On my old Dell when I held my cursor over a jpeg, word.doc, folder or other item the info box would pop up telling me the size of the file and other info. Just received a new Dell but I can't figure out how to turn that feature on!
View 8 RepliesAre you saying that this will fix my jpeg rollover / info problem? I'm not to comfortable fooling with the registry unless I have a pretty good idea.
David Candy Wrote:
> I'm only doing jpeg
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.jpeg
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTdefault value from above key
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTjpegfile
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociations.jpeg
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTSystemFileAssociationsimage
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT*
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTAllFilesystemObjects
> HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerFileExts.jpeg........
when i go to my computer properties my cpu is not listed anymore it used to be there now only list ram. I'm using windows xp the cpu is amd athlon 7850 it came on the mother board which is asus M3N72-D does anyone have an idea what could of caused this and what to do?
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