Recent content by Eimmar

Could anyone tell me what would happen if there was no service packs installed on windows xp pro eg ; will it run ok if no internet is being used on it , many thanks in advance

Any idea why i can send an email but not receive them my account has been up and running a while and has been fine , i did use outlook express but that wouldn`t let me send or receive , i`ve now changed to microsoft outlook which lets me send but i`m not receiving anything , many thanks ps ...

My hard drive has been getting full of data without installing to much i`ve emptied the obvious ie , temporary internet files etc but i have folders like SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION which has nearly a gig in it a SERVICE PACK folder with 500meg in 200 meg in profile folder , i was wondering if it`s...

Tried all the usb ports even those on the front of the tower , i`m wondering if my psu has a problem even though it works ?

Can anyone help with this problem i have it`s driving me nuts !!!!!! . When i turn on my pc my optical mouse LED light is on ok as pc boots up but as soon as the page windows is now starting comes on it goes off and is un-useable , i get the same result wether it`s plugged in the ps2 port or usb...

I can`t get any updates from windows update since they changed the updater to V5 never had a problem before i`ve tried adding the sites to my firewall even disabled it , i`ve followed every bit of advise off the microsoft forums but still i can`t get into update any new ideas would be helpful...

I know but what i am saying is i can`t get any updates at all i can`t even get service pack 2 which should show up in the updates , even using the automatic updates won`t download it .

Since service pack 2 has been launched i cannot get any updates , i keep getting an error 0x80072EFD , I`ve followed the online instructions as to what may be causing this but to no avail . I use Norton Internet security 2004 which i have tried disabled thinking the firewall may be hindering the...

Is there a way of changing the window text in window xp pro this cannot be changed in the display properties or is it just a standard text style that can`t be altered .

problem now sorted , i had to convert from fat 32 to ntfs then it split no problem , many thanks for everyones help .

That would be fine but it will partition the other 2 partitions ok eg , i can split D and E fine but then to add that split to C to make it bigger it wont do it , thanks anyway

Do you think this would work ? What if i created another bootable drive by splitting the larger drive then copied over all the contents of my C drive into it then made this the active drive to boot from . It will let me create another split in the other 2 drives just wont let me do anything...

I`ve tried partitioning one at a time and at the moment it`s still set for Fat 32 , all the partitions show up ok untill it has to shut down and reboot to apply the changes , could it be because the O/S is on the one i want to increase in size or should that not matter ?

I have a 40 gig hard drive split into 3 , a 4 gig , 11 gig and 25 , the 4 gig has the O/S on it which i`ve just updated to windows XP . After doing this the 4 gig is getting a bit full so i wish to resize the partition i`ve tried using partition magic but when it reboots to alter the sizes i`ve...

ok mate i`ve heard of it i`ll give it a try , many thanks