Please have mercy for the cross-posting, but I want to get a breadth of opinions. DLA is supposed to be able to make the discs it writes compatible with...

How often should I run Disk Error Checking on office pc's ?? Thanks.

All four USB ports on my Dell Inspiron 9200 stopped working after the computer crashed for no reason then re-started itself...I've been the distance with...

I have a notebook running XP Pro, SP2. After running the SP3 update, the OS will not boot. The OS will loop continueously. Goes to Start Menu, select...

hello All, Im having trouble agian with my laptop.when i turn it on its stating that i need to launch start up repair,or start windows normally, windows...

My laptop hard drive had problems with corrupt sectors. Chkdsk found several bad spots on the disk and when it tried to reboot, XP would only come part way up...

i was deleting so temporary internet files because my anti-virus scanner said there were many viruses there. but it also deleted the file content.IE5 and i...

I am running XP Home and wmiprvse.exe is sucking up a lot of cpu resourses at startup, making startup pretty slow. Seems to quiet down after several minutes....

I've not received any Windows Updates since 28th May. That's 6 days and no updates. Is that right? Cheers CZ

Hi I am trying to free up some space on my laptop and I have found a folder in Windows Explorer with command line C:\found.001\dir0000.chk and the...

My system currently has SP1 and I have had bad luck installing SP2. A while ago I tried to install SP2 and the installation failed. I have put off...

I have been using the Autoruns freeware to delete autostart programs from my computer in order to speed it up (see from tip column by Tony Northrup "Restore...

After I updated to XP SP3, whenever I reboot I get many many DLL Fail to initalize errors...i ran virus scan, reg cleaner, etc. but no use (it's a brand new...

My target is having a .cmd file using echo commands where I can setup for each individual echo command the foreground/background colors. I am not interested...

Whenever I try to search within Windows Explorer or add a new folder, I get the following message: "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to...

I've recently (as like last night) intsalled XP and updated to SP2, and then SP3. After updating, I can no longer use Microsoft Update (or windows Update)...

Hello I was having some trouble (please see here): http://www11.brinkster.com/stevehigham/partition.html trying to partition my C drive using Disk...

I have instaled and configured a portableUSB hard drive, however, I do not know how to actually back up my files. The only help I have found on the Windows...

Hi Folks, I have run chkdsk several times over the last 24 hours using no switch and /f and /r switches. Each time, errors are found, which are then...

I recently aquired a computer that needed a little cleaning. To free up some of the memory I ran the disk clean up tool...then I deleted some unwanted...