Apparently Windows XP doesn't actually come with the proper drivers for any video cards. So to get things to run properly you must update your video drivers. Almost all video card manufacturers have new XP drivers available on their websites.

The new smooth blue or green wrapping on the Start menu, Task Bar, and on all of the windows are part of the new visual design for Windows XP. This feature can be turned off to speed up your computer, however this will revert all windows and menus back to the gray rectangular design of Windows 98 or 2000. If the My Computer icon is on your desktop, right-click on it. Otherwise, go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Adjust for best performance. Click Apply.

Yes. Windows XP users who want different features in a firewall may use a hardware firewall or a software firewall from another company. For special offers on antivirus and firewall packages, visit our Security software: Downloads and trials page. No. Running multiple software firewalls is unnecessary for typical home computers, home networking, and small-business networking scenarios.

Unfortunately I think it's a performance issue elsewhere, such as in DWM or video drivers/hardware. This problem is especially apparent if all your windows are maximized; restoring them to smaller rectangles improves performance. Regardless, I'm still looking for workarounds to improve performance.

Yes. By how much it slows the operation down depends on the specification of your computer and what you encrypt. The best way to minimize the effect of encryption on speed of operation is to limit the encryption to specific occurrence files that contain sensitive data, rather than encrypting a whole Topicscape and everything it contains.

a) Run Idem and configure your source-destination folders, set menu Log active if you whish a daily report of list of files processed. d) to run the Idem Service, ensure that you follow above considerations about Windows and account rights. run it using a true account with the appropriate rights (something like 'Administrator'). Do not use the default 'LocalSystem' account. This is necessary to be able to replicate files out of the NT box (and this is not our conditions but Microsoft's..

NCDC we have installed the Atlas successfully onto a Windows 2000 pc. (We haven't tried it in Windows ME or Windows XP.) Here's how we made it work in Windows 2000: Please note that neither NCDC nor ESRI supports ArcExplorer in Windows 2000, or Windows ME, or Windows XP. Please read the Atlas' Minimum Requirements page. Download Sun's jre 1.3.1 for Microsoft Windows from the sun website. We got it from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/download-windows.

If you have an America Online broadband Internet connection, you can turn on the firewall that's built in to Windows following the steps on the Use an Internet Firewall page. If you have an AOL dial-up Internet connection, it can only be protected by Windows Firewall if you are using Windows XP Service Pack 2. If you are running Windows XP Service Pack 1 or earlier, the firewall does not interfere with the AOL connection.

If you have a CD-RW drive on your computer, Windows XP has an integrated CD burning feature that allows you to burn data files onto recordable CDs. For Wellesley College-owned computers, there is a better CD-burning program called Roxio Easy CD-Creator that you may use. There are 2 types of recordable CDs: CD-R or CD-RW. CD-RWs are CDs that are re-writable, meaning that you may erase the CD at any time and re-use the CD to burn more files onto it.

Yes. You must be set up as an Administrator in order to install and setup MDC for the first time. MDC was designed using XP as a base operating system. We have tested the software on all platforms including Windows 98, ME, XP, and 2000. If you need to transfer your database to another computer, you'll need to Backup your database on the existing computer, and then Restore the database on the new computer. This is done through the File Menu.

This problem can be solved when you install DOSBox. You can download this program from site: dosbox.sourceforge.net You can run DOSBox under other operating systems for example Linux. Exchange dosbox.conf file for dosbox.conf from PG download page.

Answer the step by step questions. When the software runs successfully, you will have the option to SAVE the settings. If you save the settings you will not have to complete this step again.

Hurrah for Microsoft eh? In their infinite wisdom the DOS version supplied with XP is some kind of emulated (read: slow) effort. You can try tinkering with the compatibility settings but you'll probably have more luck launching it from a Windows 98 boot disk (or CD, or USB Pen Drive..)

If you have MSN dial-up Internet service, you should upgrade to the most recent version of the dial-up connection software. This version fully supports Windows Firewall in Windows XP for MSN dial-up Internet service users. For more information about upgrading your MSN software or securing your MSN Internet connection, contact MSN support.

For music applications there is no real advantage to having XP Pro. The additional features are more useful for network administrators than for most professional musicians. The S2 comes with Windows Professional for these networking reasons.

The driver is already installed, the user can login with any user rights. All that is required is to enter the password that has been set up for the "EncryptEase" disc. before extracting the data to the hard disc, the PC must have the driver installed. In order to install the driver the user must be logged in with administrator authority.Once the driver is installed, the EncryptEase disc can be used with any user level.

Our screen savers come with over twenty different transitions. If some of the transitions appear jerky or slow, the most likely cause is your hardware. Transitions can require significant processing power and memory. Some video cards may not be able to run the transitions as quickly and smoothly as possible. The easiest solution is to select only those transitions that you want. You can do this in the screen saver settings.

The SimCity 3000 packaging indicates that the program runs on Windows 95 or Windows 98, but it will run in Windows 2000 without difficulty. Windows XP users will have to set SimCity 3000 to run in Windows 2000 mode as follows: After installing the program, go to Start, All Programs, Maxis, SimCity 3000. Instead of launching SimCity, right click on the SimCity 3000 icon, select Properties, then select the Compatibility tab and change it to whichever mode works best in your system.

Windows XP is a far superior manger of your PC's resources and therefore requires more RAM (memory) to operate efficiently. We recommend as a minimum 256MB of RAM - 128 MB of RAM for WXP alone, and another 128 MB of RAM for the user and any applications you may use.

Note that doing any of the below will erase all data in your hard disk! You can boot from a Windows 9x boot disk, reformat the XP partition and install a previous version of Windows. If XP is installed using NTFS file system, you'll first have to use FDISK to delete the partition, type FDISK at the prompt. Once you are at the menu, select "Delete Non-dos Partition.

Use the Unlocker utility. This file will unlock all file handles on the file/folder and even offer to delete it for you before the program locks it again!

Microsoft is aiming to combine the features of Windows Me for the consumer, and reliability of Windows 2000 for businesses and power users into one new operating system. This operating system in its' different flavors will have new features for gaming, multimedia applications, audio, etc. in addition to features for networking, development, etc. for businesses and power users.

Windows XP comes in Professional and Home versions. Servers will also come out, but they are still in beta testing.

Windows XP Home is $99 for an upgrade copy and $199 for the full version. Windows XP Pro is $199 for the upgrade version and $299 for a full copy.

run it using a true account with the appropriate rights (something like 'Administrator'). Do not use the default 'LocalSystem' account. This is necessary to be able to access files out of the NT box (and this is not our conditions but Microsoft's...) When used as a service you can start and stop it using a standard start and stop commands of Windows NT. These commands can be included in the standard Windows NT scheduler : AT or WINAT if you have the NT Resource Kit .

Yes. CaterPro for Windows runs on computers running Windows 98 or higher, including Windows 2000, Windows XP Windows Me and Windows Vista.

You have to boot from a bootable DOS floppy disk to run Partition Resizer under NT/2000/XP. In Windows XP you can create a bootable floppy disk from Windows Explorer by inserting the floppy in the drive, right-clicking the drive, selecting 'Format...' and checking the 'Create an MS-DOS startup disk' option. Then copy Partition Resizer in that disk and proceed as described in README.1ST.