Hello all...a few days ago I ran a PC safety scan using Windows Live Safety Centre. Since that time, I have been having trouble with my PC (on Windows XP Professional) freezing intermittently whilst...

Whenever I try to do somthin in MS- DOS it gives me this error: NTVDM CPU encountered illegal instruction... It give me this when I am trying to configer my IP address. Plz post help!

i have a win xp ver5.1 & a XP sp2 installed.i dialup to internet by WinXp v5. 1.lately ,crash my PC or show a BLUE PAGE ERROR , in moment of it connect to internet. i am not e Amature User but ,i can...

Out of the blue so to speak my start up time is about 2 minutes.Windows XP. 768 Ram. P4 1.8 gh 250 g hard drive. This is the Error message I get in the Event Center: Event ID: 7026 Source: Service...

my Compaq laptop was not closing programs very slow or else gave a message that it was busy. So I turned it off and now windows will not restart

I have dell desktop, its working fine but when i try to shut down, some time it does not shut down, some time it takes 4-5 minutes and while shutting down it shows thats its ending some programs like...

I have a Gateway Brookings with 800 MHz Intel Celeron.256K memory is installed. 20 Gig Hard Drive. It keeps stopping and has to "hiccup" frequently. I have run ckdisk and disk cleanup. When...

recycle bin doesnt work after i ran windows live safety center. recovery or norton goback wont go back to a time before the scan was run. -- shap

In trying to defrag my hard drive, got a message that said I needed to run check disk first. I've discovered the disk is marked as dirty. So I attempt to run chkdsk, get a message says 'cannot lock...

I have 2 hard-drives. The 1st hard drive is nearly full. The 2nd hard drive has lots of space. When I try to move files/programs, etc from hard drive #1 to the 2nd one to have more space, Some of...

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I recently bought an 80 GB external drive to use as a backup to my computer. I ran XP's Backup Utility and directed it to send files and folders to the new drive. I am only backing up about 10.1 GB,...

I need to detect when "New Hardware Found" is in progress and pause a script until it is completed. Not an issue every time so I need to trap for it. Ideas?

For sometime now my computer has been suffering very slow startup times. The actual boot-time is fine, but its when the exporer shell loads that half the system seems to have freezed for about 3...

Using WXP Home (completely up to date with updates). I have recently installed a gigabyte wireless adapter, to share a cable internet connection thru a gigabyte wireless router. (ie there is a...

Oh my gosh you may be suprised when i tell you this so prepare yourself...:) My labtop (only 6months old) is running real slow. I did the disk clean up, removed temp files, and removed un needed...

I connected a HDD from another PC to my PC to copy files across. When I did this my PC didn't recognise the other HDD and asked to rename the drive which I did, but it looks like in the process it...

AMD 64 3500+ 1GB RAM 256 7800 GTX ASUS A8N SLI DLX All of a sudden XP is slow to load all my programs even the task bar, i've done a spyware scan using spybot and a virus scan using zonealarm,...

Hi there, I was pretty sure Windows XP included a neat application which would show all the programs, registry settings, ect. that are loaded during startup. There were several tabs, and it allowed...

Hi, I'm using a Windows XP SP2 notebook & when it boots up there is a long delay. After I get the XP Welcome screen & audible, the Wallpaper background comes up but no Desktop icons and it sits...