Having problems getting a client to connect to the Internet using XP when it seems you have done (almost) everything? Well, here you go, just make sure to back up your registry first, pray a little before you start this endeavor, and grab some aspirin and a gallon of patience if it's a home user. When in regedt32 (registry editor) a home customer gets pretty lost. Unless you know they are pretty computer literate, I would not recommend trying this at home. Whew. It took me 45 min. yesterday to walk a home consumer through it. Ruined my 9 min talk time.... (poor Burt...)
Remember, you heard it here first.... and you are probably the first on the block to care.
Later,
Burt
Make XP Compatible with older versions of Windows
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HOW TO Use the Program Compatibility Wizard in Windows XP
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Problem:
There are potential privacy problems due to the interaction between Internet Explorer 6 and Windows Media Player 8(WMP), which are included in Windows XP, and can also be downloaded and installed on older Windows systems.
Answer:
In Windows Media Player, click Tools, Options, and go to the Player tab. Unselect the option "Allow Internet sites to uniquely identify your Player." Once this is turned off, then WMP will generate random cookies that change with each session. Because new cookies are being generated, they can't be used to track your travels.
Problem:
TurboTax has major compatibility issues when run in Windows XP professional, non-domain, and the Microsoft recommended default file security "simple file sharing" option. An error message, "Missing configuration file; please re-install TurboTax", occurs when attempting to open the program from a user account after installation using Administrator account.
Answer:
The real problem is that TurboTax will only run from a user login that has full administrator rights due to a couple of problems.
1. The installation program creates a skeleton file MPCWIN01.INI in the system WINDOWS folder. When the TurboTax program is subsequently opened from a user account with limited file rights, the program fails with the message "Missing configuration file; please re-install TurboTax". If the program is opened from the administrator account immediately after the install, the MPCWIN01.INI file is completed and then TurboTax can be run from a user account. This gets to the second problem.
2. The default store folder for users *.TAX files is the program folder TAX01. User accounts are given only read and execute rights to the program folder TAX01. Any attempt to save the user *.TAX file will be stopped with an access violation. The only way to save the user data at this point is to do a "save as" into a folder that the user has write access. This creates a third operational issue.
3. Since the program attempts to update the MPCWIN01.INI file in the WINDOWS folder with the drive/folder and file name information of the last used *.TAX file, this operation will fail with an access violation since the user accounts do not have write access to the system WINDOWS folder. When the program is restarted the user must manually locate and open the file that he is working with each time.
Problem:
If you have mapped network drives/shares and those resources are offline you'll experience drop down box lock ups. In all versions of IE the address bar drop down will lock the application. Opening My Computer will usually result in the never ending flashlight. The drop down in Outlook for using attachments will hang Outlook. Any drop down where you would see drives!
Answer:
disconnect/un-map drives ahead of time, disconnect using netuse cmd
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Subject: Bill Gates advice
To anyone with kids of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, Here's some advice Bill Gates recently dished
out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good politically correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.
*Rule 1:
Life is not fair -- get used to it.
*Rule 2:
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
*Rule 3:
You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school.
You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.
*Rule 4:
If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
*Rule 5:
Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping --they called it opportunity.
*Rule 6:
If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
*Rule 7:
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now.
They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
*Rule 8:
Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not.
In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest
resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
*Rule 9:
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
*Rule 10:
Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
*Rule 11:
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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