I have a couple of issues with the Xp Pro SP2, one being that the usb ports are dropped when coming out of standby. I have looked all through the KB and MSN and Google, but cannot find out why this...

Hi, My college daughter has a Dell Inspiron 8600, running XPHome. When she came home for the summer in June, we did a clean install of XPHome. It's been running very nice. She now been back in...

I have WindowsXP1, IE6. For some reason when I am on the internet my computer will freeze up. It's as if no power is going through at all. The mouse and keyboard don't work. The only way to get it...

WU brought up 2 updates for my XP Home Dell, one of which was specifically for Dell with Intel 82845G graphics chip. Upon restart I got the ol' BSOD with physical memory dump, etc. It said...

I have just upgraded to SP2 for WinXpPro and now every time I come out of standby the computer ignores the mouse on the USB port (logitech led mouse) and says that the usb device is not...

when I turn the computer on I get the message "click on user name..." on the blue screen but there is no icon to click on. I cannot get past this to get to the desktop. I have tried starting in...

Whenever I go to the Windows update site it only finds and downloads the Windows Genuine Validation Tool, over and over, and won't go to the next step of finding current patches, etc. This Dell...

So, my computer won't start up. I've got Windows XP. When I turn on my PC, it will load all the way up to the XP loading screen (green scrolling bar), and then it will restart. It will restart over...

My printer has recently started to print a blank page before a document. This has happened in the past. Each time I uninstalled my printer (Epson Stylus Photo 870) and then reinstalled. Previously...

i have a problem with my folders. i can't open it like before, instead of browsing  the folder contents it opens command.exe then  i have to open it by right clicking the folder then open it from...

Hi all, I was beta testing OneCare. It slowed my machine way down. I uninstalled it but it left something behind. I am getting the follow Errors in Application (in event viewer). They look like...

hi, My windows xp home edition has one user account to logon. When I enter the password, Win XP says "loggin on... retrieving user's information...." and then immediately says "logging off", and...

I experienced the same problem of an unresponsive Display icon in the Control Panel. Right clicking in the workspace area and selecting Properties did not work either. I copied the desk.cpl file from...

Since there are 8 bits to a byte there can be a major misunderstanding with abbreviations. Are there standard abbreviations for bits and bytes? I always assumed bits was small b and bytes was capital...

I installed Broadband on Weds this week. I have two users set up, myself and one for my children. As the children reported on Thurs that they could not access the internet, I looked at ways to allow...

On my Win XP home machine I have suddenly lost all hardware devices, i.e., web cam, printer along with my Norton antivirus and SpySweeper programs (which tell me I must reactivate). When I attempt...

Hello All, My OS is Windows XP Pro SP2 I have the following USB devices on my system: Brother HL-1250 Ptinter Epson 1670 Scanner Logitech iFeel Mouse Maxtor OneTouch External Hard Disk

In trying to get rid of spyware called WinFixer or Virtumonde I have tracked it down to a file on the PC called: C:\WINDOWS\$N72CA~1\bak.dll This folder is also the $NtUninstallKB896727$...

MY audio devices is not working no more sound from my speakers and i cannot acces the volume controle did a check said no devices, i can i get the sounds back. seems like it has been uninstalled or...

Help please! XP Home edition I'm trying to launch a newly installed application which requires a validation code, but the "OK" is not highlighted and cannot be accessed in the dialog box. I had...