I prepared an automatic system recovery file, and the wizard also created an ASR floppy with two .sif files and a log file on it. I wanted to...
Microsoft has performed pushed updates twice in the last three days to my XP SP3. I just noticed that there is a new folder on my D: drive...
When I've tried to use XP system restore, more often than not XP will go through the motions (too quickly), and after the reboot XP reports that...
Two software packages that I've tried to install both recommended that I first run msconfig, and set it for a diagnostic startup. The reason...
I'm having trouble getting XP to associate .stu with Pinnacle Studio. I've been able to do so in my administrative account, but not my power user...
I'm having random (almost immediae to hours later) lockups and restarts of my computer. When it lockes, it sometimes freezes what is on the...
I bring my ADSL internet connnection directly into a Linksys router, which has a built-in firewall of some type. From there I go to my other...
Since I do video editing, I decided this weekend to upgrade my 200 GB Western Digital data drive to a 750 GB Seagate. (I used a separate smaller...
I installed H&R TaxCut on my Administrator account, and when I switched to the non-administrative account, it wanted to have administrator rights...
I'm trying to record some vinyl stereo albums using Audacity software. The signal coming from the stereo receiver is definitely stereo, not mono,...
I'm using Outlook Express with Windows XP pro. About a month ago it started behaving strangely. If I click on an e-mail link in another...
I noticed that there were still some unused folders in my Documents and Settings area that were left over from user names that I had previously...
I feel dumb about this, because I'm guessing the solution may be easy, but I'm stumped. For Christmas, we bought each of our daughters a little...
I just noted an obscure folder on my D: particition with a long filename, and in it was another file with a name like msxlm4, then lots of...
I have a 186 GB SATA drive (Western Digital) that I use for video editing. With a big editing job coming, I set out to make as much space as...
My daughter uses our old computer (win95) to do e-mail and instant messaging. There is now a trojan on it, which isn't mentioned on this BBS, but...
I have a Dell Latitude laptop computer at work. I use a large monitor when it is docked, but when it undocks, I always have to manually go to the...
I've read several times that it is safer to run your computer as a non-administrator. I've always run XP Pro as an administrator. I tried to...
I have a 2.8 gig computer with an MSI mainboard. I've run many USB devices and a firewire camcorder with it successfully. But when I plugged in...
Last week I failed the MSI mainboard in my Pentium 4 computer. Although I have a fairly recent backup, I want to avoid a complete reinstall of my...
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