This is probably really elementry but I can't find the answer. I'm the only
user of my laptop and I'd like my Windows XP home to go stright to the
desktop at start up instead of going to the user log on screen and requiring
me to click on my lone user icon. I'm pretty sure this ...

Hello,my "Show the Desktop" little icon on the Taskbar disappeared,I may
have inadvertently deleted it.
Is there anyway to get it back in place?,I can not find it anywhere in the
hard disk.

I uodated yesterday my Windows XP by Service Pack 2. Today I started to
write with MS Word. When I had typed couple of lines, the computer froze and
the screen became black. I tried it many times and always the result was
same. Why is it doing like that and waht can I do?

The family has been using the same (default) account on our XP machine.  I
setup my own logon account. Everything is ok so far except for the mail. I
have my own email address (identity) in outllook express 6, which works in
the default account, but when I switch to my own logon, ...

Problem:
Reinstalled WinXP.  Apparently used different directory names, and now have
both old and new directories for a specific User.
How to combine directories, overwriting old with new when same directory

Windows Media Player is playing all video files and DVD's in black and white.
Please help......

Off topic, I know but I can't find a NG for IE7.
Using XP Home and recently downloaded IE7.  I recently logged onto a
website of interest to me. There were a number of links - some to other
pages, some to other sources, including newspaper articles.

My DSL company told me that since we activated their firewall (through my IE browser) I should deactivate Zone Alarm, because two were not needed.
I agree with that, but what is some expert opinions on this?
I have AdAware, Spybot Search & Destroy, and run Housecall every 2 wks. My ...

I am bing pinged by a net virus and was about to download the MS03-026 fix
and noticed there are versions for 32 or 64 bit XP.  SO I wont to knowo what
I have so I can download the right one.

I use an external USB drive for backup purposes.  I have scheduled daily
incremental backups that work fine, as long as I don't have any other USB
drives connected.
Here's what happens.  My USB HD is assigned Drive Letter I.  I have

I don't know if this is a Windows problem, an IE 7 problem, neither or both.
Periodically, when changing pages while browsing, my toolbar will reaggange
itself despite the fact that it is "locked". The 3 lines of content will
become 4 and will be completely re-configured. I need ...

If a file is zipped with Winzip will it unzip by just double clicking
the folder using Windows XP and no copy of Winzip? Is there any
advantage to having the Winzip program other than password protecting a
file?

I have a computer here, were the task manager just pops up, the whole pc
slows down. It happend before, I reinstalled Windows XP, for two weeks no
problem and now it started again. Gremlins?

I copied some jpg pictures from a cd to a folder in my hard drive which
already contained some jpg's.  When I was done copying , I removed the CD
and viewed the pictures I just copied.  I was able to view them all no
problem.  Later that evening I tried to view them again and ...

While tinkering with the registry on another problem I was trying to resolve,
I did make an entry somewhere in the registry to show the windows signature
as suggested by some thread in the newsgroup. Now I realize I do not really
need that signature clobbering my desktop but ...