Don't know how I did it, whether it was spyware or cleaning the regristy but my explorer has flipped out. Here's a sample, on the left side of the window we have the desktop, drive C, the folders for...

I installed NTBackup utility and the shortcut was in the CP/Performance & Maintenance, but for some reason it has disappeared...anyone know why - any way to put it back in there? I still have access...

My Win XP Home SP2 system will not shut down. I have gone through everything in the aumha_org_win5_ . . . . file with no success. When I click on Turn Off, the hourglass appears for one second but...

My % Processor oscillates from <5% to 30-90 % with a 3-second period. It's the same with no applications running (minimized in the task bar) and with up to 6-10 applications. The task manager shows...

I tried to read a damaged disk in my DVD-ROM drive and I assume it slowed down to try to read it better, but now anything I try to read in that drive is very slow. While my second drive (the burner)...

Good Morning, I have a problem with one of my users computesr, and I've been beating my head for three days trying to figure it out. On a Windows 2k SP4 system, (A Dell Dimension 2350, as if that...

Why do I lose all my restore points and my restore system program shut down when I re-boot my pc? Andy.

Hello, I have a "funny" story on a laptop Dell Inspiron with XP sp2 and a Fujitsu MHV2060AH (60 Gb) which contains about only 6 Gb of datas 1/ The notebook boots but xp don't starts. After some...

am going crazy over here.i have windows xp.you know how you can go into control panel -performance maintenace ) to access your disk cleanup and disk defragmenter, well it was working fine,i used it...

Hi all, I want to boot into safe mode on my XP pro machine but when I try to I cannot because of two unsigned drivers in %Windir%/System32/Driver folder. The dilemma is can I just move them? I think...

Well, The system: - using xp sp2 with all update - NO memory problems (while checked this - Intel p4 with 800 fsb 478 socket - file system checked The problem on same machine:

Hi, I wonder how do I clean up my Windows Run MRU list? Oleg

Hope you all can help, My son is in the middle east with his laptop and finally got a internet line. He tried to download Mcafee internet security suite 8. He says he keeps getting an error message...

Hi, When I try to restart my xp pro sp2 desktop it shuts down instead. It goes smoothly during the whole process: "logging off > saving your settings > windows is shutting down". More, after it...

My XP machine has been randomly restarting itself for the past few weeks. I have checked for viruses and such and the machine is clean. I have tried new memory in there but this hasnt helped. The...

How can I create an alert (in computer management) for a specific event log? For example atapi driver (atapi.sys) logs an event (in system category) in the case of CRC error when reading the hard...

Every time I shut down windows, it seems to shut down fine. Then when I go to turn on the computer, I first get just a black screen after the BIOS runs. I turn off the computer again, turn back on ,...

Hi, I had a hardware problem with my harddrive that had XP on. I replaced the hard drive and put the original drive as a second hard drive but I am now unable to get my data off the 2nd hard...

I have three identities on my computer. I have windows XP Pro that is up to date. The problem is this: I have noticed when switching between, say Photoshop to internet explorer that just for a split...

I constantly have 'Generic Host Process Error', (it has different simptoms from KB894391'Generic Host Process Error' problem , which I already resolved while ago). The problem is that this time...