When trying to open My Computer, Control Panel, or Printers and Faxes, I get the following error: explorer.exe - application error The instruction at 0x01001a40 referenced memory at 0x01001a40...

Does anyone know whether this equipment will work properly on Pentium III running on WindowsXP Professional? I want to change my current CD-ROM to this one. On the same question, would DVD-RW also...

Whenever I try to go into stand by mode, the screen goes black, but the lights and the fan stay on. This problem is fairly new (it used to work fine). Why doesn't it go into the regular stand by...

I am running Windows XP home edition, everytime at start up I have 3 windows that come up about shared driver component, one window is the diagnostic traces, the other is drvmcdb and the other is...

I'm uncertain as to why this is happening, but after roughly four days of leaving the computer on I end up getting "Buffer Full" error messages with every program that tries using the Internet. This...

It's an old post that won't stay fixed. i have at home a windows 2000, and an XP machine (which has the printer). the XP machine can access the printer hooked up to the 2000. i select it, it asks...

Couple of days ago I d/l an update from Adobe to version 7. Now when I try to read pdf files on a web site, I get to d/l or save. It will not open file at the web site ?

On XP when you right click on a folder and you select Properties> customize you have an option to make the folder confirm to a template, for example PICTURES. That works for the current folder I have...

Scenario: 1 -- Ran Bootviz on my XPSP2 machine; didn't work; said it couldn't find the .BIN file that should have been generated. 2 -- Started getting warnings that I had no more room on C: 3 --...

I cannot open .pdf or .jpg attachments anymore in outlook. I have to open with adobe 7.0 or save as another type file before i can open. HELP!!!!! -- Linda

Hi Forum, I have an XP Pro laptop that is unable to launch anything--except using file > new task (run) from the task manager. From there, everything seems to work. I cannot launch anything from...

I'm running XP Home. When I hit the Standby button, the computer appears to go into standby but later I find the computer still running and I get the message "Other people are logged onto this...

Hi All, Not sure if this is the right forum or not, but here goes. I want to bypass the New Hardware Wizard the first time I plug in a USB device for which the drivers have already been copied to...

I love XP --- when it works. The other times? Well, romance is a fleeting thing. Here is my issue. I have XPPro installed on my boot drive. (4 HDD on this machine) I was having problems with XP...

Greetings, I have a 2 yeay old Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 120 Gig hard drive, model ID ST3120026AS, divided into 2 X 60 Gig partitions with XP Pro installed. 2 days ago, I noticed a definite...

I have adware poping up whenever I go into I.E. It happened after I installed a Download Manager (removed Now) well now I can't get rid of the crap. I tryed SpySweeper, Ad-Aware SE. I even tryed...

I have a small workgroup consisting of 9 Window XP Professional PCs. All networking and internet connectivity is handled by a broadband modem router with very little configuration options. I'd like...

Is there a way to 'upgrade' MSHTA.exe ??

My laptop crashes if it is left on for any length of time (probably needs fan cleaning) but it also crashes if I try to use Disk Cleanup. This could be almost as scoon as the scan starts or right at...

the service distribution service 2.0 ever since i updated that thru windows it won't let me see various things on the net. anyone know how to get rid of it? thanks B