A friend has a laptop that I recently removed a lot of viruses from. It's now clean, except that the whole machine runs very slowly indeed when anything is...

I was updating my Inspiron 9100 and i have the NEC5100A burner for my laptop. After i updated it certain programs cannot detect that the Cd/dvd rom is even...

I have just upgraded several Dell GX260 desktops from Windows 2000 Pro., to Windows XP Pro. On one machine, there was a different configuration for the CD/DVD...

My computer gives the illusion that it shut down. The monitor turns off, the lights on the keyboard turn off, and the lights on the computer turn off, yet the...

Hi all! My system has Windows XP Professional, with all the updates. My Combo CD-ROM/DVD drive is from a Notebook HP Pavilion zv5000. My system says that it...

I installed a USB modem and now every time I start my computer the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon appears in the taskbar. Does anyone know of a way to remove...

I recently bought a 60GB iPod Photo. I can't seem to upload music, files or anything else to the darn thing. Long story short, Windows recognizes the iPod as...

I'm trying to install a Windows XP Home edition on a partition other than C:, this one is for audio production, without internet and all security features for...

All of a sudden, windows XP dosen't recognize my portable storage devices (Maxtor usb hard drive, lexor jump drive or pentax digital camera). Devices used to...

Sometime in the last month or 6 weeks (I didn't notice exactly when it happened) I lost the function of my internal USB flash 9-1 card reader. Windows sort-of...

I better start another thread I have just built a computer with a ASUS LGA775 P5S800-VM motherboard with a Seagate 160GB SATA and when I bring the system out...

Hello Windows XP pro SP2 This morning I inserted a Microsoft CD into my Samsung DVD Rom, it starts spinning and the green light is on but after a moment it...

I am trying to find a notebook harddrive without idle noise, it's driving me crazy, it does it every 30 seconds or so, is there a way to stop this without...

A few days ago my audio just stopped working completely. my speakers are still turned on but no sound will come out and i cant play any tracks!!! i think...

I recently purchased a new 120 GB hard disk to replace a smaller one, on which I had a Windows XP installation. My other disk drive is an 80 GB with my...

I recently upgraded from a 2000 machine with an nVidia Vanta card to an XP box running ATI's Radeon RX 300 SE-Guru card (with ABIT stuff). I have a ViewSonic...

I have an unlimited budget and want to build the fastest PC known to man. Obviously there is going to be a difference of opinion on what type of processor I...

I don't have this problem with the keyboard in Windows 98 or 2000, but in Windows XP (Pro), every so often the driver for the Microsoft Internet Keyboard (this...

Can someone tell me the difference between ATI Radeon 9600se VS ATI X300se and how they perform in games under XP? Both have 128 megs of ram. Thanks for all...

My computer no longer recognizes my cd drive or even brand new dvd drive. It says it has sucessfully loaded the device driver but cannot find the...