Periodically, I am having to deal with my Maxtor One Touch external drive 500GB having corrupted files. I moved some of my files off that drive and have had...

I leave my computer on at night and when I wake up in the morning now my computer is locked up. It won't do anything and I have to restart the computer to...

I have a DOS compiler which requires a parallel port dongle to allow it to operate. i know that XP will not allow access to the parallel port. If I boot into...

If I click run | command, I get a DOS prompt at the folder c:\documents and settings\username. If I then run the command "dir" I get a listing of the various...

Hi all Where do I find a list of the programs that are called/installed at startup? L

Erm,after i had used the Acessibility Program at the control panel,my taskbar and icons at there looked even bigger... I would appecrieate your help to make...

My kids were playing around with the computer and put a photo of the dog for the wallpaper. The problem is that it is over the desktop and you can;t see...

good day all, since i installed ie8, usual that i have problems with existing things. for one, when i closed ie7 browser, it gave me the option of checking...

Not sure if this is an XP or Office issue. Trying to install software (Delphi 2009) it failed with an unknown error and I had to reboot. All my office...

I am out of ideas, and so I am asking for help. I have two machines, one to my left, one to my right. Conveniently I have named the machines (computer name)...

I have been working through some of the ideas suggested on this news group in connection with my sudden change in startup time but still no joy. I have tried...

Why should special back-up software be necessary when backing-up programs from my pc to a disk or an external harddrive. Is just copying not sufficient?

-- My computer is slow to startup. I am running Wndows XP Pro 2002 with SP3. Hardware is Dell with Intel Core2 Duo CPU @ 3.16GHz and 3gb RAM. My startup...

Where can I find a list of keyboard abbreviations? For example, a quarter, a half, a degree. I am using a Dell Inspiron mini, so normal tips probably don't...

Hi! We want to connect to a web folder using the Windows explorer. When typing for example: https://mydomain.com/documents in Windows Explorer, it will open...

When I first log on to my computer (WinXP SP3), I get a window that comes up on my desktop that says it's the Window's Genuine Advantage Notification. I can...

I'm trying to produce the "degree" symbol, using Alt+0176. I have a laptop without a numeric keypad, and when I try this I get nothing. Is there some other...

trying to install windows xp on HP desktop all was going well and them boom this error message comes up I can however hit f1 and this come up but to get...

I can assure you that the problem you've posted about here is related to the problem you posted about in WinXP Basics last week, where you tell us (1) you...

i am operating a peer to peer network with several PCs running both Win2000 and WinXP and NO internet access. I find it useful to have all the computers...