I recently purchased a new firewire card and am having a very hard time
installing it in Windows XP.  I have tried all of this in both SP1 and
SP2, with brand new installs of each, and the same exact issue exists
in each case.

I have two systems.
System One
XP Home SP2
P4 CPU 3.2GHZ

I have a new hard drive that I want to configure as a data drive.  The C:
drive is filled with software and the data needs to be remoted to the new
drive.   Using Windows XP Pro.
There are two people in the office that need access to the new drive from

I have a Pentium D 830 with 845 chipset motherboard, running Windows XP
Professional.  Audio drivers are Realtek Audio HD.  I cannot get my
microphone volume level up to a useable level.  I want to strip off the
Realtek Audio HD and go with the stock Windows XP audio drivers, but ...

I have an MP3 folder containing two types of files: .MP3 audio files (all
COMPLETELY legal) and .M3U playlist files.  Until recently I've been able to
sort the files in this folder two ways SIMULTANEOUSLY: first by Name, then by
Type; i.e., the songs were sorted in ascending ...

I have a Windows 2000 Pro machine that I want to set up several files on that
can be accessed and read, but not modified, copied or printed, is this
possible and if so how?

I have a system that I changed the display settings for the monitor.
right click desktop
properities
display properities screen

I have a program built on sybasesql and need the program to fully shutdown
first, when a user clicks on start shutdown or start shutdown restart I want
this program to shutdown before anything else happens.

When I backup my data it will not even give me the option of compressing my
data which I greatly need to do. Help says something about changing
compression for the internet however I have cable internet and that does not
apply to me. What can I do to compress my data as it is ...

I usually use performance monitor to see how fast my hard drives are copying
or reading files and to check download speed.  Now as I am copying a file or
folder, when I check the speed of read or write, it dispays 0 bytes/sec. on
all counters for the physical disks.

I have a program that is build on sybasesql and if Windows Updates are
configured to run at 3AM and auto reboots.  I need this program to shutdown
completely before Windows auto-shutdown and restarts.

Every time I start windows explorer the My Documents folder is open and it
takes up almost the entire page, leaving me no room to look at my hard
drives.  I would like to have all trees collapsed when I open explorer.
    Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you for reviewing this post.  It is a hard one for me to describe.  
System in question is using XP Home.  
Remember WIN98 and Themes?  Remember the one with the haunted-looking house
and the sounds that accompanied it, the creaking door, etc?  

  My problem is that, when I boot-up Win XP, it gets to the "blue screen"
background -- but fails to load the icons. However, I played with it long
enough to figure-out a way around it: by opening a New Task and simply
right-clicking to "explore" one of the folders, suddenly, ...

I´d like to force a winxpsp2-system with 1gig RAM and a 40gig-hd
(25gig free) to have a pagefile with 3gig of size. This is nessecary
for a special cad-viewer.
The size is set via systemoptions (min=3072, max=3072) but the pagefile