Yesterday, I got the following message: "Updating your computer is almost complete. Your computer needs to be restarted for the updates to take effect....

Greetings, History: I've replaced a PC at work that previously had Windows 2000 on it with something a little faster with XP. The soul purpose of this...

Hi, First of all, I have googled and tried half a dozen programs already without any luck. What I am looking for is a serial port sniffer that displays and...

Hello, I have 500 GB Western Digital SATA drive which is about 1 year old. Recently, my Windows XP froze seveal times and finally Windows refused to...

I have Windows MXP 2005, could anybody give me a step by step instructions on how to hook it up to the t.v. in the same room. the t.v has s-viedo connection....

I bought a laptop with vista home premium almost two years ago. It had 2 Gb of RAM. I upgraded it to 4GB of RAM and vista would show the 4GB in the system...

I want to use in outlook express some other SMTP server for outgoing mail server( one that is not support by my ISP). Is it possible? Regards Ragid

I'm planning a Win XPro repair install. In preparation I rolled back IE8 to IE7 then SP3 to SP2 then IE7 to IE6. Now in event viewer I have many errors of...

Whenever I try to run regserver32 mshtml.dll, I get the following error: mshtml.dll was loaded but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. This file...

Is it true that so long as the folder is a temp folder it is safe to delete anything in it Example: C:\Documents and settings\Richard\Local...

win xp, sp2, ntfs not able to copy, i had error "file in use by other process", but there was no other process, since it was after reboot soon after that,...

Hi My father (on another pc, also with Windows XP Professional) was exploring a website and after opening a link, a very small window opened which cannot be...

how can i differentiate windows updated programs and installed programs from registry...

Hello All: I am trying to configure the windows xp fax console, so that the incoming faxes are saved to a network shared directory. But, I am not having much...

It seems like whenever we roll out a new version of 3rd party software, like Acrobat Reader 9 or Firefox 3.5 as of late, the apps will not work with...

I'm trying to install QuickTime and iTunes on my own machine. Both had been installed some time ago. Not sure where they went but they aren't in the...

Hi: I have a friend who has acquired an additional laptop and now has two with Comcast Cab\le for his ISP. What is the best and cheapest way that he can...

Anyone seeing Red X in lieu of images @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/ Ta. -- Silj

Anyone have any ideas how to restore the USB icon at the bottom of the screen, the icon for removing USB hard drives?

Odd 1 this. Trying to activate my fiance's XP Professional with SP3. She's getting prompted to activate within 60 days and when she clicks on the star? (she...