I found a Win7 i5 laptop in a rubbish bin, it has no scratches or beverage spills. I ran memory and disk tests, it seems fine. Then ran ophcrack to login. It...

I have a dual boot desktop PC that boots Win 7 and Win XP Pro. With Win 7 I can look at videos on the Internet using Firefox. With Win XP Pro I see garbled...

Win XP Pro. MS Mobile Mouse 4000 Mouse skips and jumps. Control Panel / Mouse says HID mouse installed. I get missed and improper things clicked on when I...

Why is there activity in my external drives? Today using win10, I had a Thermaltake BlacX dual USB dock plugged in with 2 drives and I was using them. ...

It seems that lately I am editing my HOSTS file almost daily, to eliminate online "pests". Each time I have to go to drive C: then to the Windows folder, then...

I'm on dialup, so I see what is loading as it slowly loads a webpage. I can go to a page, NOT using Google. For example, accuweather.com I will notice many...

This started two days ago and I have been avoiding it. When I right-click a folder in Windows Explorer WE hangs. I get an hourglass forever. All other...

Wow ! I downloaded MyDefrag v4.3.1 I ran "System Disk Daily" on C: of my Win XP Pro partition. The PC boots with NO disk head noise and completes boot to...

My XP x64 says that it needs a "Video controller". My chipset is legacy. An ATI Radeon xpress 200 (not 200m). The video and audio drivers seem to be working...

Hi I have tried both mine and all online suggestions I could find. It stopped all of a sudden and without any info. It goes through the regimen of checking the...

Is there any way to check to see if an email address is valid? Annoying to ask a question, especially to a company, and not receive a response. Wrong...

I sent this to CenturyLink but received only a canned unrelated reponse. Not an XP question, but there are a lot of knowledgable people here and I can't find...

Can someone please tell me where a LOG file of the actual files that are being replaced or updated is? I know Event Viewer will indicate that some files...

It's probably been covered here but I missed it. I use Ntbackup. In the past, if I had a major system crash and it wouldn't boot I reinstalled XP from the MS...

I seem to be having a little trouble mapping a network drive. It's through davfs. I can do this with linux but I would like to through XP x64. I right click...

Is there an active newsgroup that's good for graphics, art, or computer graphics? On the theory there isn't, I'll tell you my question. I belong to an...

I have a 2009 Mazda CX-7. One headlight assembly has a leak resulting in moisture accumulation in the lens. If I can dry out the lens, I can use silicon...

As it's a while since I installed XP, just to 'keep my hand in' I decided to do a new install on my favourite old clunker XP PC. The install CD was the...

I bought a standard Microsoft "Basic" USB/PS2 compatible Optical Mouse, because they said it worked with just about everything. It's big and comfortable, and...

Hard to find the previous thread, so started a new one to keep you up to date. Also at the end is stuff about the startup folder. I've been trying to get...