I am in the process of cleaning up my drives and have noticed several files
with numbers and letters that I can not access, such as 007D8200-8C388C38,
they also have a backup copy in the same folder. I have searched the web to
no avail, does anyone have a clue as to what these ...

I asked this over in the xpmusic group also but thought I might improve my
chances by putting it here as well.
I regularly copy my music files to a second internal hard drive and also to a
removable Lacie.  The exercise consists of a folder with a hundred or so sub

I've almost filled up my computer's built-in hard drive.  I'd like to add a
second one to store my music and movies, but I want to power up this second
hard drive only when I want to watch a movie.  Is there an approved way to
add such a drive; anything I should look for in ...

I am running Windows XP on an old computer with a 10 GB HD.  I know, it's
really small but it has been working.  I do have an 80 GB hard drive that I
have moved most things over to.  Every once in a while I have to get rid of
some files because I get a low disk message.  Well, ...

Many moons ago, before settling on Drive Image and GHOST
to make complete backup clones of my Master Operating
System, I tried XCOPY and couldn't successfully produce a
bootable cloned system on a Slave hard drive. I got good

I'm seeing a very strange problem that's forcing me to re-boot after a
Standard user logs off.
Here's the situation: I have an XP Pro, SP2 machine. This is a stand-alone
machine (no domain involved). There are two Standard Accounts (S1 and S2) and

in folder options you have the opportunity to "show hidden files and
folders" and "do not show hidden files and folders"___these settings have
become simply reversed "I.E." the selected "show hidden files and folders",
in actual fact becomes "hide hidden files and folders"___I ...

My 2 year old computer needed to have the system mirror reinstalled.  In
addition to the system mirror there was a copy of SP2, but before I could
install that it automatically downloaded and installed 67 updates to XP.
I asked here if I should also install the SP2 disk and the ...

I have just reformatted the hard drive and placed windows xp home edition
back on. I am getting no sound from speakers. I went into device manager and
under audio device on high definition audio bus there is a yellow question
mark. I clicked it and it says drivers are not ...

I successfully installed the backup program by double-clicking on
NTBACKUP.MSI and was able to back up my data, but on pg. 925 of Robert
Cowat's book on Windows XP Home Edition there is a statement :
"And don't forget to mark the System State check box to protect your

I have a 2 year old Dell laptop.  It was getting increasingly flaky and
nothing seemed to fix it, so I reloaded the original disk mirror.
That seemed to fix it, but it immediately started downloading a Windows
update as soon as I established an internet connection (which was one ...

Every time my IBM R50P laptop boots, the folder "C:\Windows\System32" opens
as part of the loading process and I have to close the folder. I have checked
the "Startup" folder and I do not see anything that would launch this action.
How do I fix this problem? It is very annoying.

From PC Pitstop:-
On Wednesday, May 7th 2008, Microsoft released the long awaited Windows XP
SP3. Almost immediately hundreds of users registered complaints ranging from
complete crashes to looping reboots. Similar problems have accompanied

I apologise in advance for posting a question that is a bit off topic
to Windows XP, but you folks are SO knowledgable and helpful that I
really didn't know which forum would be better to pose this question
in:

When I boot up (XP Pro with all updates) I have a annoying
problem. Norton AV is loaded after my network connection,
Zone Alarm and other services. Consequently I get a balloon
message saying that my system is at risk because the