Since I can "eject" the cd through right-clicking on the drive in my computer, i was wondering if there is an "open" feature, since my new case has drive cover, like the example below:[img]http://images1.chiefvalue.com/productimage/11-212-031-04.jpgp/img]since i have an old DVD drive the button is place differently from the button placed on the case, so i'm thinking of alternatives ways in opening the drive or if there's an easier way to approach this.what do all the function keys mean anyway? (F1-F12)
Whenever double click a disk drive or even right click and, click open or ,explore. A dialogue box appears saying open with choose program this happened after i deleted the fppg1.exe which was reported a virus by avast i followed the instructions on http://forums.techguy.org/windows-nt.local-disk.html above website but of no use.
I have a mapped drive on the network and when I access if from the My Computer window I get the Open With window asking me what program to use. But if I right click it and choose explorer then it opens.
When I'm in "my computer", then select a hard disk (C: or D: ), it comes up with "open with", every time.At first I thought i might have changed some thing with the folder setting, so reset that but still it asks open with.
I use Windows XP SP2. Recently noticed that when I left-click on any of the icons of the Hard-disk drives and/or Devices with Removable Storage within 'My Computer', the 'Search' Option opens up by default instead of the 'Open' option, like in other folders. Likewise, when I right-click on the said icons, the 'Search' option is topmost & the 'Open' option has been relegated to second position. I would like the Search option to come first. Can't remember whether this was so from before or changed recently. I have used Norton Partition Magic 8 recently to resize my partitions.
I have a problem with one of the XP Versions on a hard drive. The problem started when my C: drive crashed. I replaced the drive and restored from the back-up I have. Since the new drive is larger than I care to use as a boot drive, the drive is partitioned.The restored back-up has is in the primary partition of the master drive. During the restore the OS stopped recognizing the optical drives(to complete the restore I used the second OS created in the second partition to copy the XP CD onto a partition of the hard drive I use for back-up. This drive is in a drive cradle). I have a CD reader/burner; a DVD reader in the tower; and a DVD burner in a USB2 drive cradle, none of these are recognized in the restored OS. In the process of trying to resolve this problem I installed a second version of XP in the second partition, this version recognizes all of the drives.
A week or so ago I preformed a repair installation of Windows XP Professional SP2 (retail) after basic Windows features (such as WMP10 and Search) became corrupted. The repair worked without a hitch, except for the fact that I've been denied access to my optical drives. All administrative accounts can access the drives without a problem, but limited and guest accounts can not. It doesn't matter if it's a music CD, data DVD burned on the limited user's account, or no disk is even inserted...each time I receive the ''Access denied'' error. All other removable storage (flash drives, card reader, etc) are accessable on all accounts. I've tried restarting my computer, booting in Safe Mode, checking permissions (found nothing relevant), scanning for malware (sparkling clean), and even performing another repair installation. The drives are new (about 6 months old), fully functional, cables are firmly connected, all of the latest drivers are installed, and nothing (to my knowledge) has changed prior to or since the repair installation. I checked the Microsoft database, but only found registry edits for NT 4.0...Windows XP wasn't mentioned as having this issue.Is there a permission I have missed, registry edit, etc that might give my limited user accounts access to the LiteOn DL DVD+/-RW and Sony DVD-ROM drives again? Suggestions are appreciated, but solutions are preferable.
When I boot my pc it freezes on the boot unless i press F10 and select my primary drive. If I press F2 to get into my bios it also freezes. Once I get into windows (booting slower then normal) I can not see my optical drives. The optical drives are showing in the device manager however.
when i double click on "My Computer" in the desktop it opens with the "folders" part open on the standard buttons i.e its just like right clicking and exploring. plus i also realised that right clicking on my computer has the explore option first, and then comes open. And also, when i double click on any of my drives in the "my computer" it pops up an error, and the right click option is again wierd, but different this time, the 1st option is autoplay, then comes open, then search then explore. The drive doesnt open with "open" and "autoplay" but only opens with exploring and not only , but the drive opens in a new window.
i am using windows xp home edition, and for the past last 1 week, whenever i try to open any folder by double clicking a search page opens same as search in start menu, n when i right click the folder i found dat d first option dat should have been 'open' was now changed to search, n dis is d case with all d folders n my drive too.
I am having a problem starting my windows xp. Each time I try I get a screen with blk print and white writing that tells me windows was unable to open normally and gives me options to open windows in safe mode, etc. I scanned with hijackthis and it seems I have a lot of questionable files
I was having this problem on my old install of XP, which desperately needed a new install. In any case, I'm now using a freshly installed version of XP, and everything has been running perfectly for about 2 weeks. Suddenly, this one problem reappears: The File Open / Save As dialog box (aka Windows Common Control / comctl32.dll) takes forever to open (20 seconds to 60 seconds). I just did a chkdsk and defrag, and that did not solve the problem. Also, there are no network drives connected which could be slowing things down. This happens in both MS programs (such as Notepad) and 3rd party programs (such as Firefox).
i am having a couple of problems my help and support will not work say system service not running , i have some copy disks that you have to go to my computer and open the cd drive but all i get when i try to open it there is a key next to it saying safe mode and it will not open.
