. Despite their headings, the PF Usage and Folio File Usage History displays don't measure Page File Usage. They measure the total commit charge. The total commit count is sort of related to page file use; information technology's how much page file you'd use if everything that could possibly get written to the pages file, was in fact written to the page file. On Windows 2000, the aforementioned displays are called Mem Usage, leading people to think they measured physical retentivity utilise. That wasn't correct either.

What do y'all expect from a programme calling itself the "Task Manager" anyway? There is cypher chosen a "task" in the operating organization kernel - the OS has "processes" and "threads". DOS had "tasks". The Intel hardware has "task" structures, simply the OS doesn't use them because it'southward faster for information technology to do information technology itself. (Recently, a user mode program called the "chore scheduler" has appeared, but the kernel knows zippo of those tasks either, and besides, that'southward a completely different use of "job").

The CPU Usage and CPU Usage History displays do in fact mensurate CPU use! That is to say, they count all CPU use except that which is used in the arrangement idle loop at non-interrupt level. Information technology's thus a pretty skillful pic of how busy your system really is.

On multiprocessor systems, I think the total is given in terms of the power of 1 CPU (they're always identical CPUs). Thus a two-CPU system has "200%" bachelor to it. You tin if you lot like show one graph per CPU. If someone would care to transport me a 2-CPU system, I will verify these claims.

The usual green line gives the full CPU use. You can optionally add a blood-red line showing the time spent in kernel fashion; this is sometimes handy for trouble isolation, or perhaps it just looks nicer. Use Show Kernel Times in the View menu.

The bottom condition line repeats CPU use, commit charge, and process totals.

Feedback received on this FAQ entry:

• This is fantabulous! I've always wondered nigh what's being measured, peculiarly regarding retentivity. This is much meliorate written than the online aid for the Task Manager. Cheers very much for sharing.

  2013-11-13 16:04:59

past dave edited by MSeng
final modified: 2003-06-12 21:38:ten

How do I interpret the Processes tab in Job Manager?

The processes tab in Chore Manager has 1 row per process executing on the organization, and a number of columns showing information nearly the procedure. You can configure which columns are displayed (View->Select Columns), and rearrange their order by dragging the column headers in the usual mode. On XP, you tin decide whether to show other user's processes or just your own.

The 'image name' is the name of the executable file used when the process was created; this name is popularly referred to as the proper noun of the procedure, though information technology's non really. (Why 'image'? Because programmers used the word 'image' for 'retentivity image file' long earlier it was possible to put pictures on a calculator without a defence force-department-sized budget).

There are two exceptions to this, the Organization Idle Process (pid 0) and the System process (pid 4). These are wired into the kernel, and do not have corresponding paradigm files. They don't accept image names either, and so various tools such as Task Manager make up names, and so yous might come across different names in different tools.

The System Idle Process consumes all the CPU time that no-one else wants. If no other process is set up to run (on a particular CPU), the kernel will run the idle process.

The System procedure contains threads used by the Os kernel for 'groundwork' functions. For example, the working prepare trimmer, which may reclaim concrete memory from some processes, runs as a thread in the System process. The System procedure may as well accept threads used by some device drivers to do work outside the normal path of operation. (If the System process is using a huge amount of CPU for an extended time, information technology usually means some device commuter is to arraign).

Near of the columns of data are adequately explained by Task Manager'southward help, so I won't repeat the data here. The memory-related data, all the same, could probably use extra clarification.

The Mem Usage cavalcade shows the current working set up size for the procedure, which is to say, the corporeality of concrete retentivity the process is currently allocated. Three things demand to be said here: firstly, this is simply somewhat related to "how big the process is". The process is probably larger than that; the OS'due south job is to go along only those pages in physical memory that information technology is useful to take in physical memory. Secondly, the number can go smaller, if the Bone decides to have some physical memory away from the process ('working set trimming'), which information technology will practice if it has some other utilize for the memory. Lastly, you tin't add together upward all the numbers and become the full used by all processes; some of the physical memory is shared by more than one process.

The VM Size column shows the number of Private Bytes of virtual memory owned by the process. As always, 'virtual memory' does non necessarily mean disk or RAM; it could be either, or neither.

by dave edited by Kramer
last modified: 2003-07-23 19:36:01

Windows XP Search doesn't observe text in certain files

Brought to us by PC Magazine.

When you use the Search option on the Start carte du jour to observe files containing specific text, the results may non include files of all types. In fact, if yous haven't installed any service packs, quite a few file types will be omitted. Microsoft created this state of affairs deliberately, to avoid having y'all notice "irrelevant" files, but in the initial release of Windows XP the software visitor overdid the limitation. Updating with the latest service pack will let Windows XP to search several dozen more file types.

The Search function relies on an internal filter to find words; file types that don't have a defined filter won't be searched. If you discover that certain file types don't appear in the search results, you can try assigning the patently-text filter to those types. To do this, launch Regedit from the Start menu'south Run dialog and navigate to the key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.??? (where .??? is the extension you want searched). If you don't find a subkey named PersistentHandler, create one. Double-click on the value "(Default)" for that subkey and prepare its data to {5e941d80-bf96-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb}. Echo the procedure for any other file extensions you desire included.

Yous tin can also change a setting in the Content Indexing Service to index all files. Select Search from the Start carte du jour. Click on the Modify preferences link, then on the With Indexing Service link. Scroll downwardly to Change Indexing Service Settings (Advanced) and click on information technology (you don't have to plough on indexing).

