Our HP laptop will not turn on except by touching the Media button light which opens HP Quick Play. On that screen you can click on the Windows "flag" logo but instead of opening Window XP, you go...

Hi: I am trying to set up to clone a new WD hard drive and I noticed under both the Primary Master and Slave drive settings the "32 Bit Data Transfer" is set as being "Disabled" apparently by...

There are numerous flash drives that are sold with protection "mitishushi" <@discussion.com> wrote in message news:OGCbuEVcIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

No, Windows XP will boot and use the correct hal. It is rather rare that changing the HT option in the BIOS would result in an incompatible hal, or for that matter even going from one to two...

Thanks a bunch "JohnO" <johno@!NOOSPAM!heathkit.com> wrote in message news:e9o%23T0RcIHA.1960@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Try run,type:cmd In cmd type:CHKNTFS /? Also,deep-six youre 3rd party software,xp has all those capabilities installed. "Martin" wrote:

On my laptop at home I use a USB Logitech trackball. On my PC at work I also use a USB Logitech trackball. Within the last week, both of these trackballs began malfunctioning. 1. cursor comes and...

Heh, I'm sure you're right. Thanks guys, that's just what I was looking for. -John O

did you install the right chipset driver for the motherboard. "Peter" <peter@nospam.de> wrote in message news:fp6tmi$gcb$01$1@news.t-online.com...

Glenn, try Doug Knox's fix. www.dougknox.com Go to WinXP Fixes rt column 11 down. Restore Dvd/Cdr drives to Explorer. "glenn" <glenn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in...

Thanks. I will give both suggestions a try! "tony" wrote:

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:40:43 -0600, Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote: Yes, it sounds like a problem with the video card rather than the monitor. As the first troubleshooting after that, I was going...

Whoops! Try downloading "TweakUI" powertoy from Microsoft Downloads and use it to "UNhide" the "G:" Bob I wrote:

I don't have Roxio or Zone Alarm. The HP burner doesn't even give me a recording page on in the property proerty dialog box. I'll pull it out and take it back. And try again.

DM wrote: Probably someone prevents some write accesses to the registry or reverts them later. Any voodoo software as Norton 360 installed? Uwe

We have a number of Lenovo T61 laptops and the battery discharges quickly while in Standby mode. The Lenovo tech I talked to said there was a battery patch from Microsoft, but he couldn't find...

Paul, Many apologies for the delay in getting back to you. You have given me much food for thought. As it happens, I have now sorted out the memory problem. What I did (at Crucial's suggestion) was...

mpennin455 wrote: Found a toy here. Looks like it costs somewhere between $40 and $53, but it is a bit bigger than I'd hoped. http://www.tripplite.com/products/product.cfm?productID=3571 In...

I have two powered USB hubs, one connected to a USB port on my PC, and the other connected to the first hub. I have my PC and most of my peripherals connected to an Intelliplug panel, which shuts off...

netsh interface reset all Note that this is not the most effective repair. For more effective results, try WinsockFix, which you can find on several sites, including: *...