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Big_Al
I've got a winXP laptop from a friend and a "folder" icon is showing up
a lot of places.
I got to control panel and there is one there. If I click on it, it
just opens another explorer window with nothing there. On the left
side there is a ADD PRINTER and SETUP FAXING under a printer tasks. So
looking at my pc I guess that its the "printers and faxing" item on the
menu, and sure enough that item is not on the control panel. I can't
rename it so that's one problem. And this seems to be a common problem.
When I'm viewing the control panel, the blue bar at the top of the
window is not labeled "Control Panel" like my pc, its just simply
labeled "folder". So this "Folder" problem is a bit bigger than I
thought.
Any ideas what might have done this and how to reset it. The owner
says they just turned it on.
Oh Another thing, When I click on device manager from my computer, it
says the devmgmt.msc is not there (it is) or not a proper MSC file or I
don't have permission. Well, I thought I did (I mean the user on the
pc).
Thanks for any replies. I'm not looking so much for a fix, (but that
would be nice) I'm looking more for what is it that is screwing up the
PC, I mean more of a concept info. But of course the end is to fix it.
PS its as 4 year old compaq and a bit slow and of course well used.
I tried running a few scans and they won't run. The user did run one
but they did not get errors.
The original problem was they got an error opening a .htm file. I can
reproduce that easily.
Also there is no network any longer. So I'm trying to resolve the
wireless right now. I've also got it cabled too.
a lot of places.
I got to control panel and there is one there. If I click on it, it
just opens another explorer window with nothing there. On the left
side there is a ADD PRINTER and SETUP FAXING under a printer tasks. So
looking at my pc I guess that its the "printers and faxing" item on the
menu, and sure enough that item is not on the control panel. I can't
rename it so that's one problem. And this seems to be a common problem.
When I'm viewing the control panel, the blue bar at the top of the
window is not labeled "Control Panel" like my pc, its just simply
labeled "folder". So this "Folder" problem is a bit bigger than I
thought.
Any ideas what might have done this and how to reset it. The owner
says they just turned it on.
Oh Another thing, When I click on device manager from my computer, it
says the devmgmt.msc is not there (it is) or not a proper MSC file or I
don't have permission. Well, I thought I did (I mean the user on the
pc).
Thanks for any replies. I'm not looking so much for a fix, (but that
would be nice) I'm looking more for what is it that is screwing up the
PC, I mean more of a concept info. But of course the end is to fix it.
PS its as 4 year old compaq and a bit slow and of course well used.
I tried running a few scans and they won't run. The user did run one
but they did not get errors.
The original problem was they got an error opening a .htm file. I can
reproduce that easily.
Also there is no network any longer. So I'm trying to resolve the
wireless right now. I've also got it cabled too.