I apologize for not saving the replies when I posted this before.
 I use external hard drives and flash drives on my pc.  One external hard
drive is full of music, and I have playlists that look for it on the I drive,
which is what it usually is. But depending on what drives I ...

I use my laptop at work with dual monitors and at home as a single
monitor.
When I switch back to a single monitor, some programs actually still
try to open in the second monitor (that is not plugged in).  So I end

I recently reinstalled Windows XP due to the fact that  windows update
crashed my Nvidia network driver. Now I am in big trouble because My
documents is no longer accessible.  What seems to be the cause is that I had
made My documents private and after the reinstall I've become a ...

XP Home, SP 2,
used to be in the system tray an icon telling me that plug and play hardware
was installed or connected usually via USB port or hub.
That icon has stopped showing itself, about three days now,

XPSP2 etc
For quite a while now the icons to the right of the task bar
where the date lives sometimes does not display all the icons
of progs I know start with windows.

Generally the sales staff is clueless,<g>
Is there any easy way to fire up a new computer and determine whether
the input/output system is the new EFI?
(Extendable File Interface)

I sometimes see a NIS icon appear in the top left hand part of the screen
when in Internet Explorer, what triggers the icon to appear? ( I can see NIS
in the add-on list as a toolbar). Can I activate the toolbar myself or does
it have to be triggered by the NIS software ?

I am about to finish my digitalisation project and have put all my CD's in
mp3 format. For the moment all MP3's have been stored in one folder. There
about 22000 MP3 files. This is roughly 140 Gig.
Now my system is getting really slow. If I open the MP3 folder, to move one

I run several machines on my home network and they sometimes download the
same files from windows update site.
Is there anyway to do this so that I only have to download the file once and
point the other computers on the network to that file.

I have just started getting a message when I forwarded a error message to
Microsoft.
' This file does not have a program associated with it for performing this
action. Create a association in Folder Option Control Panel '

That's the first symptom but the problem is really deeper
than that. During Start-Up, Symantec's program CCapp does
a zillion things and takes too darn long to finish. Sometimes
it never finishes, and it's a big CPU hog, and the symptom

I have been trying to open a dowloaded file. When I tried to doubleclicking
the screen started flashing. I had to other option to restart the computer. I
found it was a zipped file so loaded down a winzip file. When I tried to
unzip the file I found the system did not recognise ...

When you have a system with SATA hard drives, can you install the OS on any
of those drives or does it have to be on a specific drive, such as the first
one? The reason I ask is because on systems with IDE drives, the OS have to
be installed on the drive that is connected to the ...

I successfully inserted a picture (jpeg) file into a word and powerpoint
slide using my notebook.  However, when I tried doing the same thing using my
PC (Powerpoint 2002), nothing was inserted.  Could there be some limits to
the filesize?  My pictures are 800KB to 1.2MB in size. ...

HI All, when trying to print stuff from my computer to the printer a message
keeps coming up saying Microsoft works out of memory. Rang hewlett packard &
cleaned out all unwanted junk & then reloaded printer driver & accessories
back on computer,still no good man says microsoft ...