Preamble:
My computer uses Windows XP Home and has several drives appearing in My
Computer.  The main hard drive includes two partitions, which were created
by Compaq (the computer manufacturer). The C: drive is the main drive

I am intermittently getting the situation where there is no taskbar or
desktop icons.
Right clicking the desktop -- no response.
Task Manager will show running applications which can be made visible by

Hard drive on laptop went bad. However, I have an image of the entire
laptop hard drive. I want to recover the address and message files on the
laptop to transfer to my desk top computer. Both are running Windows XP.
What are the file names I have to recover?

Is MS Word 2000 compatible with WinXP?

I have a Tiny PC 810L as a backup machine. I recently installed a new 128MB
SDRAM which should have brought the capacity to 256MB. The system only shows
191MB under RAM.
I did notice that the new part had only 4 'blocks' as opposed to the

If there are multiple versions of msaccess.exe on a PC, is a license for each
copy necessary? I saw a PC audit today where there were many copies of Access
on a PC. The explanation I was given is that many users login on this PC. My
understanding is that multiple users should be ...

Upon rebooting recently both IE and Firefox do not display colors in tables
or cells that make up web pages. Instead, the cell boundaries are shown as
dark lines.  Button colors are gone also. I've tried all the usual Properties
settings but cannot solve this one. Reloaded all my ...

Hello Gang..!  I'm the "data coordinator" at work, and in the past I put
together a couple old computers for the mechanics on the "floor" to use when
working on aircraft.  I used my copy of XP Pro with just the generic
password of "admin" when re-booting the machines .., which ...

It seems that XP's disk defragmentation tool doesn't work well when too many
fragmented files exist.  Most of time I need to manually run the tool
several times to get improvement step by step.  How come it doesn't provide
an extensive feature consuming more time but getting the ...

How can I open the windows menu folder from the menus
Something changed at some point in my Windows XP where the start menu
folder doesn't open when I right click and select "Open" or "Explore" from
the sliding start menu.

Is there a newsgroup for Firefox?
My problem is that the browser won't load any pages with the "Server not
Found" message. Internet explorer works fine so it's not my network at
fault. I disabled my firewall and the problem persists.  I uninstalled and

Helllo,
 When I put my computer in hibernation mode it starts back up within a few
minutes all by itself. I would like the computer to stay in Hibernation until
I restart it. Especially at night. Any help? Thanks George

For years I've just had a PC while my children had laptops and the wireless
network at home works fine. The other day I decided to buy a laptop on COMEX
show selling cheaper than before (Packard Bell)
The technician has properly installed the OS XP and MS Office and everything

my microsoft 2003 does not work and i need it for school i lost my product
number when i got the computer, but when i got it the product number still
didnt work,

Where on the MS site can I find information about Service Pack 3.
For example when will it be release...
P.S.
Is there a more appropriate forum for this post..