Forgets Where To Open A Program / Where Should Be Opened?
Oct 21, 2009
Where does Windows store information about where which of my two monitors, where on the screen a program should be opened? I have a program that should remember where I want it to open but doesn't, and I'm trying to figure out how to reset Windows' memory of this so I can retrain it, as it were. I've already tried everything short of reinstalling. I'm assuming that this involves tinkering with the registry, and I'm quite comfortable with that have done it plenty before, just need a road map.
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Apr 1, 2005
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I have a 9 year old desktop computer whose motherboard was replaced about 4 years ago with an AMD NF4XK8MC or NF4K8MC motherboard. It has a 64 bit 3000 processor.It is running at 1.81GHz and has 1.25 GB of RAM.The system is running on Windows XP including service pack 2. It is fitted with a 80 GB hard drive formatted to NTFS. Everything is running OK except that every time I switch on the computer and it boots up, it seems to forget the date and time. I go onto the control panel and reset the date and time and it managers to remember the date and time until I switch off the computer and reboot it. It is only a minor problem but is annoying tthat I have to keep resetting it.
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I select "Run" from Start menu, enter "ipconfig" (or whatever) and black dialogue window flutters open, but closes immediately. Consequently, I am unable to run any commands in DOS. Oddly, when entering "Msconfig" the System Configuration Utility Box opens?
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May 1, 2006
rid of Spyware and some sort of virus. I cannot open any programs such as MWord or programs like Limewire. My printer won't even print right. I have a Windows XP. Won't let me download programs either, the window will dissapear.
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I used the windows xp home edition disk to reformat my computer. i also installed the chipsets and drivers for the motherboard (hoping its done right) and i had a couple of other cds, one being 'ATI CATALYST driver suite' which i dont really know what to do with and another for a pci modem. They came with the computer but i think you need to know about how the computer works to know what to do with them. Well anyway my programs such as windows media player, outlook express, search.... etc.
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Jan 16, 2008
I created a bit of a problem for myself. I was tryin to play Battlefield 1942 online when for some reason PkBstrB.exe wouldnt launch. So I got to playing around with it, and wound up setting it to open with wordpad so I could try and delete it. Next thing I know all my programs will only attempt to run with wordpad. not much I can do on that account now. How can I get this back to normal?
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Dec 10, 2005
Every time I boot my computer.A lot of my program window folders open up automatically.I included a screen shot of what it looks like when they open on startup. I have done the MSCONFIG thing and gone to startup.
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Jun 23, 2005
Few days ago I happened to come across a free anti-spyware program and install it. However it appear to be too intrusive and slow down my system and a few hours later I uninstall it.After that whenever I boot my system, there are numerous "Run As" dialogue box appear. The contents of the dialogue box are as follows: Which user account do you want to use to run this program? When I click "OK" the program will then proceed to run and which I have to click quite a number of "Run As" dialogue box for all the background program to run. If not it will struck there until I click "OK".Not only that whenever I run any software program the "Run As" dialogue box will appear and I have to click "OK" in order for the program to run.Some of the programs are affected as it cannot run properly.
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Feb 6, 2006
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Sep 24, 2009
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Jan 13, 2009
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Jul 10, 2008
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Sep 23, 2007
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Mar 14, 2010
I'm having a problem opening almost any program on my computer after a crash during shutdown (just after a Windows update). When I double-click the icon it looks as if it is loading and nothing ever opens. If I look in task manager ,however, firefox.exe or whatever program I tried running is running, but using 50% the CPU resources and a window never opens. Chkdsk ran after the crash and I tried sfc /scannow and it did get ie8 to open up, but it freezes with 50% of the CPU usage, according to task manager, and still does not allow browsing. Even after uninstalling and re-installing Firefox I still can't get it to open.I tried the following experiment Open Firefox, then IE8, each use 50% of CPU resources, but neither allows browsing (Firefox does not even open a window).
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Nov 15, 2007
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Sep 28, 2007
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