Good evening,
has any of you any friend who is a serious candidate for Nobel Prize?
Well, one of mines is: he acquired a copy of Windows XP, and let 30 day
trial period pass WITHOUT activating it.

I have Windows XP Home Edition, version 5.1;  I am having a problem with a
process that slows my laptop almost to a stop.  When I look at the Task
manager, It shows LManager.exe using 99% CPU capacity.  When I hit "end
process" the laptop returns to normal operation.  What is ...

I'm trying to determine the cause of my event log filling up with the following:
Event Type:    Failure Audit
Event Source:    Security
Event Category:    Object Access

On my new Windows XP, I recently installed several OLD and new programs.
My Start Menu was relocated to within one of the Program Files. I would like
to relocate it to it's original position on the drive, but I am not sure just
where that should be.

Periodically when I boot my Laptop, Compac nc6220, I get this message. I've
figured out via a search of the registry that this is an option on the
explorer.exe for the open command for various entries. The numbers for xxx
and yyyy varies. it seems some command substitution ...

If i try to switch the user session (without log off) Windows XP does'nt
seems to react to my request. The only way to enter another user session is
to log off from the active one and reconnect with the other user.
Do you have any idea to resolve this problem ?

In Ms Config>startup window, I have an entry under Startup Items with a
number of squares in a row and also in the Command line. The location of this
is ""software\microsoft\windows\current version\windows
Has anyone got any idea as to what this is.  I can't find it in the ...

Windows XP Professional SP2 is installed on a system which was working
perfectly until two days back. All of a sudden IE hanged the system a
couple of times and the system had to be rebooted forcedly. Now the
system boots up normally but the IE does not run. The Windows Explorer

System: AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 2.20 GHz, 1Mb of RAM, Win XP SP2
Recently my computer fails to power down after shutting down Win XP.  
Start-Turn Off Computer-Turn Off proceeds normally but after the system shuts
down, the computer remains on and must be turned off manually.  How can ...

I upgraded a WINXP Home to WIN XP Pro SP2.  When machine starts, it asks if
i want to boot with XP Home or XP Pro.
How do i change it so that it doesn't ask anymore.  It just goes right into
XP Pro ?

Just noticed...although I have automatic updates on zero updates since last
year!
So tried to do this manually...
Says checking computer has the latest version...click Express or Custom

Hi. Is there a way to synchronize my start menu with the All Users
start menu? I'm the only person using this computer and when I
want to move or clean up my star menu I need to look in both
start menus 'cause I have no idea where items in the start menu

I accidentally deleted one of my administrator user profiles from
control panel >> administrative tools >> computer management >> user profiles
Now I see to have lost access to that user's files (like on his desktop, my
docs etc) I can't see, delete or access them.

We have a laptop that's been used for a lot of testing and changes for a
couple of years.
The Documents and Settings folder has become full of folders from various
testing situations with different usernames and network operating systems.  

When I click on an hyperlink to send a msg, I get 50 Internet Explorer
windows opening instead. I've seen many posts on the subject but none
answering exactly the following question: How can I add the Url:mailto
Protocol in the associated file type list (It doesn't appear in the ...