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Maybe, KillerHurtz, you could clarify your question. The thread is about flash drives working through USB ports and if there are such drives that will be recognized by NT. Apparently, there are such drives. However, once the files are transferred to the flash drive and as long as that flash drive is recognized as a device, the files are readable by Windows. There are two types of files formats for windwos FAT and NTFS. Generally, windows takes care of the "translation." Are you asking if you can network NT and XP?

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Several ways to do this: A. B, or C. You will have to go into the Registry and it goes without saying you want to backup your registry before doing anything. A) 1) Right click on the desktop (assuming you are logged on!) and then select "Properties" from the Menu. 2) On the resulting window select the "Appearance" Tab then click the "Advanced" button. 3) On the next window select "Color 1" then "Other". 4) Now on the new window select a color you like and note its RGB as shown in the bottom right hand corner of the new window. For example the shade of Lime Green: R68 G240 B81 or simply 68 240 81 5) Once you have your RGB values you can close down all the open windows. 6) Now navigate to: HKEY USERS\ . DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colours. 7) The default value should be: 0 78 152 You can change this now to your chosen RGB value. The changes will not take place until you log off. Open your registry and find the key below Modify the value named 'Background' according to the color you would like in RGB (Red/Green/Blue) format. For example, "0 0 0" for black or "255 255 255" for white, and every other color in between. Restart Windows for the change to take effect. User Key: [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors] Value Name: Background Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value) Value Data: 0 0 0 - 255 255 255 C) Get the little tool that will also help you do it. http://windowsxp.mvps.org/logonbg.htm

If you remember it, maybe you could give the name of the virus you found. By the way, congratulations.

Have you tried to use Windows Explorer and find setup.exe on your CD drive, right click on the file, choose Properties, then click on the Compatibility tab, put a check mark in the box and choose Windows 95, then OK?

I really hate to hear that. But, you are a brave one for wanting to hook up a previously infected disk to one that is pristine. Apparently, once the dl.exe is downloaded onto your machine and opens its backdoor up, it attaches its own code to your executables. The creator probably didn't wasnt to trash your machine just turn it into a bot. Personally, I wouldn't trust any executables on that disk. Best thing is to fdisk it and reformat.

What operating system are you using? Just to check that IE is correctly connected, right click on the the IE icon, click on Properties, then click on the tab Connections, go down to the bottom of the box and click on the button Lan Settings and then put a check mark in the box to automatically detect settings. Click on the Ok's to get out. Then double click on IE to see if your home page comes up. If it doesn't type into the address box at the top something like www.cnn.com to see if it will come up. Don't know what kind of server you are dealing with, but if a script is needed to logon, you will need to speak to IT.

Very wise choice.

Also found this: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ%5FEMFSPLOIT%2EA&VSect=P Explorer.exe starts to implode once this trojan is installed. This is in reference to the vulnerability found in the way Windows does its graphics. Since Trend Micro found it, you can go to their Housecall and have it scan your machine online. Right now I am shooting in the dark since it seems you have some kind of software or some kind of virus/trojan that is interfering with your explorer's performance. Again, it could just be a registry entry. Will keep looking. Whenever you see something or a message write it down and report it here.

Yes, just clicking on the folders starts Windows Explorer. Anyway, the program you installed to share with your Father, was it Instant photo gallery? There is a security advisory about it in relation to idesk: http://secunia.com/advisories/17841/

It looks like I forgot to mention that you may want to scan your machine for viruses, trojans or spyware before you do anything else just in case some backdoor program has been installed on your machine.

Maybe you could explain what you did - go through the steps.

Look at this http://www.ntcompatible.com/Installing_FF7_for_Win95_on_XP_t33509.html Notice that he refers to running the setup.exe under the Win95 compatibility. Once you have it installed, know that there are a couple of patches like the chacobo patch and 1.4 that you may need to run it with added stability.

