I have Windows XP Home, SP2, Pentium 4 - 3 GHz, 512 MB RAM. I have two
anti-virus programs - Norton and AVG, kept up to date, Ad-Aware, Spybot
Search and Destroy, and MS AntiSpyware. All of these show my system to
be clean. Up to a few days ago I was being hit by 100s of spam ...

I can not open this from Control Panel? I am wandering if my kids deleted
something? Is this possible and how can I restore it?

Is there a way to play music files with the .m4a extention in media Player?
I tried the converting software and made them mp3s but it didn't work so well.
Any ideas?

Sorry if my questions are long and ridiculous, but I am truly a novice at
this all.
While online, I got a Norton security alert about Trojan.Desktophijack. I
was very tired and don't remember if it said "detected" or "infected" (don't

Where can I find information in my computer that shows it being a 32Bit or a
64Bit?  The PC is using Windows XP.
Thanks for any help you can send.
-Oscar

i have recently put norton securety on my toshiba satelitte
pro and it is now sarting up very slow!any sugggestions

Every time I navigating through the My Documents folders or My Computer
folders, I get the message: "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and
needs to close." The dialogue box makes Three choices available: 'Debug,'
'send report' or 'don't send.' 'Debug'

When I use the spell checker in SOME documents, I keep getting a msg saying
"word cannot find msgr??32.dll / msspell3.dll / mssp232.dll for ."  .  I
have downloaded these dll's and put them in various directories (not sure
where they belong) but still keep getting the same msg. Any ...

I have had 3 of those today:
IRQL_not_less_or_equal
Kmode_Exception_not_Handled
and Bad_pool_header

I recently had to have my hard drive reformatted and WXP re-loaded.
Everything is fine except one site that I visit often does not show all the
tabs.  This is a multiple listing real estate site with tabs at the top that
filter out houses, condos, etc.  My screen only shows a ...

Afraid my questions may be missed as a reply to my own post, re-posting as new:
Thanks for your response. "Why" answers are always helpful. Just a couple
more questions:
My understanding of what you outline below is that I will be Disabling

Running a Dell Dimension 3000, with built-in LAN adapter.
When running Suse Linux 9.2 on the machine, I tell Ethereal to operate
promiscuously, and I can see all the traffic on the LAN segment.
When I run Ethereal under Win XP Pro (with all the updates), again with

Recently the icons for my broadband, network,speaker etc do not appear in
the right hand box but the date ,time and day with icons for AVG and Zone
Alarm appear. But sometimes they come back.
How can I cure this?

I have My Computer, My Music, and My Documents on the upper right
section of the start menu. I would like to add My Pictures and link that
to where my pics are on my F:/ drive.
I can make a link/shortcut on the upper left side of the Star menu but

I just noticed that my Start, Programs lists two instances of the same
program; one is  Adobe Reader 7.0.5 and the other is the same, but under a
basic heading of Acrobat.  Rather than delete one by right clicking &
selecting "delete", I decided to go to the control panel, add or ...