Category: Windows XP

  • Sound stops in Flash videos (e.g. YouTube)

    Lately I couldn’t watch any flash videos, for example on YouTube, neither on my Windows 7 computer nor on my old Windows XP laptop. Well, I could watch them – but every few seconds the sound would stop playing. I found out that several other people had this problem, too, and apparently it was caused…

  • Windows XP filesharing again …

    Sometimes Windows can really drive you crazy … It hadn’t been too long since I had managed to make my shared files accessible to everyone on the network without entering a password, but now it was again broken, although I hadn’t changed any settings since then. Again, I was prompted for username and password when…

  • Windows XP: Filesharing without password

    Each time I reinstall Windows (which thanks to good care only happens every few years in my case), I have to struggle with setting up the stupid Windows file sharing afterwards. The problem is that Windows will allow only logged-in users to access shared files. So when anyone tries to access them, he will always…

  • Expression search under Windows XP

    I just wanted to use the Windows search function in order to find “a word or phrase in the file”. No chance! It has now happened to me several times that no files were listed at all, although I knew that my search expression was inside one of the files. Today I finally started searching…