I encountered a strange problem a little earlier. USB support on my XP
Home based laptop stopped working, so I went to shut down and restart
Windows. The machine never responded to the shutdown command. After
waiting for a bit, and after verifying all disc I/O had ceased, I held

when i open up my computer, there are usually tags like "files stored on this
computer", "hard disk drives", and "Devices with removable Storage". But
right now those tags are gone! I can't seem to find a reason why. I have
tried system restore, but no good. When I want to ...

I see quite a number of files with a .tmp extension at the location:
Windows\Internet Logs\
These files are not found where the othrer TMP files are usually found  at
Documents and Settings.\Local Settings\Temp

How do I copy a DVD recorded home movie (that I made from our old video
tape)
to my hard drive so that I can open it in Windows Movie Maker and add some
background music etc.

When a web site is saved as a "Favorite" in XP-SP 2, it often begins life
with an icon of its own...something unique that's given to it by the web
page coding. Within a day or two, that icon disappears and is replaced by
the generic Explorer "E".

I bought a used computer and the colours aren't right, I thought it was the
monitor going so I hooked it up to another one and the same problem. Reds are
almost nonexesistant, green is yellow. It has a geforce 5700le 128 mb memory
card could that be problem? I've tried to fix the ...

i am using xp sp2 and for some reason none of my screen savers work. Any
ideas what might cause this? Thanks in advance.
Paul
thedoc80915@msn.com

I have 2 PC's running WinXP.  I moved the Master HDD from one system to
the other system as a the master HDD.  The system will not boot.  The
bios notices the HDD, therefore, I know that physical connectivity is
there.  The original HDD for this system boots normally.  This HDD

Bought a new Compaq. Came with XP Home/SP2.
Installed a bunch of my applications. Made
a backup clone and Decided to run CHKDSK
on the backup clone.

Last night I went into the Control Panel and changed User info so that I
thought I would not need to type in a password and changed to only 1 user for
my computer. Mainly because my children are now off to college and it's only
me and my wife using the computer.

I just did a fresh install of Windows XP SP2 on my laptop and I am
experiancing boot delays of about 5 min now before it reaches the
window splash screen.  All I have installed so far are the system
drivers and all the up to date windows updates.  What takes up about

I recently received an automatic ugprade to my Windows XP software, and I
have run into a problem when I surf the Web. When using either Internet
Explorer or any other web brower, I now get an audible beep when I move
between web pages. The beep sound like a coffee pot that  is ...

I have a large number of programs installed on my computer.  There are so
many that when I go to Start and then All Programs, I can't see all of the
programs.  Any ideas how I can either arrange the items to see them all?  Is
using subfolders for the programs effective?  If so, ...

Whenever I start XP I get a message on the start up screen, telling me I
have an unread message.
I use Incredimail for my email and have no unread messages.  I only buse OE
for newsgroups.

I have a number of hard drives, essentially clones.
My old machine got so intermittent that I bought
a new one, and installed my old drive in it, as a
'Slave'. The BIOS looks different from the old