I cannot get Balloon Tips to work. I have tried editing Registry and added "EnableBalloonTips" to registry and set value =1. I have also disabled firewall, VirusScan and as many other active icons running in System Tray. I have looked in Tweak UI as well as Control Panel/Security Center and still cannot get Balloon Tips working. What else is there to do? This is my desktop PC. My LapTop works fine and they are both using the same Win XP Pro OS. Anyone have any suggestions aside from hand grenades? I have rebooted each time following changes to be sure they took effect.
Ever been annoyed by the ballon that keeps showing when you minimize your callwave caller ID into the tray? It pestered the crap out of me! I happened to be mess'n around with the taskbar, one day and found the fix.
1. Right click an empty spot on the task bar, click properties, on taskbar index. Look in notification, see that the check is in the hide inactive icons. click the customize button.
2. From here the customization window opens. Go to your callwave service and click to "highlight", under behavior, click "scroll box" then click "always hide".While you are in there you can make other icons behaviors act the way you would like to see them displayed. I chose only a couple to view full time, for things that I wanted the fastest access to.
I have a DELL Precision 360 PC with 2 Hard Drives of 500GB, three CD/DVD Drives and 3GB of RAM. My processor is Intel(R) Pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz and four 21" Monitors. I have Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 2002, Service Pack 3. Two Graphic cards: GeForce 7300GS and GeForce 6200..My question is: which are the top tips, the best tips to speed the system up?
My computer is rather slow, and I would like to get it run faster. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatfully accepted.are disk defragmentations speeding up anything or freeing up anything? And are they safe?
My HP Pavilion 750n is running really slow online, and I have a high speed connection. It's not too bad when I'm not on the Internet, but websites open really slow, and some of them just quit before they even load. I was gonna run a registry cleaner, but then I saw on here that it isn't recommended! I was using Norton, but recently uninstalled that and installed AVG, which I ran as well as Adaware; neither found any major problems. I posted a HijackThis log a few weeks ago, but no one responded so I assume there wasn't anything there either. My used space is 19.1GB and my free space is 50.6, so I don't imagine that is the problem either. I'm running Windows XP. Any suggestions on how to speed this thing up, or is it just suffering from old age?
As I've been looking through the forum I saw somewhere a piece that said Top 10 tips for XP Windows. It mentioned things like defragmenting the hard drive and running Win Clean. Problem is I can't find it now.
Sometimes tool tips are usefull, but I hate them popping up in those 3 places I listed above because they contain no usefull information and are just plain annoying.
Windows XP, using explorer, if you look at a list of files, and hover over a filename, Eplorer will display a yellow tooltip with file type, date modified, size, etc. The information seems to be related to the file type : .EXE files show different information in the tooltip than .DLL files. How can this be configured ? How can I tell Windows which information to show for which type of file? I'm using two different PC's, and one just stopped showing the "Date modified" in the tooltip. I'm looking for a way to restore that.
my system is running SLOOOW and it's annoying me. I think it's about time that I reinstall windows and, since my HD has become quiet noisy lately, I've been thinking that maybe I should kill two birds with one stone and replace my HD at the same time. I recently purchased a big external USB HD. I have the Windows CD that came with my Dell notebook, but I've never reinstalled windows. I don't want someone to walk me through the entire process...what I would really appreciate though is some suggestions re: the best way to go about backing up/recovering my settings and etc.I don't really care about most of the programs and etc. (except my anti-virus program whihc I paid for).
About half the time I float the cursor over an icon in either the quick launch section or the system tray section of the task bar, the icon info window is buried underneath/behind the task bar.I have an NVidea card and have played with the various desktop settings through the NVidea display utility. but it changes nothing.I have experienced this on three separate machines using three separate display adapters, so I am thinking this is an OS problem.
The Windows tool tip isn't the problem. When I connect to the internet the tool tip says 'Connected at 2.2mbps. However when you close the tool tip it's hidden, not actually terminated. Are tool tips part of shell32.dll or explorer.exe?Is it possible to terminate it? I don't mind RCE either of the files.
