HI Matt, This system is physically very small and depending on the environment, heat can be a problem, and the HD problem I think is heat...
Hi Anne, One thing I forgot to mention - back up your user files including the stuff in My Documents. Also don't forget archived e-mails. If...
Hello Anne, MS chart on what OS's can be upgraded to XP. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/upgrading/matrix.mspx Note that W2K Pro...
Hi ThisGirlRox, Try running chkdsk and see if it comes up with anything. For instructions, bring up Help and Support on the Start menu and...
Hi Geri, Yes, that is a potential problem. Can be gotten around though. When presented with the removal question and before answering, go into...
Hi RubyRed, The video memory is certainly underpowered. Should be 128 at least. Don't know whether there is a seperate graphics card for...
Hi RubyRed, What seems to be happening is that the heat keeps doing your hard drives in. EDIT: Then the noise is probably the HD fan. The HD...
Hi BOBBO, Glad that your problems are seeemingly over :) You should really think about drive imaging as I mentioned in an earlier post -...
Hello CrunchDude, You have to contact the vendor and explain - its against the policy of this board in helping to circumvent software licenses....
Hi Ace, Another issue is the BIOS - it has to have the option to boot off of USB devices. That option is fairly new, last two years or so....
Hello RubyRed, It may be one or more of the fans running - when playing games, the video card/CPU is working the hardest. If I remember...
Hello James, There's a difference between software installed and not running and installed and running. If installed, the overhead is the...
Hi Ann, Yes you're right and that may well be what this is. I was looking for a history of deleted stuff, the sort of stuff deleted by the user...
True, and the search will also identify a file as being there, so puzzled as to why ackerberg is not seeing that. Just went thru the search...
Hello nikki, Do you have a card reader or printer with memory card slots connected to this PC? You can try using the following MS cleanup...
Thanks for the update Eleanor :) We'll refer back to this thread whenever this comes up again. Regards - Charles
Hi BOBBO, Have you tried asking at the SpyBot forums? The same with Ad-Aware. If someone else has had this problem, it may lead to some insight...
Hi ackerberg, I wanted to make sure that you had the Hidden files/System files view turned on. Can't tell you what folder you're looking at....
Hello Ol Man, What's it trying to install? Before you use the MS cleanup tool, make sure you either set a manual System Restore point or...
If you haven't already done so, turn on Viewing Hidden Files. Go to My Computer > Tools > Folder Options > View tab and make sure that Show...
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