I check "Always Show Icon on the Taskbar" in the 'Advanced' tab of Power
Options in Control Panel ... but the icon shows up randomly.  Using main
power or battery makes no apparant differnce.
Any suggestions?

I would like to set my wife as a separate user (done) but I want her to
access the existing email set up so she can see my email and also hers. But
I would like when she is on her user and creates an email it automatically
uses her email address instead of having to change. Mine ...

I got rid of that intrusive adware webrebates,but it still appears when I
right-click an open space on a webpage.Any remedy would be GREATLY
appreciated.

Enable Turn on Classic Shell in Group Policy Modifies Windows Explorer View
to use Icons instead of Details. I would like to Enable Turn on Classic Shell
in Group Policy and set Windows Explorer view to Details.

I'm using XP Pro on a laptop and I've run into a problem with the plug and
play service not starting.  When I go into Services and try to start it I get
the following error: Could not start the Plug and Play service on Local
Computer.  Error 3: The system cannot find the path ...

I have just reinstalled win xp on a system infected with viruses. To make
sure the virus was all gone I deleted the C partition and recreated during
that part of the install (having put all drivers on a D drive partition.
What has happened is that it has made C drive the boot drive ...

I recently purchased a Maxtor External HDDrive that I installed on a Win
XP Home system.  I would like to make the drive bootable, but the format
command doesn't accept the /s option and the sys command doesn't exist.
Any ideas on how to make the drive bootable?

Sometimes when I am changing my system configuration, it asks me to put the
XP install disk in the CD drive or point to a local place for the install
files. But my CD is the original XP install CD and I'm now at SP2, so it
doesn't like the original install CD because it is ...

I'm running XP HOME on a P4 3.2 GHz with HT Technology with 1024MB DDR SDRAM
at 400 MHz, a 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card, and a 120GB SATA
hard drive.  I run a very intensive application/game that is CPU intensive
(Flight Sim 2004 with several add-ons).  I'm ...

I am getting the signon and signoff screens in the old windows 2000 format.  
I don't know what I did to activate this.  How do I turn it off and go back
to the standard xp type signon and signoff.

I recently had to reformat my harddrive due to 2 years of trash buildup and
other assorted stuff. Anyway after doing a clean install of windows XP Home I
now get this anoying popup whenever I shutdown or restart my computer that
states:

I moved my OS from a 20G HD to a 200G HD, and used the disk copy utility that
came with the new HD to copy my old system over to the new drive. It seemed
to go flawlessly.
But the next time I happened to try to go into Control Panel->System->System

When windows is loading the little scroll bar starts out at a normal speed
but about 6 seconds into loading it slows down to a crawl. I can hit any
keyboard key once, sometimes twice and then I goes right back to normal and
loads the GUI within 2 secs. If I don't press anything ...

Trying to upload Itunes software.  Everytime I do I recieve three error
messages.
In the interest of time, at work, I will just give the numbers.
They are

I am trying to resolve an issue of everything on my computer reacting very
very slow. I have gone to  a number of site recommended in MS Newsgroups. So
far nothing. I have gone through all my logs just looking for something that
might direct me. I have come across numerous times, ...