Hello all, This is something that has just started recently. When looking at network drives/folders (and maybe local drives/folders), windows explorer no longer refreshes automatically. Not even...

A new intermittent problem appeared a few days ago. At times when I click on a shortcut on the desktop the Properties dialog box opens rather than the file or program. If I reboot, the computer works...

Since last week while working away on my system some icons in the taskbar will look like 8-bit colour (mainly the Microsoft Outlook icon) when this happens I can not click any icons on the desktop...

My PC seems to be taking longer and longer to boot up, at least 3 mins, and just now took 3 boot ups to get going at all, freezing up each time. The PC is fairly newish - 1 year old. XP Home Edition....

This has been happening for as long as I can remember (in terms of this PC's life) but basically... It seems like my computer lags up if, well.. Seemingly for no reason. I've noticed that whenever I...

On all my computers, with Windows 2000 and up (apparently it should work lower NT versions as well) I can rename an executable that is currently running with either a MoveFile inside the program, or...

My computer has started acting weird lately and I don't really know why. I need to restart it quite often after only using a few programs because it either freezes or is so ungodly slow, that I can't...

When I boot, I get a messsage: Press F1 to continue or Escape for Bios Soft Menu. I'd like to get rid of the annoying message so my machine can continue to boot w/ou interruption. Everything in the...

Several months ago I downloaded the Winter Fun Pack wallpaper from the Microsoft website. During the last several weeks I have attempted to change the wallpaper to something different on numerous...

anyone any ideas why I cannot get any command line commands to work? Simple things like ping and ipconfig get a response saying the command is not recognised.

Have read all the posts. I have 2 computers both on Windows XP. Enabled printer sharing on one, went to the other and did the Add Printer and it cud not find the name which I put as...

I have a workgroup with several NT4, Win2K and XP systems. There is one XP system that can go to all the systems in the workgroup without any problems. What happens is that if I am on one of the...

Hi. I need to reformat some computers on our network, and for access reasons they must run on XP SP1. Does anyone know if there's a way I can get my hands on a full version of this? I've checked with...

Suddenly my gmail, hotmail and picasa will not send out pictures, either new or forwarded. I don't know what happened. I have had no problems before and made no changes myself. Am wondering if...

What's Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000? Based on my totally unscientific observations, it seems to be popular with users whose confusion level is second only to that of Web TV users.

Is this a desirable or undesirable feature. As long as I am working at my computer, XP Home Edition, I.E. Explorer 6, everything is fine. When I close the applications and leave my Microsoft bliss...

My laptop XP machine has begun behaving strangely. Tasks that should run at boot do not run. If I schedule a boot-time chkdsk, it doesn't run and XP sails ahead with a normal boot. If I set up...

Hi All; When I am trying to drag and drop bewteen defferent opened folder in the desktop in Windows XP, I receive error message: "there is not enough space to copy files...." . How can I fix that...

Hello, A few days ago I ran Disk Cleanup and deleted all the files that popped up, including the ones that weren't checked by default. Since then, my computer (a T30 running Windows XP) has been...

Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP2. Under System Properties, Performance Options, Visual Effects, "Let Windows choose what's best" is checked. Under Control Panel, Display,...