I recently upgraded my Pentium 4 computer with new hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP Professional sp2. The system did not have USB 2.0 compatiblitiy, my Canon MF5550 multifunction printer...

Is anyone aware of a hack for intellipoint 5.5 that will make the middle mouse click behave as an alt+click in IE. I have to use IE at work and want it to behave more like firefox. In the past, I...

Hello, When I'm trying to record myself with the microphone, the recorded sound is very quiet. If I listen very carefully, I can just hear myself back. The most common solution for this problem...

I've had problems with WinXP and I have done a complete install on a clean hard drive. I now have two versions of WinXP. Both SATA Drives are partitioned in half. Windows is on the primary partition...

Hi, could anyone help me at least understand what's going on with my machine? Thanks for reading this! I've recently bought a PC, XP home edition, 2.9 Pentium processor, 512mb memory and 160gb HD...

What is DLA format on DVD or CD? Thanks.

At times my computer won't start up until I shut off the PSU switch in the back or unplug from wall long enough for lights on the board to go out. Then and only then will it start. So I am leaning...

Hi, There doesn't appear to be a software compliment to this newsgroup (if there is, please let me know!). I have been receiving a combination of BSOD and bootup Windows error message regarding a...

I recently added an Iomega removable 300 gig drive, formatted it, NTFS with compression enabled, now all font colours are in blue for the drive description and all files and folders. Does anyone know...

Hi All, Anyone out there know of a decent freeware/shareware utility for optimizing LCD monitor paramaters, (gamma, brightness, contrast, etc)?? I tried Quick Gamma and didn't achieve anything of...

I had my main drive crashed on me due to a corrupt system file. I tried to use the Recovery Councle (which would not oppen). Managed to find out the amount of disk space I used out of the total...

I’ve noticed that every so often the scrolling feature of my Intellimouse wheel partly disappears in Word 2003. I say ‘partly’ because it still works if the pointer is on the scrollbar, but if it’s...

hi I have climbed on a maxtor sata2 300GB on an asus a8r-mvp and I have a strange problem. When start the pc windows sets out as if before the time had not been out but put in suspend to hd,...

Hi all, I've just recently installed a new mobo and amd cpu and have done a fresh install of win xp. My headache is actually with a controller on the mobo, a Promise FastTrack 579 controller that...

How do I enable Windows XP to auto-boot everyday? Please note that I'm not looking for a reboot, but an auto-boot where windows is completely shutdown and starts by itself. Please note that my bios...

My LG-4081B dvd/cd writer was working perfectly fine until 3 days ago. I noticed at that time that a used memorex cd-rw I placed into the drive kept spinning for alot longer than usual then finally...

every time I insert a floppy disk into the drive it informs me that the disk is not formated and when trying to format it informs me disk cannot be formated. is this the disk or the drive I have...

Hi, I will explain my problem as best I can. I have an 80 g Western Digital hard drive 7200 rpm. I had WinXP installed on a 30 gig partition -C: and installed server 2003 on F:, the 50 g partition. I...

Hi, I have an Epson (3490) scanner utility that's currently loaded into WinXp Pro sp2. The utility is "Epson Copy Utility 3". I am trying to uninstall then reinstall it due to a launching problem. ...

Hi, i am trying to clean up father-in-laws computer. and he has 2 drives, C drive and only 12% free. the other one is D drive and is got 93% free, i don't want to lose anything by moving things...