All any windows upgrade cares about is the product qualification in the install media or installed in the hard drive. It does not care about any former product key, its not asked for, and the...

I have to type regedit.exe in to the run box to get the registry editor to run. If I type regidit without the exe It would appers that a programme called regedit.com runs. This is also the problem...

My son, Son, set up his preferences for his desktop and other things, I guess, using the default Administrator identity. My husband, Dad, wants to be a new user, but when we created his identity, the...

When I position my mouse pointer over certain items, such as items in the Start menu list, the items indicated by the > symbol do not appear immediately, as they used to. When I click on the...

Is there a way to get rid of this message entirely on trusted sites?

I need to reinstall XP on the same disk as before but don't wish to wipe the disk or anything. Can anyone tell me if the following will work? 1. Create a separate primary partition (say, D:) on the...

I have Windows XP on my Dell notebook. The default pointer is very small. Clicking on the Mouse icon on My Computer, I selected a larger pointer and saved it to a file name. However, when I shut ...

I see the money and resources that Microsoft pump into anti-piracy - activation, etc, and I wonder if perhaps there is a far easier way for them to stamp out the appeal of pirate copies of XP. Why...

Would I run into trouble if I ran w98 SYSMON under W xp?

I've read through the posts that show up in google - groups but nothing suggested has worked for this customer's machine, so here goes... Original Symptoms: XP Home SP2 machine that had been working...

Hi, When I start my computer (XP Home) everything loads fine and after about 10 seconds all my icons inclusing the start bar etc goes from the screen. I can Ctrl, Alt, Delete and run explorer.exe and...

Hi, I installed a Lexmark local printer successfully. I can print to it. It appears in the printers and faxes window. Whenever I restart the PC, I get a new hardware wizard the appears and...

Hello Everybody, What is the maximum number of characters allowed in a file name in WindowsXP environment? Thank you, -- Syed Zeeshan Haider

hi, i live in mexico and have a dsl broadband conection with my windows computer, right now i have the wired modem speedstream 5200 with is pretty good (in fact i turn it from bridge to router and...

Hex Workshop 3.x used to work for me, until one day (can't remember what happened), the Data Inspector display nothing but ?m*two squares*_*two squares again* , and this both for the titles and...

After deleting java some programs that use java dont work, I redownloaded it from java's site and these programs still dont work. what can i do?

I am trying to create a login script for my clients network that imports a single registry entry. (The entry that apppears on the right hand side of the screen of the regedit window). I do an export...

What do two little arrows in a white box in the lower left hand side on all of the icons in one specific folder. One arrow points up and the other points down almost like a circle. Does anyone know...

I tried to get Windows Updates. After I clicked run for the updates I received a message that I had a corrupt file and that I need to run a scan disk to check for errors. I set the error scan for...

Hello! I'm having problems with Windows XP. It crashes often... blue screen with message about ati3dl1ag.dll not working properly. Can anyone help me fix this problem? Thank you! Gabriela