We have items that are locked on our desktop we are in the administrative user, we have done all the security things and are still unable to to do anything with those documents... please help!!

Hi, My XP home is totally corrupted IE and pretty much everything else is toast, I doubt if a reinstall and repair will work:( Any help would be great:) -- Never give up on your dreams

My Qwest DSL connection often but not always drops after coming out of system standby mode. The ethernet says it is connected and the modem says it is connected to the Internet, but from a browser...

Using XP SP2 but installer is still 3.0 and when I try to use windows update it downloads the 3.1 but each time it fails to install. Checked all other references to installer problems but none quite...

Unfortunately, my Internet Explorer web browser seems to no have an information toolbar and so I have no way to install the ActiveX control needed for using windows update. Please help!! Best...

"Windows cannot load the locally stored profile. Possible causes of this error include insufficient security rights or a corrupt local profile. If this problem persists, contact your network...

Recently reinstalled windows, but can't get on board sound working. Error reads unable to start Code 10. Any ideas?

Is there a way of recovering files, which were firstly in the Recycle Bin and then were erroneously emptied? If I am not mistaken some years ago I saw an affirmative answer to this question.

Hi, A few simple questions: 1 - When copying multiple files via windows, if the destination folder contains a duplicate filename, you get the option to "replace this file, replace all duplicate...

I went to this link http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b91ac197-ffa7-45a7-b1e1-c3457e1b0c1f&DisplayLang=en at Microsoft site downloaded and installed the Office XP Tool:...

Hello folks, Hope someone can help out. Just got a new laptop from HP and I am having a small problem with it! Whenever I customize the toolbars in Internet explorer and Windows explorer and I...

I've read that adding this setting to the registry gives Windows more memory to load desktop icons faster. However, I've read some people say that the correct name should be "MaxCachedIcons" while...

Hello everybody, I have HP Compaq nx7010 laptop with Windows XP Pro. I use the laptop mainly as a web-development machine - I have PHP and MySQL installed on it and also Dreamweaver 8. Couple of days...

When I startup it goes to Chose User to log in no matter which you pick it will say loading your setting.........Blink..(flash of desktop)...saving your settings logging off then back to chose...

When I log on it takes ages to begin any activity. Any programs linked to the start menu take a long time to load. When I interrogate the windows task manager, it frequently show ICC 2000 not...

I am getting the "RPC server is unavailable" when attempting to do variant tasks on my computer like starting the Clip Organizer in Microsoft Word, uninstalling some programs (but not all) and the...

Hey everyone, recently i have noticed that each time i turn on my laptop it tells me there is security updates to be installed and begins to do so... although everysingle time it does this it results...

Hello, I have installed an Win-XP home-network between 2 computers. Logging-in in both computers is done by clicking on a icon (picture). But the logging icons are awfully small and I cannot find a...

I have a windows 2003 server domain with xp clients using roaming profiles. One user however has managed to completely mess up their IE settings to a degree where they need to be reset to default. I...

Word keeps sellecting US English, even though I KEEP setting the default to UK English. Any ideas how I can stop this happening pleas? -- Andy