like the title say, and i even turned auto updates off, and i'm still getting it. 5-6 times in a row about every 10 mins or so. sometimes a lot more than that. grrr. very annoying.

My 60GB HDD (NTFS is slowly failing so I bought a new one. O/S Windows XP Pro SP2 on a corporate network (Exchange Server) 1. I configured the new 160GB drive as a slave (NTFS) and split it into...

When I use Character Map, the font defaults to a 12 or 13 pt. How do I change the font default for Character Map to 10 pt? I assume this would have to be in the Registry, but I don't know where to...

I have a new computer (AMD Sempron with 512 MB RAM and 1GHz FSB) running Windows XP Pro /sp2. For the most part the workstation is very fast. However when the user clicks Start and hovers over (or...

I have an inspiron 1100 and the other day I went to switch to battery power but my computer says that it has absolutely no power in it. I thought that by plugging in my computer it charged my battery...

My laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000 w/ WinXP SP2) blue screens every time I insert a Lexar Secure II drive. I have tried about 10 different drives, and this occurs every time. This occurs with both the...

My computer's CPU is running at nearly 98% continually even immediately after I reboot. The process in task manager which is using is the System process alternating with the idle process but that...

I have recently been getting messages down in the tray saying that my virtual memory is too low and that windows is increasing it. But I keep getting the message and I am assuming it hasn't...

The following message comes up when trying to install some programs. 16 bit windows subsystem C:\windows\system32\autoexec.Nt. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows...

Is there a way to save the msconfig configurations with a shortcut? So I can reboot the system according to a gaming shortcut. Or a music shortcut for different uses for that session? The MSConfig...

Hi, hopefully someone here knows the answer to the Question: What are the Maximum Processes for XP? In other words: How many process ( Handle and treads graphics ) can be run on a Win XP Pro box...

....what am I doing wrong? My XP/Dell consistently says that it is about 18-19% fragmented. I can run it several times in a row and it gets down to no lower than 17%. Nothing I do seems to help. ...

My firewall is warning me that MS CISVC.exe is trying to start a process. I've checked and this is legitimate MS process in the correct directory, but do I really need to let it access the internet? ...

Hello all and greetings, I have a 2 problems i hope you can help with. When i click the X on a widow to shut down programs the program stays running in task manager taking up unneccasary memory....

Iv recently replaced my hard drive from 40 GBto 80 GB and now my computer is running slow

Installed, MS XP and Real Player . Can I copy the audio that was created on a DVD recorder DVD-RW to Real Player.When I try, the message is ' Format not copmpatible with windows' .

Hi, Restore process can be done using Active@ undelete tool. It worked simply great and was able to restore literally all data I lost. Amazing tool with extremely powerful restore...

I had a problem with my main hard drive, a 160 gig WD with 3 partitions, all ntfs formatted, and had to use a 3rd party partition recovery tool. When I finally got the XP drive back up, Windows ran...

My presario 1235 needs the following drivers. How can I get them? vnetsup.vxd vredir.vxd dfs.vxd, vserver.vxd And my display doesent work right.

I am running a windows 2000 server with a RAID 5 partition that has 3 hard drives striped into 2 volumes. I wish to combine both partitions into one (effectively deleting all info on the secondary...