my xp wont start it says "disk error press ctrl alt delete to restart". please help.

Hi - I've been taking a closer look at the task manager a lot these days and I notice that in some processes, the memory usage stats exceed the virtual memory...

Recently, I installed Microsoft Office 2003 on my system, and upgraded to Office 2003 SP2. Right after that, all help files on my system have stopped working....

I have Windows XP (32bit) on a new setup: Intel Pentium 4 650 Prescott 800MHz FSB LGA 775 EM64T Processor CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 240-Pin DDR2...

I am a technician for a school district. We have many machines that I would like to shutdown. My only problme is my admin password is different than the...

Hi MSPOCROC.EXE Does anyone know what this program is? I discover it's running when I come to shut down. rod

I ran checkdisk on my PC. The summary told me that some bad clusters have been moved to the bad cluster file. This appears to have taken up a lot of my...

quote To determine if this is caused by a browser extension (also loads with explorer.exe processes), disable the tool bands and Browser Helper Objects: 1....

Any attempt i make to partition the C: drive results in a blue screen and the message that the reformation of my disk was abandoned. Similarly whenever I use...

Windows XP can't find my DVD Multi Drive, but I know it's plugged in and working because it's a laptop drive, and I can still eject it. I have also booted...

I need to completely wipe my pc clean. Can someone give me a step by step instruction to delete partitions. I had to do it once before, but I can not remeber...

It`s been about a week but for some reason when i try to access msconfig and regedit the screens come on the screen for about 2 seconds and then disappear, the...

I have a friend that has an identical laptop as mine. I want to prove to him that it is possible to improve speed/performance besides adding ram. Any good...

Since I do not like the messy way xp sets up shortcuts in the start menu, I manually moved shortcut folders around. I just discovered that I cannot create...

I hope this is the appropriate group for this. If not, please let me know. I usually have several programs running in my Task Bar. When I click twice (not...

Does any one have a list of tips to tweak the performance of an older PIII PC with 256mb of Ram? I need to get all the performance out of it that I can. Dale

I have a fully updated XP Pro pc. Recently when I right-click the Desktop and go to New from the drop-down menu the New menu takes over 1 minute to expand. I...

I am unable to complete either a defragmentation or the analyses prior to defragmentation. "Disk defragmentation cannot continue prescan because there is...

When I hit the save image button, the program defaults to the desktop

Help i used my recovery disk and now i cant seem to get anything to work right. My main concern at this time is when i try to change my screen resolution...