Creating A Shortcut To Windows Explorer In Windows Xp Home..
Jun 24, 2005
I have a computer that is running windows xp home edition. I cannot create a
shortcut to the windows explorer application on my desktop, as the windows
explorer program does not appear in the programs window. I know that if I
click on the start menu and navagate to the programs icon, a second window
wil appear showing all of the programs that are installed on my computer.
However in the programs menu, I cannot see my explorer application anywhere.
when opening windows xp the screen gets to the windows xp with the little green light going back and forth in the rectangle box. this green light goes back and forth 3 or 4 times then freezes and you cant go further then that.
I am about to purchase a new laptop for college and work purposes and I am debating whether to go for a great deal on a laptop with Windows XP Professional already installed and full MS Office Professional, or to get a home premium version of windows 7. I need to have excel and power point and word at least, if not outlook and publisher too. I simply can't figure out which would be my best option, any suggestions?
before I got to the login screen I was redirected to a screen with options such as "Safe Mode" and "Start Windows Normally".
No matter what option I go for, the computer restarts and returns back to that screen - creating a loop. Before this screen appears I am told that my disk drivers failed or something (sorry but I don't remember the exact words) and I should put my system CD in (I assumed it meant my Windows Setup CD, which I later found out was correct).
I have a compaq presario c306 laptop. It has a sticker that says "Designed for windows xp" (it came with media center)and it is vista capable. Now, i would like to change it to an SP2 home, since i really don't use the features for media center and the computer has been messed up by malware. Now, i would like to know if it's actually possible, i have the CD and everything, keys, but i dont want to screw with my computer
what is the difference between Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional? Building a new comp and probably sticking with XP for OS but cant find anywhere that tells me how pro and home differ (XP)
I currently have windows xp home. I want to install windows xp home. how do i install it so i can keep my files from xp home. cause when i install xp pro i dont wana loose personal files or data.
Is there a shortcut for minimizing windows? I am finding it annoying to have to go to the mouse each time, and I don't like alt-tabbing with so many open windows.
I must have assigned a windows shortcut that went to "Google Advanced Search.url", for when I type CONTROL-ALT-G, it pops up a window that says, "missing shortcut windows is searching for Google Advanced Search.url. To locate the file yourself click browse."I no longer have a file by this name on the machine.
if I try to create a new shortcut, I get the message that this program does not have a program associated with it for performing this action. Create an association in the folder option control panel.Am I missing a driver? What does this mean. I can find the folder option control panel, but what do I enter in the blanks?
Another problem i am having. When i click on the "run", "search" or the "help and support" links in my windows xp start menu it tries to create a shortcut! This also happens when i click on internet explorer on my desktop. Any ideas why?!
whenever I start my laptop two windows search boxes open. This is irritating and it may be linked to the (more irritating) fact that in the right-click dropdown shortcut menu thing, the top option is 'search' instead of explore or open, so double clicking opens a search box, but I don't know. How do I change all that? I'd be really grateful for any pointers.
I recently had a problem on my computer where Internet explorer was not working and would'nt open, and no windows based functions that used the explorer interface would work... So i downloaded the IE7 install package on my other computer and burned to disk to install. everything was going along fine, and when prompted to restart to finsih the installation i did so..... that is when "it" hit the fan.
Hard drive crash, transplanted HD to new computer which now has 2 hard drives, C & D. Problem is I cannot open Windows Explorer from desktop or any other location, from either drive. I get a message that says it "generates errors." And that it is keeping a log, presumably for use on some Day of Judgment. (I get around it for now by right-clicking My Computer and picking Explore from the pop-up menu.)I have gone to the usual download sites in search of WE, no dice.
every time i try to open anything that uses these programs i get a 'windows/internet explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close' crash i think i have a virus in my processes i have 2 strange ones one is n6tgoxae.exe the other is 86851316.exe norton fixes this is for a short while but then the problem soon returns i have also tried spybot search and destroy as well as running AdAware can anyone help me on how to fix my explorer problems and gettin rid of these processes?