This is how I understand Reset means under Maintenance: When Outlook Express uses IMAP the mail messages and headers are stored on the mail server. However, a copy of the headers and (depending on the settings and whether you have read the message) the message is stored on your own computer - this is called the "local cached copy". This means that you can read messages you have previously read, even if your computer is no longer connected to the network. If something should go amiss with Outlook Express, for example: it loses the dates on messages, you may need to delete your local cached copies of messages and headers, and re-load them from the mail server; use the following procedure: 1. From your Outlook Express menu, select Tools and then Options.... 2. Select the Maintenance tab. 3. Click on the Clean Up Now... button. 4. In the File Information area you will see Local file(s) for: with a default of Outlook Express. If you leave this default, you will re-set all Outlook Express folders. To re-set one folder, click on the Browse... button, and select required the folder from the dialogue box, and click OK. Click the Reset button to reset the folder. [To do more than one folder, repeat this procedure.] 5. When finished, press Close and then OK. 6. Select the folder (or folders) you have Reset to see the newly refreshed message headers. But, again, it may very well reset the counter, but I don't see why.

Yours is probably a completely different problem. The message "Cannot create shell notification icon." comes up when the systray icons can't be created fast enough, or one or other of them has disappeared. or for whatever reason the timing of their creation in the system tray is off. Apparently Asus Probe 2 is infamous for doing this. The first thing you need to do is run your Anti-virus program and any spyware programs you have just to see if some trojan hasn't inserted itself in your startup or registry and it is responsible for the Asus Probe program misfiring. If you find something, quarantine or delete it. Reboot and see if it is fixed. If nothing is found, there are several workarounds that have been proposed: 1) Install a Startup Delayer: http://www.r2.com.au/software.php?show=startdelay (it's free and works for a lot of people. 2) You could remove the startup key from the registry and invoke the program from the startup folder thus delaying its running. 3) One method of last resort is to give up the user profile, create an entirely new user, and copy as much data and settings as possible from the old user to the new. None of these solutions explain why Asus Probe does this. Some blame it on plug 'n play, and some on Delphi, the program language that the software probe was written in.

You need to supply some important information. If you know the motherboard you are using and at least the kind of processor and its speed, the amount of RAM you have, the video card you are using, and the operating system 98, ME, 2K or XP.

Let's take this one thing at a time. Despite the very clear description you give, you make several jumps that muddies my following you. I am presuming that what concerns you is that when you use Windows Explorer to pull up your files, it takes too long. To close Windows Explorer you bring up the Taskmanager, click on explorer.exe and then the button End Task. If this is what you were trying to relate, then your computer is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. You see your Desktop is run by explorer.exe also and so by terminating that process, basically you are closing down the Desktop which confuses windows and so it reboots. This in turn causes Windows to create a "dump" file with information that generally is meant to be sent to Microsoft - hence the Registry entry: HKLM\..\Run: [KernelFaultCheck] %systemroot%\system32\dumprep 0 -k . This entry simply means it is used in connection with memory dumps - you can disable these by - right clicking on My Computer, selecting Properties and then the Advanced tab. Click on the Settings button in 'Startup and Recovery'. In the bottom pane - under 'Write debugging information' - click on the down arrow and then select 'None' - OK your way out if you don't want to see it again. But, the long and the short of resolving part of your problem is not to end the explorer.exe from the Task Manager. Now as to why Windows Explorer takes so long - that's the mystery. I've seen this happen on moderate sized networks whose computers are fairly distant from one another and whose hubs are either a little flakey or overtaxed. In XP Windows Explorer tries to go out and get as much info on every drive and shared folder it can. It sometimes refuses to timeout which means you wait. If your machine is on a network, consider that angle - which computer is being stubborn and dropping packets. Since you didn't mention that this machine was on a network, and I am only guessing now, given what you have written - you may have installed some software that would permit you to access let's say your office computer from your home. IDesk, which you mention, is an open source program that software like Tarantella - now owned by Sun (maker of Java)- uses so that you can communicate across operating systems on the internet. Basically, all idesk does is create the icons, coordinates them, and allows a call to be made. In other words, you would have an icon on your desktop that when you click it, it connects to a specific client pretty seamlessly - unless the client you are trying to reach is down (or off)in which case, it either times out (which may take it a while) or it asks to start another process on your machine to see if the client is responding. I hope this is a start to resolving what is happening to your computer. Come back to this forum and give us some more info about your setup. The more that is known, the better we can figure out the specifics as to what is happening.

