ACPI BIOS is attempting to read from an illegal IO port
address (%3), which lies in the %4 protected address
range. This could lead to system instability. Please
contact your system vendor for technical assistance.

Hi, How do I change my homepage?

i recently got rid of an advertising program called Gain
or Gator by erasing the files from my C: drive.  Now,
whenever I reboot my computer, it says that it is missing
some .dll file.  How can I make the program stop trying to

How can a common desktop be set to be used by all users
of the same computer?

Faulting application %1, version %2, faulting module %3,
version %4, fault address 0x%5.

Whenever I try to adjust the power properties on my Toshiba notebook through the taskbar icon, it tells me:
'To adjust power management settings, close Microsoft XP Power Options and use TOSHIBA Power Saver'
However, whenever I go to open the TOSHIBA Power Saver icon in the control ...

I can only save out pictures I right click on as BMP
files.  I have no other options.  Is there a configuration
I'm Missing?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to make the icons in the toolbar smaller.  I
saw on another XP system where the user right clicked in
the taskbar area and they had a pop-up window that listed
tool bar.  Then in the tool bar menu there was a small and

I recently posted a problem that my shared music folder had the wrong icon
and was called "My Music" rather than "Shared Music".
This was solved by Ramesh who gave me the correct code to put in
desktop.ini, but I have now found every time I start media player it

Is there any way to run multiple task bars on XP Pro?
I have a lot of items on the task bar and a second one
would be nice?
If not native, is their any third party software that

I would like to limit the size of certain folders on my
system.  ie. cookie and temp. internet folders.  I can't
remember how to do this.
thank you.

I need the registry key to NOT display Network Connections in the Start
Menu.
I know how to do this manually (control panel,taskbar and start menu
properties,start menu,customize,advanced,network connections,Don't display

When I click on Tools..then Internet Options..I then get
a Restrictions box that says..This operation has been
canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.
Please contact your system administrator.

Want to remove program from sys tray.
Working w/Windows XP Prof. Followed directions on how to
remove items in system tray for windows 2000. Specific
progarm does not appear to be there however, program still

Dunno what happened, but now anytime I look for a file,
the directory order is reversed with Z at the beginning,
and A's at the end. I have Win XP home edition with
Norton Antivirus 2004. I'm not even sure if I am phrasing