I am just learning about my computer.  It was given to me as a gift.  How do
I find out all my computer has and all it can do?  Is there a place where it
will state what all these different drives are for?  I was told I have a dvd
drive.  How do I find out about this and how to ...

How does one restart in Safe Mode with Windows XP. There's no provision for it.
The "help" explanation says to restart in Safe Mode one must select from a
drop-down dialog box and press F8. There's no drop-down dialog box.
When I click "Start" then "Shut down computer", the dialog ...

I am running XP sp2.  Everything worked perfectly on my machine until the
last two weeks.  First I noted that Win Explorer would lock up (go to 100%
memory) whenever I tried to access information on the CD-R drive.  I thought
pehaps the Drive had gone bad and replaced it with a ...

I used to be able to dbl-clk mouse to open a folder - now when I dble-clk a
search window opens  -  how do I stop it - anybody know a remedy ?

I have MS Internet Explorer 6.0 with SP2 on my PC, but when MS update or any
other program looks at this, it thinks I have a Mac or just hangs up.  I
think the browser is corrupt.  How do I uninstall and reinstall it OR fix the
portion of the software that thinks it is a Mac?

I've heard a lot about boot.ini.  I can't find it on my computer.  I've set
Search to look at all files including hidden files.  Boot.ini doesn't show
up in msconfig.  What's the deal?

I've often wondered why MS release these programs supposedly as free extras
when they are only half a program.
1. Movie Maker which can't handle MPEG files or burn to DVD and you still
have to buy other software.

Hi all. I am reinstalling XP home on my moms computer as it's corrupted and
says to reinstall it. Since it won't boot up, I am going to attached her
hard drive as a slave on my computer to retrieve her data files, then
reformat and install. My question is ... where on her hard ...

My LG DVD sees a DVD disk as a CD and only offers 880 Mb of storage.  This
occurs in Windows, NTI software, and Nero.  Any suggestions

I have icons on my own task bar for quick action but when I tried on a
friends new PC to do the same I got the no entry sign when I tried. Both
have XP
I can't remember how I did it.

   When I start my MSN 9, I have two Windows Messenger Icons in my system tray. How do I fix that problem?
   Thank You In Advance
   Dan

Just lately, my PC will hang during shutdown. Not every time, just now and
then. Any ideas on how I might cure this would be appreciated.
Many thanks

The spell check function does not work in my Microsoft Word program. Why? How
do I fix it?

I set up the fax console and I can send faxes, but I can't receive them
- the phone rings, answers and then this message "an error occurred
while receiving the fax". I followed the directions here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/crawford_02october21.mspx.

I noticed my Symantec firewall was temporarily disabled after further
investigation I discovered my Windows firewall has been turned off. Have I
been attacked by a virus or trojan? I have scanned with Symantec, Spybot and
Ad-Aware with nothing showing up. Is there anything else I ...