My brother's computer (xp sp2; 2GB RAM, Dual Intel processors) started to lock up on him. I booted to safe mode and cleaned off about 70 malwares...

WinXP ver 5.1 2600 SP3 Hi, I have taken the HDD from our old "dead" PC, both are on XP home. It seems to be working okay, I can see the contents etc. The old...

How do I display normal screen widths on a wide-screen monitor? I replaced a normal-width monitor with a wide-screen monitor, and now everything is stretched...

I was trying to change the background image of a particular folder as described at...

Intel I7 4 core .. why showing 8 cpus in system ? Odd .. now using a Intel i7 quad core cpu . but the performance tab is showing 8 cpu history plots...

When I run ms config, I click on the Startup Tab, under startup Item there is a check mark beside a start up item with no title (it is just blank) . Under...

I have a Dell Dimension 4400, that appears to be USB 1.0, as I am constantly getting warnings about devices being able to perform faster, etc. Will a usb...

My wife's got a Dell laptop running XP SP3 with 1.2 GB of RAM and 15 GB free space left on the hard drive. In the past week or so, the computer started...

tried a point only 2 wks old. in Safe mode. No Changes made.... No Norton on set. Actually I want to dump all Updates that autoran in the last 2 wks, so I...

While using my PC I notice that the keyboard layout seems to change, that is some keys such as @ and " get swapped. So when I hit the " key the @ symbol...

When I have more then one task bar button open (on the bottom of the screen) after a few minutes the program I am using goes to LIGHT blue. As normal the one...

I run XP SP3 and have an issue with a shared portable drive. I connect a portable drive via USB to one machine and make it shared so that other machines can...

Intel I7 4 core .. why showing 8 cpus in system ? Odd .. now using a Intel i7 quad core cpu . but the performance tab is showing 8 cpu history plots...

This previous *thread hasn't been updated for almost three years, yet I now have a problem accessing Windows firewall with 'error 1068' popping up stating...

At random times, my computer plays an "Explosion" sound. I cannot identify a specific activity which triggers it. It even happens at night. I am running XP...

Can someone recommend a simple way of counting characters? I'm doing searches on Ebay but they only allow about 100 characters. I can copy and paste into...

AIUI, MS worked it out so that everything in XP SP1 was in SP2 also, so there's no need to use SP1 anymore. How come they didnt' do the same thing with SP3,...

If I ran chkdsk /r on a harddrive and it fixed some things, what did it fix?

Is there a way, using windows XP home, to set a time limit to a user account? For example, three limited user accounts to limit two hours each. I would like...

Inspiron 530-WinXP Pro All of a sudden when I turn the machine on I have started getting a Dell box asking where DSC20.msi is. What is this file and where is...