A corrupt temporary file can often cause the Disk Cleanup utility to hang. To resolve this problem, try deleting all temporary files on your computer by performing the following steps: Type Ctrl+A or from the Edit menu click Select All to select all the files, press Delete, then click Yes to the confirmation. Select the "Delete all offline content" check box, then click OK. You should now be able to run the Disk Cleanup tool.

I'm unable to upgrade my Windows 2000 evaluation version to the full edition using a Windows 2000 upgrade CD.

The Disk Cleanup utility frees up space on a volume. To access the utility, open My Computer, right-click the drive you want to work on, click Properties, then select Disk Cleanup from the General tab. If the program hangs the system, the problem is most likely caused by the Disk Cleanup Wizard checking for all files older than 50 days that it can compress. Disabling this behavior might improve the performance.

Definitely go for Windows XP for the simple reason that it is designed for both the business & consumer thus is more adept at games playing.

Go to Explorer, insert a floppy disk, right-click on the A Drive, click Format, check Make System disk and click OK.

Windows 2000 and Windows XP provide their own certified drivers for some EMU10kX-based audio cards. Our kX Audio Driver has not been certified by Microsoft (WHQL-ed) and thus a special installation procedure might be required. It is recommended that you first try running kXSetup, and if that fails, follow our Windows XP installation guide.

Cleanup XP saves disk space by eliminating unnecessary Internet Explorer and Local System history files that have been automatically downloaded and accumulated without your knowledge while surfing the internet and during daily operations such as uninstalling programs, temporary files and recycle bin traces. Cleaning your system from these files results in saving space on your local hard disk drive and frees up memory for local use.

Use the default plug and play the Windows operating system installs. Not all CTX models will have specific drivers for these operating systems. Check the CTX driver list for your model at www.ctxtec.com.

To launch Cleanup XP: Click on the Windows Start button, point to Programs then point to Bay FX and click on Cleanup XP. Note: If you've already created a shortcut to Cleanup XP on your desktop, double-click on the Cleanup XP icon on your Desktop to launch the program.

If you're running Windows XP SP2, Windows Firewall is already turned on. For more information, see Understanding Windows Firewall.

We have reports that some users have difficulties with Windows XP platforms during connection. This is because as stated in the official Microsoft homepage, Windows XP doesn't allow direct user access to the I/O ports for security reasons. If you the program cannot be seen in the list most likely the software still hasn't been installed or not detected by the system. In this case click "Browse" button and search for the "RacingDyno V1.4.b" program.

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.

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..

Microsoft article: How to Use System Files to Create a Boot Disk to Guard Against Being Unable to Start Windows XP

Microsoft produced a program for Windows Vista called the "Windows Photo Gallery", but not for Windows XP. If you are seeing this message on your Windows XP computer, it is an unrelated program of the same name and was probably put there by your computer's manufacturer. Contact your computer's manufacturer for more information.

Windows 2000 is the new name for Windows NT 5.0, the replacement for the current Windows NT 4.0. It employs the same core technologies as NT, but adds many new ones that were not previously available in NT, such as Plug-and-Play, support for USB devices, power management, DirectX 7.x, etc. It is not for consumers, but for businesses.

Try upgrading to at least patch U2.04. Select "Use software mouse pointer" from the launcher's Display tab.

Right-click on a blank section of the Task Bar (this is the blue or gray bar at the bottom of your screen).

Yes! You can upgrade to Windows XP Professional from Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows XP Home Edition.

No, Microsoft desktop operating systems (including Windows XP and Windows 2000 Professional) do not have a built-in Terminal Services CAL. For Windows 2000 Terminal Servers, the license server issues machines running Windows 2000/Windows XP Professional a "free" Terminal Services CAL from its built-in pool (and its use is permitted under the Windows 2000 Server EULA).

FactSage will run under Windows 98, NT4, 2000, Millennium and XP. You need a computer with at least 128 MB RAM, 1 GB free disk space that runs at over 200 MHz. We find there is little difference in performance between the various versions of Windows. The best way to improve the performance is increase the computer speed and RAM. We recommend a PC with 256 MB RAM operating at over 800 MHz .

This is a problem with XP related to the conversion of a hostname into an IP address. A work around is to use the IP address instead of the hostname in your license file and by including a Unix-style hosts file in system32\drivers\etc.

Cleanup XP is a one-stop program for total cleanup of unnecessary and unwanted files freeing your system resources for a better, faster and more reliable optimized configuration. When surfing the internet, unnecessary files such as cookies and temporary internet files are automatically downloaded without your knowledge. Daily computer usage performing tasks as uninstalling programs, temporary files and recycle bin traces also tend to accumulate unnecessary files.

If you have a IDE Zip® or Jaz® drive installed, remove it and try again. The boot floppy can get confused by the drives. After the system is installed you can reconnect the drive. Hopefully this will be fixed in a later release.

GB (10%) for each TIF (default) Pure installation is around 2GB. The cycle of usage will need 8 GB in total, but in my personal knowledge, 3GB would be sufficient. The Recycle Bin, TIF sizes are too over stressed.

Yes, Windows XP will have a "newer" look to it but will still have the basics of Windows we have grown accustomed to. The one that is debuted at the EMP is the "Luna" theme.

Yes, both Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional have the built-in Internet Connection Firewall. The steps to turn on the firewall are identical. You might not be logged on as an administrator. You must be logged on as an administrator to turn on Internet Connection Firewall. When you first set up your Windows XP computer, the procedure guides you through the process of establishing an administrator account and password.

This problem is solved in recent Cygwin/X releases. Use cygwin setup to upgrade the xorg-x11-xwin package. The older X11 releases on the various commercial unices define the AltGr key as ModeSwitch, MetaR, AltR or similar. Cygwin/X expects it to be ISO_Level3_Switch. For reasons unknown to us this is reset when loggin into the remote host. As far as we don't have access to such a machine we are unable to track this down and find a reason.

It is a Perl based tool, but it will work under windows using ActivePerl (a free plug-in for Microsoft webserver software).