Hi, My friend is running XP Pro on an notebook PC. It had been working fine. She turned it on today, and Windows is not using the entire screen. There is about an inch of unused screen space on...

My machine has half a gig of DDR SDRAM. But there are different kinds, like PC 2700 and PC 3200. How do I find out which kind my machine has already. The system info function in XP tells me I've...

when my computer boots up i get an error message 'c:\Program'. 'c:\PROGRAM~1\SOFTWA~1\soproc.exe'. please help me with this problem thank you.

My computer is telling me that I have an error with my sound device. I don't even know if I have one installed. Could anyone help with this?

I have 1 gig of memory on my dell computer. I play a lot of online games and would like to add more memory, I can add up to 3 gigs more. I saw some memory sticks that are designed for games, I guess...

Hi, I'm looking into giving up my second phone line here at home and would like to learn an easy/inexpensive way to accomplish it. I'm not sure if I can use software that allows the phone to...

I have a severe problem. My cd-rw is broken and cannot read CD's and my installation of windows xp on my hard drive has gone corrupt. I need to reinstall windows xp on my computer with another...

(Cross-posting to windowsxp.hardware) Ouch. Let's see if the hardware group can provide some tips. -- Maurice N MVP Windows - Shell / User -----

Hello! I purchased new PC oscyloscope (velleman instruments), but were highly dissapointed. When installation CD is inserted, and "install" 0ption is selected, I received message which I don't...

Just successfully added a 2nd (slave) 300G hd to an existing 80G system. the only issue is that the time it takes the system to shutdown increased from about 30 seconds to over 2 min. Is this normal.

I had the exact same problem and it drove me nuts reinstalling different drives and drivers all of which did no good. Then I found this site with sweetmellisa (awesome song by the way) with gary...

Hello, i just recently found out about the Xbox 360 Controller for windows and the associated XInput additions to the DirectX SDK. Does this driver/api allow for full analog button support? If not,...

I don't know what's going on here but I am trying to install Windows XP on a SATA HDD. I have copied the manufactures raid drivers to a floppy and have on installation of Windows pressed F6, it has...

For all you hardcore AMD fans, you better start crying. Your AMD processors are eating Intel's dust. The spring Intel going on now clearly demonstrates that Intel's new Conroe chip beats the pants...

You can't. Your XP installation has the hardware profile of your old computer. You can install the hard disk into your new computer, but then you'll need to do a repair install of XP. OTOH, if your...

My USB flash-drive (which happens to be a Lexar 128-MB jump-drive) either got accidently partially re-formated by a co-worker or else it has just developed 'bad-blocks'. I'm not sure which. So, now...

I recently got a new Dell XPS M140 laptop w/WinXP Media Center Edition. I have an old Targus wireless mouse Moldel: PAUM005. I tried to use it on my new laptop, but it just sits there. I get a...

Hi, I just installed 4GB of RAM in my computer, but when I checked Windows XP Pro, report 2.5GB, it sees that there are 4 DIMM of 1GB each installed How can I make Windows recognizing all the...

I have one computer and is happening the following error DRIVER IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL 0X000000D1. PLEASE , WHAT CAN I DO

Hey ya'll, Ok, bit of a frustrating problem here. For some reason, the mouse cursor freezes in one place on the screen at (seemingly) random times after I start up the computer. Sometimes its not...