My defrag of C drive doesn't go past 3% before ending the program. I've tried System Restore, Trying it from safe mode, unchecking the start up programs from msconfig, and still get the same results....

Windows XP Was cleaning startup and accidently disabled required file. Computer continually restarts. Tried safe mode and restarting in last know working condition, didn't work. Still just...

This problem has been going on since about March of 2005. The computer I built a month sooner started to randomly reset itself. Generally before it does, the computer will kind of freeze for a...

I have been running XP Media centre Edition 2005 with all fixes and updates from MS update installed on an AMD 2500 / 1 gb for a while with no problems .... then the system froze with no indication...

Got the above error on an XP Pro stand alone which has been up for almost a year after clients sons from college showed a music based slide show from a thumb drive. Then the above error showed up. ...

Hi, I have 8 GB partiion on which I have my XP installed. I have a lot of applications installed on the same drive(not that many which can fill up the whole disk). Since the last 3 weeks it started...

I have already tried system restore, but that doesn't restore my settings regarding: fonts, theme's, desktop preferences etc. What do I need to do to restore all of these to what they were from the...

I find this message when I, the comp administrator, logs on sometimes and am told some things may now be available while virtual memory paging is being increased. Is this something i should tend to?...

Have adaware 6.0 and Norton antivirous corperate addition. Have run both, and deleted several trojan virus. The little red x keeps displaying a balloon telling me there is spyware, click here for...

Hello. My comp has been occasionally getting busy--extremely so-- at times. The reason of this is unknown, and in extreme cases the screen goes black and no response whasoever can be invoked from it....

I know that MS don't support PowerToys - but perhaps someone else has an answer for me. I configure the four Desktop Images on the Menu for Desktop Manager and have a different Wallpaper for each...

i have had flight simulator 2004 on my system for a while now and had a small problem with crashes but since i have just installed combat flight simulator3 my system keeps on giving me the blue...

For the last days I experience an annoying problem with xp. Every few seconds it seems like my computer freezes and then after half a second cotinues normaly. It doesn't matter durin normal use, but...

Hi guys After some thinking i thought it was about time i got my self into a good backup routine (something I've never done before), I've got hundreds of photos of our new baby and lots of documents...

I've installed the backup utility and when I run the wizard I get the following message: BACKUP UTILITY The backup file could not be used. "E:\Backup.bkf" Please ensure it is a valid path, and...

I suspect that my hard drive has been contaminated with spyware that I can't identify, and some that I can't remove. Does it make sense to wipe the drive and reinstall all software to purge the...

Hello, If this topic is covered somewhere else, please let me know. I've defrag my drive and I always get a few files that have 32,796 fragments on a 500meg file. 2,100 fragments on another 500meg...

Security Fix warned readers on Wednesday about thousands of malicious Web sites that are using an unpatched Windows security hole to install spyware, spam-ware and other programs on computers when...

I recently tried to install a Dell 540 photo printer on my Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop running Windows XP Home. I eventually got the laptop to recognize the printer but it wouldn't print. I soon gave...