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system restore
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

cannot click on any date except today's wanted to go back one month but cannot.

Cannot start in safe mode
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I recently had a crash and my computer kept starting over and over and over... the only way to stop it was to boot into my CD drive. I wound up having to reformat my hard drive and re-install...

Read Only Error...Please Help!
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

My laptop has recently seemed to develop a mind of its own! Until recently, when I clicked on the 'My Documents' icon from the start menu, it would take me to the page where I would see the various...

Crashes post Security Patch
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

A little background, I leave my pc on all the time, and never usually have a problem.. Last night after finishing stuff on the pc, noticed the windows update shield, installed these patches and...

Re: Expert Opinion?
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Gman rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support: Enable or disable agp in the bios.

Shut Down Problem related to Norton Internet Security
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 3 Comments

I recently upgraded to Norton Internet Security 2006. I have Windows XP Home Edition. My Computer has started shutting down - turning off when I am scanning my Computer with Norton Anti-Virus. Now,...

Error Message when booting up.
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments

I have a Toshiba 5200 laptop. Increasingly, I get the blue screen when booting up with this message: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. It...

i386 jpegs
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

In the i386 folder are a couple dozen jpeg pictures. What use are they? May they safely be deleted?

Office 2003 No Longer Works After Last Night's XP Auto Update
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 5 Comments

Hi, Last night I used my computer (Word/Excel -- Office 2003) and everything was fine. Complete system Norton virus scan shows it is fine. When I turned the computer off last night, the little...

Extremely slow startup
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments

My computer boots up fine up to the point where it loads explorer.exe. When its loading, I find the taskbar and start menu are "locked up" and My Computer, Network Places, etc display empty folders....

Random Mouse Freeze
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 0 Comments

My mouse ssems to freeze for about 2 secs every so often. At time it can happen within 2-5 mins of eachother. It seems to happen at any time while running my pc. My pc is 3 months old and this has...

Restart after windows update fails
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 4 Comments

After restarting my PC after a windows update, it froze. I cannot restart in safe mode or last known good settings. It won't restart using the Windows set-up CD - even trying to re-install fails as...

lost power options
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 2 Comments

I cannot change any of the power options because a warning sign comes up saying that i have to turn off my computers microsoft power options and work with my computers power options. I have no idea...

XP backup
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 7 Comments

I'm following along with "Windows XP Backup Made Easy" by Ed Bott. All is well until I get to the part to "Decide where to store your backup file." It WILL NOT let me choose anything other than A. ...

Need to get rid of program
Posted on April 16th, 2006 | 1 Comments

My registry shows that I have a copy of Microsoft Works on my computer but I can't find any links to it and it doesn't give me the option of deleting it. Is there a way to get it off? It's taking up...

Reinstall new hardware, why?
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments

Dell laptop Inspiron 6000 XP2 The "install new hardware" wizard just began showing up every time I start my machine. Apparently it sees an old flash drive as something new (I've used it for months...

Log in page freeze
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments

We have XP with 6 user accounts. The log in page will freeze after someone else has logged out of their account. The next user is not able to log into their account as there is no cursor blinking in...

screensaver timer won't work
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 0 Comments

not sure what happened to cause it. one day it works, next day it doesn't. preview works ok but won't work on the timer i have it set on. any suggestions? thanks in advance. -- -TMK-

Re-installing Windows XP
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 2 Comments

My system is kind of messed up and I want to give it a clean start by re-formatting the hard disk and re-install XP. Does anybody know if that will give me problems with registering (again) after I...

Small memory Dump and restart
Posted on April 15th, 2006 | 1 Comments

I have been getting small memory dumps and then a reboot of Windows XP and it only happens when I am playing a WMV file in Windows Media Player. I have 1Gb of RAM and an adequate video card and an...