- 3GB switch in Windows XP Pro
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 6 Comments
Hello I've just upgraded from 1 Gig RAM to 3 Gig. It is (I understand) the maximum this MSI mainboard will accommodate. The board runs 4 SATA by 250 GB disks with a 4000+ AMD thingy Are there...
- XP too slow - How to upgrade RAM
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 6 Comments
I have a Compaq Presario 5WV280 Desktop PC I currently have 128MB RAM. I was given a 512MB from a friend. Can I just add it in the next slot? Does it need to go in the 1st slot since it...
- PC shuts down instead of hibernating
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments
For the past week, my PC has shut down when it was supposed to hibernate. It has been set to hibernate after four hours for two years, but now, I use it in the morning, leave it on, go to work, and...
- USB 2
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments
I recently installed a USB 2 PCI card, and every so often my system hangs. When I re-boot and do into event manager it says: NEC PCI to USB Enhanced Host Cpntroller service failed to start because...
- Windows directory files
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments
I have around 70 files in the Windows directory that I would love to delete; but I don't know if I need them or not. These files all begin with $NTUninstall ...$. Can these files be safely deleted?
- Windows Explorer properties
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 5 Comments
When I right-click a directory in Windows Explorer, and select Properties, nothing happens. I have checked the Event Viewer and no entry appears for it. Any ideas? -- Ken McGourty
- ASR Backup w/o FDD?
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments
I wanted to protect a new HP Multimedia computer with an ASR Backup, but there was no Floppy Disk Drive. What can I can do without buying Ghost?
- spybot is reporting windows security center as spyware
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 3 Comments
Spybots scan gives this file a registry as spyware: windows Security Center.AntiVirusOverride: Settings (Registry change, nothing...
- $NTUninstall*$ files
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 5 Comments
Can these type of files be deleted? I must have around 70 of them in my Windows directory.
- bootmagic / mbr trouble
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments
A while ago I partitioned my hard drive using Partition Magic and tried (without success) to set up a duel boot system. To do this I had to create a Fat32 partition to install Boot Magic onto. ...
- Constant Crashing/Freezing
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 10 Comments
Hi, My daughter's computer crashes and freezes several times a day, whether it's in use or sitting idle. What can be done to fix this? Are there any diagnostic programs that can diagnose or...
- Laptop Latency on foreign networks - RIS, Win XP Pro, GPO & ADS
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments
We have issues with our machines when logging in on a foreign network. These are RIS built Win XP Pro, GPO & ADS maintained machines. (Dells, HPs, IBMs... physical machine doesn't matter). Delay...
- My Background picture transfers to all accounts
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments
When I set a background picture under my account it changes the picture to the same thing on all the other users accounts? How do I fix?
- font sets
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments
In advertising companies they used to use enormous fonts. That too in India there are too many languages. If one add is to be prepared covering all languages, we find difficulties having all language...
- UNable to access configuration for MIcrosoft Personal Web Server
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments
Hi, I'm a newbie here and I've done something wrong on my PC which uses XP Pro with all patches applied and Office 2000 Pro. I had difficulty with Office so I (foolishly) tried to install the...
- CONNECTIVITY
- Posted on January 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments
I have a problem with download in that when I start a download some time later the connection with the server I am downloading from is reset. This only happens when the dowload window appears and not...
- help please commit charge in task manager
- Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 2 Comments
im trying to figure out how to get my commit charege in the lower right hand corner of my task manager to be i MB's and not KB's it used to be in MB's and i dont know how it got switch but i...
- Maintaining Taskbar settings
- Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 1 Comments
Using the WinXP OS. I've changed, repeatedly, the toolbar to the classic setting. Each time I restart my computer the desktop appearance has returned to the XP default. Any suggestions on how to...
- Ram Upgrade causes laptop to turn off?
- Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 8 Comments
My laptop, a Toshiba A70 (PSA70C-ML100E), has 512 RAM preinstalled. I recently purchased 1Gb PC2700 of Kingston RAM(kVR333X64SC25/1G) to run the machine at it's max capacity. It mostly runs...
- VIRTUAL MEMORY
- Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 14 Comments
Okay guys....I changed to s ystem manage size for my RAM and i am still getting the message that i am low on virtual memory. I have basically nothing in this computer so I know it isnt possible to...

