For several years I had the entire Norton secuity system installed on
my computer and I removed it because it made everything work slower.
Then I had the free AVG anti-virus program on but was afraid that it
was letting certain things in.

I want to do backup of everything,
incremental backups from week to week,
then be able to
1.  recover an individual file

I have had this issue with several Windows XP workstations.
Whenever I plug in a external storage device like a thumb drive, it assigns
a drive letter that is already in use by a mapped drive.  I can go in and
manual change it but the next time I plug it in, it does it again.

Is there a way to change the language of a factory installed XP home machine
from English to another language...
If the XP is not a multi-Language version, is there a way without
re-installing the hole OS...

How do I
copy desktop from account to another
on Windows XP sp2?
Thanks,

I purchased and installed an Upgrade version of Windows XP Home on an
old desktop PC several years ago. I've since removed the hard drive
and retired that old PC to the local recycling station. I would like
to upgrade my laptop that came with Windows 2000 Pro with this XP Home

My DVD-ROM is showing as disabled.  I go to the device manager and there is a
red "X" for that drive.  I roght click on the drive and the only choice I
have is to "disable".  How can I enable this drive?

The autoplay feature seems to have stopped working on a computer.
Autoplay is enabled for all drives including the fixed drives (according to
Tweak UI).
No matter how I confugure Properties->Autoplay nothing happens when the

Ok i know that this is an easy fix- but i dont remember the remedy. My task
bar, quick launch, and the entire blue bar that is supposed to be at the
bottom of the desktop, vanished.
I went to properties and the enable quick launch (for exam) was already

Hi, I know that when you have a flash drive (for example) you must  click on
the icon on the system tray so that you can safetly remove it. The same can
apply for many devices like cameras, music players, etc. My question is
this: I plugged in my mp3 player and downloaded the ...

Can someone please help,
Windows xp boots up,GOES PAST THE WELCOME SCREEN ,BUT TO A BLANK
SCREEN,WITH NO TASKBAR,AND NO ICONS AT ALL.I HAVE TRIED IN SAFE MODE TO
NO AVAIL.

Somewhere along the upgrade path Irfanview not only assigned itself to open
almost all image files but started changing what they're called in the
folder details view, from JPG to "Irfanview JPG File", BMP to "Irfanview BMP
File", etc.

I am using Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Media Player 10. A new cable modem was
recently installed and I hear no audio. The speakers are connected properly
and power light comes on. After checking Control Panel, Audio--a message
comes up saying No Audio Device. How do I reinstall ...