QUESTION --->  Is it worth uninstalling grayed out entries in Device
Manager for old devices which I recogenise and which I will not be using
again?
Also there are lots of entries for USB devices for all the different

How can I export a service from one computer and import it to the other
computer?
My computer's operating system is a reduced windows xp.
But I want to add some useful windows system services from another computer

I get a strange error dialog when I go to the .chm files and try opening
them.  If I try to click on Help from within most programs, I get the
hourglass for one second, then nothing.

I'm trying to use the backup in System Tools, but no matter what I do, it
won't take the file name.  I'm trying to back up to a DVD+R (yes it's a DVD
writer) and no matter what I change the file name to it just won't take it.  
Anyone know what's going on?  Here's the steps I take ...

Hello,
Windows 2003 AD here. 60 Workstations.
2 of them suddently started to go forward in time. 3 or 4 Days. The clock
itself stayed at the right time. Just the days jumped. Any idea how that

Posted this in MS XP General forum and the only one posted solution was to
reformat the backup (F) drive which is not possible at this time: it is
functional with all my documents and pictures.
My C drive is not large enough to move the data over to reformat the F (

We manage several hundred client networks.  None of these client network are
connected.  They are separate customers.  All of the networks are very
similar in that most are Windows 2003 domains, Windows XP desktops, Exchange
2003, WSUS deployments SQL, etc.  A very typical Microsoft ...

I am still trouble-shooting a problem where I can no longer offer Remote
Assistance to my out-of-town children's computers, which I believe arose
after I replaced the original hard drive of my XP Home computer, and
restored the OS partition from the original using DriveImage 2002 ...

Is there an XP utility that will unhide a partition in XP?
My Windows XP Pro SP2 with all maintenance applied has DiskPart version
5.1.3565 installed.  My 2003 server has version 5.2.3790, my Vista Ultimate
has 6.0.6000 and lastly, Microsoft Downloads has version 1.

I have taken over a Dell with XP, which belonged to a friend who passed
away. Her name keeps appearing in document properties etc.
How can I change the name fully to mine?

I have an HP dx5150 which has the HP XP factory installation on it.
Everything works fine except that if I select Standby or Hibernate from the
shutdown menu, the machine goes into Standby or Hibernate ok, I can see and
hear it power down, but then it powers itself back up a ...

I'm stuck in Windows Classic view.  When I go into the display/appearance
page the only option I have is Windows Classic Style.  If I try and load a
different theme from the Themes page I get an error saying the Themes service
isn't started.

For several months i have been unable to update Windows, Media Player, IE
etc - i think i have narrowed it doen to the Cryptographic Service error
highlighted in several articles, including
http://www.updatexp.com/cryptographic-service.html

Hi. My husband has a Toshiba satellite a45-S120 laptop, about 2 years
old. It was really slow and the hard drive (or fan?) was making a lot of
noise and bothered him. I used the original disks and completely
reinstalled windows-xp, and all the initial applications that it was

I'd like to have some sort of .bat file which can change a particular
network connection from taking a DHCP address to assigning itself one
(like 192.168.123.123 for example), and vice versa.  Any ideas on how
to go about this?  Would devcon work for this?  Thanks very much!