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Thank you. The reason why I want to move it because from the new position I could synchronise it together with other data stored in the same folder group. I have three places where the same information is required. If I have everything together, it makes life easier. At the moment I have to...

By default, IE stores the Favourites to My computer/C/documents and settings/own name/Favourites. These can be copied to the My Documents folder and the old position erased. How can be configures that IE will read this folder instead the above location? Thanks. P.

Thank you all, but it was a missing driver that caused the problem. PetervM

After erasing Vista and formatting hard disc, (new computer), XP Pro has been installed with success. However, the standby function does not work, the computer would wake up after about 5 seconds for no reasons. No mouvement of the mouse , no background activity is enabled. The same applies to...

My new computer has been supplied with Vista installed. I would like to add windows XP pro and run two OS independently. Can this be done? How? Thanks PvM PS: Vista may be a more secure system but it is a tour de force, as everything is as before, yet different and it is a pain to learn all...

Hi I am sorry that I was not precise enough and that it took me such a long time to responde. The first answer by tomb08uk was what I was after. Thank you all. Regards petervm

I asked this question before, and someone kindly replied, but unfortunately, I lost the answer. Windows XP, by default suggests saving a document in My Documents folder. How can I alter this to be something else, like an other folder or an external hard disc? Thanks Petervm

I had to leave the computer unattended for a while and when I came back, it turned itself off without going into the usual standby mode. When restarted, it run an automatic scandisk and rebooted with everything working, as before. The system configuration utility now shows under win.ini a...

Nothing is visible under win.ini tab!

Thank you for the suggestion. Yes, I could remove and re-install Office 2003, but how does this affect win.ini? which I thought win.ini was an integral part of XP. Will teh computer reboot? Regards P.

Help! Operating system:WXP Professional Unexpectedly, an error message appeared when some programs are opened like Outlook or Word, and others, but all programs. This file or directory C\Windows\win.ini is corrupt and unreadble. Please run chkdsk utility. In spite of this message ...

OK. Thanks you for all your help! PVM

I found it and it looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn...

Thank you all! PVM

Thanks for the suggestion, but I (or MS search) can not find boot.ini. I know it should be somewhere in windows, but where? File options is configured to show hidden files, yet it is invisible. Regards PVM

Many thanks, it works perfectly. Similarly, can IE also be configured to save files in a specific folder? Mine insists it to be desktop, but this may be due to the last used folder. Regards PVM

Hi, After reinstalling WXP somehow a second installation occured in the second internal drive of my computer. It is not activated, but by booting the computer asks which should run. I would like to remove the second installation and I am not sure whether it can be simply erased or to use an...

Hi, By default, XP suggests saving of documents in My Documents folder. How can this be altered to save the document in any other folder, including an active external or second internal drive? Thanks PVM