When C drive failed I installed XP onto a D Drive (smaller second internal hard drive.) System now boots to D drive and C drive is used for data storage only. Question - when I statup my computer- it...

I was defragging the boot drive of my WinXP Home installation using the defrag utility supplied with XP. And there was a hard power failure that lasted about 40 minutes. Of course I don't have...

The MSMQ Service is using over 300megs to run. It appears that this directly correlates with the number and size of .mq files in the storage folder for Message Queue. I think there may be some sort...

Have formatted and backed up my PC once using 12 GB of a 40 GB drive. It shows on My Computer as Vew Volume (E:) with the bkf file. Trying to create a new folder or just drop some files onto this...

About four months ago, Internet explorer got disabled/corrupted on my XP Professional operating system after I browsed a forum. I have not been able to reload IE because it keeps looking for an...

Using XP Home Edition, logged on as administrator in Safe Mode, I make the change to HKLM\sware\ms\windowsNT\current version\winlogon\Shell but, after I close the registry editor and reopen it, the...

I got a HP Pavilion notebook about a month ago, and having little experience of upgrading software etc, I 've tried to leap into the "wonderful" world of upgrading software like drivers and so...

Every time I turn on my laptop, the window for System 32 is there and I have to manually close it. I don't know why it started opening, I don't think I've done anything different, but how do I keep...

I recently insatalled a new graphics card GForce 6600LE. I first uninstalled existing graphics card software and removed card. I installed new card but didn't have enough power connectors so I...

Hi hope someone can help I cannot seem to run files from internet sites. For example - just tried to install Windows Defender - Asks me to download the file which it seems to do but when it asks me...

When I start up Windows XP I get the error message "A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this computer. Error code: 0x8007007e" Any suggestions?

I have A linksys BEFW11S4 wireless router with 2 computers wired to it and 2 wirelessly connected to it. I am trying to use remote desktop connection to connect to one of the wired ones. I have...

Windows XP logo comes on and appears to be loading but then the systems turns itself off. Then when I turn it back on the message related to Windows shutting down improperly eg. Start in Safe Mode,...

I have been experiencing a problem Disk Bottleneck 100.00 I check through Performence Monitor, and i found Avg.Disk Bytes/Write is 10922.677 Is this bad? I googled for Disk Bottleneck & it says...

I AM GLADE TO HEAR SOME ONE ELSE IS HAVEING THE SAME PROBLEM . I TO HAVE HAD THIS C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows...

I hope someone can help me as I am unable to get free tech support anymore. I have Windows XP at home. Today, after I turned it on, I opened yahoo messenger as I always do. The computer crashed and...

Recently, when I went to modify my power settings, somehow they had all been deleted, save the "home office" and "portable/laptop" which I never use anyway. When I tried to add additional power...

Hi, I have an XP Home user whose ntbackup stopped working. All the tabs except the 'Backup' tab seem ok (Welcome, Restore, etc.). Clicking the 'backup' tab gives a tab with blank white contents,...

Hi, I bought my laptop in january which had the Media Center edition on it. Since the past 2 months, its been a bit sluggish especially while browsing the internet. The overall computer performance...

When I open my address book an error comes up , says "Microsoft Office Outlook needs to close it encountered a problem and needs to close" What did I do this time? Thank You Al Cassell