Hi. I've been trying to diagnose a small but annoying problem on my Dell notebook. As long as I've had it (3+ months), the power management worked flawlessly. I have a "system password" set in the...

Hello, I just purchased a new hard drive for my computer. I would like to copy all of my files from my old drive to the new drive. Is there a easy, and safe way to do it, without messing up...

In my desktop "winlogon.exe" taking very huge memory (approx 1,566,766K of vertual memory with in few minits). It causing "vertual memory min too low" error msg. How I can minimize the vertual memory...

I have reconfigured check disk with the autocheck autochk* command in regedit and the defragmentation will still not run, rebooted system it skipped the chkdsk but when attempting to run defrag...

Last Christmas I bought my wife an HP laptop and it works fine, except the last few months it is very slow starting up. I have closed all background programs (only essential programs) even tried in...

A user of my computer dawnloaded limeware and azureus. I have 4 services listed related to peer networks that i am unfamiliar with and I would like to know whether they are likely to be related to...

When I do a restart my system boots fine. However, when I do a boot from a cold power up, my system will hang and not complete the startup cycle completely and I even have to shut off my system by...

I purchased my Compaq Presario R3200E5 (AMD Athlon) last year in Sweden. At the time the Windows XP Home edition was installed and it asked for Language preference and I obviously chose English. I...

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There are 42 folders in my c:/.../WINDOWS folder titled "$NtUninstallKBnnnnnn$" where the n's are a sequence of numbers. Each of these folders have one subfolder titled "spuninst". Are these...

My computer will hang if I attemt to use windows media player, try to run an outside game such as sims, or try to run a game online, such as web sites like gamesville. My system event viewer shows an...

Hi, I an facing a new problem that , A new profile geting created in many of the systems saying that unable to load your profile it is creating temp profile tolog on. Please help me give any...

I am unable to simply copy and paste the folder "My Documents" from "C" drive to a removeable drive. I want to do this for back up protection. Can you help? Thanks Bob

I recently restored my main boot partition after deleting it by accident. I have gotten to the point where I can boot into windows using a floppy disk with boot.ini, ntdetect, and ntldr on it. When...

Hello to all. I have just noticed a problem. I tried to access windows updatethe following setting has to be enabled, and got a blank screen instead. I finally went into the...

How much physical RAM will XP support? My computermanufacturer says 2.7GB, but the MOBO manufacturer says 4GB! TIA for any info...

Every time I try to restart or shutdown in xp pro, I recieve a not responding error box & I have to end task before my computer will shut down.The problem is with explorer, not internet explorer,...

I've recently upgraded to XP SP2. I now find that in Windows Task Manager the number of handles for the system process increases by about 250,000 per day. Performance gradually decreases too. I...

A "Safelly Remove Hardware" icon in the tray shows that my SATA Drive can be safelly removed. Why would it appear that I want to remove a HD, and how can I disable it from showing?

We have a custom application that runs on Windows XP. Would would like to use the Restore Point feature of the operating system for our field service personnel. Is it possible to edit the...