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I would like to monitor all and any Internet traffic from my home PC to see what programs installed on my home machine are accessing the Internet. I thought I could use … Windows xp – How can I monitor all and any Internet traffic from my home PC?Read more

When opening the Services control panel applet it opens on the Extended tab by default. I find that tab wastes a great deal of real estate for no real value-added.  All the … Windows xp – How can I open winxp’s Services control panel applet on the Standard tab by default?Read more

Can anyone recommend a disk access utility, preferably free, that will allow me to see what percentage of my hard drive access bandwidth is being used? Windows Task Manager shows CPU usage. … Windows xp – How can I view what percentage of my hard drive bandwidth is currently being used?Read more

On Windows XP, when I try and delete a specific file it says:   Cannot delete blah.blah: Make sure the  disk is not full or write-protected  and that the file is not … Windows xp – How do I delete a ‘locked’ file?Read more

Part 1 is here if anyone is interested:Clone or Image a PC   I’ve got 100 PC’s to setup. Is it possible to set up 1 of these PC’s  with software, drivers, … Windows xp – How do I prepare my system for cloning, before using clonezilla?Read more

I have six MP3 files I would like to put on a CD. They should be playable in all stereos so I guess I would need them in WAV format(?). I have … Windows xp – How to burn MP3 files to a playable audio CDRead more

I want to change the color scheme of the command prompt in Windows, ideally a default of 0a (green color on black background). How can I change this? Solution: Open a Command … Windows xp – How to change the default color of the Command Prompt?Read more

Last night my 500 GB Seagate hard drive was fine but this morning it suddenly started crashing, somehow I made it work after a chkdsk but 2 partitions show space is full … Windows xp – How to recover data from a hard drive crash?Read more

Is it possible on to switch a console to full-screen in Windows XP on a single monitor? Meaning on a dual monitor that only the left (or right) screen displays the console … Windows xp – Is it possible to make consoles full screen?Read more

I would like to allow concurrent users on an XP install, but I was wondering if there was a way to do it with out swapping dll’s and booting into safe mode. … Windows xp – Is there a way to allow concurrent remote desktop users on XP without changing dlls?Read more