During shutdown XP shows blue screen with message "Windows is shutting
down...".  Computer locks up at this point and unit must be manually turned
off.  Any advice?  Thanks!

I was downloading zip files onto a separate (Buffalo) hard drive and
the power cut out. Now when I try and delete these files I gt errors
such as: "Cannot read from the source file or disk". I have found posts
on Google (such as below) on how to correct this but I'm assuming that

Windows XP appears to make its own decisions about which folders are
displayed prominently in Windows Explorer under My Computer. For example, if
John, Jack and Jill all have user accounts on your PC, then John's Documents,
Jack's Documents and Jill's Documents folders will all ...

Article 883523 confirms this and the solution is to get  "Imapi.sys" update.
How do you get this update ?

Is there a way to get the product key from the installation CD.
I know there are a number of programs that pull it from the registry
but none of them mention being able to get it from the CD.
gls858

I have a m/b using the Nvidia chipset with a hardware firewall .  I'm
running XP Pro w/SP2 with the Windows Firewall "On".  Both firewalls
have been running together, without problem, for several months.
I know the old saying "If it ain't broke, etc.", but am I possibly looking ...

I've had this problem for over a month now and it's driving me crazy. I've
tried everything I can think of, or that someone else suggested, and have
gotten nowhere. Here's the problem:
1. When I have more than one window open, clicking on a taskbar button

q)when a webpage is loading I can't see a load symbol to indicate how much
of the webpage has been loaded.?
q) How do I get rid of the shortened lists in menus like favourites, as I
want the whole list to appear all the time?

Recently my Compaq Armada 1700's laptop's hard drive crashed. The drive is
nearly dead and I was receiving smart drive failed errors upon boot. I was
able to backup most of the content on the drive to my Windows XP PC, and the
rest will need to be re-installed from my CD's. The ...

Just got a new computer and it has Media Center on it.  I assumed XP was
XP and things would work the same.  When I go into My Computer and left
click on C: it opens it and shows all the files.  However, when I left
click to open a file (a long standing habit from my old computer ...

It says on the systems specs that I need 1.5 GB of hard drive space to
upgrade from Windows 98 to Windows XP. I have a completely new computer that
is 2 GB and has Windows 98 on it and nothing else. When I try to upgrade to
XP it keeps telling me I need more hard drive space. ...

I use batch files for a number of things, some which are running
all the time (but use little resource). They are run minimized.
Is there some way of preventing them from appearing in the Task
Bar, but still showing in Task Manager so that I can terminate

Can anyone help me get XP Service Pack 1 only? Windows update doesn't appear
to offer it, anymore.

How do you get folders or files in the lower taskbar other than what quick
lauch inserts...
THANKS !!!!!!!

Operating platform is Windows XP.  When I try to open Microsoft Offic
Outlook 2003, I get the following error:
"The add-in C:\Progra~1\SPAMBL~1\Bin\477~1.0\SBOLExt.dll could not b
installed or loaded.  This problem may be resolved by using Detect an