I have been reading up on software and the webroot spyware seems to be good. Does anyone have any comments on it. I already have spybot and ad-aware, but I don't think it is doing an adequate job. ...

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...

WXP pro,s.p.2, P3,866,750 memory, Asus CUV4x board, via vt82cg94z(via apollo pro 133z), via via82c686a pci set. In device manager the IRQ distribution is as follows: NIC(9),AGP...

i always use the address bar in the taskbar to quickly navigate my hard drives. however, now i'm having problems. it can only now go to the root directory of the hard drives, like c:\ or d:\. but...

I understand when using disk cleanup that you do it on the c drive are you supposed to do it on the d drive which I think is the recovery drive. I have windows xp and this is all new to me..trying to...

I've only recently noticed how glacially slow the close-down of my XP Home PC is. The 'Saving your settings' stage is taking 3 minutes! Yet Loading Settings on boot-up takes only a few seconds. I...

For those of you who might have looked at question in my original post, I have decided to go a different route to solve the problem: -downloaded pskill from sysinternals. this utility will allow you...

Hi, I was wondering if anyone could tell me if I open a web page that is in Indonesian how can I translate that to English,and if not is there a tool that can do this, Thanks, Mick

Thank you, gentlemen. I didn't know about "services.msc" and the Indexing function was filling my Temp folder with files faster than I could delete them. No matter how many times I deleted...

Just got this emachine at Best buy and we have XP installed. We get kicked off the next quite often for no apparent reason. Can anyone help with this? has it happened to you? thanks Chris Atlanta

In fact it can start, but there's no response when I click button analyze or defagment. To improve the performance, I set some services to manual startup. Maybe that's the reason?

"Thomas Wendell" <tumppiw_NOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote: >Actually, the new HD will have no letter at first, as it is >unpartitioned/unformatted. That need to be done first...And before you do >that,...

Does XP have a built-in registry cleaner/checker, and how do I access it? Thanks. -- Bill

When I use "search" from Windows Explorer, the system doesn't find the files I'm looking for, even when I KNOW they are there. It only fails on my C: drive - I have an external drive (drive X:) and...

Ok I know if you go from Win9X to XP Pro it's best to format and do a clean install but is there any advantage to do this when you go from XP Home to XP Pro? I did my yearly clean install of XP Home...

I am sure this points to a machine problem more than office, but it involves office, so here it goes: If I click on an office file, it takes upwards of 10 minutes for...

I was getting some annoying 'messenger service' popups, and read in the newsgroups that installing a firewall is a much better option rather than disabling messenger service. I installed the sygate...

This morning my computer was working fine and as usual before leaving for a few hours I closed the cover to habernate. When I came to restart I reopened the cover and the computer did not restar as...

Could someone please tell me how to speed up my IE. I have tried everything that I know of, but it is still very slow.