Just in case, back up everything you really don't want to lose...and, if you can, make yourself one cd of all the programs you will need to...
I have seen screens like that when a memory stick has gone bad. Could you try swapping the memory out and see if that solves the problem? Good luck.
Yep, the whole screen goes blank. No response from KB or Tball, nothing until reboot. Doesn't seem to matter if I rip a few tracks or a whole...
Thanks, Russ. I have very few things running all the time (Thanks to that nifty little start up manager Mike F gave me a link to!:D ) so I don't...
I don't know if this is an XP or an app problem, so I'm submitting it under General... MMJB won't rip my purchased cds. It will do a few tracks,...
:D Thanks, Mike, for all your help. I think I've resolved the problems. Not sure exactly what did fix it, but this is what I did: physically...
If all else fails, shut the modem off, uninstall and reinstall. HTH Johanna
Mike, Yeah, the comp could be dusty...have had the side off for a couple of months, and the freeze problem was happening every now and then (days...
Sometimes when systems get "brownouts" the power supply goes bad, and they start to act goofy. I live in an old house with mysterious and...
Did your computer come with a lot of pre installed garbage (My Mom bought an HP at WalMart that was loaded with system hogging things) or did you...
Turn off auto restart Control Panel/System/Advanced/Startup and recovery uncheck auto restart Sounds like you may have a power issue. If...
Mike, Actually, I did try to do SP 1 first, but after about 40 Mgs downloaded, it froze. So I rebooted, and installed the updates individually,...
Hmmm...so you think I did the M$ updates out of order, and I should have dl the SPs? I have become so suspicious of M$ lately... I always follow...
I did a clean install, reformatted the partitions and did everything fresh. I haven't run any reg cleaners because there didn't appear to be...
Not all services can be disabled. But I just want to be able to open those programs when and if I need them, not have them running in the...
At random, and now more often than ever, the input devices lock and the comp freezes. It doesn't matter if it is idle or I'm hammering it. I...
I just reformatted, did a clean install of XP Pro, put on most of my software...and now there are 29 processes starting at boot. Most are not...
While I was searching the database for info on Weatherbug, which evolved into a giant spyware hassle and had to be dumped, I ran across a thread...
My beloved Belkin F8E189 Dual Mouse Trackball is doubleclicking instead of single clicking most of the time. I took it apart and cleaned it when...
In XP you can right click on the taskbar and bring up the Task Manager which lets you end applications or processes immediately.
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