Hi there I sceduled a diskscan at startup as my machine was running very slow. It goes through the motions and when complete it says that windows is finished and just hangs. any...

Hi all, I am trying to install a new hard disk (UATA) of 80GB to my PC which is PIII 550MHz, 128 MB RAM, and the motherboard is (i.e., the bottom line of the screen while bootup reads like...

About a year or so ago I got advice from a newsgroup and downloaded a program that can tell you what programs are running, and it was a good way to find out what those pesky temp files that won't...

Hi all, I have some queries regarding how to manage my hard disks: I have two PCs, one Home PC (AMD athelon) and other Office PC (P-III). I have a 80GB Hard disk on my Home PC, which has Windows...

A routine check of my Event Viewer shows the entry "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D, has a bad block." Only a day before, I'd run a chkdsk d:, and that didn't report anything. WinXP desktop was up...

Hi, While I have no trouble hearing audio files of all description, people I send audio files to can't hear them. Any idea why? Thanks, Terry

My computer is very slow after logging of the net. The only remedy seems to be a re-boot. My lap top runs normally again untill I return to the net. I have deleted cookies, deleted all my offline...

I just reinstalled XP Home on a computer I've had for several years now. The reinstall went smoothly, but now, when I boot up, I am given the option to select between two versions of XP. The first...

Hi, I have a Win XP Pro installation on which I experience sluggish application performance whenever the system has been idle for a while (e.g. after 30 minutes). Several different types of...

My laptop runs slower and slower as the day goes by. Geez, when I start up it's slow. When I open AOL, it's a joke...takes forever. When I turn on my computer, I close the programs I know for...

We have a system running Windows XP Pro. Upon boot you cannot launch any programs. The mouse moves fine but left and right clicking does nothing. The 'Windows key' does nothing. The only thing we...

I've been having some performance issues, and hadn't been able to really identify to what it was related. I ran a CHKDSK /F, and it found a couple of things that it supposedly "fixed". Now, when I...

Hopefully, this is the correct group for my question. If not, please let me know and I will repost. I have had Windows XP on my new PC for several months. I have just recently had the opportunity...

Hello, I just bought a new computer 2 days old: AMD Athlon 64/3200 7800gt vid card 1gb RAM XP pro (SP2) The only program I installed was my World of Warcraft Game. Now when I power on my computer...

Drew Gillson Wrote: > Hi there, > > We recently removed 5 workstations from our domain and set > them up on their own workgroup with a file share on one of > the computers serving data and the...

I have several problems with my laptop including: 1) system restore is missing; and 2) the laptop boots very slowly (hangs on the wallpaper screen for about two minutes before files and programs...

I have several problems with my laptop including: 1) system restore is missing; and 2) the laptop boots very slowly (hangs on the wallpaper screen for about two minutes before files and programs...

I increased the page file from 192mb to 756 mb (recommended by Windows) but when a large file in excel maxes out the cpu to 100% the page file virtural memory still only uses the 192mb. I have 512...

On my Windows XP (HP Pavilion) I'm trying to make room ! I found 2 I386 dirs C:\i386 C:\WINDOWS\i386 There is probably another in D: (reinstallation) Can someone help me?? May I without risk delete...

Greetings! I am using a Compaq N1020v Notebook. When it was new, I had all the tabs in the Power Options Properties window. A while ago, the "Power Meter" and "Alarms" tabs disappeared. I have Power...