Hello mrdutt, Have you done a defrag or chkdsk? Run chkdsk from a cmd prompt as chkdsk /r Four years is about the time for HD failures to...
Hello Casie and welcome, Bad news - the drive has failed. My only suggestion would be to get to the drive's MFG site and look around for...
I make RW discs and download to other systems all the time - most of which have no burners. The issue is the format that is used to create the RW...
Sounds normal - XP always has extra user folders under Documents and Settings. The name(s) under which you log in under will be the folder(s) that...
Hello Nora, Click on the Security Center icon in the tray or bring it up thru the Control Panel. Click on "change the way Security Center...
Hello gghartman, Worm protection doesnt necessairy protect against a hacker seeing your connection, etc. True. What a Firewall does is...
Boogie, That program, Index.datQV I gave you the reference for, will list any url's visited in the history .dat file. Regards - Charles
Hi 'dude, I agree with you up to a point. Most of the people that are so intent on "cleaning" usually are on multi-user systems and I can...
Hello Beboh, I've turned the settings all the way down to low, I've added the website to trusted sites. Not getting MS updates has nothing...
Hello kigor, I'm assuming that you have the latest drivers, if not, might be a good idea to update. A suggestion: Have a look at this MS...
Hello Boogie, For cleaning out the .dat files, use ccleaner or something like it http://www.ccleaner.com/ These cleaners do erase the .dat file...
Hi Sue, You have two instances of CIDAEMON.EXE which is XP's Indexing Service. Unless you have use for it, I suggest you shut this Service...
Hello Sue, To get a tasklist output: Open a cmd box: start > run > type cmd > ok and type: tasklist /svc > c:\tasklist.txt It will...
Hello Poganin, http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Kellys Korner, scroll down to Notification Area under the N's for symptoms and fixes....
SP2 creates a "before" restore point. Unless something wrong with System Restore, really no need to wipe them out. To roll back SP2 in case of...
Hi Chrsiter, I don't have SSC_UserPrompt in msconfig - autostart but maybe it went away when I disabled the SymWMI Service. Possibly each...
One thing that bugs me is the last IRCCIRT>EXE it says it's in use by windows and cannot be removed Questions: What are you trying to remove it...
What I object to is a new startup - why does letting XP know that NAV is running require a new process on startup? The answer is that it doesn't...
Hello Merlin, These downloads - they are comming thru the Browser defenses, have you looked at Internet options > advanced tab and is the...
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