I recently purchased a new pc with Windows XP home edition installed.   At
the same time I got them to leave 2 old hard drives connected. Making 3 hard
drives in total.
What's happening is that sometimes when I power up(press the button in) it

For a split second when Win XP HE turns off I see a flash of a message
window that, over time, I've been able to partially decipher. I think it
says ""Shell Hidden Window" and involves Music Match that came with my Dell
machine. (Do I REALLY need that? Doesn't Windows Media ...

Hi all experts,
My XP cannot start, it halt on at loading page.
It just show the loading bar ........
I can enter Safe Mode. I find Nothing Wrong with my Hardware.

My kid for the last year had access to the one account on the upstairs
PC.  After finding my password in a keylogger he installed, we are now
needing to create a separate account for him.
I created the account, and then as the admin account, I used Beyond

This is probably the wrong group for this question, but perhaps
someone can help.
I am outputing a movie from my laptop and capturing it on my PC. The
normal laptop output is available on the PC but as soon as i start the

I currently have a Windows NT 4.0 machine acting as the domain controller for
my home network.  I am considering an upgrade to Windows Xp on a new machine
but I need to know if XP can be configured as a domain controller.  
Any help is appreciated

I need to assign the execution of a program to the key combination
  CapsLock + Cursor Key Right,
to the key combination
  CapsLock + Cursor Key Left,

I keep getting this error message - with several programs like iTunes, iPod
etc - they wer installed at one point but I can't reinstall them.
The installation was interrupted before garmin worldmap (or iTunes) could be
completely installed.

G'Day All,
NEW    | IDE 1.0 ------------ 40GB Seagate (New)
Mother  |         1.1 ------------ 40GB Maxtor (Old)
Board    | IDE 2.0 ------------ Pioneer CD/DVD DL burner (New)

if i use the runas command with /savecred:
  * where are the credentials saved?
  * will the app run with those credentials if i use other shortcuts to
launch it? or only when i use the runas command again?

Runing XP-Pro with all Sp's and updates. The screensaver quit starting.
It will test ok and the value is correct in the registry for
ScreenSaveTimeout. The mouse is not moving. Any suggestions?

I own a Dell Dimension 8200 with Windows XP on it.  It appears I have
corrupted files for both my keyboard and mouse.  When I start the PC,
it tells me so...and I have no way to access the PC (at all).  Windows
boots up fine and I can see my desktop (as well as the message.  I

When I close the lid of IBM laptop, it locks the computer. I tried Local
Policy but it is not working. I do not want the laptop locked when closing
the lid. Any suggestion? Thanks.
Ian

I put a new sound card in my sons Desktop
http://usa.aopen.com/Products/sound/cobraaw840.htm I got it free from a
co-worker. I downloaded the driver pack off of the web site. I removed the
old sound card and put in the new one, restarted PC and nothing... no "Found

I have a home-user who has been using the default Administrator account for
all of her needs.  Everything was fine until she got put into Safe Mode for
some reason and created a new user.
When she logged on with her new user, she found that all of her files were