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Back in the days of Windows NT, the roaming profile was all the rage. A user could go to the office and work at his own computer, using the network, e-mail, files, and other resources. If, for some reason, that user has to switch to another workstation temporarily, he logs on to a different computer and Windows downloads the settings for his individual profile; just as if he were sitting at his own computer.

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Undo the Dual Boot

Have you ever tried to put two different operating systems on your computer, but you either A.) changed your mind or B.) failed for some reason or another? If you have, I bet you have run into something new and possibly confusing when you start your computer up the next time. Am I right?

Windows Desktop Search

I’m sure you know the scenario: You are certain you sent an e-mail about that dinner appointment awhile back, but where is it now? Or you recall making out an agenda for the next club meeting, but can you find it? Not on your life!

Also, the longer you’ve had your computer, the more files you get and the harder it becomes to find what you are looking for, right?

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To disable unneeded startup services
for a safer, faster XP, use the "Services" Admin Tool (Control Panel
[>] Administrative Tools [>] Services). If you are a single user of a
non-networked machine, you can disable the following items, with no ill effect.

Alerter

Clipbook

Computer Browser

Fast User Switching

Human Interface Access Devices

Indexing Service (Slows the hard drive down)

Messenger

Net Logon (unnecessary unless networked on a Domain)

Netmeeting Remote Desktop Sharing (disabled for extra security)

Make your Folders Private

•Open
My Computer

•Double-click the drive where Windows is installed
(usually drive (C :, unless you have more than one
drive on your computer).

•If the contents of the drive are hidden, under System
Tasks, click Show the contents of this drive.

•Double-click the Documents and Settings folder.

•Double-click your user folder.

•Right-click any folder in your user profile, and
then click Properties.

•On the Sharing tab, select the Make this folder private
so that only I have access to it check box.

Note
•To

speed up your browsing of Windows 2000 & XP machines Here's a great tip to speed up your browsing of Windows XP machines. Its actually a fix to a bug installed as default in Windows 2000 that scans shared files for Scheduled Tasks. And it turns out that you can experience a delay as long as 30 seconds when you try to view shared files across a network because Windows 2000 is using the extra time to search the remote computer for any Scheduled Tasks.

How to Upgrade Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition Profiles to Windows XP Domain User Profiles

This
guide describes how to upgrade a Microsoft Microsoft
Windows 98-based, or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition-based
client that has user profiles to a Microsoft Windows

Additional Information:

This document is about computers that are restarting or rebooting by themselves, if your computer is turning off and remaining off please see document CH000689.

Some of the below steps in the answer require you open your computer and remove hardware devices, while in the computer make sure you're aware of ESD.

If you're looking for information about how to restart Microsoft Windows see document CH000825.

Cause:

This issue could be caused by any of the below possibilities.

1. Software issue or error.
2. Hardware issue or error.