I have an intel pent III processor 596 mhz 384 of ram. I am running a 4g hard drive,old and used. I found a 120g hard drive for a god price. How do I know if it is compatable. Nw hard drive says...

I just updated my graphics driver, and was told,I needed to have MS.NET Framework SP 1 installed for the driver update to be effective. On checking updates, it has been downloaded but has failed to...

In the event viewer I am getting this error message constantly 10 times every second. How do I diagnose the source of this error?

After defrag, I see a number of 'files' listed as still fragmented. All 60 bytes. I think they are folders, not files as such, and they might have as few as 2 or as many as 17 fragments, but 8...

How do i get XP home to acknowledge that over a year ago i activated windows. why should I have to do it again.

Went to use the Canon Easy Photo Print software yesterday which immediately produced an error that it couldn't complete followed by Dr.Watson -Portions of the first part of the log enclosed...

Hello everyone, I am using WinXP Pro. I was wondering if I installed a driver or a program or made user setting changes and it caused problems with my system will a system restore bring back my...

I would like to know how to overclock my system to make it faster than what it is, what are the bad and good points of overclocking and is there any other option apart from overclocking to speed up...

Looking to do a little cleanup and removal of garbage stored on my computer. How can I find out what logs are stored on my computer and which ones can be removed safely? Thanks

KB896422 was installed via automatic updates. My uninstaller program has shown it as corrupt so I have uninstalled it. It was described as 'critical' so I would like to re-install it. I do not know...

Hi Sorry I have a bit of a sillly question. I have successfully rolled back my system using system restore to a date before I got a popup virus that Norton was unable to remove. The virus...

Several problems recently (XP home) - connected? 1) Starting recently, a long delay on startup, from time desktop appears to when I can start significant applications. I've taken to playing 2 or 3...

I made some image changes for my children and the user account images have gone haywire. As I result, I believe I have deleted an intergral part of the system that links images to the start up...

I'm getting non-paged memory ramped up to failure twice daily; this had started to occur several weeks ago but is now very pronounced. Spyware free, virus free, firewalls etc all updated and...

Windows-Based computer will not boot into Windows XP and invoking Safe Mode does not fix the problem. I have tried Safe Mode Safe Mode with Networking, Safe Mode with Command Prompt, Last Known...

i have a pent III with 384 ram and a 10 year old 4g hard drive. To increase speed..do I get more Ram? 512(with 3 memory slots on mother board)or get a new larger hard drive

I came to Newsgroups in the hopes of finding an answer to usb problems and Win XP but I see the problem is everywhere. My new Dell computer has since had 2 new mother boards, 3 wireless mice/keyboard...

The XP Memory Manager does not use "unused(free) physical memory" before using the page file on the hard drive. Is there a registry setting I can use that will modify that?

I just bought a 160G external hard drive so I can do full backups of three of my computers. Using the WinXPpro wizard I backed up the first computer OK. However, the computer doesn't have a floppy...

tried to run chkdsk/f from command prompt - keep getting error msg cannot lock current drive.... tried again from my computer but keep getting msg windows explorer has encountered a problem. ...