Multiple Windows On System
Oct 30, 2008
I originally had Windows xp media center 2004 installed on my computer. When I tried to download the SP3 update, my computer froze. I then tried a repair using my original discs but Windows loaded and new windows2 system on my computer and my original windows no longer works ( I get an error message that Windows/system32/system files are corrupt or missing. I have reinstalled most of my applications on the windows2 system but everytime I reboot, I am asked whether I want to boot from windows media center or windows xp professional (which gives me an error message and does not boot). How can I get rid of the older windows version without compromising my new windows 2 operating system.
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May 28, 2009
Currently whenever I am surfing and I open a new window, instead of the windows that are open appearing down in the task bar, they are appearing as tabs near the top of the screen. I am unable to view more than one window at a time. Or resize them so that I could put more than one at a time on the screen.Im running XP home SP3 IE 7
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Dec 1, 2008
my laptop is showing 4 windows at the start up when is start my computer, i format my computer it has 4 partitions, i format all partitions, but i did a mistake i formate all partions with my bootable windows xp cd. there is only one windows in C drive, other partitions are empty, but at start up it is showing 4 windows to choose which one to start, i select the first one and computer works normally. i installed XP SP3 on my computer. Please help me to remove three windows at start up.
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Apr 5, 2006
I have reinstalled windows for the 3th or 4th time and I am in the process of reinstalling all my programs, I have a few questions:
1) can I erase the directories the programs previously installed in the old version of windows?
As you can see in the attachments, I have installed my windows under the partition D: , so can I just go and erase all the folders of the utilities of my previously installed windows in C: ?
2) just out of curiosity, I tried to run some utilities previously installed and some of them work, other dont work. what does this mean?
3) at the system startup, how can I erase the choice between the 4 windows? I just want to leave this present working version.
4) I noticed a general slowing down of the memory when I run an application, can it be because of this new installation? how can I improve this problem?
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Jul 23, 2005
My first question is how do you tell how many installs you have of windows xp and second how do you delete the one you are not using?
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May 5, 2007
I've installed the same version of windows on both HD drives. Then I did format for one of the drives since there was a problem, but when I start my computer he asks me to choose which windows I wish to enter while one doesn't even exist, so any idea how I disable it?
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Mar 24, 2005
I have to use XP only occasionally when housesitting for a relative. This version of windows has what is to me a major annoyance...whenever I open up more than 6 or 7 windows (multiple IEs to cruise web, messenger, folders, etc), it suddenly collapses them into one button on the toolbar.Then you can't quickly switch between windows...you have to go to the one button then a select from a menu which window you want to go back to.Hopefully this is simple setting fix, but I was not able to find it in toolbar options or in the "help" file.I'm just used to windows 98, and a lot of the "features" of XP really frustrate me.
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Feb 15, 2009
I am having a system with XP Pro x64 with multiple shared folders. Here is the setup. I have about 10 users (1 Admin account, 9 Limited accounts). I have created 10 folders for each User and modified them as shared folders with each user having access to their respective folders ONLY while the Admin account will have access to all folders. I have disabled 'Simple File Sharing', switched off Guest Account. Now I can view this system on other systems on the n/w. But the problem is, if I map a shared folder on one system, I was not able to map anymore on other systems and it gives error, 'the system can not accept multiple connections' in those lines.
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Dec 26, 2004
Trying to figure out how to downsize internet pages so that i can view multiple windows at the same time.
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Oct 4, 2007
when I startup my computer it goes through the BIOS screen, then before the Splash screen I get left with three options. "Which windows would you like to boot" (something of that nature)Windows XP Professional 1.Windows XP Professional.The first one is the right one. How do I remove the other two? It also says "Press F8 for advanced options"
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Apr 16, 2005
As I said, I'm new to XP, so I'm new to having an OS with multiple logins (I never set up user accounts with Win98). I set my new Dell up with two user accounts (mine and my wife's), and for some strange reason, I cannot get any sounds to play with windows "system events", such as signing on, signing off, error messages, minimizing/maximizing windows, etc. I have always assigned specific .wav files to specific system events without any problem on my Win98 PC, so I did the same thing with this one. I can assign sounds to event without any problem, and when I click the "play" button in the dialog box when setting up these sounds, everything sounds great. I've saved the scheme under my name, and told the system to apply it, but I get nothing (by the way, I think these worked the first time I turned on the PC out of the box, but they soon quit - long before I tried assigning specific .wav files to them). But when I change users to my wife's account, al! l the default settings work just fine (I have not attempted to change her sounds).
