Whe ever I place my pc in standby mode, it imediately wakes, but as soon as it does, it is frozen, the screen remains black, and the keyboard and mouse recieve no power

I'm running XP Home SP1 (I aint bothering with SP2, 75mb of junk! Besides SP1 works fine). I'm thinking of upgrading to a dual-core AMD 64-bit PC, with at least 4Gb of DDR RAM. Will XP Home SP1 work...

I have a folder tat contains about 4000 music files at an average of about 4mb each. I reckon this should take up something in the region of 12gb. It's taking up 24gb. I've got show hidden files...

I turned off Hibernate and rebooted but I still have a BIG hiberfile.sys As an experiment I tried changing the name and was told the file is in use. How can I get rid of it? I assume it would get...

I want to erase a password on the popup list that Windows provides when I visit a website that requires a password. You know, the list that comes down and gives all the passwords you've used in...

Hi, Why is it that when I'm in the c drive or my music folder, when I double click the folder, it brings up the search box and when I right click those folders, the search option is in bold? How can...

I created a spreadsheet using Works Spreadsheet, but saved it as a Word document in error. Is there any way of resaving/opening it as a Works Spreadhseet so I can read it?

have a Hotmail account in my Outlook 2003. When I get an e-mail with a large attachment (3mb+) to my Hotmail account, Outlook locks up. I don't have this problem e-mailling from the Hotmail account...

I had a spyware problem that subsequently ran through my allowed number of "activations" on my Windows XP Home OS. I need to reinstall Windows XP to "reset" the counter, but my CD-ROM is fried. I...

Although XP offers IIs 5.1 it does not offer NNTP. What is the easiest and quickest way to add NNTP? 3rd party NNTP software, upgrade to Server 2003 or move to Linux?

Volume (C:) has a 12-Bit FAT Partition Disk Defragmenter does not support 12-Bit FAT Partition to use Dick Defragmenter you must upgrade to a 16-Bit FAT, FAT 32, or NTFS file system. This is what...

Hey, I recently got infected by some very annoying ad-ware, I spent hours finding the source & gettin rid of it off my windows XP os but im left with my actual desktop thinking its like a folder. I...

Hi, I uninstalled Photoshop Elements 2.0 and now the icons in the Control Panel of Windows XP disappeared. Can I get them back in any way please ? Thanks

Task manager no longer displays an icon near the taskbar clock. I have tried everything that I can think of doing w/no luck. Anybody know how to correct this?

I have a program that needs to have turned off advanced text services. But when I access Properties, I only get this menu: http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a104/dktekno/nomenu.jpg Where it was...

i have a PC with XP Pro ... i wanna install XP Media Center Edition (MCE), which requires a clean install ... my plan is to install XP MCE into the existing C:\Windows dir and therefore overwrite...

For some reason my Icons on my desk top have a funny looking rectangle on them. Please see the attached picture. I would like to know how to get rid of this. If I change the icon of a program the...

In the process of System Recovery on my HP Pavilion a600n, I received the following message: STOP: c0000218 {Registry File Failure} The registry cannot load the hive...

Hi, I have p4 with 80gb HD having three partitions. C D E On C I installed XP and on D win-98 system has dual boot option at starting, either go choose XP or win98 by mistake I totally deleted...