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Have you tried this patch: ftp://ftp.wcnews.com/files/wing4/wc4dvdwin2kfix.zip

Loading new software on a machine usually complicates the problem, but with CD's and Roxio's bugs, you might try Nero to see if it recognizes and writes to the CD. If it does, it tells you that Roxio is the culprit. If it doesn't, it may be time to call Dell.

It may be spyware or you may have been surfing and picked up a BHO (a browser helper object) that attached itself to IE and this is causing the crash. You can use BHODemon2.0 (it's free) to see what BHO's exist and you can disble them. Or, you can try one of the browsers that use portions of IE but have their own interface that ignore IE plugins. Several of them are available for free and they give pretty decent popup protection: Avant, MyIE2, Slimbrowser, Crazybrowser. If they work, and IE doesn't, you probably have some BHO messing you up.

We had a problem similar to this when we designated drive letters for different computers on the network. For whatever reason the Gigabyte computer wanted to designate the first letter after the last hardware device as to where it could be found. The CD was drive letter D:\ so the Key wanted to be E:\ but E:\ designated a computer on the network. The key would not work. To fix it, we simply pushed all of the drives up one so that the key could always use E:\ and we have had no problems since.

Unfortunately, that address disappeared some time ago. Try Spyware Blaster http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html . It specifically blocks that cookie, and it is free. Ad-aware will also find and destroy it. You might consider using another browser than IE such as an IE derivative like MyIE2 or Slimbrowser where you can designate certain ads to be blocked. There are also two shareware programs available that alert you that a cookie is being installed: Cookie Crusher and Cookie Pal.

HT does work with W2k. It does not work as elegantly as XP. The basic difference, as I understand it, is that XP can stop the processes of one thread when there is a competition for resources (especially in the internal cache) between the two threads being processed simultaneously. W2k just lets them continue to compete, which slows down both threads.

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Right click on the Magic.exe and select Properties, then deselect the 95 Compatibility mode. Then, try to run it. Some of these games use the old installer and often run under XP.

The onboard card is an S3. It is probably those drivers that are kicking in when you bring up the GeForce2. Try changing the video driver to standard Windows VGA first with the onboard video. Then, power down. Put in the GeForce card, power up, go into bios, disable the onboard card, then continue bootup. With the Standard VGA drivers, the GeForce2 should come up. Your board is rated to see 4X AGP. The MX should work with 2X. That could be a further problem. Anyway, some video cards share memory with the motherboard. You might want to turn that feature off from the Bios if it doesn't work.

AVG by Grisoft works with Windows server; its free. http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php AntiVir at this time does not work with W2K3 as far as I know, but it also is free and very good.

Install the latest Nvidia drivers. The 52.xx series has supposedly fixed the refresh rate even for OpenGL.

Depending on how you create your message, you click the button "Create Mail". When you choose the primary recipient from your address book (next to the To , it pops up the names from your address book which will allow you can send the message also to a CC: or a bcc: in the appropriate boxes under the primary recipient for your message.

Off the top of my head one of the reasons is that 2K/NT/XP are 32bit operating systems. 95 is a hybrid of 16 and 32bit.

Open a Dos window or Command prompt window. Then, manuever to the folder or file you want to delete. Then bring up your task manager (Ctrl-Shift-Esc). End the explorer.exe task. This will shut down the icons blank the desktop. When explorer is dead, it should release the file you want to delete. So in your Dos window. you can delete the file. Once it is deleted, you can exit the Dos window, bring up the task manager and reboot the computer.

Check your bios to see if you have inadvertantly set the cd rom as your boot drive.

As with the problem with avi and movie files, there seemed to be loop of some sort as explorer tried to come up with a thumbnail and failed.

It could be that you have a CD rom failing. It could also be a trojan. Check this page: http://www.cexx.org/dlder.htm There seem to be quite a few people who have experienced this problem. Since it happens on the net, you might consider emptying the temporary files, cookies, history, etc., in case one of them is corrupt. Some have run the following: regsvr32 C:\windows\system32\zipfldr.dll /u and have had some success. Some have found that with bad avi or movie files removing the following from the registry has fixed it for them: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociations.avishellexPropertyHandler Finally, some have been able to resolve the issue by logging in as a different user and renaming the desktop directory of their primary user account. Then, when they logged back in it rebuilt their directory folder. This is what Microsoft has to say: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;317751

When the system goes to shutdown, it does a lot of things. It releases drivers,.dlls, writes back settings, etc. If you have installed and uninstalled a lot of programs or hardware, there is a residue of things that are often left behind especially in the registry. There may be services that were once required by a program that you may no longer use, but the service is still called up. And then, there are all of those temp files and IE trash the hard disk has to account for. In other words, all of these things can add up to longer shut downs.

Usually drivercleaners like the one from driverheaven do a good job of taking out drivers. You can go into search and type nv*.* to see if any lurk on the hard drive. You can also go into regedit and take out the Nvidia folders. Going back to the 3.7 ATI drivers seems to make the most sense.

Some have had success with 3.8 by turning off the VPU utility.

Generally an "Out of scan range" message indicates that the resolution is set too high. Or, the refresh rate exceeds the monitors ability. This kind of message has been showing up with the Catalyst 3.8 drivers.

Remote Anything is a legitimate program. It isn't considered a virus or a trojan. Your computer, if owned by another through Remote Anything, can become a bot to be later used in a denial of service attack. Personally, I would back up my data, and reformat and reinstall XP just to be on the safe side.

The give away here is the file slave.exe. It is often used by hackers as a backdoor to remotely take over a host. This file should be found in the \Windows\System32 folder. Use regedit to see if it is being invoked from here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices] "RA Server"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Slave.exe" It is sometimes called the Remacc.RAServer since slave is a component of Remote Anything. So, inadvertantly you installed Remote Anything on your computer or someone installed to watch you on the network, or it came through a surreptious email.

After you have run Add/Remove Software, this freeware program can help remove some bits not completely cleaned out: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3214.html

I am assuming you are asking how to change the icon label fonts. If that is what you want to do then: Right-click on a blank area of your desktop. Select properties from the drop down menu Click the Appearance tab. In the Item drop-down menu list, select Icon. Choose any font and select the size you wish. Click OK.