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RE: hard drive part. unusually full
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 0 Comments

This little app will give you a good visualization of all files on your drives partitions in color.. http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/ j;-j "soaring glory" wrote:

enabling task manager
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 1 Comments

My task manager is disabled...how do i enable it?

Making My Computer Faster!!!
Posted on March 8th, 2006 | 7 Comments

I have heard that it is as simple as turning off a few background programs to increase the speed of my computer so that they only run when they need to... however i have not been able to find any way...

PLEASE HELP!! My XP doesnt always start up when i turn on my pc.
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Any help would be hugely appreciated. i've had my pc just over a year & lately it doesn't always start when i turn it on. it freezes on the packard bell page. . when i do get in my keyboard doesn't...

>>Sometimes It Starts... SOMETIMES NOT<<
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I have a system that's about 2yrs old, no more than 3. It's running a celeron 1.7 and has 128megs of RAM. It's gotten to the point that sometimes it starts up when you hit the power button and other...

sys tray - no minimized programs
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

After running windows update, when I minimize a program, its not minimized in the system tray. I've removed/uninstalled the windows update - no help I've tried to do a system restore to an earlier...

viewing/importing jpegs crashes Windows directory
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Please help if you can, as I'm in my last few months of a 3 year university course, and this problem is affecting my ability to produce documents. Thanks!! I have many jpegs in my directory,...

weird battery
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I poster before "battery not charging". My ac charger has the led light that lights up meaning it has power, it shows power on my computer, it shows the charging light on my computer. Still the meter...

Computer Automatic Shutdown when run Anti Virus Program
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi I have this problem several days already. First it happen when I run my DVD Backup. My comp. was shutting down by itsefl without any notice after I run the DVD Backup program for a little while....

Computer Automatic Shutdown when run Anti Virus Program
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi I have this problem several days already. First it happen when I run my DVD Backup. My comp. was shutting down by itsefl without any notice after I run the DVD Backup program for a little while....

Re: Off topic - but nowhere to find out WHAT a given newsgroup is for
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Why don't you ask whatever question that you have and if this is the wrong place, someone will suggest a more appropriate newsgroup. microsoft.public.windowsxp.general is usually a good place to...

Re: I have a question for all to see.
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Loggster wrote: You might try Spinrite 6. I have used the program since the days of DOS and it has paid for itself many times over. It fits on a single floppy and will repair a lot of drives that...

Re: Sudden Restart
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am having the exact same problems with my computer at the moment =( I have formatted and reinstalled windows three times so far. I was wondering if anyone had yet resolved this problem and...

Have two XP os's on same partition on a basic drive
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 1 Comments

The original os that came with the computer still works but in an overzealous (and ignorant) attempt to fix several problems I installed the same os on the same partition. I can't access the newer os...

removing the win98 folder
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I have win xp installed. I want to know if I can remove the win98 folder to free up space without hurting anything. thanks

XP Home becoming VERY sluggish
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Greetings all :) I've noticed in the last 3 weeks or so that my computer is VERY slow to start programs after a fresh boot (I turn it off every night). For example, it can take up to one full...

Sudden Loss of Disk Space
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

After running Ulead Video Studio to create a video file in the Documents Folder, the size of the documents folder is listed by Windows Explorer as apx. 30GB. Tje hard drive is 40GB and the rest of...

support.com protecting ????
Posted on March 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Is anyone familiar with something called Support.com Protecting? Every once in a while, maybe once a week (at least when I catch it) I see this DNA like spiral on my Sys-tray. It is spinning. If I...

CPU Running at 100% after installing Norton
Posted on March 6th, 2006 | 1 Comments

My CPU has been running at 100% consistantly for the past several days since I have installed Norton Security 2006. Explorer.exe seems to be taking up at least 90% of capacity consistant. Anyone...

QUERY: funny story... & woes :S
Posted on March 6th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi am wondering what's the best way (or program) to scandisk of a Windows 2000 Advanced Server - that has both FAT32 & NTFS partitions. I was just using checking out over 26000 files from SVN...