i have a XP w/ sp2 laptop that was infected with a trojan.  when i browse 'My
Computer' and double click on a drive letter i get the 'Open With' box
prompting for a program to use for the C or D drive.  i can browse to
explorer.exe but the 'Always use the selected program....' ...

I am getting a very small windows dialogue box titled 'update' pop-up during
shutdown of my Windows XP system.
It says:
update

I cannot get any USB device to be recognised by my machine.
There is not even any  power through the usb ports.
I have uninstalled all the usb drivers and reinstalled (deleted under device
manager).

Hi, When ever i try to open some of the application i keep on getting error
as not a valid win 32 application. I am using win xp professional

Computer: Toshiba 4090CDT with 400MHz Celeron, 192MB RAM, 40 GB HDD. It has
been running Windows 2000 almost ever since I bought it.
In preparing the computer to be taken over by somebody (my son) who had
been just a user with rather limited rights, I formatted C: partition to ...

Ever since the last up date from Microsoft, December 2007, Windows Explorer
keeps shutting down with an error message. It gives the following information:
AppNam: explorer.exe
ModVer: 6.0.2900.2987

Is this the correct newsgroup for questions about Windows Accessibility
Features such as the Magnifier?  If so, the screen magnifier in Windows XP
is somewhat deficient.  It only allows a separate window that magnifies
wherever the mouse cursor is located.  However, it's ...

I have a couple Windows XP Pro computers connected to a Linksys router.  One
of the computers is sharing a label printer and a deskjet, both are connected
through USB.  The deskjet runs through a USB hub accross the room.  
Everything had been working fine for quite some time.  ...

My Windows XP x64 Professional is not recognizing my USB drivers after I
took the 12/11/07 Security patch.
Please help....

My operating system did not come witha a TTS engine. Does anyone know how to
get it?

I hope you can help. We had a laptop with a single passworded account. XP
Home. The laptop has since broken and the harddrive has been placed in an
external caddy and is being used as an external drive.
We need access to the files from the previous account but whenever we try to

Pse can anyone help! I have been struggling since July to get my ROM Drives
to work again. I keep getting the message "Windows cannot read CD, it may be
corrupt etc" and since nobody was able to see what was causing it, I
continued my own investigation and found when entering ...

It has been a long time I almost didn't know how to get started!
My problem is, I have 3 computers and one of the older ones went through a
system crash and so it was formated then XP sp1 was reinstalled but
activation is hampered by a message that says that the number of times ...

I signed up for a 120 day trial version of Windows XP 64. I was told I would
receive an email about how to download and install. How long does it take to
get this email? It's currently been over 24 hours.... still waiting.
Sorry if not posted in the correct Discussion Group. I ...

I hope you can help. We had a laptop that had a single user account (WinXP
Home) with a password. The laptop has since broken so we have put the
harddrive in a caddy and is being used as an external drive.
Whenever we navigate to the documents and settings, enter the users files,