After solving some problems with the machine not starting (disk check on
another machine + taking ownership of files), when I now logon to this
machine I'm logged in with a new profile User.ComputerName wich is not
right, this way the users can't access their old profiles. I'm ...

My wife was given a laptop PC from her work. When the laptop was given to
us, in network settings it was connected to a domain. I selected to
disconnect from the domain and instead join a workgroup. After restarting
the PC it will no longer accept her username and password to ...

I can't remember the Run command
wherein I can specify that even though
a user has a password a password is
not required at boot time.

Each time I run Spybot S&D v 1.5.1.15 I get the same warning:
MicrosoftWindowsSecurityCenter_Disabled
(SBI $2E20C9A9) Settings
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM|CurrentControlSet\Services\wcssvc\Start

Folks here were kind enough to suggest several freeware anti-virus an
anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and installed one of eac
on their recommendations
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor?  Again, coming fro

I have scanned all over the forms for information because I can not get
my windows XP pro to recognize my canon Elura 80 mini DV, I have been
all over Canons support site and it says that XP dose not need nor does
Canon have a driver and that XP will automatically recognize the DV

Suddenly, for the last couple days, Internet Explorer, which I don't use,
has started asking, several times a day, to get on the internet.
Fortunately my firewall catches it.  Some website tried to run it recently
and I refused it.  Could a website change the IE settings?

A new (one month) dell computer Inspiron 530.
It came with XP Home edition. Worked fine.
The Windows op. system was fully updated.
I just upgraded to XP professional.

Can anybody vector me to a discussion of this issue here or on any other
newsgroup? I've searched for quite a while on-line and there seems to no
conclusive solution. Apparently even reinstalling WinXP does not
guarantee a cure. This problem has existed since 2001! Most vexing!

have a asus laptop and installed a 2nd monitor. open up windows media player
and drag it to the 2nd monitor and all works well untill about 10 min`s later
the asus laptop screen goes black and you cannot use any keys, the mouse etc
but the 2nd moniter still works with the pointer ...

After i got recent windows update i can't play swf..have downloaded
micromedia player ..still dont play

Win Xp Professional
Pentium 4
1.80 GHZ
768 RAM

A couple of weeks ago my computer suddenly became very slow. After a 4
minute startup, CPU usage runs constantly at 100%, mostly explorer.exe is
taking up the cpu usage but it alternates with many other processes including
svchost and idleprocesses. The HijackThis log file is ...

With Vista home basic, I am unable to set up a wireless conection to
internet via a router. I have tried very many  config setttings,
matching addresses in router and PC, wireless accesss good, connection
set up apparently OK, signal strength good, adapters all on, but cannot

Was wondering if Office 2000 can be loaded on computer using XP?  And will it
work properly/the same?
As well, how do you save all the emails from a computer already using Offcie
2000 if you upgrade the computer to XP?