We just bought a Microsoft "Wired Keyboard 500" with hot keys.  How can I
configure Windows XP so that the default hotkey for favourites is changed to
trigger the "Sleep" function?

I'm getting the error message, "the expected version of the product was not
found in your system" and then I can not install it. I installed WIN XP that
came with my PC.
Please advise!

How can I tell if I have SP2 installed on my hard drive?

This problem is with my wife's Dell computer running Windows XP Home
with Service Pack 2 installed.  Since I don't use her computer I don't
know how long it's been this way.
If I click on "Start" then "Search" the "Search Results" window comes

I have a partitioned hard drive.  I accidentially erased the Recycler folder
from one of the partitions.  There are no system restore points that I
would want to use because I would have to uninstall and reinstall some
software.  

Can anyone tell me if its worth using this? I'm not a programmer, thus don't
even use Hijack--and the MS beta spyware proggie screwed up my new computer.
I'm using XP Pro, AdAware, Spyblaster, and run Trendmicro weekly, plus all
others in Safe Mode weekly. The MS firewall is ...

Will Vista install over XP, or will it require a HD format to get rid of XP?
-Pete

I have a XP sp2 system with 3 profiles on it. When a user has any icon
on thier desktop and they delete it, such as a shortcut, it deletes the
icon from the all users folder, which deletes it from every users
desktop.

I moved my taskbar (accidently) and when I tried to put it back ... it now
forms two rows.  When I try to drag it down to reduce ... it only disappears
... it won't let me reduce to one row.  Help.  Thanks.

can anyone tell how to get rid of highlighted labels that have appeared
under icons

Hi-Is there a way, or a program, in which I can set a color for all of my
website viewing?  I'm not speaking of my pc-I know I can do that through
display settings.  But I'm annoyed by the stark white pages when surfing.  A
subtle blue, beige, whatever would be nice.  Any ...

I have suddenly lost the ability to customize my notification area. I go to
the taskbar, right-click, hit properties, and hit customize in the
notification area part of the dialog box, but I cannot change the conditions
for any of the icons. Whatever they are at is the only ...

I have CD-R/W and DVD-R/W drives which I long ago assigned as drives K:
and L: (by using Computer Management > Disk Management > Change Drive
Letter and Path); they have had these assignments for the past couple
of years. Recently I noticed that one drive was assigned as G:, rather

With Windows XP Home Edition I recently subscribed to Norton Anti-virus and
Norton Firewall. It seems to take for ever for Norton to load and present
the system is good box. How to speed this up or to disable? Would more free
memory speed the process?

After I installed SP2 I noticed 'some' files cannot be copied to a CD.  I get
a pop-up message saying: "Confirm Stream Loss. File contains extra
information attached to it that might be lost if you continue copying. The
contents of the file will not be affected.  Do you want to ...