I used to have a folder setting that showed when a folder was empty. For a better explanation, I would highlight an empty folder and *this folder is empty*...

bar code like lines suddenly appeared on desktop, system tray icons, even at top of outlook express. XP up to date, have not changed anything during this...

Firefox 3.53 slower than Opera 10 I notice firefox 3.53 is slower then Opera 10. Firefox 3.5.3 takes forever to load (And doesn't load some tabs). This...

I accidently right-clicked and deleted an excel file in windows. This does not go to the recycle bin. Is there a way to recover the item? Thanks

Hi all, In my laptop running on WindowsXP, there are so many folders named $uninstall...... in windows directory. what are these folders? Is there any problem...

I have gone to turn on my computer this morning (home PC with XP) and it's just going 'round in circles' to that black screen where it asks how do you want...

What can I run to correct file system errors?

My XP/SP3 system recently got infected with Alpha (dubious) Antivirus. I followed intsruction posted on the web to uninstall this malicious trojan. Under...

Hi, I have some PHP files which begin with ?php and others beginning with only ? I want to collect all filenames (also in subdirectories) beginning with...

for some unknown reason i cannot seem to bring up add or remove programes from the control panel everything else displays okay,also on turning off we get as...

I need to map a drive to a local share for users that are off the network. net use p: \\ComputerName\ShareName I can map this if the user is connected to the...

Hi All, I'm trying to help a friend who's XP PC is compromised enough that I'm going to post to AumHa with her logs, but I'm not sure of the safest method to...

Tryed to run a DOS game recently but the message "can not access DMM" appeared. What should I do?

do the retail winxp CD's have this capability and you just need a different product key? Or is this a completely different CD? If I upgrade from 32bit to...

If I click on the Advanced tab of my "Local Area Connection", I don't see the "Allow other network users to connect through this computer's internet...

Context: I was determining whether two instances of Kerio Firewall's kpf4gui.exe was normal. Task manager shows two processes by that name, one by the logged...

My os is xp sp3. I have been using a logiteck wireless keyboard and mouse.last week the keyboard stopped responding although the mouse still works fine. I...

Hi All, My XP Pro machine's fail to sync with time servers, and it does not matter which time servers I choose. I have tried netstop w32time, intending to...

This is a common problem I'm seeing reported on these forums, for which there has yet to be a fix for. So I'm re-posting it. Windows Live Messenger will...

hi i just upgraded my desktop to win 7 with no problems. The Installation disk is good for 3 computers so I popped it into my Gateway laptop -Vista - 4 gigs of...