riz

Hey all, I know this must have been answered before, but I can't seem to find it, so sorry! I am trying to set different desktop resolutions for different users on Win XP Home. Is there any way to do it? The video card is an ATI Radeon 8500. Win XP doesn't seem to want to store video settings for individual users. Is there a program out there for this? Does quickres work? regards, riz

Hello all, I have a friend whose outlook xp will crash when trying to open an e-mail message from the inbox. I have the sp1 update installed, but it still doesn't work. I think it has something to do with Mcafee Antivirus version 6.01.1008 AND/OR the winfax pro receiver running in the background. I have tried disabling them, but I still get the crash... however, that doesn't mean that they aren't causing problems. Windows XP Pro just hourglasses when trying to open the message and only after CTRL-ALT-DELeting and going to task manager can I close the program - and then winword.exe is left running. Sometimes however, the program runs fine, but never on the first time after booting up, although I haven't changed any settings. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I will try and post the error report and other symptoms when I can reproduce it (usually after a restart) thanks, riz

Hey guys, After two days I realized what the problem was: the version of WinFax (10.01) is incompatiblewith Windows XP, so I had to pay to get the upgrade to version 10.02. Now everything is running fine. Thanks anyway for your help. regards, Rizwan

ok, here's the error report szAppName : OUTLOOK.EXE szAppVer : 10.0.3416.0 szModName : hungapp szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000 I went in and re-enabled HAWK for Outlook from mcafee from tools/options/other tab/advanced/add-in manager. And it crashed. However, i've re-enabled that before too without a crash. It does't seem to be only related to mcafee. thanks, riz

Hey all, I've got a strange problem with my SB Live 5.1 sound card. I just bought a ATI TV Wonder VE TV Tuner card and put in my computer. The first PCI slot I put it in didn't let it work (resource conflict) but then second slot i tried worked fine. The audio out of the tv-tuner card goes to the line-in of the sound blaster live. Now, when I use ATI's program to play the movies, i get all kinds of video problems (scambled video, etc.). The second program i tried (shareware WinDVR) works amazingly and the sound is great. But if I quit the program and restart it, I get no sound from Line-in. I've gone into the mixer and muted/unmuted everything, and I've tried setting the recording devices to all possible : I JUST WON'T GET ANYTHING FROM LINE-IN! If I restart the computer, then the audio works fine. That is, unless I close the program and restart it. I thought it was problem with the software until i realized that another program, VirtualDub v1.4, does the same thing. if i turn on video capture preview, turn it off and on again, then i get no audio. Is this a problem with the sound card? and if so, is there a workaround for it? Thanks a million, Riz My specs: WinXP Pro running on P3-700 w/512Mb SDRAM SBLive! Value 5.1 Linksys NIC ATI TV Wonder VE TV Tuner GeForce 256 w/32Mb SDRAM 40GB & 30GB WD UDMA66 HD

hey, as for the sound but no video problem, i fixed that by moving the ATI card to a different slot. Before it was sharing IRQs with another device, adn that is why the video was not coming up. I moved it to a slot where now it is sharing with the UDMA hard drive controller, and now i get video and sound. However, as to the card's compatibility with XP, this card sucks, which brings me to the next question: Is the Creative Video Blaster Digital VCR any good? I found it for $85 online, and I'm thinking I should send the ATI card packin' and go and buy that. regards, riz PS: I should've known better about buying something from ATI, hehe

no, the only bridge between the card is to the sound card, which is regular headphone jack (audio-out) to the creative sb live (line-in). Other than that, there are no resource conflicts in the program, but i noticed that the tv wonder uses the same irq as my hard drive controller. thanks for your help though! rizwan

No, the ATI TV Wonder is not a video card, it's a standalone TV Tuner Card. It sounds the same as the ATI All-in-Wonder, which is there combo video/tv tuner card, but its actually the ATI TV Wonder VE which is the "Value Edition" of their standalone TV Tuner card. riz

hey all, I have a p3 700 with 512Mb of ram, a GeForce vid card and ACDSee 4.0.1 installed on WinXP. I have 2 hard drives, a 40Gb WD 7200RPM UDMA 66 drive and a 30Gb WD 5400RPM UDMA 66 drive. My pictures, regardless of what size they are, always load VERY slow. when I press PGDN or PGUP to go through them, they also load VERY damn slow. For a while after it loads the picture, i can't move up or down and then when it does it's very sluggish. I have ACDSee on my 600Mhz laptop with a slow *** harddrive, and the pictures load very fast. I can even move betweeen pictures while the picture is loading, which i can't do on my main PC. Any idea as to why the pictures load slow? It's really been killing me. I think i've tried all the settings (and they are the same) between my two computers. I've noticed that even in details mode in window explorer, all icons for my pictures take a very long time to load (into the photoshop icons) agh. i'm lost. help.

see, the problem with the acdsee isn't the thumbnails - they load up very fast. The problem is when you double-click one to view the image; that takes forever, heh. I even tried viewing pictures from both drives (C: and D with no luck. My harddrives are both very fast otherwise - dont' know why it takes so long to process a (*&)(*& picture!

