I'm told the typical life of a CMOS battery may be anywhere from 5-9 years.
IF a computer is powered off most of the time {a spare backup computer},
will the battery last just as long?
Or, is the 5-9 year estimated life of the battery predicated upon the

I  would like to add Word98 to my WindowsXP.  However, when I insert th
Word disc, I'm told I must add the software in MS-Dos mode.  Not only d
I not know how to do this, but I'm frightened that if I proceed, I wil
really mess something up!  Any suggestions on how to add the Word9

I`m writing this for my brother. His screensaver will come on, but in
a few minutes it just stops and the screen turns black without anyone
touching the computer, then when he moves the mouse the picture comes
on(which it should) but why does the screensaver qut automatically?

can not get on some sites

when i put the memory card into my computer, it usually opens automatically,
or i go in through My Computer. now, it doesnt open and i dont have the
option through My computer (none of the removable storage drives are there...
they are usually a letter ie. "G".)

I use myspeed.coxinet.net to determine internet speeds. The quality of
service is seldom over 75% and I wonder if this is a typical value of the
service.

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Using OE6.0 with WinXP. Also using CA Antispam which worked great for
awhile. Now whenever I click on Approve an e-mail etc OE freezes. I have to
restart computer to get it to work again. When I click to shut down I always
get a closing of not responding site called ...

I load windowsXP on a partition of a disk that had no OS. However I an
unable to open file on the ither partitions. Error received Access denied. I
tried takin ownership as admin files and changing security attributes for
folder but files still locked.

In my win.ini folder I have the following:
[lkliorkjhkW2]
nnhgh87hjhkj15=1170601868   (this appears twice)
[annie]

I am running windows XP home edition with all the latest updates. For a word
processor, I am using MS Word 2002 with recommended fixes. I receive files
via attachments in e-mails from time to time with a file extension of .pps.
I do not have Power Point on my machine. It looks ...

Don't visit this url:
http://www.mavericklabel.com/product/bumpersticker-landing.html
If you do you may not be able to get rid of it.
My hope is someone can tell me how to clean it out of "urls visited".

After re-installing the computer, I wanted to put back all desktop-icons and
folders from my backup (from D drive). However, no matter what I do or how I
do it, each desktop icon (folder, shortcut,..) comes double visible on the
screen.

XP Pro
I have Automatic Updates turned off.  I have UNchecked the box that states
"Alert me if my computer might be at risk because of my automatic updates
settings."

My Instant message is in my startup.  It makes rebooting take a very long
time.  How do I stop this?