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Windows Hanging
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Hi, I'm getting a problem moving round in certain areas of XP pro. When I try do do things like view the device manager or delete history files, things are kind of locking up. AOL and stuff seems...

Safety Center
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

S have tried to download Windows Download Safety Center but it only downloads 19%. Am I doing something wrong. I'm on dial-up. --

Startup & Services
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Wife's computer quite suddenly started running VERY slowly at startup. I believe I have only three issues as of yet. 1) Have not run Spybot or AdAware yet, but wondering how to remove delete...

BPI Privilege Club - creating the future
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

BPI Privilege Club - creating the future On Joining BPI Privilege Club, you will get Business Web Catalog with detailed information about your business/profession in our...

System Idle Process - Slowing System
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I think I understand system idle process as calculating free processes... and that it should calculate whilst the system is indeed idle?? But whilst working in, say, Photoshop (which is slow enough...

Stange Reboot issues
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 2 Comments

After i partitioned my drive al was fine, it formatted and worked. But when i turned it off for the night in the morning i cannot make it go again. It gets to desktop, and then breifly flashes a blue...

How to delete Recovery Console on boot sequence ?
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 1 Comments

After using Recovery Console to REPAIR WXP Pro it is possible to delete the log on sequence message concerning OS choices. MS Documents 307654 and 216417 both explain how to delete the recovery...

Internet Explorer broken?
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 8 Comments

I think my installation of Internet Explorer, if it can be called that, is damaged somehow. Some websites don't look right in the Internet Explorer window, and I cannot access others. This...

XP CPU usage at 99%
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 2 Comments

My PC frequently slows down to a crawl and I've discovered that when it does, explorer.exe is using 99% of the CPU. Why is this and how can I correct this problem? Do I have any processes running...

loss of power options
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Somehow my power options have been deleted. I tried going to http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm, saved it to my hard drive and then clicked on run. Nothing. Any help would be...

PC shuts down instead of hibernating
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

For two years, my PC has been set to hibernate after four hours, and has done so without incident. Over the last week, everytime the computer should hibernate, it actually shuts itself down. That...

memory
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 12 Comments

Hi..I hope someone can help me...first off i should tell u i am running windows xp home edition...computer is File system: FAT32...Free Space: 79.7 GB...total 93.1 GB... Okay my problem: I...

mysteriously sudden slow computer
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 19 Comments

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 at 2.2 with 1 GB RAM and 20 GB free on a 120 GB hard drive. XP SP1 All of a sudden the computer is running at ½ to ¼ speed. Even bootup is taking twice as...

Re: task manager disabled by administartor
Posted on January 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Thank-you Carey! It worked!! Great advice!! Ya made my day!!!- "Carey Frisch " wrote: > Enable or Disable Task Manager for the Current User >...

>Nail.exe, Drpmon.dll & aurora<
Posted on January 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments

I'm battling malware that doesn't want to go away. I can't find the >root< of the problem because the same stuff keeps coming up after I scan and delete the mess. Examples... WINDOWS\Nail.exe \\ ...

Can not safely remove mass storage
Posted on January 13th, 2006 | 2 Comments

Hello Group, About a month and a half ago something within my configuration changed and I think it may have been during an update. Regardless of the USB or Firewire connection or device (300 GB...

How to delete Recovery Console question on boot sequence ?
Posted on January 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments

bios
Posted on January 13th, 2006 | 5 Comments

how do u shadow your bios? i have a asus p4c800? i cant find an option?

2 sets of windows on my hard drive
Posted on January 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments

Is there a way of getting rid of 1 set of windows. I am able to go to either one when I start up but I would like to erase one so I have more space in the one I use regularly.

Is there a way to change the default conditions
Posted on January 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments

that the system Idle process uses to determine that the machine is idle? For instance I know that it checks if 1. There is no user input 2. The CPU and disk usage is less than 10 percent 3. The...