every time I boot up my laptop it says that I have it set
for selective or diagnostic start up but I have changed it
to normal start up at least a dozen times but it is still
giving me this window on start up? what can i do

Dear XP Gurus,
I have purchased a new pc with Interl P4 3.4 GHZ CPU. for some reason the
devise manager shows 2 CPUon the mother board. can you advise please.
Regards,

Every time I start up my computer I get the error
message "Shell_NotifyIcon Fail".  Anyway to fix this?

In the above, how do you have the Search page always open with
"Advanced Options" checked by default?  Registry fix?
Thanks,
George

when i enter my password it says that i  am logging on
then it logs me off. how can i fix this problem?

I am currently running a dual boot process with Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000.  I no longer want to have Windows 2000 running on my computer.  How do I get rid of the Windows 2000?

When I launch a web address from my favorites folder or
desktop, they all open in the minimized view.Is there a
way to change them to open in the larger view? I think
this might be a windows setting problem rather than a

How do you eliminate the hide/unhide button so that ALL of the
icons will always be visible in the Notification area?
Thanks,
George

Hello. I want to create a logical hard drive using my WD
120 GB (actually 111GB) hard drive. I'm having trouble
doing it through the Windows interface and using a
command line(MSDOS). When I go into Disk/Computer