Hi everyone, I have winxp home sp2 and a main harddrive of 30GB, this is getting rather full due to my purchase of a digital camera. The main 30Gb drive is a Maxtor and works well. The new 250Gb...

Hello. Does anybody know how to get the text from a windows message into a forum message without typing it verbatim from the message itself ? I ask a lot of questions on these forums and it has...

Greetings to all. An issue where I need to remove a couple of hardware keys from the registry, has come up. The items have failed, and I have removed the notations from the "mounted devices" list. I...

I just ran the beta live scanner for Windows and it wiped out my mailbox files. It found viruses in my inbox and in my sent mail, so it simply deleted the entire contents of both folders. Only the...

When using Cakewalk Sonar 5.0 (new product) with latest patches on a new MPC computer (intel motherboard) and Win XP Pro. (Pentium 840 D - dual core, 2GB RAM, ATI X700 with 256 MB VRAM.) This only...

Has anyone ever tried putting the windows system registry files (other than per-user) on a separate partition? I notice on bootup from bootvis, a great deal of accesses to the sys registry,...

The icons for started progs down in the right corner seems to live their own life in my xp computer, sometimes they behave as they should, some times they are gone. Its not so funny cause you'll...

Nice novel, and a work of fiction. No one has been able to prove that a "bloated" registry has any measurable effect on your system's performance - because it doesn't. The effect of "bloat" and...

I have XP Pro. Is there a means to modify the Start Process? Problem... I use MSN Messenger... MSN starts before Internet connection occurs and so the auto feature does not operate... Is there a...

Can someone please recomend a way or product that will help clean my computer, defrag, all the trimmings? My system continues to hang up, operate extremely slow in fact, when I type on the keys,...

In the performance options of Windows (x64 edition) I need to change the processor scheduling to adjust for best performance of background services but this option is greyed out (not changeable from...

Windows XP SP2 w/ 1G memory and HP PSC 950Xi printer. Safe mode is okay, and bootup and shut down are okay. No matter what I click on it takes 5 minutes to respond, plus it also stalls for 5...

I turn my computer on I get a message - Unable to locate Kernek Component: wtKernel - I click OK and the message goes away, but is this causing a problem and what do I do. -- Message posted via...

Will, I, too, cannot restore my PC. I use my PC for word and home. I use SR to go back and forth so I can utilize my home workgroup and then come back to my work domain. Each night I set up a...

I recently loaded an hp printer on my dell laptop. When I logon now, the windows/system 32 folder opens. I don't know why. I tried to uninstall the printer to see if that worked, but it didn't.

Good morning everyone! I just bought a 160 GB external HDD for backups on my WXP Home machine ( the HDD is connected using USB 2.0). I have read in previous posts that I must change the file system...

Hi, I built a new system about a year ago, including a legit copy of XP pro and well-equipped ASUS A8V MB. To complete the upgrade, I built a hardware IDE RAID 1 with 2 160G Maxtor HDDs using the...

I know that I can get dust out of keyboards and the CPU with a computer vacuum but someone asked a question about vacuums and computers that I can't answer ..... would a household vacuum with the...

can anyone help me.. my comp always shuts down automatically, esp when i am surfing websites containing flash, or while playing games. pls help me, TQ...

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