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Feb 16, 2009
i am reinstalling windows on a new partition of a new drive and I have several harddrives. when I boot from the windows xp setup cd and it lists all the drives, the one i want to install windows on is currently listed as drive G, but I want it to become drive C. If I just select to install on drive G will it change it to drive C? or do i have to do the thing where I unplug all the drives except the one I want and do the install and then plug the other ones back in afterwards? (i'm reinstalling bc i tried it before and windows ended up on the current drive G, which used to be drive J bc I forgot to unplug some usb devices..)
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Sep 6, 2010
I need helps.How to create a multiple-boot system in Windows XP?
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Oct 6, 2005
I've been looking at some of the different processes currently running on my computer, and I recognize most of them. For those that I don't recognize, I usually Google them. Everything is fine, but I was just wondering if its normal to have multiple of the same process? For example, there are currently 5 SVCHOST.EXE's running, two in SYSTEM, two in NETWORK SERVICE, and one in LOCAL SERVICE.
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Apr 19, 2007
We are running windows XP SP2 on a large domain. We have recently had several users login in that are somehow getting new profiles. This seems to be affecting only the XP machines. Roaming profiles are not being used. We have been editing the registry and repointing to their original profiles, deleting the newly created profiles and this returns their original desktop and solves the problem temporarily, but it continues to happen.
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May 31, 2007
We are running into a problem where multiple services on a Windows XP SP2 system fail to run. This is happening on different brands of systems at different customer locations, and so far has eluded our ability to detect a pattern.The symptom is a user complaining that an application fails to start or to work correctly. When we examine the system, a number of services have stopped or failed to start, with no reason given. We haven't systematically documented what services failed to start (the list changes when the screen is refreshed), but the list published at seems to be typical. The workaround I have used is to go through the services that are not running, set each of them to automatically restart on first and second failure (a tedious task), then restart the system. This has usually fixed the problem for that user, but doesn't explain what is causing the failure to begin with.
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Feb 13, 2006
I did more than one system restore and each time the process created a new user folder. I first thought all my settings were lost but since discovered I had several new user folders and the computer was no longer using my original folder when I logged in.
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Oct 11, 2004
I changed language settings on my pc to korean and then back to english, now i have 2 icons for every program i open on my taskbar, that is there seems to be 2 toolbars both containing every program i open. Anyone know a way to remove one of these toolbars?
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Aug 12, 2002
I ran into this problem in both WindowsME and XP. While in multiplayer mode in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, I would get excessive page file activity which would get progressively worse. Map load times would constantly increase as each new map was loaded until the system reported WOLF.exe had caused and error and would shutdown the game. The solution for my system is to set both the Desktop AND game color to 16-bit. Also, set both to the same resolution. I like 1280 x 1024, but that may be too high for some systems.After this tweak, my map load times went from >1 min to between 10 and 20 seconds. Right where a P4 1.5 with 256 megs should be.
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Apr 22, 2005
I was cleaning up a friend's PC that had become infected with a variety of trojans, malware and viruses. After cleaning all the pests, the OS (WIN XP Home SP1) remained corrupted. He was able to use the PC but there was no windows update functionality, no firewall, inability to execute certain setup files, no antivirus program and other little funny things going on. We could not execute any firewall or antivirus setup program. User accounts said that he had one user (user1) and a guest account that was
turned off. User1 was the administrator. There was no password protection.
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Aug 2, 2007
1---I have just WAYYYYY to many pop-ups about 6-8 an hour, even on idle computer.
2---It is so slow. When minimizing a page, I watch it close from the top of the screen to the bottom and that takes 15 seconds, and sometimes my icons are missing when it finally fully minimizes.
3---After booting up it takes me a good 5 minutes before the mouse's "time-sand" icon to dissappear, therefore not letting me do anything with the computer right away.
