I have a few WIN98SE machines I am thinking of upgrading to XP Home. I built and maintain these machines myself. I have read inside-out and nutshell, sniffed...

Long, sad story made short. I have a Samsung Netbook running Windows XP Home, SP3. I set it up to dual boot with Ubuntu, just so I could play around...

Just applied SP1 etc. - Can I now delete this folder? Thanks in advance (cross posted to Win2KPRO) Cindy

A friend has told me that if you use a copied version of xp or me that it sends details to MS and that MS have the ability to send info back in Visual Basic to...

Hello All, First timer here! I had an error message on my pc which read \system32\config\system missing or corrupt I tried to follow some help from MS...

Did MS tell you in lettering large enough that didn't require a lawyer that you only bought 25 uses of it ? Seems every time you upgrade your machine, crash,...

I've got this anoying icon on the welcome screen where you logon it says EN any ideas what it is and how to get rid of it. Andy

According to this BBC page http://www.microsoft.com/uk/press/executives/ users in the Uk are going to be ripped off yet again by being charged DOUBLE the...

I have a second hard drive (D) installed on my computer. I have been told that if my C drive gets fried, I can get my D drive up and running by using a boot...

I had an icon for the Clipboard on my desktop before my computer crashed recently. I don't remember where I found the icon to put it there. Anyone?

When I started up the pc this morning, as programs were loading, I received ALERTS of systems leading to a total crash. They read as...

I use SpyBot and after a scan, will show tons of the above in the list to delete. What is BackWeb? OK to delete? Thanks Richard

I understand that OE is no longer available. But OE works just fine in three of my XP computers for reading newsgroups. Recently, I reformatted and...

Hi, I am currently having problems with a desktop that's part of a small network. It is running Windows XP Professional SP2. Initially I found it runnig...

Does anyone know what the following file does:backWeb-728871.exe.... My Firewall keeps popping up requesting whether I want to allow it to access the...

Greetings -- A video adapter and drivers that support the form of output signal required by the TV. Consult the laptop's manual to see if it has...

Hi Folks I'm a DOS man, circa 88 or so, migrated through GeoWorks, w 3, 95, to 98, where I have been more or less happy for many years. I never made the W...

-----Original Message----- I keep getting porn downloading automatically and I really worried as my grandchildren use this pc and see it popping up before...

Firstly I must say thank you to this great forum as I solved my msmsgs.exe problem by refering to one of the threads at here. It took me many hours to figure...

How can I delete or remove from Windows XP Home Edition old user accounts (SID) ? They don't show up in the normal view of the registry. How can I get RegEdit...