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Repairing Windows
QUESTION: I use Windows XP SP2 (professional edition). However, my computer restarts whenever I open Msconfig. Also, when I click on shutdown, instead of displaying the options, my computer restarts. I am not able to view folder options, in tools. My themes are set to Windows XP but the computer shuts down the classic
way and not the XP way. There is also no welcome screen and Windows asks to press OK before it loads. The shutdown options menu resembles the old Windows version as well. Please help.
Arshad Ali
ssj_arshad@hotmail.com
EDITOR’S REPLY: Boot the computer using the WinXP CD. You may need to change the boot order in the system Bios so that the CD boots before the hard drive does. Check your system documentation for steps to access Bios and change the boot order. When the “Welcome to setup” screen appears, you will see the following options: “This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft Windows XP to run on your computer: To setup Windows XP now, press Enter. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.” Press Enter to start the Windows Setup. Do not choose “To repair a Windows XP installation using the Recovery Console, press R”, because you do not want to load Recovery Console.
Accept the License Agreement and Windows will search for existing Windows installations. Select the XP installation you want to repair from the list and press R to start the repair. Setup will copy the necessary files to the hard drive and reboot. Do not press any key to boot from CD when the message appears. Setup will continue as if it was doing a clean install, but your applications and settings will remain intact.
Creating mail forms
How can I create an email form for a web page in PHP which can automatically send the message typed in the text area to my email address?
Usama Muneeb
usama-muneeb@msn.com
I’m not sure about your level of comfort with programming PHP or PERL or the installing of those files in your webserver. Nor am I sure which server you are using (Windows or Linux). So based on that, please see what type of mail form handlers you are looking for. Since you have not provided enough information, here are a few options that you can try:
1. Beginner (no programming experience) — For this, I suggest you get your form hosted from
http://www.madaquad.com. The site will handle all your requirements, providing the underlying code, etc., for the forms. In return, all it asks is that you display its banner on your site. Another great site is
http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/emailfwd/.
2. Amateur (can handle installation of code) — For this, I suggest you visit
http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Form_Processing/index_03.html. These are ready-made form scripts which you can download and install on your web server. Form2mail is especially recommended. You can also try
http://www.dansie.net/mail.html
3. Professional (want to program code) — There is a sample at
http://www.totallyphp.co.uk/scripts/form_to_mail.htm. For more information about mail forms please visit
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/tut28b.html.
Dual boot
I installed WinXP on my computer but a few days later, I deleted it by formatting the drive D in which WinXP was installed. I want to remove dual boot option from system start-up because now I only have Win98 as my operating system. What should I do?
Sana Farooq
Lahore
You need to edit your Boot.ini file. Make sure you can see all your hidden files (open any folder in Win98/Folder Options/View System Files) and then go to the root of the partition on which your Win98 is located. Here you will notice a file by the name of Boot.ini. Open it in Notepad, and where you will see a line ending with “\Microsoft Windows XP”. Delete the entire line. Be very careful when you are doing this. Any other changes and your computer will not run. After deleting the line, press Save.
Login screen
1. When I turn on my computer it shows the Windows 98 logo. How can I remove this logo and put my own logo or picture in its place.
2. When Windows XP goes to startup, it shows a welcome sign. How can I remove this?
Raj Kumar
mklvsk@yahoo.com
1. First, make duplicates of the files LOGOS.SYS and LOGOW.SYS in a temporary folder. These files are located initially in your Windows folder. LOGOW.SYS is the one that reads “Please wait while...” and LOGOS.SYS is the one that reads “It is now safe to...” These files are just standard bitmaps, so rename the extensions of these duplicates to .BMP. You can use any graphics editor to edit these files. Save your changes and rename the extensions of your new files back to .SYS. You can use the same technique to change the startup file. Just save a BMP file as LOGO.SYS, and place it in the root directory of your boot drive (usually C:\). There's no file to replace here.
2. Download Resource Hacker available at
http://www.users.on.net/johnson/resourcehacker/. Then browse to C:\winnt\system32 or C:\windows\system32 and copy/paste logonui.exe into the same directory to serve as a backup file in case you mess something up. Once you have done that, copy logonui.exe again and paste it to C:\. Now open C:\logonui.exe with Resource Hacker. Click on action and then on replace bitmap. Find the image that you want to set. To set the size of Bitmap to 100: go into the \UIFILE\1000\1022\ tree and press CTRL+F. Now find “ ” and change the entire line. Put width in place of xxx, for example, 400rp (rp at the end is needed) and height in place of yyy, for example, 1000rp. Make sure the image doesn’t go over the login names because it slows down the computer’s speed. Once you have everything the way you want it, just save the file to C:\ and close Resource Hacker. Now, get into the Dos mode. Once at the DOS prompt, you must copy the new logonui.exe file over the existing one.
Go to the directory from where you extracted the new logonui file (C:\logonui.exe) and type: “Copy logonui.exe c:\windows\system32\ or C:\winnt\system32 on some systems.” It will ask if you want to overwrite the file say yes to that.
That is all there is to it. Once you reboot, you should see your new logon screen.
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