A friend passed on a laptop to my daughter. had a legal OEM XP home edition originally. Some "helpful" person has installed an illegal XP Pro edition. i want...

Hi NG, Last night I noticed something which I have never seen before... (I am running Windows XP btw)... One of my partitions contains "Documents & Settings"...

What is pss folder in windows directory?

hi, can anyone tell me how to remove the bing search that magically appeared on my machine about 2 wks. ago. i had google for my search when i bought this...

Thread Title: microsoft ie trys to open. takes 5+ minutes,then opens & immediately opens windows ie. how do i stop microsoft ie from trying to load I am...

I have a strange problem I have tried to reinstall a FULL version of Windows XP on my laptop after a crash and it keeps telling me to put the CD in the disk...

Hi, I dragged the Word Pad listing from Accessories to my Desktop rather than making a copy of it. Now Word Pad is no longer in Accessories. How do I get it...

Hi, I am not here to bash Symantec. I am here to resolve a problem. Twice in the last 3 weeks I have ended up with computers which will not boot into...

Most hidden folders are very useful and I want to see them but there are a few that are part of the core program and shouldn't be touched. I was wondering if...

I have scheduled the backup utility to back up my text files at 6:30 p.m. every day. Each successive backup is to be appended to the prior backup. When I...

In file Prop. "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" checkbox is grayed out. How do I change this in RegEdit. See MS Article ID 555076....

I installed a fresh copy of XPpro on an old Micronpc Transport GX3 laptop.. Results are good, except I can't adjust the touch pad pressure or stop touch...

Hi All, I have a customer with two Vista 64 bits trying to run software that explicitly states its does not work with Vista, especially 64 bit Vista. Oh,...

My Labtop is giving me the message: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM I read your...

My OS reads and can copy to a SanDisk 2GB SD camera card, for instance, but does neither with a Kodak SDHC 4GB camera card. I found 2 hotfixes on MS support...

I have a friend with XP Home sp3. The computer was infested with Windows Protection Suite. This was removed with a combination of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware...

Has anyone downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials released today free of charge? It provides real-time protection for your home PC and guards against...

can anyone help, I had to rollback my system amd after this on start up i get an installation box for trayapp.msi come up multiple times. I haven't ever...

I have an issue with a memory stick. I used it last night, saved work on it and it was fine. This morning when I plugged it in, it wasn't recognized and the...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_xp REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to...