I just tried to copy an .mpg movie clip from cd to desktop.  I can
play it on one of my computers from the cd.  But it plays better
from the hard drive I think.  So I tried to copy it from cd to desktop.
It is about 795 MB.  The computer has 512MB Ram.  It starts

previously wonderful network including 3 computers a multi-fax/scan/print
machine, and a laser printer is now a group of islands. All players can be
viewed, but suddenly, passwords are required between the computers and no one
understands why. The OS are XP and Win2000. Where are ...

i am running xp home with sp2 and all of a sudden all the text everywhere can
only be seen partially and when i try to do anything an error message comes
up but i cant read it then after i do anything it freezes also when loading
my personal settings it takes a long time. i ...

Running XP and can schedule a Symantec auto liveupdate with no problem but
when I go to schedule a weekly virus check, it asks for password. I don't
sign in and am the ony user on this computer. It then says I am not
authorized to do this.  I have checked and unchecked the Run ...

How long should I leave it before defragging my hard drive under XP Home
SP2?  I had thought that it should be done about once a month or so, but
when I open the Disk Defragmenter program and run "analyse" it says that a
defrag is not necessary.

I'm trying to delete some files that belong to the Oracle programs I
downloaded, but he uninstaller did not get rid of it all and I'm getting
errors that I do not have access to delete a particular file.  How do I get
rid of it?

I know there is a way to get rid of the color in the text bar under the
Icons on the desk. But I can't find it, please help.

hi expert,
   my pc have an error of lsass.exe and automatically count down and
shutdown in 60 sec ....... i have scanned for virus but it is clear. every
time when i start the computer, it count down and restart and count down and

I'm trying to send my inbox and sent items to another computer
when I click on export, it exported it, however it didn't ask me where to
send it.
anybody have any ideas where it might be sent to, also how can I easily

I notice that original posts here are often removed, and I can only view it
after scrolling thru the reply, sometimes several replys.  It would be nice
to read the original question or issue first, the read on to the responses.
It it a setting issue on my side or what?

I am running XP home with Record now for the CDburner and DVD player.
Recently I started encountering a problem whereby the CD player seems to
work fine but causes Windows Explorer to lock up and needs to be restarted.
Explorer frequently locks up on other applications as well ...

in device manager i have a troubleshooter for certain devices..
troubleshooter doesn't work lately.
i click on it and nothing happens.
is there any way to reset / reload it so as to make it work?

    Had my first AC power failure while my new WindowsXP computer
was up and running.  When power came back on and I re-started I
expected it to do some sort of a disk scan check like it did for
Windows 95 and 98 but it just came up as if it had been shut down

A while back I had a new HD fitted onto my machine and had XP Home put onto
that. So, the only thing different about my PC is the O/S.
Anyway, suffice to say, even after a lot of patching, defragging, virus
checking, updating and so on, a lot of my games started crashing to the

i have a compaq lapt with xp home edition, i have 3 user accounts
it was acting wierd, couldnt do system restore so i installed a fresh copy
of xp
i didnt format, just installed a frsh copy, nothing was deleted