Add/Remove List Blank
When you try to use the Add/Remove Programs feature in the Windows XP control panel, you may have a problem because the list of programs or Currently installed programs comes up blank and never appears.
Category Archives: Windows XP
Reset IE as Default Browser
Some users are trying out Firefox, but for some reason, need to go back to Internet Explorer. This happens usually when there is a particular web application in use, usually on a corporate intranet, but not always.
Double Clicking Drive Opens Open With… Dialog
When you try to open any of the drives on your PC, instead of opening it so that you can see the files, it opens an Open With box instead.
Bad Video File Crashes Explorer
When you open a file in Windows XP that has a corrupted video, image files, HTML pages, or MP3 file, Windows Explorer crashes.
Disable Tabbed Browsing in IE 7
Your organization has finally made the jump, and deployed Internet Explorer 7 to the general populace. However, there are a few of the employees that do not quite get the idea of tabbed browsing. It just confuses them more. Luckily, you as a system administrator, can remotely disable tabbed browsing through a registry tweak. Sure, you could simply… Read More »
Disable or Enable Workstation Locking
Most of the time, you’ll want to lock your workstation. You may not be working with super-secret stuff, but you will want to keep your machine free of the wandering hands of your co-workers. I know some of my co-workers.
Find System Uptime with XP
Click Start | Run and type cmd to open a command prompt.
Hide Drives and Partitions
Do you have data on a partition or hard drive that you don’t want tampered with or easily accessible to other users? Well, you can hide any drive/partition in Windows XP, NT, and 2000. That means that they won’t show up in Explorer or My Computer.
Windows Installer Fix
Do you experience this kind of problem whenever you attempt to install an application in windows box (2k, xp)? “The Windows Installer service could not be accessed.
Registry Backup and Restore
Before you edit the registry, export the keys in the registry that you plan to edit, or back up the whole registry. If a problem occurs, you can then follow the steps how-to restore the registry to its previous state.