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I’ve seen your mantra, and I’ve run sfc a couple of times. No luck.

John

Mark,

I tried to run the command that you suggested. It gave an error:

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“Error loading setupwbv.dll

The specified module could not be found.”

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Any thoughts?

John

“I think (but I am not sure) that extra instances of Explorer causing problems are related to AutoPlay mode on your CD.”

Does this mean that AutoPlay mode should be on or off?

As luck would have it, about 2 weeks ago I changed my AutoPlay settings from ON for audio and data CDs to OFF for both. It didn’t affect the problem.

And I’m not sure what “extra instances” means in this context.

Thanks for your reply.

John

Mark,

I will certainly try your suggestion and post the outcome. One question though. I am of course running IE6, but your command line in part states, “IE5Maintenance.” Does it make any difference?

Thanks

John

What I mean is: renaming or moving a shortcut from one place to another within Start>Programs.

“They are known to have DELL only drives on disk where MS will not have them.”

I’m not really sure what you mean by the above statement, but I HAVE searched the Dell site. They state that the system is WinXP compatible. They say nothing about the need to buy WinXP from Dell. I did do the BIOS update that they recommended, but that was the only change I had to make to bring the system into compliance.

When I installed XP, it loaded all of the correct drivers and I have no hardware issues in device manager or system information. What else could be different?

John

Very good…thank you. Your suggestion seems to have fixed the problem for the most part. I did get the message one time since then though, when I was dragging things around in the start menu. It seems to get confused when you drag and drop too fast.

One question though–do you have an explanation as to why chkdsk and defrag fixed that type of problem? Just curious. Anyway…thanks again.

Found it! Durned hidden folders. Thanks much Ian!!

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Mary,

The answer to whether “drop shadow” is on or off after installation is here:

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/performance/benchmark.htm

XP dynamically changes defaults during setup based on decisions it makes about your hardware. I don’t know why it made the decision it did for my system, because it runs fine with that feature on.

Maybe that’s it. Mine was an upgrade from Windows Me.

Isn’t it funny that Microsoft integrated Roxio’s technology into XP, and at the same time made all previous versions of CD Creator obsolete. XP even TELL’S YOU that it won’t work. It hasn’t told me that about any other utilities that I tried and didn’t work.

The only way right now to get CD Creator’s finctionality is to BUY Roxio’s newest version. Methinks something is rotten in Redmond. A little “I’ll scratch your back . . .?” I’m beginning to think that Janet Reno was right!

I have a 6 month old Dell 933 with 256 Mb of RAM and good video. It was still off by default. BTW I haven’t noticed any speed hit at all. Thanks again.

DOH! I found it. It wasn’t on by default.

I cant figure out how I could have missed that. It was only 3 windows deep. And such an accurate description-“use drop shadow for desktop icons.” How stupid of me! (What the heck is a drop shadow???)

Anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

I long for the return of hardcopy user manuals.

Actually there is an easier wheel mouse shortcut (at least in Word 2000). Put the mouse cursor where you want to start the selection. Click and hold the left mouse button, and while holding the button down, turn the wheel. This is a very quick way to adjust the speed of your selection while being able to slow down when you want to read the text. You can even reverse the selection.

I don’t know if it works with other versions of Word, but hey…try it.

If I merely open Word and then immediately close it, I still get the window that says changes have been made, do I want to save. As a test, I clicked on yes three times in a row just after opening Word, and it still asks me to save every time. It seems my normal.dot is normal.not.