hi and ty...a friend recently put windows xp in my comp i previously had windows 98 2nd edition.. i am trying to play online games and the sites say i need to download jave..when i try to do that...i...

I am using Windows Xp professional . Recently when I right click the mouse over the folder , there is no pop up to let me select the options available to the foloder. However, when I right click...

Found the final nail in my System Restore coffin! Wesley if you catch this your fix (re-install sr.inf) was right. I could not do it as My computer CD was sp1 and I've upgraded to sp2. I finally...

Sorry for the long title. Does anyone know how I would go about de-compressing files on my main hard dirve that were compressed using the disk cleanup utility? It is a bit tedius to go through each...

I once read somewhere the process one goes through to restrict an application or process to using one particular core on a dual core machine. I can't for the life of me find that again. Anyone have...

The Error message that I am getting is "The selected port, COM1, is not available at this time. HotSync Manager will open the port when ir becomes available." I have seen this message today for the...

I have an executable file compiled in C that does numerically intensive calculations that I use as a benchmark of computer performance. I am running Windows XP Service Pack 2. When I run it on one...

Hey anyone who can help. :-) Why dos Windows XP Pro x64 edition completly crash or deep freeze, when playing games. It happend when i'm playing Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Delta Force Black...

Hi, I am running low on time, but my PC is acting up. Mainly I think due to installing Norton AV. I tried uninstalling Norton and it crashed with the "send to Microsoft" dialog. There's nothing I...

My computer gets worse and worse everyday. Today it is pretty much useless. It starts ok, but once my startup programs are loaded, it takes forever to let me open any other programs. I did a...

I just restored my complete hard drive from a backup image (Acronis) that was created few months ago and a great amount of my files and folders are colored blue. Since NONE of the files have been...

stop:c000021a (Fatal System error) windows logon process system terminated...status of 0xc0000005

I have a large number of files under ~ssdfs(2) about 128GB can I delete these as my disc looks rather full down to 6%

My PC is starting to run a bit sluggish and I am planning on doing a clean re-install of XP Home and then go after the updates via the web site. My question is will my PC retain the links to...

What is Rundll32.exe SisPower.dll Mode Agent? It is in my startup list and I was wondering if this is something I need or can I disable it? Thanks, Kemm

I have turned off all internet security programs and am still having problems uploading documents and files to any website no matter which browser I use. Some please help me!

One of my clients is reporting that her computer display goes blank perioidically and the only way she can get back on the system is powering it off then on. When the display goes blank, the power...

I came back to my computer which had been running ok apart from a couple of crashes when trying to download a Photoshop 'action'. Now the green power button and the red hard drive button are on,...

When one does a System Restore, does it also include the Biosfor that date?

When one does a System Restore, does it also include the Biosfor that date?