Hi My PC developed a problem yesterday with the October Windows Update MS05-051. I understand that MS issued an advisory bulleting KB909444 as to how to effect the workaround. The problem...

Hi, How come when i right click on a file (any file type) in file explorer, it takes about 20-30 seconds to load my context menu? i tried using ShellExView to disable all the "Context Menu" items...

I have been able to fix my audio problem, but still have video problem. Screen "jumps" or "skips" and I can't play DVD player, Google Earth (w/DirectX), and who knows what else! I have looked in...

There is probably a very simple solution to this problem, but I have yet to find it. I let my roommate borrow my computer and when I started it back up, a whole folder of files came up just one by...

ad-aware(free version) scan results say there are 9 "critical objects" (malware), 5 of them are registry keys. what should i do?

Hi Guys, I have a problem with being booted from a website or program and getting the "windows is not responding" message, at which time all I can do is control/alt/delete. I haven't had any luck...

Hi, My computer crashed and I had to reboot. My hd was partitioned into 3 drives. C:\ D:\ and E:\. For some reason after I rebooted the E:\ partition doesn't show anymore ? I've tried in DOS and with...

I had just installed a program o my computer and it went to restart but wont turn back on. I can hear it and all the lights are o but there is nothing on the screen. Can you please help me? Thank you...

Hi all, I run Windows XP Home Edition and just about every time I am searching the internet I get frequent crashing and have message that keeps saying, this program needs to close and to submit an...

This is another svchost error. The instruction at "0x00aa6f9a" atempting to write to memory at "0x00000000". This has shown up as a DEP error on atartup for a long time. More recently it showed up...

i have been using a program called limewire and it worked fine. then suddenly i got the assertion failed error upon starting up limewire. i also get this message trying to run a software...

I encountered this problem of Explorer.exe shutting down with the error msg when I right-clicked on any file or folder. I tried a solution by Ronnie Vernon, MVP, which was "RUN regsvr32 shdocvw.dll"...

I have been for some time now providing ad hoc support to some remote friends using RA via MSN Messenger. I recently changed to MSN Messenger v7.0, then 7.5 as have the other machines. All machines...

So if we bought our computer in parts to put together ourselves, and bought the OEM software to install on it, we can't repair when system goes missing? Is this some sort of cruel punishment for not...

Hi Everyone, I use Defender Pro 2005 by Kaspersky and on sign on it pops up a balloon telling me its not turned on? In Control Panel it tells me its turned on, and when I run Virus update it works...

Just went into add/remove programs and more than half my installed progs have vanished!! All the progs missing work perfectly fine but cant see them in add/remove progs. Is there a registry key I can...

I mistakenly compacted my inbox and cannot now find my stored messages. How do I retrieve them?

This happens alot too..I am really having trouble signing on thru desktop connections ..Mike Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7031 Date: ...

I am thinking about doing a system recovery..start again from day 1...I have no XP disk, but it is a HP partition drive....What would be the best avenue to save all my important files & folder...

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:24:07 -0800, newtie wrote in message <news:59CFDFDB-5D67-44D6-8ADF-81EC4786AA40@microsoft.com>: > Hi all- > > The caps lock key on my wife's Toshiba laptop w/WinXP Home seems...