I have been experiencing problems with serial port devices and Windows XP.  
The manufacturer of the device suggested that this problem is related to acpi
and that we need to disable acpi in the bios and in Windows.   Is there any
way to disable acpi in windows without ...

Hi.  I hope this is the right place to ask this.  I have a Fujitsu E Series
Lifebook Notebook computer, that has ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 and MS Windows
XP (Home) installed.  These days after I turn on my computer I get an error
message involving the ATI External Event Utility ...

The list for installing/uninstalling programs in the control panel is almost
empty. Is there a way to reinitialize that list in order to uninstall one of
the programs installed on my computer (xp/sp2)
Thanks for your help.

When I boot up Win XP Pro, at the Welcome screen showing the users, one user
has the message: "1 unread mail message."  In Outlook Express, all messages
have been read and deleted and there are no more messages to receive. Is
there any way to correct this? Thank you.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but... I have a
laptop with a touchpad. I noticed I can no longer configure my mouse settings.
When I click on Control Panel, then on Mouse, the following error box pops up:
(RUNDLL is the title) An exception occurred while ...

I receive a setconfig.exe error every time the system boots up.  

Can somebody give me an idea what to do?
For some reason I cant access my burner. I have Nero express also does it
have problems with XP Pro with SP2?
I cannot burn anything.

I do not have RUN at the startup menu.  I was told someone did something to
edit what appears after clicking on Start.  Could you tell me if there is a
way to return this to the Startup menu?  I can find it via Search but it is
not in the Startup menu.

Is there any way to tell which CD went with which serial#?  Recently we had
to re-install xp and the cd I used didnt match the serial#.  I had to wait
till one of my kids got home from college for him to bring the cd as the one
he took up there was the wrong one.  I thought they ...

Whenever I boot XP Home SP2, or come out of stand by mode, I have a screen
that says "to begin click your user name".  I'd like to automatically logon
to this computer every time with a specified user.  How can I eliminate this
step?

After cleaning up my system I have accidently deleted some system programs
because I’cant call ‘help und support’ and ‘restore’ function anymore!! With
the help and support function I get the message ‘can’t find helpctr.exe’ and
the restore function doesn’t start at all. Can ...

Using character map for the german umlaut on a, e, and u.use the keystrokes
as shown eg. alt+0252 for the letter u with umlaut but get a symbol of a
smiling face.any ideas appreciated.Thankyou.

I have XP and have only had a few minor glitches in the past year. recently,
numerous things that it shouldn't. The "Restore" function won't work either.
I don't believe any virus situation is present as Norton runs the same time
each day and I log into theri site to get any new ...

using acer aspire eld-15cd. p4 1.5ghz 128 mb ram.
the os has never been updated before and got virus and been removed. was
told by acer service to install service pack 1,(AND NOT SP2) so i tried to
install from the ms security cd. when i put it into cd rom, k it extract the

Hi, I have Athlon 64, 512 Mb RAM, ATI Radeon 9000 PRO AGP, 3 Gb Virtual
memory and Windows XP Pro. I have a satellite JPEG image of 20000 x
20000 pixel x 24 bit, but I can 't open it. I also can create only 942
Mb image (or less) with any photo application. Why? How can I resolve ...