I use WinXP Home.
As Administrator, I am currently unable to save any Windows settings.
I want to be able to do the following:
1) Show hidden files and folders.

All,
I have had a problem with my Anti-Virus software and it seems to have left a
corrupt user on my system [1].  I can see the user from the Computer
Management applet but when I try to delete it, my machine all but hangs.

I have WinXP Home, SP2.
Immediately after installing the latest Windows Updates, my Windows Explorer
hung several times. This required reboot. Windows Explorer still hung.
(I install Windows updates as soon as I am prompted. That might help you to

I have a problem with my audio. I've read through other posts to see if
possibly someone else wrote about this but as of yet haven't located one...
My computer says that my audio is working properly, but when I try to play
something it does play, but no sound comes out. I had this ...

Am tired of XP littering all of my removable hard drives with the system
restore folders. Is there a way to keep system restore enabled for the two
permanent hard drives in my system, but prevent it from adding all new drives
to the list of monitored drives? I use a combination ...

My cat lay along the lower end of my keyboard while the computer was on -
which turned the contents of the screen upside down!
Re-booting and shutting down have failed to solve the problem. I also tried
systems restore but that didn't work either, although I'm not sure if I was

I'm running WinXP SP2. I've just bought a new laptop, and the only account was the administrator account and was called "Owner". I want it to be called "Dave Logan". I changed the name under Control Panel + User Accounts, but if I look at "C:\Documents and Settings", the folder ...

Hi!..Thanks for your time!...I need help from you guys BADLY!!!
My partner had her last years business financial accounts for
2006-2007...(done in ms works v7 spreadsheets) in her "my documents"
folder!...

I'm running windows xp sp2 an looking in the c:\windows directory, the first
sub directory is the on above $hf_mig$.
In looking at the contents of this directory I see all the windows updates
in sub-directories.

Thanks in advance for the assist.
I have a 2800 e-machine with 512 mb ram running WinXP. I am trying to change
my wallpaper. I have selected Desktop Properties/Desktop. I can see the list
of wallpaper but cannot scroll up or down, nor select any viewable wallpaper.

After performing files & settings transfer to new PC the icon and explorer
fonts are set to a fixed font and can not be change. The size & bold option
will work but the font type will not change. Default is Tahoma 8 and tried to
set to Arial or Roman or any other just to reset ...

Later this afternoon, I expect UPS to deliver my first PC with Windows XP
Home Edition installed.  Presently, I am a stubborn Windows 98SE user and
was exceedingly reluctant to move to XP, and refuse to go Vista.  Someday, I
expect to upgrade to Media Center 2005 or XP Pro, but ...

hi. I had to to a total restore on my laptop. I use XP pro. There was an
option that popped up during the installation that asked something like "do
you want to use large font?" I answered yes because I thought I would try it
out and if I didn't like it I would just change the ...

renamed msconfig.exe to msconfig.bak as spybot suggested it was a "bad"
program...as soon as I renamed it it recreated msconfig.exe...but when I run
msconfig from the start>run window it points at the .bak file....
Unable to delete the new msconfig.exe and rename .bak fast enough.