About a week ago my computer started screwing up. When you turned it on it would act like it was going to start but then instead of going to the Windows start screen it would go to a screen with a...

Recently (the past two days or so) I have noticed that my XP HE PC now asks me to log-on my ID to allow Windows to continue to load on booting up? After logging on my ID, Windows loads up as...

I've got a machine with Windows XP home that hangs for about an hour on the splash screen before it will display the login screen. Once it has the login screen it seems to act normally. I can,...

i am having problems with my keyboard when i am typing numbers this is what i get !"£$%^&*( yet my num lock is on and to type lower case letters i have to put caps lock on otherwise they all be...

I like to read Japanese contemporary fiction in Japanese, and I've finally found a site that will sell me such fiction in digital form. The hitch is that the site says my operating system must be "a...

After applying a Microsoft monthly update the Help menu will not load on my computer. All the other systems (Settings, Control Panel, etc) have no problem. I have 768MB of memory and am running XP...

For what it is worth, I had removed KB908531 update because of problems. Today I checked and had a KB908531 update waiting to be sent to me. I updated my pc with that update and it looks like problem...

hi ,i wanted to start a cd but when i opened my computer as usual ,to press the icon that starts cd's and dvd's i didn't find this icon ,i tryed for long time ,but still i can't find it .also i tryed...

On more and more websites I get no pictures, only a blank box with an x in it, also I cannot get e-cards

My computer came with Microsoft Frontpage on it. It got deleted and now the only thing on my computer is some files that don't get deleted when FrontPage is deleted. What can I do to get it...

A colleague's computer (XP Pro SP2) is displaying an odd problem: when the user tries to open 'My Computer', a window appears saying "Data execution prevention" and then offers the option to close...

I got one of the few blue screens of death a little bit ago, hence the subject line descriptor, and am trying to figure out if there's something I can do to eleviate the prob XP thinks it has. I...

My nieghbour has downloaded a Huge file (780Mb) which he now wants to delete. When he tries to delete it he gets a message that "the file cannot be deleted because it is being used by another prog....

I have windows XP SP2 (or windows server 2003 SP1) with DEP setted to OptOut (enable DEP for all program). Should I add all my programs in the list of exceptions to be able to use them or some...

Hi, A friend of mine had an infected XP SP2 installation. After cleaning the viruses, adware etc, there is a persistent problem: Some programs (especially setup programs) won't run. I performed a...

Reboots instead on power-down. When I go to shut down my PC, it goes through the motions of Saving Settings, Shutting Down, Power Interupts (stutters) but then it reboots itself and comes back to...

I recently had a series of problems that caused me to have to install a new copy of XP (Home). Now whenever I try to use the drop-down lists to find, open or save files, the system hangs - sometimes...

I have recently run into an issue with System Information (msinfo32.exe). At first I had a problem similar to others in that when I executed the msinfo32.exe file, it opened "Help And Support". I...

Make Excel 2003 my default Excel program. Right now everytime I open an Excel spreadsheet it opens Excel2000. I only need 2000 to open certain files. Is there a way to make it so that 2003 opens...

When I attempt to run the "error-check" function. It will start for a few seconds a minute. Quick flash of blue screen. Then it reboots and repeats itself until you exit the "error-check". ...