I have a home network with 3 PC's running XP Home SP2 and a Linksys Router. I
had to replace the mother board in one of the computers and since then some
... not all ... shared directories are not accessible from the other 2
computers. If I attempt to open some of the folders I ...

How do I replace my missing Show Desktop Icon in the Quick Launch area of the
Taskbar?

Which utility do you use to backup your data?  I have been using NTbackup
,but I dislike this utility.  Thank you.
Talal Itani

At the command prompt, when I type "cd [enter] and cd recycled [enter]" I see
a screeen that says "The system cannot find the path specified."
And I cannot find the Recycle bin anywhere in the tree for drive C:
I do have an icon on the desktop labeled "Recycle Bin" with all[?] of ...

I own a hp pavillion ZX5000 laptop running Windows XP and Office 2003.  My
computer crashed on 4/10/2007 advising me that it could not find the
config.sys file and prompted me for a Recovery Disk.  It would not recover
with the Application Recovery Disks from HP or the original ...

Event Type:          Error
Event Source:       DCOM
Event Category:   None
Event ID:               10010

I have a user A, who created a file on his Excel 2003 SP2, and then he email
to user B.
When user B open the file on his Excel 2003 SP2, everything seems to be
fine, except when he go to (View-Page Break Preview), it shown 4 pages

When I try to set up "new briefcases" on one pc so that they can be
synchronized with my other pc, its not working properly. It is setting
up an extra level of file and then will not synchronize. I
think its because the files are not referenced to the new computer

One HDD, 4 partitions. C (sys) NTFS, D Fat32. E and F are NTFS, since
FAT32 was not available. Whenever I defrag D is goes so very slow and
actually never completes.
Any ideas why I can not defrag D and why I can not format E and F in FAT32?

"Windows cannot find 'system32.exe...'"
Get this message box on booting.  I believe it was caused by software from a
dodgy source.
Have looked here:

I was experiencing random BSs - error msg reasons were random.  Finally
dwnld'd and ran a memory check.  The fourth stick in a 2G configuration was
bad.
What I do not understand is that applications seemed to work properly, no

At start up, everything works fine except a "system32" screen always pops up.
How do i stop that screen from popping up during the start up process?
Thanks!
Bill

since installing a wireless USB to untether my desktop computer, i've lost
the welcome screen and fast switch user option. this is ok, i understand it
can sometimes happen, but now when we type in our user account name to the
log in box (we have five user acccounts) some of them ...

Automatic updates have not been working and while trying to correct the
microsoft update site is asking to register or reinstall the files.  It tries
this automatically, appears to complete the download then takes me to the
express download page.   I try to install then it kicks ...

I want to say out the outset that I have become suspicious of unauthorized pc
entry recently so that I've become acutely aware of things on my computer
that I would classify as strange.
If I click on the My Documents folder and then look at my folder that's