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>>Paging File Configuration?<<
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 16 Comments

Microsoft says, "it is good practice to put the paging file on a different partition and on a different physical hard disk drive." NOW, I have 512MB of RAM installed and two 40gig HDs. Each HD is...

Re: Save and Save As GRAYED OUT... :-(
Posted on October 5th, 2005 | 0 Comments

For some reason I can't SAVE AS or SAVE the midis and wavs from stationary binaries on the stationary NGs. The Save and SAVE AS are now grayed out and non functional. How do I get SAVE and SAVE AS...

i have no back up on my computer.
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

i need to have back up on my computer but when dell installed my windows xp apparently it wasn't in the system and its caused my computer to crash once already. what do i need to do to fix this?

no battery life beyong 20 minutes
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 2 Comments

When I use my Dell Inspiron 2650 on battery power the machine can only stay powered for about 20 minutes. I kept the machine on until the battery completely drain and recharged it to 100%. But the...

Disappearing mail
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I use Outlook Express. Lately, I can be looking at an email and decide I want to check something in another mailbox. When I come back, the mail I was looking at has disappeared. This has happened a...

Fonts not appearing
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have installed some new fonts, but even though they appear in the installed fonts list they do not appear in any programs. Any ideas?

Task Manager Problems
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi Using XP SP2 Home edition. When I press ctr-alt-del to bring up Task Manager, I get the window come up but it is incomplete. No tabs along the top. No close bar at top left. No cancel buttton...

Error Message at start up of Windows XP Home Edition
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Could not find C:\Progra~1\THESA~1\UCMTSAIE.dll Is this critical to proper operation and do I have to reload the complete XP operating program to recover. System Restore does not recover the...

Purpose of Layout.INI?
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I have a 269 KB file C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch\Layout.ini, which seems to get changed regularly. It contains a long list of paths, and I'm curious what this is used for? At a very brief glance, some of...

My Audio becomes muted without my input
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 0 Comments

While using my computer I try to run a game or program to find that there is no sound. When I look down at the Volume Control icon in the system tray I notice that it has been muted without my...

Turn Off Computer Continual Pop up
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 0 Comments

While using my computer the "Turn off Computer" window ( with Stanby, Shut down, restart options) pops up automatically every 30 or so minutes without fail. How do I stop this.....It is driving me...

Uninstalling Office 2003
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 3 Comments

After uninstalling the trial version of Office 2003 and reverting to Office XP Professional, I get an error message when trying to send/receive email. "The Operation Failed". Here's what I've tried...

DiskKeeper Defrag and "Reserved for System" area
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 0 Comments

On one of my partitions, which is exclusively used for personal data,archives and resources like images/music/fonts and the like, of 22GB I have 7GB free. However DiskKeeper shows about 6GB as...

Losing more toolbars and cannot get them back
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Okay,, I wrote earlier and said my toolbars were disappearing. I got on the computer tonight and more are gone and Now I cannot even move this around. I right click and there isn't even an option...

Xp Shutdown Auto Update Problem
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hello all, I have Windows XP Home edition that will not RESTART or SHUTDOWN. It freezes and never shuts down. When I turn off Auto Update and BIT and it does shutdown and re-boot. Also when I go...

Windows XP Services?
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Is there a list on the web of which services come installed on Win XP Pro, before one has installed other applications, as well as their default startup status (automatic, manual, disabled)? (Perhaps...

HELP! CPU Usage 100% explorer crashing etc..
Posted on October 4th, 2005 | 1 Comments

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performance Monitor
Posted on October 3rd, 2005 | 1 Comments

I'm trying to remote monitor system performance of a windows 2000 server using a Windows XP workstion. I can see the processes that I want to monitor on the server and select them, but the log or...

XP updates before SP1
Posted on October 3rd, 2005 | 10 Comments

Ok, I put XP Home on my sons computer and now I need to install SP 1 and 2 but you can't use the update page without having SP1 installed so what do I do now? Thanks for any help Randy

My Documents keeps closing!
Posted on October 3rd, 2005 | 1 Comments

Every time i try to open a file in My Documents, the whole file just shuts down on me. I have run numerous virus checks and nothing is showing up. I have also checked me free space and there still...