I removed a hotfix Q811493 advice was from a tech help site..anyway..when i turn on my comp. Winxp logo opens...then Fatal System Error occers.. some of...

How do i back up files on my harddrive

I've gotta a problem with my CD/DVD rewriter. For some reason it's given up the ghost and stopped working. I can't burn music, photo's or movies. I get a...

I have a Toshiba laptop which has a SD (Secure Digital) card slot on the side. When an SD card is inserted, Windows used to recognize this and present me with...

Hi Just bought a new 40gb hardrive (ExcelStore j340) to run with my existing hardrive for storage and was wondering if there is a software etc that...

I have bought a new computer with the Elite mainboard as above. The computer was loaded with Italian XP home. I put on english XP proffesional. The main...

Xref: kermit microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardwa201807 Hi I need to find out what kind of CPU multiple machines are running at UNFORTUNATELY I CANNOT...

as u can see the problem i'm having in the subject line guys, antbody have this happen? many more quirky things stuff not related, i'll post later. baby...

When I record a data file onto my CD RW the file then becomes read only on the cd rom. How can I change the read only so I can write to the file?

I wish to copy a large file to a re-writable CD Rom as it is too big for a floppy. My problem is that once the file has been copied onto the CD it becomes a...

I have just had to reinstall Windows XP on my comp. It did it all fine but when I looked at hard drive all my old programs were still there? My desktop and...

Carey, I have tried the latter, before posting the originial message, without success. The first I can't do. As I mentioned, when I right click on the disk...

Ok here is the lowdown, bought a new processor (p42.6), motherboard (Asrock)and 512Mb of DDR ram all compatible. Hooked all this up to an existing machine...

I bought a new computer and after 2 weeks it happened. I don't know what's the cause . I gussed maybe I had used a dirty CD or an infected one, first I used CD...

I'm not sure if my problem is hardware or software... Computer after boot up is very slow to respond to clicks of mouse - can take up to 2 minutes after...

just a little prob went and bought a stick of 512 mb 333mhz ddr ram for my atherton 2400 m/board and this makes the system crash . orriginal was 2 x 128 166...

When I first received my system from Dell I noticed in my Device Manager that I had two IDE devices listed. I looked it up and discovered it was because my...

Can someone point me to the Hardware Compatibility List for XP Home Edition? I find references to it on Microsoft but not the actual list. I'm having trouble...

Recently have been getting 'non-stop' 'New Hardware Found' messages even though the hardware, a USB connected Canon Printer, has been installed and working?...

Hi I have a new hyper threading P4. It works as advertised and is fast. When I encode video though, task manager only shows 50% processor use. The "second"...