Missing Control Panel feature?

[JimL]

XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates

I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:

Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive ->
Settings

It insructs me to set a usage slider.

I have available:

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System

I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
tells me where Drive Settings are.

 

[David B.]

Provide a link to the article, those instructions are not correct or your
reading them wrong.

 

[Malke]

XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates

I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:

Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive
-> Settings

It insructs me to set a usage slider.

I have available:

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System

I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
tells me where Drive Settings are.

You're posting in a newsgroup for the Windows XP operating system. Those
instructions are (sort of) for the Windows Vista operating system. What are
you trying to do? To get to the System applet just open up Control Panel and
double-click on System.

To do disk management, just go to Control Panel>Administrative
Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management.

If you want help, tell us your end goal.

Malke

 

[JimL]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx

 

[JimL]

You're posting in a newsgroup for the Windows XP operating system. Those
instructions are (sort of) for the Windows Vista operating system. What
are
you trying to do? To get to the System applet just open up Control Panel
and
double-click on System.

To do disk management, just go to Control Panel>Administrative
Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management.

If you want help, tell us your end goal.

While researching a problem (already solved) I ran across the references, on
an XP page at Microsoft, to "Performance & Maintenance" and "Drive
settings." As I said, I couldn't find those things on my XP computer. I
brought the issue here - to an XP group. What's the infraction?

 

[Malke]

JimL wrote:

While researching a problem (already solved) I ran across the references,
on
an XP page at Microsoft, to "Performance & Maintenance" and "Drive
settings." As I said, I couldn't find those things on my XP computer. I
brought the issue here - to an XP group. What's the infraction?

There is no "infraction" as such although you are definitely easing into a
category that I call "not really a true troll but definitely a nuisance". You
didn't communicate clearly what you were trying to do or what you wanted to
know. People who started out favorably disposed to help you tried to get you
to clarify what you needed. I suspect the difference between what you read in
the KB article and what you see is that the way you have your computer set
up produces a different view than that assumed in the MS article. I don't
know and I'm not going to take the time to turn on an XP box and read the
article cited to figure out the answer to a problem that is already solved. I
would rather spend my time helping people solve immediate issues in their
computing lives.

EOT for me.

Malke

 

[JD]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx

I hardly ever work in fractions any more, everything I do is in
decimals. 1/2 is .50, 7/8 is .875 so I can't help you with your question
about in fraction. Sorry.

I'm using XP home edition SP3 but it's set up for the classic windows view.

On my system it's: Start > Settings > Control Panel

But I have a Control Panel shortcut on my desktop so I use that.

In Control Panel, I don't have a Performance and Maintenance icon.

In Control Panel, I select System, which takes me to the System
Properties and then I select the System Restore tab. Highlight a drive
by clicking on it and click on Settings and there is your little slider!
You can change the settings for each drive. Is this what you were
looking for?

In the future, when you have a question about something you read
somewhere, why not post a link to what you were looking at? That way
we're all starting at the same point.

 

[Jose]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ba...

Those directions make sense if you run Windows Explorer
(explorer.exe), expand My Computer, the click Control Panel.

You know those Windows people and their silly exploring thing...

 

[N. Miller]

XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates

I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:

Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive ->
Settings

It insructs me to set a usage slider.

I have available:

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System

I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
tells me where Drive Settings are.

For future reference, "Performance & Maintenance" is only visible in Control
Panel "Category View". If you switch to Control Panel "Classic View" you
won't see "Performance and Maintenance".

To get to "System" from the "Classic View", look for the icon labeled,
"System" in that view. Same menu pops up. Labeled, "System Properties".

FWIW, there is also a keyboard shortcut which takes you "there" ("System
Properties"):

[Windows] key + [Break] key.

The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.

 

[JD]

XP Pro SP3 up to the minute updates

I'm looking at a Micrisoft Help that tells me go to:

Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> System -> Drive ->
Settings

It insructs me to set a usage slider.

I have available:

Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System

I cannot find Performance & Maintenance, no Drive Settings, no slider
anywhere. System searches don't help. I've found nothing Googling that
tells me where Drive Settings are.

For future reference, "Performance & Maintenance" is only visible in Control
Panel "Category View". If you switch to Control Panel "Classic View" you
won't see "Performance and Maintenance".

To get to "System" from the "Classic View", look for the icon labeled,
"System" in that view. Same menu pops up. Labeled, "System Properties".

FWIW, there is also a keyboard shortcut which takes you "there" ("System
Properties"):

[Windows] key + [Break] key.

The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.

Great keyboard shortcut. Thanks!

 

[JimL]

You didn't communicate clearly what you were trying to do or

As I said, I already did what I was trying to do - but you don't need to
know that, since I wasn't asking about it.

what you wanted to know.

If I knew the answer I wouldn't be asking, now would I.

So why are you complaining about a question you thought I should have
asked?

I asked a question _about_ something and you're complaining that it wasn't
technical enough.

It strikes me that the amount of _complaining about_ questions here takes up
more time and energy than answering them.

I asked about something that seemed to be missing from my XP.

Let me repeat that.

I asked about something that seemed to be missing from my XP.

Why the ____ should that be a crime??

(I had already asked about the base issue and got nothing, so I spent 3
weeks digging up an answer. Saved god a lot of time didn't it!!)

