I am having extreme problems with my mouse pointer.
It dashes wildly around and I cannot control it.  This is the second evening
it has happened to me.  I have checked and I have no virus, which I thought
might cause this.  Perhaps someone, somewhere, is playing a little joke on

When clicking to the next webpage I have to wait until
the one I am on completely loads. Is there any way to
change this so I can view the next page faster?
Thank you!

Computer restarts when I select Desktop and Properties.
Cannot change wallpaper.

I installed win. xp proffesional on my compaq presario
and it is supposed to run windows 98 and after installing
xp my cd rom does not work please advise or help, thanks.

How can i have xp boot up automatically without me having
to click on my log on name ???

I have the new XP, and I can't figure out how to add ONLY
an icon for the desktop to my task bar. I can add the
desktop icon and everything else on my desktop, but I
can't add ONLY the desktop icon.

Error message indicating invalid characters entered in
setting regional short date format (ex MM/dd/yyyy).  This
happens even if selection is made from drop down list.  
This does not occur when logged in as administrator.  It

I don't like having my icons show on my desktop, I use my
startbar for that.  I like my wallpaper to be free of
icons.  So I uncheck the "Show Desktop Icons".  But now
the icons are appearing again.  The checkmark isn't next

I have upgraded from 2000 to xp and in certain instances
would like it to show for example the pie chart for drive
usage or a preview of the document or picture to the left
of the file list, I cannot figure out how to get those

I setup windows xp recently on my comptuer. After
finishing the setup I recognized that letters z and y in
keyboard are kind of misplaces. So to have Y typed I have
to press z and vise versal.I was wondering if anybody can

Hello, I recently purchased a new computer for my home
with XP operating system.  I have created a user account
for myself (administrator) and also have created a guest
account that friends or family can use without a

When I installed a USB mouse, and turned off my touchpad
on my Toshiba 5205 laptop, My Synaptics touchpad put a
popup help icon, whenever I started Windows XP.  The
Synaptics touchpad help icon had a deselect key, so I

Ever since I downloaded a Nvidia update (one of the
recommened Windows Updates), there is about a one inch
black border on my display screen (which has the effect
of reducing my 17" monitor to about a 15"!)  How do I get

Is there any way to block foreign language spam from
Outlook Express?

In Windows XP I am looking for a chart (in earlier
versions labeled table or map) which lists the keys one
must press in order to enter a particular language
character.