Can anyone tell me why I would have "svchost.exe" running 6 times in processes.
My system is not running up to par & was wondering if the should all be
there.

I got too zealous about security and didn't know exactly what I was doing -
although I'm intermediate/advanced in my computer experience, I'df just never
dealt with this sort of thing before - and while I was messing around with
permissions after a nasty trojan attack, I ...

For lots of reasons, I recently reformatted my system disk and re-installed
windows and programs. My previously working external modem installed as
standard 56k now can't be "queried", showing "the port that the modem is
using is currently open by another application". MS fax ...

I was not able to perform System Restore at any restore point.  I found the
solution posted by a MVP, Ramesh, back in 2006, so I thought I would post his
solution again, that worked for me.  Thanks very much Ramesh!  
Very simple...my Norton 2007 AV was preventing the Restore ...

Very novice user.  Had my computer "wiped clean" and XP Pro reinstalled.  
Now, restore points are being set, but they won't work.  Says no changes have
been made, even though I've installed software.  I've tried stopping and
restarting the service, but that didn't work.  I found ...

Can anyone tell me how to get the Cryptographic Services back?
It does not show up under services at all.
We have run sfc /scannow and it did not help.
We re-registered all the dll files for the service and this did not help.

I am having an issue with some laptops on my Windows 2003 AD domain that I am
unable to access the \\computername\admin$ or c$ share on.  I can ping the
PCs by name but when i try to access the share I get network path not found.  
I use the same group policy for desktops and ...

We have a Windows 2003 native mode domain to which all of our users and
computers belong.
I have a colleague who tried to perform an adminstrative task on his XP
machine and wasn't able to.  He checked the Administrators group to find that

Something is constantly accessing my hard drive. It happens about once
every second. Indexing is turned off and I can't seem to find any
programs doing it. I ran Disk Monitor and it is writing to the drive
constantly. I booted into safe mode and it still does it. Can't possibly

I have Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2.
I have 4 GB RAM and 250 GB Hard drive.
I have two computer administrator accounts.
I got an error message in one of my other computer administrator account

how can I replace name in Documents and Settings and other places.  I
misspelled my name on installation and now name is everywhere.  I assume I
have to find all instances in regedit and replace?

I was having trouble with my computer shutting off, and getting messages
stating there was a possible problem with the drivers in my system. I
followed the instructions from Microsoft about going to the system
configuration and attempting to find out the problem. Now I cannot get ...

To enable Shared folders of msn messanger, I did this operation for (C:\)
before successfully. This time I tried to do it in one PC using Win XP SP2
too,
Start|Run|cmd|then: convert c: /FS:NTFS

My notebook has a wireless nic and an ethernet nic. When in the office, I'd
like to prevent the Wireless Network Connection icon from continually
displaying in the Taskbar. Everyday I configure the icon to "Always Hide" but
each morning it returns. Is there somewhere else that ...

I just today installed the updates KB933729, KB890830, and KB939653, and
after successfully restarting my computer, the display resolution was
completely off. So I went into the display settings advanced tab to check,
and surely enough it was set to 1400x1050 (4:3 ratio) rather ...