 

[JimL]

For future reference, "Performance & Maintenance" is only visible in
Control
Panel "Category View". If you switch to Control Panel "Classic View" you
won't see "Performance and Maintenance".

Thank you very much for a real answer!

Is it possible to change Control Panel from Classical without changing
everything? I couldn't find a way.

[Windows] key + [Break] key.

The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.

Thanks, but this laptop has no Windows keys.

 

[Twayne]

....

Good grief! You're sure getting a runaround from people, aren't you?

AS someone else said, Performance and Maintenance isn't visible in the
Classic mode. But that's not what you asked, was it? You don't need to
switch back and forth, just read on for what I think you're looking for.

Are you trying to get to Disk Management?

There are a few different ways to access Disk Management:

This is the most direct method:

Method 1 - Click Start; Run; and type diskmgmt.msc in the Open:
line and click OK. The Disk Management snap-in will open.
OR,

Method 2 - Click: Start; Settings; Control Panel; Administrative
Tools; Computer Management; Disk Management.
OR,

Method 3 - By default, Administrative Tools is not shown on the Start
Menu but if you have modified the Start Menu (by right clicking the
Start button and selecting Properties > Customize) so it is shown then
just select Start > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and then
click Disk Management in the left hand column.

From there I'll assume you know what you need since you gave no further
inferences.

If you'll have to use Disk Management periodically, it's worth creating
a shortcut to go directly to it. Just right click the filename and
click Send To and choose Desktop (shortcut) from the menu. It'll drop a
shortcut on the desktop and then you can store it wherever you'd like
to.


If that's not what you're looking for, re-ask the question here and see
if you can clarify it further. What you're trying to accomplish would
be a good idea to post since as is often the case with windows there are
several ways to do the same thing.

Please let us know if this was what you needed.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[John John - MVP]

...

Good grief! You're sure getting a runaround from people, aren't you?

Good grief! Maybe you should read the thread again, he was trying to
set the System Restore disk space usage! He was simply misreading the
instructions.

 

[Twayne]

Good grief! Maybe you should read the thread again, he was trying to
set the System Restore disk space usage! He was simply misreading the
instructions.

Then why didn't you provide the specifics that were needed?

Unlike you, I also ASKED if I'd interpreted it right, and suggested a
return if it was wrong. Of course, you chose to snip anything that
might have showed that; but that's you MO; nothing new there. So perhaps
it is you should go reread.

Twayne
--> single digit

 

[John John - MVP]

Then why didn't you provide the specifics that were needed?

Because he already had all the necessary instructions, he even posted a
link to the instructions from the Microsoft Web site. There wasn't much
more that could be added, he just needed to read the instructions properly.

John

 

[JimL]

Are you trying to get to Disk Management?

I've already got to where I wanted to go and solved the problem, but that
isn't the point.

As I've tried to say, I couldn't find the specific features referred to in
those instructions weeks ago and it seemed that there was something missing
from my XP. I don't like having stuff missing. I didn't ask a techni cal
question. I posted saying I couldn't find it. It seemed simple enough and
innocent enough to me. But now I'm a troll!!!!

The reason for the "missing stuff" has been explained by N. Miller.

Thanks

 

[JimL]

Good grief! Maybe you should read the thread again, he was trying to set
the System Restore disk space usage! He was simply misreading the
instructions.

Nope. No misreading.

This thread was definitely POST SOLUTION of that issue. I was merely asking
why stuff seemed to be missing from my XP. Most responders wanted it to be
all about something else, apparently so they could complain that I didn't
ask the question right. One person simply told me why the stuff was
"missing," it having to do with display styles. I thanked him for that, but
if he missed it I'm thanking him again.

 

[Twayne]

I've already got to where I wanted to go and solved the problem, but
that isn't the point.

As I've tried to say, I couldn't find the specific features referred
to in those instructions weeks ago and it seemed that there was
something missing from my XP. I don't like having stuff missing. I
didn't ask a techni cal question. I posted saying I couldn't find
it. It seemed simple enough and innocent enough to me. But now I'm
a troll!!!!
The reason for the "missing stuff" has been explained by N. Miller.

Thanks

Glad you got it worked out; that's the main thing. And don't worry
about "troll" and such bein mentioned. People don't think you are or
you'd have a lot more flames. Don't let the little things bug you and
go on about having a nice day.
I'm sure it was clear as a bell to you but it wasn't to some of the
folks who responded, including myself. I probably should have read your
post more closely, but I didn't and managed to miss the mark. At least
you now have what you need/needed. Norm is a pretty reliable poster and
does a pretty good job here.

Regards,

Twayne`

 

[N. Miller]

Thank you very much for a real answer!

You're welcome.

Is it possible to change Control Panel from Classical without changing
everything? I couldn't find a way.

AFAIK, it is an "all-or-nothing" change. It is a one-click change of the
view, so I just make the change as I need to.

[Windows] key + [Break] key.

The [Windows] keys are flanking the [Alt] keys on my keyboard.

Thanks, but this laptop has no Windows keys.

I have two laptops available, right now. Newer HP Pavilion dv2210 has one
Windows key on the same row as the [Space_Bar]. Older Toshiba Tecra has a
Windows key on the top row, near the Pause/Break key. But I suppose a
different brand might not have a Windows key at all.