4--Sometimes when using websites like "google" or "yahoo" from internet explorer, there is a big delay from when I type in the words, and those words to appear on the screen.
5---Streaming movies from websites are rarely synchronized with the sound and the picture on the screen, something that none of my friends have.
6--I revently purchased an external hard drive, and ever since doing that a message comes up within seconds of turning on my computer that reads something along the lines of "Unkown Devise, hit any key" then it boots up normally (note: The slowness of the computer has happened way before the external harddrive, and purchased it with hopes that would cure some of the problems)
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Jul 9, 2005
on my home pc I have 3 profiles for each user under documents and settings. the first is user name the second is username.compter name and the third is user name.computer name.000 I was told by someone this could be a virus. I ran macafee and no virus found also use spybot ad-aware and reg mech.
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Jul 25, 2005
Does having multiple partitions on a hard drive speed up performance?
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Jun 1, 2005
I bought a new dell dimension 4700 for my sister and two months later it crashed. Well she spent 6 hours on the phone with dell and all they did was a half assed restore which allowed her to keep her files but everything else barely worked. She brought it to me and I formatted the drive in xp setup and reinstalled xp pro. The computer runs great but when it boots up it asks me which operating sytem I want to run; the old xp home or the new xp pro. Then when you select the xp pro it boots up but that white line goes by real slow and it takes a minute or so to boot. Once it is booted it runs like a champ but how do I get rid of the old xp pro. I don't get it since I formatted the drive and removed the old partitions.
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Jan 11, 2007
I was working on a computer that was extremely slow. It's an older Dell, Win XP SP2, Celeron, only 128 MB RAM. When I opened task manager there were several net.exe and net1.exe processes running. I would end a process and a new one would take its place. I scanned for spyware and viruses. The spyware that was found was cleaned. There were no viruses. When I ran in Safe Mode there were no problems.
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Aug 24, 2005
Just had a new PC at work, gone from 2000 to XP. In 2000 when I had multiple workbooks open and used ALT + TAB there would just be one icon for Excel, now there's one for each workbook I have open. Just had 8 open at once so finding my way around is a pain, know there will probably be just a box to tick somewhere, but damned if I can find it! Anyone else know where to change this setting?
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Apr 18, 2007
I have a second hard drive and recently my system began to assign it an extra drive letter. That is, when I go to My Computer I see it twice with different letters. This began after I installed a DVD burner and had not happened before that time. The burner and hard drive share the Secondary IDE Channel, with the burner as master. I tried CS, with the same results. Due to the configuration inside I cannot put the hard drive on the Primary IDE Channel with the main hard drive. I can still access the drive and use it normally, but I would like to get rid of the second occurrence. I even tried reformatting it, giving it a different volume name, unplugging it and booting the system, then plugging it back up and booting again. Now I have 2 drives with the new volume name. Can anyone tell me why this happened and what I can do about it?
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Jun 5, 2006
Is it possible to have more than one MSN Messenger session open at the same time? I have two MSN ID's and would like to have conversations on both at the same time.
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Aug 23, 2005
Recently, have been getting upwrsd of 10+ sessions of msmsgs.exe running in the background. So many that i get a message saying my virtual memory is running low. I can can them through task manager but all that happens is that they re start, one at a time and gradually build up again. I've run ad-aware,spybot & Norton antivirus but continues to happen. NAV states no viruses. adaware & spybot result in the usual but say that they've deleted
them.
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Oct 7, 2004
Can anyone tell me how to scan multiple pages before actually sending a fax when using the Micrsoft supplied Fax Console that comes with Windows. I'm using a Canon scanner and the manual says to consult the documentation for the fax program.
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Apr 24, 2005
I have 3 hard disks with multiple boot The C drive died on the first disk which uses 98 - I don't use it as an os Disk 2 holds a couple of XP's in different partitions - I use the D drive XP all the time Disk 3 has one os and partitions By installing these os, I was confident that in case of failure I could reboot to another - Huh ! Of course it always looks for boot.ini on the c drive ......I have replaced the C drive and am trying to install XP pro from a cd. It gets so far then when it restarts/reboots the whole damn installation starts from scratch again
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