I right click on "My Computer"
and click "Manager",
then a dialog box prompr "Access is denied"
However, I can open the Computer Management in the Administrative Tools in

I recently removed LiveMail and Live Messenger but before doing this I had
previously disabled the line in the Startup tab in the system Configuration
Utility (MSCONFIG) that loaded msnmsgr.exe.
Now that I have successfully uninstalled the products, how do I remove the

My daughter bought a new laptop, and she is letting me use her old one. I
would like ot set up my google page as my home page, but for some reason
after I go to the control panel and to internet options. I enter the google
page, wich is what i want as my home page. I cannot click ...

Is there any web hosting capability, such as IIS or Personal Web Services,
available with Windows XP Home Edition?

I removed Netgear Storage Central Manager from my system.
When I rebooted it just cycled around the "failed to start" screen.
Choosing last good configuration or safe mode doesn't have any effect.
Netgear support have been absolutely useless.

I go to Windows Update to check for available updates.
I am told that SP 3 is "Downloaded; ready to install."
Three attempts to install SP 3 have all met the same failure: the progress
bar shows three green blocks, and then locks up.

In  certain folder of mine.... All the files and folder have
extension .bd.ren . Thus if it is an image file its extesnion is
jpg.bd.ren
Please tell me how can I remove .bd.ren extension fromname of all

Can't boot into XP Pro SP2 past the logon screen, it goes dark. This
isn't the graphics issue that can do that, I already had that and this
isn't it.
Some history - I tried booting into safe, safe was fine. I ran chkdsk

I have a Windows XP Pro SP2 PC that is part of our Domain.
When I right click on a folder i.e. "C:\Program Files" and choose properties
there is NO Security tab.
There's a share tab and a General tab, and that it...

Why do some computers completely shut down and others display "it's ok to
shut off your computer now".   How do I set all my computers to completely
shut down and off.
Mike

I have DSL though http://www.avvanta.com/.   I've checked www.speedtest.net 
and it looks like I'm getting hosed, royally. on my download speed.  Is
www.speedtest.net reliable?
What download speed should I be able to get from a DSL ISP in Seattle?  I

When trying to download and install new programmes and updates onto windows
recently, I have been having problems when it comes to installing the newly
downloaded files. On different occasions, it has come up with
"error1500","error1607","error1618" and with the general message ...

Someone sent me a file with .RAR extension and
I can't open it. Can someone suggest a solution?
Thank you.

I understand how to type:  shutdown -s    to automatically shutdown the
computer but my question is how to do this using windows scheduler?  I can
get the scheduler to launch the command line utility but then how do I get it
to automatically enter my "shutdown -s" command?

I know that IE 6 is still on my computer because it comes up when I
click on Windows Update, BUT
after installing sp3 the shortcut vanished and I cannot find IE when I
look via Explorer.