How do you key a "windows"-R shortcut to start a run command?On Swiss French keyboard layout, the usual key immediately on the right of the shift is missing; how do you type a backslash is this keyboard config?
internet explorer wont open and windows explorer giving problems as well done virus scan spyware nothing came back this is the error amgettingadrgipghze54 argdf has encountered a problem and needs to close and allso windows explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close error signature appname.windows .update.exe appver.1515.8784.0.81
Is this possible I was wondering, I have 2 sets windows xp pro. I use pro currently for 2 of my other systems. I want to downgrade to home edition ,cause pro uses more ram. Since my other system has only 128 sd ram, tends to be a little slow. I also have another comp bought from store that came with winxp home ed. instead its on a 2 restore cds ,using ghost. Is it possible for me to use the restore cds on other comp? or taking out xp home ed out of ghost files? or is this like a bad thing?. I also have the cdkey of xp home,cause it says on the cd jewel case.
I have a windows xp home edition pc here, and I cannot use it no more, 2 days ago it was working fine, until yesterday, i only had a blank screen, with the cursor. I can move the cursor around but he rest is black. No hard drive activity I have tried safe mode, but that doesn't work either, I have service pack 2 installed since bot up months ago. When i restart I get the LOADING WINDOWS XP LOGO which basically tells me that it is loading but instead of staying there it's usual time of about 10 to 15 seconds it can stay there 3 minutes or more (blue bar keeps moving) allot of hard drive activity, after that where the sign in screen should apprear i get the cursor and black screen with nothing and hard drive activity stops. I cna only move ht ecursor around but nothing else.
Someone gave me a laptop that didn't work. It's a HP Pavillion ze 4900.It originally had xp home on it, so I ordered a new disk to install on it. It was saying that some files were not found. It would do nothing. It also has a password on it. I did find out the password from them. I tried doing the repair installation and it didn't work, so I formatted the partition and tried to re-install to it. The problem is that when it finished formatting and then loading the windows files, when it restarts from there I have to put in the password again and it starts all over. I have done this 2x now and still it keeps doing the same thing. I just turned it off and thought
What do you do when windows xp home crashes? I can not boot up, all I get is the revolving screen of choices to either boot normal, boot in safe mode, boot in safe mode with logging etc. Any of the choices just brings me back to the same screen. If I insert my OS recovery CD, it wants to wipe the hard drive and start fresh.
I have a PC with Windows XP home. I am selling this PC without windows and want to format my C: drive. In the old days I would get Windows 98 to create a Bootable disk with a format command but Windows XP does not allow me to do this, I think. So what is the best way to format C: before selling my PC.
no matter what i tried istill get no sound.ive checked all drivers they appear to be enabled and working fine as for everything else.i go to win media player and i get this message media player cannot play file because there is a problem with your sound device there might not be a sound device installed on your comp it might be in use by another program or it might not be fuctionning properly?)iget similar message when i use real player both are current.then when i go to sound and audio properties the place for volume control is all gray?can someone pleeze help me?im ready to throw my comp off the poarch>the model is a dell dimension 2400
i'm in the process of upgrading my PC and i want to get Windows XP, now, i have two questions, i have been told that Windows XP needs 4.5GB of space to install, this seems like an insane amount, and as i seem to only have 2.0GB available, not achievable, however, if this is not true, and i can install it, is the Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade with SP2 what i need, as it says upgrade, does it mean upgrade from ME to XP? As that is what i have, or is it an upgrade from SP1 to SP2? Or do i need Windows XP Home Edition with SP2? Or should i get SP1? This is, however, if i have enough memory
I am using Windows XP Home Edition. Should I download & install the windows updates? There are so many of them, and I never know which ones I need. I never updated before because I only had a 7GB HD & it took up too much space. I now have a bigger computer & just want to know from the experts.
Recently, upon startup, i have been getting an error message that says "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." It then asks me to tell Microsoft about the problem and i have the option to either send a error report or not to send one. Either way, after choosing one windows explorer terminates and restarts itself. Then the same error message pops up. Recently, when i keep sending the error report, after about the 4th or 5th time, my desktop will just freeze up
computer came with Windows XP Home installed. I have the disk to upgrade to Professional and did so. My automatic updater downloaded SP2. When SP2 was installed; my computer reverted back to XP Home. Should I re-install XP Pro or is the same thing going to happen again
