Hello
I recently installed a new larger WD hard drive, and usig the sw that came
with it, I copied the contents of my old drive to my new drive, then
reformatted the old smaller drive. As a result, there are a lot of program

Hi all;
    I am part of the MS Windows XP diaspora, i see the end coming and
am looking for alternative  Operating Systems.  At present I run MS
Windows XP and sure like it but I am feeling it will not be a secure

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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

A new device I bought has a driver that won't work with SP1.   Can I
uninstall SP1 without screwing up SP2 or the other programs I have loaded
since installing SP1?  Thanks.

I don't know what I did.  I rarely have that kind of thing happen
anymore, but there you go.  My systray is no longer visible at all.  I
have to hover the mouse pointer over the area for it to slide into
view.  But the minute mouse pointer moves out of general area, it

I am running XP professional.  Where to I go to change the settings so the
monitor is bright when running on batteries?

My internet provider recently switched me over from USB cable to
ethernet cable to connect my computer with my modem.
What started happening since then is that every time I go to a new web
site, I get a Windows Internet Explorer Box that comes up saying:

I have a small open source query editor I downloaded to my desktop and have
been using for over a year. I got tired of having to clear my desktop to
access the icon to open this program. So, I drag and drop the desktop Icon
to the Start icon on the task bar and dropped it in the ...

The When I turn on my PC the following dialog box comes up "RUNDLL Error
Loading C:\PROGRA~1\MYWEBS~1\bar\1.bin\MWSBAR.DLL The specified module could
not be found."
This appears to coincide with upgading AVG to version 8 and removing a

It used to be that manufacturers supplied a copy of Windows that you
could use to reinstall the OS in case it got messed up.  That seems to
have gone out of style.
My IBM ThinkCentre desktop has a hidden hard-drive partition with the

Hi can you reinstall xp pro and save all your infomation l ike 98 it would
just reinstall it and all your drivers information programs would be still on
the reinstalled copy.

After changing my default browser to fire fox, I get an error message
'windows cannot find etc.' when I click on any of my desk top shortcut icons
of other favourite shortcuts, Then the site I've requested is displayed ok.
Has this something to with me changing my default ...

Hi.  I received an e-mail with an attachment that was a PDF file.  I opened
it to only get code.  Is there somewhere in Windows where I need to enable
PDF files?  Please advise.  Thanks in advance.
Jim Phipps

I am running Windows XP with the latest version of Outlook Express  but I
have a big problem :
I would like to have a JPEG image IN MY MESSAGE, NOT AS AN ATTACHMENT, so
what I did was COPY and PASTE a JPEG or TIFF image into my test