Yes, but I am not sure that it actually resets the counter to 0. It will compact the folders which you can also accomplish with Files-Folders-Compact All Folders. Maybe you are right.

Have you tried this page to find your drivers: http://www.dmmdownload.com/WIN9XME_8_03.php If you are using XP have you checked out ATI's drivers since this card uses ATI's Radeon 9200SE. Finally, you might try here: http://www.diamondmm.com/support.php to get your driver.

Do as American Zombie says. You will have to "upgrade" to it "gradually" since you will need to download all of the security fixes off of Microsoft's site. There are slipstreaming solutions that could do it faster, but since you were having trouble installing DirectX 9, you might want to allow each suggested fix one visit at a time to Microsoft Update, because some slipstreaming solutions presume registry entries that preceded SP2.

Generally, when your computer first boots up, you will see a message that to enter the Bios you can hit the Del button or the F9 button. There is generally enough of a delay to allow you to do this. Once in the Bios you can toggle the onboard graphic off. Before you do that, you will want to go into windows first and remove the ATI drivers. Start button-Settings-Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs. After you have removed the drivers, you will usually be prompted to reboot the system. Go ahead and let it come into windows. Generally, when windows starts back up, it will choose Standard VGA either in 640x480 or 800x600. Then, close windows. Watch your screen at startup using the onboard video to determine what button to press - it can be a number of buttons but the Del button seems to have become the most popular. Once you are clear as to the button that will let you into the Bios, power down the computer completely, install your new card, but do not change the cable connecting the monitor to the new card's output yet. Just install the card, turn the machine on, hit the button to allow you into the Bios. Look for the toggle that turns off the onboard video. Hit ESC and tell it Yes or 'Y' to write this change to Bios. When it does this, it will try to reboot, but turn the machine off. Change the cable running to the monitor to the new card's VGA output. Then, turn the machine back on.

I am not clear as to the "automatic" compact process you are referring to. XP SP1 had an automatic feature where Outlook Express would compact the folders in the background whether you liked it or not. Upgrade to SP2 and this feature will be removed. On the other hand, XP SP2 will put a message on the screen and will prompt you to compact your folders and you can choose to do so or not. If this is what you mean by "automatic", sorry, there is no way to stop this. Every hundred times that you open and close Outlook Express, the message to compact will pop up. It has an unstoppable internal counter. Actually, compacting the folders in Outlook Express is pretty vital since as a fairly primitive database, Outlook Express can really mess up. That's why Microsoft puts this irritant in there. But, all is not lost. You can download this little program. It is free: http://www.oehelp.com/OETool/ One of its features is that you can manually compact your folders and it will reset the counter to 0. At least if you compact when you want regularly, you will have reset the counter, and theoretically never have to be surprised by the rude little message. By the way, never try to stop the compacting process once it has started. It can ruin your pst file.

Go here to see if this approaches what you are looking for: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dxglwrap

But, did you actually do what Relic asked? He wanted you to boot into safe mode. Then, right click on My Computer, then click on Properties from the menu, then Click on Device Manager or Hardware Manager. Go down to Keyboard anc click on the "+" sign. Then, click on the Keyboard type. Then, he wanted you to Remove this as a device. It will then either direct you to look for the proper driver or ask you to reboot. etc. Before your remove it as a device, you might want to look at its properties (click on Properties button) and see if there are any conflicts - from other drivers or the memory reserved is shared by another device.

Which operating system are using? XP? and which Service Pack 1 or 2?