here are winfixers phone numbers. the numbers are for billingnow.com. they are all part of the same scam winsoftware which is winfixer. 800 755-5909. 202 904 2212 and 519 488 5191. they will ask you...

Does anyone know of a good tool, to migrate user settings, applications and other files, from an older Windows XP Pro system to a new one? (Going from IDE to SATA drives?) I'd like to be able to...

I am running Win XP Home OEM on a P4 3.2 GHz comp. with 1 GB ram. When I change the Display settings to Windows Classic (appearance and themes), click Apply/OK, the settings automatically change to...

When I start XP under normal conditions, I get a login screen that has an extremely low resolution (I don't even think it's at 640x480) and 4-bit colour. If I try to login I get error messages about...

recently had to reformat my hard drive, and the boot.ini file now has 2 partitions on it, presumably one is the old install of xp, one the new. how do i know which one to get rid of? If i go...

Why does my phone ring come thru my pc speakers and wake it up? This never happened before. But just started when I re-installed my os. Thanks, Paul

I have a dell inspiron 8600 that just crashed. When I booted up the machine today I got the message "Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:...

Hello This is a more fleshed out variant of the problem i described in "0x0000008E" Recently my computer became very unstable (it would die randomly, although it would happen more often if programs...

Hi My computer recently became unstable to the point where i had to wipe the hard drive and reinstall windows...but of course, it doesn't work; I keep getting the blue screen of death, and an...

Original Message: >I have short-cuts to several folder. >The folders used to open in the "Folder View" with the "Tasks Side Bar" on >the left. >Now they all open in Windows Explorer with the full...

Hello everyone. I hope you can help me, im stuck for ideas on this one. I recently tried to create a new partition on my laptop using partition magic. However the program crashed in the middle of...

Hey gang, When I start Windows, the Volume icon does not appear in the system tray, even though "Place volume icon in the taskbar" is selected under the Sounds and Audio Devices control panel. The...

Hey gang, When I start Windows, the Volume icon does not appear in the system tray, even though "Place volume icon in the taskbar" is selected under the Sounds and Audio Devices control panel. The...

I followed 'these' (http://tinyurl.com/6l9sm) instructions from Microsoft.com, and it was all fine up until step 5 when it says to press R to repair Windows XP. None of the options on my screen are...

Is there a way to control the volume of windows Media Center independent of the master volume control of the computer? I would like to run its live TV mode in a window, and muted, while working on...

Hi all I have recently run into a major net connection problem. Neither Internet Explorer or Firefox are working correctly; they tell me they fail to find my startpage. I have tried other addresses...

I have a clean system working well in all respects except that I can't make hibernation work as it should. If I set to hibernate after 1, 2, 3, 5, 10 or 15 minutes all works ok. If I set to...

Just wondering if anyone knows a way to restrict access to the internet on a per user account basis on my xp pro sp2 machine. I want to keep my kids from doing anything on the internet but i want to...

I turned on the computer and a blue screen appeared "checking file system on C: the type of file is NTFS the volume is dirty and goes on to check other things but then is just stops after the...

every time I use word or excell and save it to the desktop, when i open it again I get a message about not being able to open the second one and do I want to makle a copy ?