I want to use LPT2 and not LPT1 to avoid a conflict with an interupt used by my Epson printer utility. I had this working fine but suddenly this week...

I use IE6 for surfing the net. On certain sites, a Security Alert window suddenly pops up which says: "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. ...

What's the difference with the Process Priorities in the Task Manager (i.e. High, Above Normal, Normal, etc.)? _______________________ Peter...

When Windows XP Home is told to "Shutdown" or Reboot" it hangs up with a small window with title "Windows XP" and message "Please Wait... Saving your...

BlankI belong to a Yahoo group, and many of the posts show attachments. Somehow, I just can't view the attachments. I can view images on all other places I...

hi! I have developed an application in which launches a Word document and print it using Win32 API ShellExecuteEx. It works fine on my machine (WinXP...

Thanks to all who gave me help regarding my landing in bios post! I do have a question though.... I know that when the CMOS battery dies, your settings are...

Using the extended ASCII characters (Alt key plus the numbers 224 through 239 using the NumPad), Greek letters can be created and used to name files. Any...

CORRECTION When Windows XP Home is told to "Shutdown" or Reboot" it hangs up with a small window with title "Please Wait... " and message "Saving...

I use a Laptop with XP Pro and have loaded the SP2 updates. For some reason, any time I do check for the 'firewall' settings - using 'Start', 'Network...

I have about 20 "uninstall" folders directly under my windows folder as in; "C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallKB885835$" What are these folders? Maybe leftovers from...

I find that in XP when I use the quick method of sending photos via email (right click the photo in Windows Explorer and select 'send to' and select 'mail...

I went into the system config utility and unchecked the boxes of three items that I thought didn't need to be booting every time XP did. The items were - Adobe...

I Windows XP Pro SP2 installed and use the fast user switching feature. The zero user always has at least one program running when I go into task manager....

This is a long story. In 2002 I bought a new computer and had to reload the windows XP system about every three months. In February of this year I had to...

I have dsl, modem is a Netopia. I have windows XP home. I have one computer with all the latest updates. I have ran spybot, adware and registry first-aid. I...

Found out by accident. My XP pro won't run chkdsk after improper shutdown. I have installed to many new software since my last improper shutdown so I do not...

At start-up, I notice that the Security Centre icon on the system tray displays a warning: You computer might be at risk. The firewall is not turned on. for a...

My son uninstalled a game and then ran disk clean up. All of my fonts in my font folder disappeared, and everything EVERYTHING is hash. I can reinstall fonts...

Using Windows XP Home edition. Everything working fine then all of a sudden I'm having a user account log in problem. I have 5 user accounts and can't log on...