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“Vista is an upsell masquerading as an upgrade. It is an overall
regression when you look at the most important aspect of owning and
using a computer: your control over what it does. Obviously MS Windows

I have been given a computer which has got 75gb harddrive and 960 mb
installed memory. The hard disk is partitioned and one part has got
Windows xp home edition and I do not know what the other software is.
What I would like to know is If I bought a Windows XP Media Center

At the back of my PC I have 6 jacks. Only 2 of these jacks autodetect.
Therefore allowing me to only use 2 devices.
Because of this I am unable to use the Microphone. Anyone know how to fix
this. I've tried updating drivers and a full reinstall of Windows Media

My system was effected by the virus and it so happened that,I couldn't
find the below options
1)Run
2)Task Manager

I have a problem with an XP Pro PC - sometimes after creating a new
file (e.g. word document) in a directory (using right click/New/Word
Document) it does not display in that directory unless the window is
refreshed.

When I activate the status bar while in Explorer (File manager not IE) it
says there is 1 hidden folder in documents and settings and "all users"
has 8 hidden folders.
So while in explorer I go to Folder options and view and I have "show

A friend has a CPQ laptop.  It has a strange feature running on it.
When you merely drag the cursor TO a 'close' or 'minimize'  icon on a
window, it ACTS as if you have clicked on the item..
And closes the window WITHOUT actually clicking on it.

just got a new computer. for some reason when i change the wallpaper to
a photo windows keeps going back to a solid color.
this has never happened before on any other computer i've ever had.

When I look in IE/Tools/Certificates/Publisher/Trusted Root Certification
Authorities I note that 11 such certificates expired before 2007.  (Using
Windows XP Home SP2 and all updates)
I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that this is normal. If it is, can

I installed and tried STOPZilla and now that I don't want to use it any
longer I can't uninstall it.  I tried using the uninstall feature of this
application and also from XP in the add/remove area.  Nope.  It says it
can't find a particular file:

My wife & I share a computer and use Winows XP Fast User Switching.  It
was worked well for years.  Lately it has stopped working from her user
id, but work just fine from mine.  The only way I can get out of hers
it so click Start, Logoff, and then logoff.  If I click on Switch ...

Hi- I'd like to be able to use certain photos, of animals, as my wallpaper.
However, although I can normally work out the size of the photo to work
properly, I cannot get the resolution right.  The photo ordinarily appears
blocky-too few pixels I think.  I have Microsoft Picture ...

Could anyone please help me with this?
Thanks

Windows is corrupt and therefore cannot pick up on my external
cd-rom...I need the external (connected via USB) b/c the internal is
broken. I want to re-install windows, but since the comp wont recognize
the external cd-rom, when I reboot it just comes back into the messed

I am thinking of installing Windows Live OneCare in place of Zone Alarm (I
have XP).  Would that be a good move?  Someone said Word wouldn't work when
OneCare was installed. Could that be?  Any special advice about this move?
Thanks.