hey guys, I tried disabling the caching of thumbnails, but it seems that the slow sluggishness is when you are going from picture to picture (whether or not it is full screen). It's like this: When you double click on a thumbnail, sometimes it doesn't open the picture. You have to double click again and usually then it opens. The acdsee window goes invisible, and then the picture is slowly drawn onto the screen (in fullscreen). When I want to go the next picture I press PGDN, and it usually doesn't respond. I press 2-3 seconds later, and it switches. Unlike my laptop, I can't cycle quickly through pictures - I have to wait for the whole picture to load (which shouldn't take long in the first place) and then I have to wait 2-3 seconds before acdsee responds to my wanting to progress to the next picture. Man, this sucks. Oh I tried, the windows picture and fax viewer, and that seems to run faster than acdsee, but still not as fast (it says generating preview... and then loads) riz

tried acdsee 3.1 but i get the same problems, even after i removed all registry settings, etc. to ensure a clean install any more ideas? I'm thinking it's a hardware thing - like because my HDs are using my abit MB's UDMA 66 channels instead of regular EIDE primary/secondary riz

hey, not that this helps, but Here is what I've found out. I have a home network with 3 computers, 2 running XP and the last with winME. One of the XP computers is a laptop, so I often am taking it out of the network to carry it around. When the windows XP laptop is plugged in (and logged on), My XP box can open my network places in no time. But if that laptop is not on there (so that the only other computer on the network besides my XP box is the ME box), then opening my network places takes forever. so: 2 (or maybe more) XP computers on network (among others): FAST network places Only one XP box: SLOOOW network places heh Don't know if you can infer something from that,but that's my 2 cents rizwan

athlonfan, dont' go back just yet... i have the same problem. however, it only came about a couple of days ago. I didn't change the registry setting to get it work either. All i can think of is, do you have any viruses on your computer? Check for the nimda virus. Hmmm... I also recently installed the directX 8 SDK. I also recently UNINSTALLED Tweak-XP and I think that has something to do with it. Do you have any of these things running? riz

yo guys, I have a LiteOn 16101b 16/10/40 CDRW drive on my WinXP Pro box. Whenever I burn something, the disc isn't recognized on any of my drives (I have another DVD Drive). however, it works on any other computer. and when I bring it back to my PC it works!! Seems like it won't read it for a while - on the DVD drive it just says "Please insert a disc into drive E:" and on the CDRW drive it just shows noting on the cd. but then it starts working later... any ideas? I've (of course) tried refreshing the view, ejecting/inserting the disc, but it just takes a while and then it reads fine. riz

using any software - ezcd 5 platinum, cdrwin 3.8e, nero 5.0.4.6 (bundled) it's a CDRW drive. riz

try turning *OFF* the cd-r DMA access mode - switch it back to PIO Mode in the Device Manager that solved my problem. When you have a CDRW drive that's really fast (8X +) and it has Burn proof or something similar, it doesn't needs the DMA access, and that will often cause your system to crash. riz

Hey all, I was having the same problems installing norton, and I think I know what the problem is. My disc, although it showed no signs of any scratches or anything, was bad. Luckily I had an image of the disc. This time I extracted the image and installed it from the hard drive and everything was fine. I don't know if this is a special case, but I would look into trying that. If you have the norton antivirus 2002, make an image of it using CDRWIN or something (using your CDR drive as your reader - they are better at reading discs), extract the image to a local folder, and then install. I tried just copying files over to the HD from the disc and installing but that didn't work. hope it helps, riz P3 700 Abit BE6-II motherboard 512Mb RAM Windows XP Professional

Hey, just going thru my processes, and noticed a service called RTMSERVICE.. what is that? (rtmservice.exe), anyone know what it does? riz

hey guys, is there a way to get the thumbnails in windows to show up faster? i usually use ACDSee for looking at pictures, which loads them really fast, but suppose that I'm just opening the folder to get a file or something like that, as soon as I open the folder with the pictures (in thumbnail view), it takes FOREVER to load the thumbnails, so i can't even scroll down. Other than that XP has blessed my computer with refreshing performance, heh. any ideas on how to make it faster? i thought it used the thumbs.db file to make it so that thumbnails wouldn't be loaded everytime... regards, riz

anyone got aoe2 (age of empires II) to run under XP, it says some **** bout not being able to run the program. riz

Hey guys, just wondering, but does JUST the cdkey determine what version of windows XP pro/homeyou have? for example, if you type in another cdkey for the installation does it make it a corporated edition? I know that pro and home versions are different - i'm just wondering about regular/corporate. riz

hey, I wouldn't use Visual J++ even though it's cool. The reason is that compatibility is not ensured using Microsoft's Java compiler because they put in a lot of proprietary stuff in there. My suggestion is to get a hold of VisualCafe from WebGain. I used to use J++, but i don't use it anymore since MS lost the case that SUN made against them (which is why they dont' make J++ anymore). MS's answer to not being able to make Java compilers is C#, which is sort of like Java, but NOT. heh regards, riz

So I heard that MS put a unique ID in the final RTM build of Windows XP. Now my question is: Why would you put a unique id in a CD that is mass-copied? isn't that what the RTM copy is? I'm quite confused. regards, riz

so they didn't put it in the final retail version then right? Like the final build 2600? -riz