I can copy files toa cd and play them back but I can't read from older disks. -- Ray _________________________________________________

I hadn't accessed the CR-ROM drive for several days. When I tried it this morning it shows all CDs as being blank. I called a technician and he said I need...

When I export Local Machine\Software to a registry hive file it is taking 7 minutes for it to complete. My system completely locks on me and I can't do...

Hello I am writing for a bit of advice. I have just installed a hard drive in my PC tower. This is in addition to the drive (C) I already have and which...

When I try to defrag I get the message that a chkdsk is scheduled at the next reboot and defrag cannot continue without the chkdsk being done. So I reboot...

Hi, Hope you can help me. I bought a Dell laptop running on Windows XP Professional with 4 partitions on. I would like to meld one of the partitions with the...

How do I insure that my laptop users have all their drive mappings after their laptop sits for the weekend? Will XP loose drives if it goes into Standby? Is...

I would like to install programs (etc. from the web such as MSN chat and from CD Nero) to my partitioned drive. How can I do thid? All programs always...

Sorry if this is the wrong group - just looking for some ideas... Long story short, I was trying to make room on a FAT32 C: 4.7GB partition to install SP3 on...

I am using Windows XP Pro with SP 2 . There are 512 MB RAM there on motherboard with 8 MB of share with video. Now how can I increse the share for video RAM....

I need to know how to uninstall unwanted MS security patches. When i try this using the Add/Remove Programs feature in Control Panel, a window pops up with...

3 times in the past couple of weeks, I've gotten a BSOD on my XP Pro SP3 box. Event viewer records: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck...

Shortcuts at the top right of the start menu and on the desktop do not function - for my computer, my documents, my pictures, my music. Right clicking them...

I have my friend's XP Home Ed. that wasn't recognizing it's cd drive. It wasn't showing up in Device Manager nor Windows Explorer. After cleaning some crap...

when brining up display properties for the desktop I had five tabs across the top. They were -p Themes - Desktop - Screensaver - Appearance - Settings. ...

Intel CPU in a Dell desktop, so no AMD or HP considerations. If my current OS -- Win XP Pro with SP2 and all the many automatic updates to that SP -- is...

A couple of days ago my task bar stopped working. I can't open anything from it at all. Trying to see if theres a way to fix this without reinstalling the...

I increased my memory from 4GB to 6GB, the systen Intel DG965WH sees 6GB total memory, but windows only sees 3.24GB. Why????, and how I can correct it????

I just ran a third party scan(I know third party C--P) it showed that I had 82 Reg. errors 243 missing shared files1 help file12 invalid extension...

Sir, I have windows xp installed on my computer , from past few days some of the features are missing...like games(solitare,spider...