When I open my documents, it assigns all my text files to open in Word Pad. I would like it to open assinging all my files as Microsoft Word files. How can I change this?
when ever i start any video application it shows that something has gone wrong and prog is to be closed,and pror closes everything on desktop closes and disappear only to reappear again after some time.
When I attempt to play or stream music from a web site, I no longer have the options of "open, save, cancel", I only have the options of "save" or "cancel." The dialog box indicates that "m3u" or m3ulist" files are an unknown type.. This wasn't always the case, at one point things worked just fine. How do I get my computer to recognize and "open" these files without having to "save" them and play them from the saved file? Once saved, they will play in Windows Media Player.
My browsers, particularly IE (6) dont always respond when I try to open them. With IE about half the time when I click the icon nothing happens. If a then check task manager IE is indeed running and taking up about 14K of memory, but it never opens. If I try opening it again another instance will just open under task manager and nothing will show up. Now if I end all the IE processes in there and then start IE again it'll be fine. But I need to get this fixed.
i can't open my desktop folders including shortcuts..when I go to start, i can only open recenlty used programs but not my documents, my computer, control panel & all the tabs on the right field...also when I close a program, the window display still remains on the desktop.by left clicking the current program window i'm using and dragging it around, i can sort of erase the previously used windows.i can only correct this by restarting xp.do i have a virus? pls give me step by step guide to fix this.
I was able to open the windows it self but the problem is i can't open any program most of the time. i did virus scan system mechanic thingy but still it wont let me open a program. but 1 suspicious thing ive noticed is that is happening when im turing the internet on. Inspiron 530 with 4 gb mem quadcore processor, belkin n adapter wondows xp.
Why can't I get XP to open every folder using the "Details" option? I do have it set so that it remembers (most of the time) to re-open that folder with the file view it was in when it was closed, but I want XP to open every new and old folder with the "file details" view. Seems like a simple thing, but I can't get XP to understand that's what I want.
Hi, I am having a weird problem. I cannot change what programs I use by defualt to open windows files. It does not matter whether I right click on a certain file and choose open with or if I use the tools option in the folder menu. This is what happens. I want to open a .jpg file with picassa photo viewer. I right click the .jpg file and choose open with. I then click browse to locate the .exe file that will open it. Well once I click it I get sent back to the open with window and nothing has changed. The .jpg file will not open with any program that can open it and it will not add the .exe file into the window. This is a bit frustrating as I cannot change what opens certain windows files by default. This goes for any type of file I try to open with any program.
Tonight I tried opening a chm file and it failed, with that error message. This happens for any chm file I have tried. I don't know when this broke, I know I used to be able to open chm files with no trouble but I can't pinpoint the last time it worked.I've searched around and found some references to this, but no solution -the only relevant MSKB is for Win98. I tried regsvr32 hhctrl.ocx, deleting the hh.dat files, clearing IE's file cache; nothing has helped. I haven't made any significant recent changed to the system that I can think of.
Every file I try to go to, for instance I tried to go to system restore and it pulls up the open with screen. Everything I try to click on it will ask me which program to use. I can't even get on the internet accurately.
For some reason-probably something I did-I lost the option to send to my desktop when I right click a file/object/etc.I can send to mail recipient, mydocs, pocketpc, webpub. and A and E drive but have no option for desktop. How does one get that option back and/or add options under send to?
Whenever I try to run programs such as Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word I get a OPEN WITH dialog box asking me to choose which of the recommended programs I want to use. Currently they are Internet Explorer or Microsoft Word. When I click on Internet Explorer, IE momentarily open then closes and another dialog box open. asking me if I want to run c:programs filesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe. When I click on RUN another dialog box open asking me if I want to run Windows Vista SE Build. If I click on RUN I return to the OPEN WITH dialog box and starts the cycle over again. When I tried to run PROGRAM UPDATES in the CONTROL PANEL, I got a message about not being able to find RUNDLL32.EXE. Thinking I had a corrupted file, I copied a good RUNDLL32.EXE from my primary machine. No change after copying the file.I've run Norton AV and found no viruses. Interesting in that running Norton's did not initiate the OPEN WITH dialog box.
My son had a virus which was eliminated using antivirus software. Now he can't open anything without a "open this file using this extension" and a list is given. Even when I try a CMD in DOS it still prompts to open this file with. Is there anything I can do short of a fdisk and reformat?
I am having problmes booting my laptop. Normally for my desktop I'd just pop in the CD and boot from disk, but with this computer it isn't that simple.
My computer: Sony Vaio VGN-x505ZP
My OS: Windows XP Pro
The Problem: When I restarted my computer at one point (after trying to clean off some spyware) it told me a file was missing or corrupt: <windows root>system32hal.dll
I keep losing my mouse driver. I have installed a IBM optical mouse on my Dell PC and for some reason the driver seems to go away. It occurs mostly when the PC is started up. When this happens the scroll speed is so uncontrollable that you can't do anything with it until you reload the driver. When you open the mouse properties and click on update driver it comes back and tells you that the best driver is installed so you have to choose another driver so the mouse will work. When it happens again you choose the driver it had before and then it will work again. Next time the same thing - It seems all I get done is update the driver going between two different drivers. What would be causing this.Can't an IBM mouse be used on a Dell?
I am having problems getting my USB optical Microsoft mouse to work on my new Toshiba Satalite A85 notebook.I plug it in to any of the usb ports and it wont work. I tried restarting too
