An occasional (Dell) laptop sometimes goes through a period of not turning off the display even though there's no manual activity. The display is set to...

This problem has just appeared since last week: I have some encrypted files (using the normal NTFS folder encryption feature) but now when I try to open the...

My XP has an Advanced Installer hidden directory on all drives. I don't know how they got there. (I have 20 partitions.) They contain a lot of bytes. I can...

Hello All, I would like to attach a second screen to my 'puter, but do not want to stretch my desktop to that second screen (one is a monitor, the other is...

Basically it works like this: I press the dots next to enter (where also acute and tilde are) and the the letter I need as uoa as in the header I have danish...

Hello, My desktop with Windows XP SP3 just crashed after Microsoft Update on Tuesday. Luckily I have a backup in my external drive. I have reinstalled XP and...

My Packard Bell Desktop came with XP installed and the re-install XP on a separate section of the hard drive. Unfortunatly the whole hard drive failed some...

I have a large number of files in the Prefetch folder - can I safely delete them. I run CCleaner often but it doesn't seem to remove the files. TIA Mary

Hello All, I'm attempting to write a Win32 service to enable another device to do a PXE boot (don't ask why, I'm a hobbyist :-) ). While looking at the DHCP...

How or from where can I uninstall Windows CardSpace found in my Windows XP control panel? I forgot from which software it came from.

I want to install Silverlight on a Windows xp sp3 machine. I downloaded silverlight.exe. The problem is that i can't extract that file: when i doubleclick,...

Andrew Wilson wrote on 10/18/2011 20:55 ET : In WinXP is it possible to print a list of what is in a folder? For instance in a folder that contains 50...

I'm running XP Pro SP3. I was using a Radeon 7200 32MB card, with no problems. I recently installed a Diamond Stealth S80 Radeon 9200SE 128MB card, and...

All of a sudden I cannot access Program Files via MY Computer C: - it is no longer there? If I run search it appears in C: and can be accessed by clicking...

is there somewhere i could get a checklist of things on xp i should maintain/check/update regularly? (for instance, i just came across a post recommending that...

Ok I keep getting an error code 404 when I tried to downlod gme I purchased from google on my tablet. I was able to downloadon phone was not able to download...

Is there a way to disable one core of a dual core cpu? The Intel proset wireless stuff has a bug that apparently fails to lock correctly and wedges itself...

I recently used nLite to create an XPpro (32bit) cd that contains all of the current updates including IE8. I tested it by performing a fresh install on a...

For the past couple of months system restore has been failing. I get the helpful message that my 'computer cannot be restored' to the selected time. There...

Every time my PC (XP/SP3) starts, it runs the Kernel Fault Check, which I'd like to remove as it slows the boot time. I've done a lot of research and followed...