Hold CTRL and use the scroll wheel on the mouse to increase or decrease the font size.Hold Shift and use the scroll wheel to go back or forward between webpages.
All my desktop icons are missing ,start menu missing, only thing i could see is wallpaper on desktop right click is laso not working,i could only use ctrl+ alt+del to open task mgr and run a program what should i do to take them back.
i turned on my pc i got the error XP Could not start, the following file is missing or corrupt: I run Microsoft Windows home service pack 2Also, to complicate things, My computer is lacking a disk drive, so i only have access to USB ports.
I have fixed this problem in the past in repair mode and i want to do the same with this, but, there is no filename at the end of the statement see below Windows could not start because the following file is corrupt or missing windowssystem32configsystem Can this be fixed in repair mode without having to be reformated or reimaged.
When I turn on comp. get the mssg: Windows couldn't start following file missing <Windows root>/system32/hal.dll Reinstall copy of file Recovery does not work. Tried to boot from a cd (changed BIOS to cd as 1st boot device) with win xp setup boot disk downloaded from MS site. Get same error mssg.
I have noticed that when I run "msconfig" that my Boot.InI tab is missing. This is how I used to put my computer in Safe Mode (now I have to use F8 method) I was wondering was there anyway to get this tab back and what possibly could I have done to delete it?
I had a search on this problem and realise it's prevalent but I haven't found anything that solves the problem yet.A few days ago I had the missing hal.dll problem come up. I went through various 'fixes' without any luck. However in the end I was able to reinstall XP Pro and keep the files from the previous install.Today, however, I'd left my PC for a bit and when I came back I put in a CD I wanted to look at but when I used explorer to look at the CD drive it only showed files from the previous CD i had in. Then suddenly I got a message saying something about input/output. The PC froze and I had to reset. I got an error message along the lines of missing NTLDR file.
So my sister gets hold of a computer in the house and ruins it, and here is the dilemma I am facing: I turn on the computer and right away i come to this message.... Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windowssystem32configSYSTEM Attempt to repair this file by starting Windows Setup using the Original CD-ROM. Select 'r' at the first screen to start repair. So I enter the cd rom and press 'r' for repair, I choose C:windows, however before it can begin to repair it asks me for an 'Administration Password' which I have no idea of after many attempts. I do not want to have to format the pc since I have some very important files on it. Any help is appreciated.
My printer which I needed to run cleanspl.exe on my system, the tcpmon.ini file in my system32 dir is missing, is there anywhere I can dl this file from as I need my printer back on-line.
Each time I log in to IE 7, (version 7.0.5730.11) I get the following message:"Internet Explorer is currently running without add-ons". All Internet Explorer add-ons, such as ActiveX controls or toolbars, are turned off. Some webpages might not display correctly.To continue to your home page, click the Home button.To browse using add-ons, close Internet Explorer and then start it again." (does nothing)When I check under "Tools" and see "Manage Add Ons", it is gray and cannot be opened. I suspect I may have inadvertently removed a file when I last ran RegScrub XP, but I can find no way to fix this situation, so that I again go directly to my home page when starting IE. This all started after I downloaded the Dogpile toolbar, which I've since uninstalled.
I was trying to solve a problem I was having with startup today..and I opened my computer (Windows 200 Pro. HP computer) and lo and behold. I found my 2 auxilary and backup drives...no problem..not quite what I needed..but then I go looking for my Main C: drive....and it's gone? I checked the whole thing, found the CD-RW drive, CD-r drive, extra device storage and floppy devices....and both of those extra dives..mother board, power supply, and the fans...but that main drive still eludes me.
helped a friend reinstall windows xp using the symantec restore option in her dell dimension 2400, F11 + ctrl keys, alls well but the dvd rom isn't showing in hardware manager or my computer. not sure where 2 go from there. have googled but other than tons of threads, haven't found a real solution yet. she's technically challenged, so doubt she will take the cover off 2 see if any cables have come loose
