I made the mistake of opening the Nero media player. It worked, just as I had hoped. It also decided to make itself my default CD player. This involves...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know a registry hack to have Windows XP Professional to recognize 3GB of RAM? Thanks in advance for your reply.. Dan

xp shuts down but computer will not turn off? anyone got any idears??

My Windows XP Professional machine recently started rebooting continuosly. This occurred as I was removing my new iPOD off the USB port. Here is what...

My desktop shortcut has recently started to take approx 15 seconds to initiate the shutdown process Used to be approx 2 seconds. When I shutdown using the...

I'm setting up two new laptops and also running a 6-month-old laptop. Two are Compaqs and one is a Toshiba. They all three run Windows XP version 5.1 with...

I get this message when I click on StartàTurn off computer Delete Recent is a Windows System folder & is required for Windows to run properly. It cannot...

The icons on my desktop all have a background color behind the words; how do I make them transparent? On my laptop, they are all transparent.

I hope someone can help me please. I have made a backup of my My Documents and Settings from Windows XP, saved it on my external drive while I installed a...

Win XP Home - user account When using the SendTo extension, and selecting a file and then navigating to the destination folder and selecting the Move File(s)...

I finally had to upgrade my peer-to-peer network of WIN98 computers to XP Home. Before the upgrade, I had the ability to safely share files on a network...

I have a DVD+-RW. I'm trying to burn a DVD using a DVD+R disc. It won't play in my DVD player or my computer. Am I using the wrong type of disc? I get no...

Found this unanswered question many places and I was myself bewildered for a few minutes. Finally, I decided to give the file name along with it's path when it...

Have on-board SoundMax on a Dell Dimension 3000. Sound suddenly died. Can hear a slight hum from desktop speakers and when machine boots a crackling sound....

Since upgrading to a newer Dell PC (OptiPlex GX620; Windows XP) recently, I find that I am unable to save customized changes that I make to the installed...

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me, i just set up a new computer and everything is so large that i can not see most of my stuff. I just wanted...

I need to send some exe files via e-mail, and the recipents can't open them. how do I change the ending of the file name ? (zip also won't do)

unable to load windows xp home. it wont boot from cd rom. have looked in the bios and it says that the cd drive is not present, yet it was working fine...

When I startup my computer too many programs start automatically - like yahoo messenger,google messenger,real player etc - Because of that it takes too much...

Hi-Other than MS updates for SP2 & manu. websites, is it useful to buy a driver update program? Or will the former suffice? I tried a one day deal for...