Now select Customize from the View menu, check the Console tree box, and click on OK. Right-click on Indexing Service on Local Machine in the left-mitt pane and click on Properties. On the Generation tab, check the box Index files with unknown extensions and click on OK. Shut the Indexing Service panel.

Note that both of these techniques require that you showtime update your organization to the Windows XP Service Pack 1.

by acehyde edited by MSeng
last modified: 2004-03-13 11:48:18

How do I check if Win XP SP2 installed correctly?

You can obtain the SPCheck Tool from Microsoft.com

Description
You can utilize the SPCheck tool to determine the service pack level of installed components on computers that are running either Windows NT Server 4.0, Windows 2000 Server, WIndows XP, or Windows Server 2003. The SPCheck tool generates a report that lists the origin of each file for each installed component.

SPCheck reports on the current service pack level of the following components.

Windows NT 4.0-Based Computers
DHCP Server
DNS
Remote Access Service (RAS)
Routing and Remote Access service
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
WINS
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
NWLink (IPX/SPX)
Exchange Server five.v

Windows 2000-Based Computers
DHCP Server
DNS
Unproblematic Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
WINS
Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
NWLink (IPX/SPX)
Exchange Server 5.five
Internet Security and Dispatch (ISA) Server
SPCheck examines each component one file at a time. Because of this, SPCheck must run under a security context that is equivalent to the local ambassador business relationship. If SPCheck is non run in this security context, files may exist reported equally missing, even though they are installed on the estimator. SPCheck searches for files by using the "PATH" ecology variable. If files are reported as missing (although they can be establish on the target calculator), ensure that the binder or folders which the component is installed in are included in the PATH environmental variable.

by Greg_Z edited past MSeng
last modified: 2004-10-fifteen 09:45:56

What are 'privileges' and 'permissions' ?

Many people get dislocated between 'privileges' and 'permissions' in Windows NT/2000/XP.

In NT/2000/XP, a 'privilege' or 'right' is something you lot are allowed to practice past virtue of who you are. Privileges have names like 'Load and Unload Device Drivers'. Privileges are assigned to item user ids or to user groups. Assigning privileges to role-based groups is often more user-friendly, so (for example) the Load Drivers privilege is assigned to the Administrators grouping, which means that any fellow member of Administrators tin can load drivers.

Privileges are assigned past the User Rights Assignment thingy in the Local Security Settings panel, secpol.msc.

Privileges are independent of whatsoever particular object. Yous tin can 'Load (any) Drivers', not 'Load (specific) Driver FOO.SYS'.

In NT/2000/XP, 'permissions' are settings applied to organisation objects (such as files, directories, registry keys) that say who is immune to practice what to this object. Permissions are specified in the access control list (part of the security descriptor) for each such object.

Thus the access control listing for some file might say:

Administrators : full control
Power Users : read
Dave : read + write

The power to edit an access control list is of course a permission that is granted (or non) by that access command listing. Given that access, the list tin can be edited to add or remove access permissions.

Entries in the access control list refer to either a user id or a grouping. It is ofttimes convenient to use role-based groups such as Administrators rather than indidivual user ids; this avoids the demand to update every file in the system when (for case) yous appoint a new member of Administrators.

Note that granting some user Joe 'total control' access to a file FOO.SYS does non permit Joe to load FOO.SYS every bit a commuter. That requires 'load commuter' privilege. The thing that is beingness protected is the running operating organisation and non the file FOO.SYS (FOO.SYS is the weapon that we're protecting the OS confronting).

More information --
Rights and Permissions
Working with Access Control Lists

by dave edited past MSeng
concluding modified: 2004-12-01 21:21:51

How tin can I uninstall the Microsoft Coffee Virtual Machine (JVM) from Windows XP?

A: Y'all might want to remove the Microsoft JVM, which Microsoft no longer supports, in favor of the more contempo Sun Microsystems JVM. To remove the Microsoft JVM, perform the post-obit steps:

From the Offset menu, select Run.
Enter the control
RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection java.inf,UnInstall
to outset the uninstall process
Click Yes to the confirmation, and then select Reboot.

After the motorcar restarts, delete the following items:
the \%systemroot%\java folder
java.pnf from the \%systemroot%\inf binder
jview.exe and wjview.exe from the \%systemroot%\system32 folder
The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Java VM registry subkey
The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\AdvancedOptions\JAVA_VM registry subkey (to remove the Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) options

Microsoft Java is now removed. Y'all can download Dominicus'southward newer JVM for Windows at:
Download Java Software

Feedback received on this FAQ entry:

• Dead link http://www.dslreports.com/faq/%3C%22http://java.com/en/download/alphabetize.jsp

  2008-07-xiv sixteen:48:47 (RWOTB )

past steve1a edited past Kramer
last modified: 2008-07-14 17:24:14

Disabling ctfmon.exe when Internet Explorer vii is installed

When Internet Explorer seven is installed on Windows XP, ctfmon.exe runs in the background without purpose, and when the Run entry for ctfmon.exe is deleted it volition reappear. Ctfmon.exe activates the Alternative User Input Text Input Processor (TIP) and the Language Bar (for input of other languages such as Due east Asian).

To permanently cease ctfmon.exe from running:

1. Open up Regional and Language Options from the Control Panel.

2. In the Languages tab, click Details... for Text services and input languages.

3. In the Avant-garde tab, place a check in Plough off advanced text services, and Utilise.

by redxii edited by MSeng
last modified: 2007-x-14 17:52:47

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