I don't have any particulars on how the Zip disks are "marked for death ". It's just been my experience that when one Zip drive says that a disk...
Zip disks do give out after a period of time (the Iomega software contains a utility that estimates the remaining life of each disk) and they do...
My first thought is that the jumpers may not be correct. Double-check them, especially your main drive since they sometimes have a different...
One thing you really need to do is turn off the XP firewall if you are trying to run another. Firewalls are driver-level components and don't get...
Try booting from this "generic" XP boot floppy. If it works, one of your boot files is corrupt or absent: XP Sysboot:...
And if that good advice doesn't work, download delpart: http://www.juliatexas.com/delpart/delpart.exe Copy it to a Win98 startup floppy. Run:...
It looks like you have gotten some very good advice and have your work cut out for you. As usual, I look for the simple solutions since they...
That's hard to say. Whenever I see this error on someone else's machine, I switch to SP, just to be sure that no later driver installations end up...
It works well in SP2, even with StyleXP installed at the same time (StyleXP needed a new SP2 version). Of all the theming programs, WindowBlinds...
You may be interested to know, Joe, that my Dr. Watson error always showed 2 instances of Dr. Watson in Task Manager. Closing either one allowed...
Here's a few things you can try: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314495&Product=winxp It seems that the Win 16 files...
I'd love to, except that I don't seem to have the problem any more and I don't know how to re-enable Dr. Watson (I'm pretty sure I used one of my...
Actually, disabling the reporting mechanism DOES make the crash go away. I've been getting this occasionally with an explorer error soon...
You might try verifying your drivers, anyway, just to be sure. Go to Start > Run and type: verifier. This will start the driver verifier tool....
These don't address your problem directly, Pete, but I came across these trying to solve a problem for someone who wanted email read to him, even...
You might also look in Program Files for (hidden) Windows Update folders. In a subfolder named v4 or v5 you may find the installation files if...
LOL. I did the same thing. Tried to find a boot image so I could boot the Office CD. Of course, all we want is for it to autorun, and that...
Having used Outlook only briefly, I may have a somewhat skewed attitude toward it, but my impression of it was that it would be great in an office...
Sometimes your machine can get slowed down appreciably by the repeated attempts by legitimate system services to access the net. It must appear a...
Actually, Johanna, from Webopedia: OEM (pronounced as separate letters) Short for original equipment manufacturer, which is a misleading...
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