- Blank screen at Start up
- Posted on April 14th, 2006 | 0 Comments
Hello, I have a brand new laptop dell inspiron 6000 , windows XP, SP2 that worked fine until yesterday when I've turned on it took about 7-8 minutes to load which didn't happend before( the whole...
- performance reduction due to how full HDD?
- Posted on April 14th, 2006 | 4 Comments
I've been told Windows performance begins to degrade drastically if the HDD is more than half full. Seems pretty unlikely off hand, but apparently that's the first question Best Buy techs ask anyone...
- Page File
- Posted on April 14th, 2006 | 25 Comments
Each time I boot my computer WinXP SP2, I recieve the following error: Your system has no paging file, or the paging file is to small. I have followed the instructions to increase the page file to...
- Error "Did not Initialize on sutdown"
- Posted on April 14th, 2006 | 1 Comments
I started getting this error "TraydrvO.exe-DLL did not initialize" I get this when I restart or shutdown the computer. Just happened recently after I ran a registry cleaner. I did a restore but...
- Puzzling Windows Update Page Problem
- Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 2 Comments
I have an unusual problem for which I have not found any previous reference to in these posts. My screen resolution is set to 1024x768. All pages and font sizes, everywhere, throughout the interface...
- Partition 1 Failed with Critical Errors runing Seagae Diagnostics
- Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 0 Comments
Hello! Help would be appreciated. I had a bad sector on a seagate drive and repaired it with their software. The computer would not boot into Windows and kept cycling back to the black boot options...
- CHKDSK now runs at each launch. Why?
- Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 6 Comments
I'm trying to find out if this is an external drive problem or a Windows (XP) problem. My external drive (H:) is connected to my computer via firewire. The other day, the firewire cable fell out of...
- RE: error? messge
- Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments
My display window is upside down. How can I correct it?
- monitor activity HD
- Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 5 Comments
How I can monitor which applications or processes they are using my HD?
- No sound coming out of speakers
- Posted on April 13th, 2006 | 1 Comments
I really don't know much about computers, but a day or two ago, the sound coming out of my laptop speakers started to skip slightly. It went from that to stopping for seconds at a time. And then,...
- windows menu box too small for contents
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 0 Comments
What's next? Has been my question for XP. Since I have this system, it seems to have a life of its own. Suddenly, when I open "preference" on my "print" menu, the box appears too small for the text...
- windows xp - explorer not running
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments
Ive had a problem for a while (i think due to a virus) with explorer not really being able to run. using IE it takes 10,000% longer for websites to load, even drop down menus like desktop etc that...
- 160GB Hard drive Pentium 4, running slow?
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 8 Comments
I have a partitioned hard drive (C) (D). Pentium 4, and a GeForce Grapics Card. I have about 120GB of free space on my hard drive and when i run numerous programs or just two or three it takes a...
- windows don't move smoothly
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 1 Comments
I just re formated my computer and now when i move windows, scroll in a window, it doesn't move smoothly. it is almost a studder. it moves/scrolls in pieces and not smoothly. i don't know how else...
- Duplicate shortcuts and icons
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 1 Comments
Almost all programs in Start|All programs are listed twice and I have two identical icons for almost every item in Control Panel. I have been having numerous problems with Kaspersky Security Suite...
- Windows XP Pro x64 Edition -- Too slow
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 2 Comments
Have just installed the 64bit edition for evaluation. Recognized the following issues: 1. Boot: 2min for applying the computer settings, another 2min for applying the personal settings. 2....
- Off-Line Files Sync probem?
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 0 Comments
I'm not sure if this is the correct newsgroup if not please let me know and I'll send this to the correct one. Here's my issue... I have a user who uses off line files when travelling and if her...
- Temp files
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 3 Comments
I was using CCleaner and I've switched to Windows Cleanup! Which is the better or do they both perform equally well?
- Internal Clock Problems
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 1 Comments
I can use the update clock feature and it imediately starts to run fast. It has run anywhere from 13 seconds fast in 1 hour to as much as 1 1/2 minutes in an hour. It stays this way constantly. Also...
- Windows directory is huge
- Posted on April 12th, 2006 | 2 Comments
Any ideas on how to figure out what is making the windows directory on a xp pro workstation "swell" up to 30 gigs???

