I have tried using a USB flash drive and a IDE HD (80G Western Digital) in a
USB 2.0 enclosure with my PC and I get the following errors each time:
   There was a problem installing this hardware:
   USB Mass Storage Device USB Device (this is the flash drive)

Can someone tell me how I can turn-off the nag bubble that appears from the
security centre icon in the system tray?  I haven't activated windows
update - and don't want to.
It is very irritating.

1. where can I get poled.exe form XP Pro SP2?
2 how do I use it to modify system policy on a workgroup XP Pro to effect
system wide folder redirect
( before the edit, I  will take a system snapshot and first will use

1 - how can you permenantly turn off the windows pseudo firewall ? - every
patch seems to turn it back on whatever we do  and it then stops us from
connecting in to  support our customers  ( same for giant  antispyware as it
misidentifies support tolls)

I added a context menu item (right-click) to the file type "File
Folder". Usually when you double-click on a File Folder, it'll open
(explore) within  the same window. Somehow the context item I installed
became the default action. The original action somehow got deleted. Is

When I boot computer, TrayApp program comes up.  It is looking for a path on
my CD drive that is not there and I cannot close the proogram.  How canI
eliminate this on start up.  System Restore did not do it.
Thanks

My vaio notebook came with a 60Gb drive which only recently I learned came
with 2 partitions C: & D:. Partition D: has 37Gb and is empty and I wish to
extend C: to include this capacity or have the My Documents (data) moved to
D: so all my added data is moved to this partition. ...

I tried to reply to an e-mail address and can not.  I want to add my isp
email and cannot under tools iternet options progams it just has msn and
outlook express what do I do?

I was wondering how to change a drive icon. I have a Western Digital
external hardrive and it has an ugly icon. I like the default xp drive icons
better. Is there a way to change it?

When did 127.0.0.1 become different than localhost?
I think this happened around the same time as SP2 when Microsoft got the
idea that it might be a good idea for them to get into the Security /
Firewall business. NOT!!!! Why the @#@^$#^&&* does 127.0.0.1 produce a

Greetings to all!
I have a computer that has Outlook and Word (2003) installed on it;
however, when I run the FASTWiz, it does not detect that Microsoft
Office is installed on the system and therefore will not copy the

I have a situation where I have a user with a laptop.  This user travels
primarily between two locations.  When he is at my location he puts his
laptop in the dock, and I would like it to have a static IP address.  When
the laptop is out of the dock I would like the network adapter ...

Hi all, I have a little nuisance problem that you could probably help me
with...
The descriptions of the program below the icons on my desktop are all
highlighted with a blue background - for instance the icon for MS Word has a

I was having some difficulty yesterday upgrading my laptop to xp pro sp2
from the home edition.  It wasn't recognizing the key as valid (which it
was).  Ultimately I did get it to succeed but there were aborted setup
attempts.  All looks good now except that I now have 2 sets of ...

Hi all, hope you can help with this little problem...
When I insert a blank CD or DVD into my CD/DVD burner I used to get a small
box opening that said " Blank CD. What do you want Windows to do?" and there
were various options listed that could chose.