I have been running Windows XP for about 6 months with no
problems but in the last week or so, the display on my
screen has periodically 'jumped' to a more elongated,
narrow shape, leaving large black spaces on either side,

I have a HP notebook using win XP Pro.  While trying to
ghange the icons and text to a larger format, The monitor
turned everything upside down.  Now I can't find a way to
turn everything right side up. I can't believe I'm the

  hello... i am using windows xp and i can't figure out
how to get my printer to work with it...i have a canon
bjc2110....what do i do to get it to work...i need it
badly...i am a college student and need to print some

All my other computers including the recent XP purchase
have "open" as the first option in the right click pop up
menu when you click on a folder.  That has changed so
that when you double click on a folder it automatically

I just recently bought a new hard drive, installed it as
a slave, and it being a faster drive I want to transfer
all the data from one drive to another. How do I do that?
any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

I recently created two partitions on my hard drive: one
for 98SE and one for XP on the C and D drives
respecively.  I can not get Win98SE to load, or even to
chose which OS to use when booting.  How do I run

hi, i want to know how to install a boot screen, if you
know can you please help me

hello microsoft i had a question.
when i open my internet explore either the internet
freeze or it just sends me a message to report the error
in xp, what can i do about this?

When I right click on an icon on the desktop the menu
that comes up has "search" as the default and not "open"
as it should with the result if I double click on the
icon it goes to the search result window. Can I fix this

I wonder that how could I can hide the user picture at the
taskbar next to my user name displayed at the top of the
start panel ?? I got a friend who could manager to do so
but unfortunately he forgot how he did it. Could anyone

My new computer system came with XP. I have been using W98.
With W98, about every 6 weeks or so I would do a Complete Scan and then do a
Defrag. The defrag always took a LONG time (it stayed at 10% for quite
awhile).

When I go > settings > control panel > phone and modem
options > modem tab > properties > modem > speaker volume
off: nothing changes and the modem still squacks when
dialing. Any help with this? Thanks

After downloading an update from the Windows Update site,
I somehow managed to "lose" the shortcut to Microsoft Word
on my Start Menu (click Start, Programs, and the shortcut
that was normally there is now gone). The program still

How do I set a personal password to access my PC after
the screensaver activates?
Ness

The "Turn Off Computer" command disappeared from my XP
home edition start menu.
Does anyone know how I can restore this?